firefox 3 rc1 vs safari 3.1

This might be interesting for those following the browser wars.

I ran the SunSpider Javacript Benchmark, and it reports Firefox 3.0 RC1 1.24 times faster than Safari 3.1.

How do you like that for a counterattack, to an earlier released Safari, which was much much faster than on Javascript than Firefox 2.0.

The new versions final release is not out yet, although the release is quite stable and quits being a memory hog. It did crash once or twice doing normal browsing, but it shouldn't be anything to put you off from atleast giving firefox 3 a try.

The features haven't changed much from the 2 series - one noticeable change being that it searches for addresses based on titles, URL matches, etc, as you type in the address bar. This I felt is a quite handy feature for all the lazy ones. Also, the suggest menu has much larger text, which allows useful results to spring to notice much easily.

For the cons, I have heard that RC1 contains critical bugs. You might want to jump here for a better picture.

Oh, by the way - Mozilla announced the shipping date for Firefox 3 - [quoted from LinuxWorld.com.au]

Mozilla Wednesday set next Tuesday, June 17, as the release date for Firefox 3.0, the first major upgrade of the open-source browser in nearly 20 months.

"We're proud to announce that we're ready," said Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's product lead. "It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17," he said in a short message posted to the company's developer center Wednesday.

end-sems

when do you start listening to a sample on an online radio, and then get the complete song completely free when you choose the station of "similar artists"?

when do you have to toil for 2 weeks and get a holiday for 2 months?

end-sems. the ends almost here
almost here.