Mozilla is leveraging an impressive new optimization technique to bring a big performance boost to the Firefox JavaScript engine. The code was merged today (but is not yet ready to be enabled by default in the nightly builds) and is planned for inclusion in Firefox 3.1, the next incremental update of the open-source web browser.
Firefox 3Previously I was using Firefox 2 and was happy with its performance. Then I downloaded the latest version Firefox 3.0 on world download day. More than 22 million downloads are done till now. Earlier I used to tweak my browser to optimize it for the best performance. Now I am experimenting with the optimization tricks on the latest version. I am sharing them with you here. However I am a little disappointed with the extension compatibilities of the latest version. I guess I will need to re-install most of the extensions I was using with the earlier version.
