With the release date of the new Firefox 4, more and more information on the new contestant in the race for the best browser become available. The new spider monkey seems more and more to be really worthy replacement for the version 3 of the software. With the new compiler incorporated in the engine, the Jager Monkey JIT compiler, everything happens much faster and requires less memory than before. The highly optimized code allow much faster opening of pages, faster java code compiling and running, and everything with less RAM used, with less CPU cycles than every other browser.
The new code and compiler are so good they are more than three times faster than the old beta of Firefox 4 and the final 3.6.2. Such difference, even considering the fact it was achieved on the internal benchmark, is sure to make the fans of the orange fox happy. Every page containing java and most of the flash based games will work faster and much more reliably. And the creators of the browser promise an even faster version before it is finalized.
Another speed advantage will be the incorporate DirectX or OpenGL hardware acceleration. DirectX will be used to make the browser render faster the 3D content under Windows 7 and Windows XP (the latter is not possible with any other browser), while OpenGL will be used under MacOS and the future Linux versions. With the 3D content available on more and more web sites, this is certainly a great step forward.
The new version will not need additional plugins to better handle open tabs memory footprint, as included will be an (advanced) option of minimizing the memory occupied by the application by keeping only a few of the recently opened tabs in it. This approach was needed, a single web page can consume a large amount of memory, with the system becoming slower and slower with each new one cached in memory. On the other hand the advancements of home broadband connections do allow much faster reloading if the user decides to back to it.
Other changes have happened in the Panorama mode, with a help video to introduce users to the feature and a new search button.
Overall feel of the new beta 7 is that the product is near completion, but the release date is still set for January 2011 to allow time for bugfixes and optimization.
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