Significant Performance Improvement! Firefox 3.5 official version released

After several passes and two new RC candidate versions are added, the official Firefox 3.5 version is released as scheduled. Based on the new JavaScript Engine TraceMonkey and Gecko 1.9.1, Firefox 3.5 significantly improves the performance, network compatibility, and ease of use compared with the old version.
Firefox 3.5 official version Performance Improvement

Firefox 3.5 is available in more than 70 languages, including simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. It improves privacy data protection tools and privacy browsing modes, the most important thing is to solve the performance and stability problems of the new JavaScript Engine TraceMonkey, and the speed is considered a highlight of Firefox 3.5, improving the Gecko typographical engine, it enables faster Content Rendering and so on.

Figure 1 Firefox)

After a round of simple SunSpider speed tests, the official Firefox 3.5 version scored 1211.4 ms, while Chrome 3.0.190.4 scored 636.2 ms in the same environment, it seems that the official version of Firefox 3.5 is still at a distance from Chrome 3.0.190.4 in terms of JavaScript parsing speed, which also represents the speed gap between the latest Webkit and Gecko engines.

Figure 2 Firefox 3.5 official version

In addition, other highlights of Firefox 3.5 include HTML 5-based audio and video playing functions, offline buffering, and APIs for drag-and-drop objects between websites and websites, CSS support is also enhanced. Firefox 3.5 allows you to use Web standard browsing to locate geographical locations, support local JSON and Web working threads, and support new network technologies, especially in HTML5 And elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS attributes, JavaScript query selector, HTML5 offline data storage applications, and SVG transformations.

1. Firefox 3.5 RC1 with digital signatures released
2. Mozilla claims that FireFox 3.5 will be twice faster than version 3.0
3. The official version of Firefox 3.5 RC1 has been basically completed