wraggster
November 27th, 2012, 23:46
An anonymous reader writes with a quick bite from The Next Web about the latest Firefox beta, this time featuring some under-the-hood improvements:"Mozilla on Monday announced the release of Firefox 18 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux (http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/11/26/firefox-18-beta-launches-with-faster-javascript-via-ionmonkey-and-retina-display-support-for-macs/). You can download it now from Mozilla.org/Firefox/Beta (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/beta/). The biggest addition in this update is significant JavaScript improvements, courtesy of Mozilla's new JavaScript JIT compiler called IonMonkey (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/Features/IonMonkey). The company promises the performance bump should be noticeable (https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2012/09/12/ionmonkey-in-firefox-18/) whenever Firefox is displaying Web apps, games, and other JavaScript-heavy pages."
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/11/27/0257226/firefox-18-beta-out-with-ionmonkey-javascript-engine
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/11/27/0257226/firefox-18-beta-out-with-ionmonkey-javascript-engine