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Mozilla turbocharges Firefox, touts major speed gains
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| Mozilla Corp. said Friday it has added the fruits of a two-month JavaScript
| turbo power project to the latest preview of its ...
Mozilla turbocharges Firefox, touts major speed gains
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| Mozilla Corp. said Friday it has added the fruits of a two-month JavaScript
| turbo power project to the latest preview of its next browser, Firefox 3.1,
| that boosts some benchmark speeds by nearly 40 times over Firefox 3.0.
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| The new Mozilla JavaScript interpreter is also about 2.4 times faster than
| the newest interpreter slated for Apple Inc.'s Safari, according to benchmark
| tests.
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| Debate is reaching a fever pitch over a new security feature in Firefox 3.0
| that throws out a warning page to users when a Web site's SSL certificate is
| expired or has not been issued by a trusted third party.
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| Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through
| incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically speeds up
| programs written in JavaScript, Mozilla said Friday.
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| Interestingly and more importantly, Firefox 3.1 now includes Ogg Vorbis audio
| and Ogg Theora video codec support. The implementation of natively supported
| and open source audio and video formats in Firefox has been underway for more
| than a year and is driven by the developers' intent that Firefox 3.1 support
| the next World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) hypertext markup language
| specification HTML5, which includes the new "