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Faster JavaScript gets Google Chrome 10 spotlight

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Google released Chrome 10, endowing its browser with faster JavaScript, password synchronization, a revamped preferences system–but no new Chrome logo. Chrome is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Google announced Chrome 10’s stable release on its blog but refrained from mentioning its product number. That’s in line with the company’s effort to focus on features rather than version numbers, which it calls mere milestones. Google tries to get new versions into users’ hands as rapidly as possible and currently passes a new milestone about once every six weeks.

JavaScript is the programming language used to write Web-based programs, and it’s steadily gaining in importance. That’s because programmers are now using it to write full-featured Web applications such as Gmail and Google Docs, not just Web pages, and faster JavaScript enables more features and a faster interface.

Chrome 10 comes with the “Crankshaft” version of the V8 browser engine that Google pegs as 66 percent faster than the unnamed version in Chrome 9 as measured with Google’s V8 Benchmark suite. That’s a major speed boost, but be aware there are many other attributes of browser performance, and one of the biggest–hardware acceleration–will hit prime time with the imminent release of Mozilla’s Firefox 4 and Microsoft’s IE9.

Chrome 10 gets some hardware acceleration, though, when it comes to playing videos, said Chrome team member Jason Kersey in a blog post.

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Firefox 4 Beta 9 Available, Ready for Testing

Monday, January 17th, 2011

Firefox 4 Beta 9 brings a host of cool new features to Firefox. It’s faster to launch, includes new bookmarking.

Firefox 4 Beta 9 is built to meet the demands of today’s Web users. It offers greater control over browsing, with brand new features such as the App Tabs and Panorama to make it easier to navigate the web and visit your favorite sites. Firefox 4 Beta 9 also includes performance enhancements that speed up the popular browser, making everything faster from start-up time to page-load speed and the performance of Web applications and games.

Also included in this release, Firefox Sync is integrated into the browser, giving you access to your Awesome Bar history, bookmarks, open tabs and passwords across computers and smartphones.

Firefox 4 Beta 9 makes it easier for web developers to create apps and Websites. This release includes full support for HTML5, WebM and HD video, 3D graphic rendering with WebGL, hardware acceleration and the Mozilla Audio API to help create visual experiences for sound.

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A Stalemate of Standards: What H.264 Means for the Average User

Thursday, January 13th, 2011

Google announced that future versions of its Chrome browser would not support what has become an industry standard - the H.264 video codec - in providing video on the Web. The move leaves Internet Explorer 9 and Safari as the only browsers supporting the technology, which Google says is not “completely open”.

While this might sound like a lot of high tech politics (and it very well may be), some suggest that it comes down to the bottom line. In the end, the move may affect the average Web user, leaving them with poor performance and no universal standards for playing video on the Web.

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Mozilla Delays Firefox 4 Release until 2011‎

Monday, November 1st, 2010

Mozilla have officially announced that they are pushing back the release of the next version (4.0) of their popular web browser Firefox until early 2011.

Firefox 4 is currently in its 6th beta stage, with the 7th being the feature complete version, which will then lead to a code freeze for the API, features and string, after this a further 3 betas will be released before RC is selected. Originally the seventh beta was due to land on September 17.

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Google using Chrome to reform slow Websites

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

Google plans to use Chrome as a tool to reform the Web by encouraging use of a technology the company says will reduce data-transfer delays.

The technology, called False Start, has the potential to reduce one round of back-and-forth communications between a browser and a Web server when establishing an encrypted connection. That’s a significant time savings–about 7 hundredths of a second for communication across the United States and 1.5 tenths of a second from California to Europe.

Even better, unlike many protocol improvements that could improve communications, it doesn’t even require changes on both sides of the network connection. Only the browser needs to be changed, according to False Start co-author Adam Langley. Naturally, Google has begun building False Start into its Chrome browser, judging by a Chrome command-line switch that lets Chrome users disable it.

Great, right? Free speed for everyone! Well, actually, there’s a catch.

“We are aware that this change will cause issues with about 0.05 percent of Web sites on the Internet,” Langley said in a blog post.

That may not sound like a lot, but according to NetCraft’s measurements, there were 227 million Web sites in September. Proportionally, the problem is small, but in absolute terms False Start wouldn’t work with about 114,000 sites by NetCraft’s tally.
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