Firefox 9 made it's apparition just few days before X-Mass.
The updates of Firefox this year were quite numerous, and the competition with other browsers (Chrome, Opera, IE) has never been so hard with many updates during this year 2011. New Firefox 9 has optimized the JavaScript engine to became 30% faster than previous version.
The Mac OS X Lion version brings two-finger swipe gestures so you can easily navigate between websites.
The new version also supports chunking XHR requests – display content during the charging of webpage. Instead of waiting for the entire download to complete
A quick quote from the announce:
“The latest update to Firefox includes Type Inference which boosts JavaScript performance and allow rich websites and Web apps with lots of pictures, videos, games and 3D graphics to load and run much faster.
Type Inference is a feature of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine that integrates with the JaegerMonkey JIT compiler to provide analysis and help generate more efficient code. Firefox with Type Inference is up to 30% speedier on JavaScript benchmarks like Kraken and V8″
UPDATE: And the 9.0.1 update just went out !!
Firefox for Android Tablets is more optimized those devices, see a video bellow which shows you the different enhancements, especially for TABs when browsing and holding the tablet different ways:
Also, in 2012 Google is preparing to launch it's own new high-end tablet, which will be produced with it's own brand. This tablet should be out in the first half of 2012.
The news was revealed by Eric Schmidt, Google CEO. “We plan to market a tablet of the highest quality in the next six months, “. As for now we do not have further informations.
A tablet from Google with latest Android could definitely concurrence Apple's iPad. Who would not want to get one of thoses… -:)
Source: Mozilla
