How is Firefox 3.1 beta 1..

[Sathish]

mozilla has launched firefox 3.1. beta version..


Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 6 months. Gecko 1.9.1 is an incremental release on the previous version with significant changes to improve web compatibility, performance, and ease of use:

• Web standards improvements in the Gecko layout engine
• Added support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 properties
• A new tab-switching shortcut that shows previews of the tab you're switching to
• Improved control over the Smart Location Bar using special characters to restrict your search
• Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, web worker threads, SVG transforms and offline applications. source http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

i feels it is bit faster than 3.0.4.
anybody have experience about beta version.

[victor_rambo]

I suppose, v3.2 onwards, they would also use tracemonkey engine for javascript, which I read is blazing fast. I supposed, if you are using some beta, then you can try tracemoneky.

Anyone here tried tracemonkey?

[4T7]

Using fx3.1 and tracemonkey is gr8

[Ecko]

With extensions enabled I didn't find any incremental change like that in Chrome