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My current desktop image. I don't change desktop images often but when i saw this pic i did instantly!

Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 now available for download

The second developer milestone of the next release of Firefox - code named Shiretoko Alpha 2 - is now available for download. Shiretoko is built on pre-release version of the Gecko 1.9.1 platform, which forms the core of rich internet applications such as Firefox. Please note that this release is intended for developers and testers only.

This Alpha of Shiretoko / Gecko 1.9.1 introduces several new features:

• Support for the HTML 5
• Initial support for web worker threads
• You can now drag and drop tabs between browser windows
• New selector to create areas of Aero-style “glass” in XUL
• Support for CSS 2.1 properties: ::before and ::after, and white-space:pre-line
• Support for CSS 3 properties: -moz-border-image, word-wrap: break-word, text-shadow, box-shadow and column-rule
• Performance improvements and new preference values for color management profile support

Anyone interested in Shiretoko should read the release notes, as well as the “Firefox 3.1 For Developers” article on the Mozilla Developer Center before downloading. Please use the following links to download Shiretoko:

• Windows: Shiretoko Alpha 2 Setup.exe
• Mac OS X: Shiretoko Alpha 2.dmg
• Linux: shiretoko-alpha2.tar.bz2

We would appreciate hearing about any feedback you have, or any bugs you may find.

(Those interested in testing Mozilla’s new JavaScript engine “Tracemonkey” should note that it is not included in this development milestone. If you’re interested in that technology, please obtain a nightly build and follow these instructions)

source: www.mozilla.org

Firefox JavaScript engine is faster than Chrome's V8

One of the most impressive features in Google's open source Chrome web browser is V8, a high-performance JavaScript virtual machine that was developed by a team of specialists in Denmark. Although Chrome's performance beats the current stable version of Firefox, benchmarks show that Mozilla's next-generation JavaScript engine actually outperforms V8.

Mozilla is using tracing optimization techniques and Adobe's open source nanojit to increase the execution speed of SpiderMonkey, the JavaScript runtime engine in the Firefox web browser. The new engine, which is called TraceMonkey, delivers unprecedented JavaScript performance. The new optimizations have already landed in the latest Firefox nightly builds (but still have to be manually enabled) and will be included in Firefox 3.1.
For more info read the full article. Source: weblogs.mozillazine.org

Software Review: Google Chrome 0.2.149.27

So many people, so many blogs, so many opinions about http://www.google.com/chrome I have to try it myself cause they all got me confused. So here is my review to get all of you more confused :) !!!


1. It "IS" very fast. I don't have any tools to count chrome with mozilla to actually give you numbers but it is super fast.

2. It is very light as an application. Extremely light to be more exact. Then again so was my firefox when i ferst installed it before i add ... a few ... add-ons :)

3. It is open source so expect full support from the open source fun base. I expect a fun base somewhere like firefox add-ons fanbase in size if not bigger.

4. I did a test at a site that "ALWAYS" crashed my FireFox AND IE7 (didn't try IE8) when i tryed it. And guess what? It ALSO crashed GC. BUT not the full browser and the 4 tabs i had open to test it. It only crashed and closed that spesific tab. Now that was something i REALLY liked.

5. Well i only tested it GC for 30 mins so i can't say much more but I will use it for my default browser for a few days so i can check and report back again.

Hope this helped you. l8r.