Firefox maker Mozilla announced that the new Firefox 9 now is faster up to 20 to 30% execution speed by the way of a Javascript tweak. This allows users to browse content-rich pages with more ease and much faster. Besides that, Firefox 9 features improves swipe navigation for Mac systems besides better theme integration and loads of performance improvements and bug fixes.
Here’s a look at what’s new in Firefox 9:
The latest version of Firefox Beta has the following :
* Added Type Inference, significantly improving JavaScript performance
* Improved theme integration for Mac OS X Lion
* Added two finger swipe navigation for Mac OS X Lion
* Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript
* Added support for font-stretch
* Improved support for text-overflow
* Improved standards support for HTML5, MathML, and CSS
* Fixed several stability issues
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This release is specific update for improving javascript performance. This is really good to see as many sites are heavily dependend on javascript now a days