For all those who use chrome because it has a quick, but miss all those nifty firefox plugins you should check out the Firefox Beta 3.1. It seems to be about 1.5x faster at processing javascript with its default javascript engine, which you should be able to use without any issues. However there is an even faster engine available to 3.1 that may have a few bugs but in all fairness chrome has a lot of bugs aswell. Also firefox 3.1 has a nifty feature to switch between tabs, by using Ctrl Tab. It functions similiar to alt+tab but for tabbed windows instead of open programs.
To enable the new JS engine:
- Open firefox beta
- Where you would type the URL(websites) type about:config and hit enter
- Search for ‘javascript.options.jit.content‘, you can also search for javascript.options.jit.chrome aswell but this may cause your browser to crash more frequently. The content works on javascript that runs on pages .chrome works on javascript that is apart of the browser itself
- Double click on the result it gives you and that will change its value from False to True
- You are now using the blazingly fast javascript engine, you can turn it off by repeating steps 1-4
Get firefox beta here.
Full list of changes here
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