Some more news from the Firefox front. This time with some really important new performance features.
Two of them are OMTC or Off Main Thread Composition which gives Firefox ability to utilize more CPU threads more efficiently, providing faster webpage rendering and also a lot smoother interface behavior. The second improvement is for the JavaScript engine with faster and slimmer JS strings. There are other features but these two are the most important to me.
You can already grab Firefox 33 through their FTP:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/33.0/win32/
The way how Firefox 33 feels ultra snappy on a 4GHz quad is incredible, I can’t wait to test it on my low end laptop with AMD E-450 which is just a very low power dual core. Should be interesting…
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