Firefox 4 Beta 7 Benchmarked – Fastest In Sunspider Benchmark
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… |
And So The Exodus Begins – 33 Developers Leave OpenOffice.org
After Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, OpenOffice.org fell into the hands of Oracle, as did a lot of other products. So, last month a few very prominent members of the OpenOffice.org community decided to form The Document Foundation and fork OpenOffice.org as LibreOffice, possibly fearing that it could go the OpenSolaris way. |
OpenOffice Forked As LibreOffice
Today the OpenOffice community made a big decision to break away from Oracle and have formed The Document Foundation. Development for OpenOffice has been going on form about a decade now under Sun Microsystem. However, after Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystem, the community have decided to fulfill the promise of independence mentioned in the original… |
Mozilla Releases “Kraken” – Firefox Is The Fastest Browser Now!
There are a lot of JavaScript benchmarking tools. Google has the V8 benchmark suite, Apple has SunSpider and Mozilla had (and still has) Dromaeo. Of course there are independent ones like Peacekeeper as well. Today, Mozilla has released a new JavaScript Benchmarking tool called Kraken. Kraken is largely based on the SunSpider test; with Mozilla… |