A couple of days back, the ninth beta of Firefox was released. It boasts of improved performance and support for hardware acceleration which did not make it to Linux. The lack of hardware acceleration in Linux was disappointing to say the least. So, we decided to benchmark Firefox 4 beta 9 in both Linux (Ubuntu…

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A Mozilla engineer has uncovered something embarrassing for Microsoft – Internet Explorer is cheating in the SunSpider Benchmark. The SunSpider, although developed by Apple, has nowadays become a very popular choice of benchmark for the JavaScript engines of browsers.

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Mozilla has released the seventh beta of its upcoming browser, Firefox 4.0. The Firefox 4.0 development has hit a slightly rough patch recently resulting in the release date for the final build pushed back to 2011. However, there is good news with the new beta – it has finally overtaken both Chrome and Opera, both…

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Firefox 4.0 has a new JavaScript engine called JaegerMonkey. JaegerMonkey is supposed to be much faster than TraceMonkey.

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