greenknight Posted August 24, 2008 Share Posted August 24, 2008 Firefox is about to get even faster. TraceMonkey, an evolution of Firefox's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine, is now in Firefox Trunk test builds; it "uses a new kind of Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler to boost JS performance by an order of magnitude or more". You can see benchmarks showing it's impressive speed improvements and read more details here: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/arc...pt_lightsp.html The new features are not enabled by default, those running Trunk builds need to enable them in about:config if they want to test this. Simply filter for jit, and toggle to "true" the two prefs that brings up: javascript.options.jit.chrome and javascript.options.jit.content. Bugs still need to be worked out, though, some users have reported crashes using this. I, personally, crashed on this forum until I disabled the theme I was using; no problems now. The speed improvement is striking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted August 25, 2008 Administrator Share Posted August 25, 2008 I can't wait to try it. :gold: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted August 25, 2008 Author Share Posted August 25, 2008 Found I can still make it crash - try to open Organize Bookmarks and boom! A whole lotta bugs have been filed on this feature, looks like Firefox 3.1 may have to be delayed to get this sorted out. You'll love it, Tarun; it's really fast, and it crashes really fast, too! :gold: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTZ Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 This next version looks to be Smokin Fast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted September 5, 2008 Author Share Posted September 5, 2008 For anyone trying it: don't enable jit.chrome, then you'll be able to organize your bookmarks instead of crashing the browser. Jit.content is what speeds up Web performance, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted September 5, 2008 Administrator Share Posted September 5, 2008 I think I'll jump on with beta 1's official release, or beta 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Predator Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 The final release should be awesome then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTZ Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 I ditto that , can hardly wait , I'm in the need for speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted September 6, 2008 Author Share Posted September 6, 2008 I believe TraceMonkey wasn't checked in before the code for beta 1 was frozen, so it won't be in beta 1; should be in beta 2. Maybe by then all the crash bugs will be fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted October 12, 2008 Administrator Share Posted October 12, 2008 I jumped on with Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 nightly build 2. I just had to try it. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1) Gecko/20081007 Firefox/3.1b1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) - Build ID: 20081007144708 I wanted to try it out so I went to a site to test Javascript that I had also tried on Firefox 3.0.x. My best results: 3.0.x: 294ms 3.1 Beta 1*: 71ms *That is with javascript.options.jit.chrome and javascript.options.jit.content both enabled. :jump: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Pretty nice speedup there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted October 12, 2008 Administrator Share Posted October 12, 2008 Feels faster than Chrome, though Chrome is a little faster I hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted October 24, 2008 Administrator Share Posted October 24, 2008 Been using it for a while now. Very fast and stable. I only crashed once trying to load a tab but it was just that website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted October 24, 2008 Author Share Posted October 24, 2008 They've pretty well fixed the crashes, I haven't had one in quite a long time. I'm using Trunk nightly builds as my regular browser, they're so stable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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