linuxhaxor.net — f you are not happy that you can’t get to try a native chrome, arguably the fastest browser out there; give Firefox Minefield a shot. Even though it’s an early Alpha build, under the hood, it has the fastest javascript engine out there.
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cloud3Sep 29, 2008
Another way of looking at it is that eventually Shiretoko will be released as a fully tested and final verseion 3.1, while Minefield will still be the most recent nightly build.
rowlodgeSep 29, 2008
sooo, why didn't they do that before? i'm used to chrome now.
init100Sep 30, 2008
@somestranger26"about:configright-click, add new booleanextensions.checkCompatibility (FALSE)"@renegadeafk"because with nightly tester tools all those extensions work fine."Not necessarily. You can turn off the compatibility check, but that will not magically make extensions that use old APIs suddenly work.
init100Sep 30, 2008
"enable the option "javascript.options.jit.content"."There is another option that might be of interest in that version. It's a boolean with the name javascript.options.jit.chrome, which when enabled turns on TraceMonkey for the Firefox UI, not only for web pages. Since the Firefox UI is a heavy user of Javascript, this could be good to know.
bdbelysianOct 2, 2008
I love Firefox and I have respect for others like Opera and Safari. I've been using Chrome and it's very impressive. But posts like Chrome usage fading, stability issues, and speed comparisons should be put on hold until this browser has had time to work out some kinks. Right out of the box it has a few features that I would love to see on Firefox.Google isn't stupid. In fact Google, so far, is a kick ass company IMO. Not perfect but they've earned my respect so how about a nice warm cup of STFU for six to 12 months and see what Google can do?Buried for being useless at this moment...
notswingOct 22, 2008
This is nonsense. Except if you ARE saturating your processor, you won't feel any difference. Having each tab as a process could help your OS share the load between cores. But anyway, microsoft OSes are not very good at that atm.Each tab as a process is good if you have a tab that's running wild, it doesn't bring the others down. Only real advantage there is to it
internetmasterOct 24, 2008
computer=hardwareweb browser=softwarehardware can't be faster or slower than software. if your computer is outdated and slow, a faster browser will still be faster than a slower browser. in other words better software is still better regardless of hardware.