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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

The "just updated" page boasts Firefox is much faster now (which is great) but I still think the greatest change is Firefox View.

Which was not the best when it came out, but is now the perfect place to stop for so many reasons.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I’m just waiting for them to implement a bookmarks manager in there. Then it would be complete, however, now you would use the Firefox View for everything and would still to open that ancient window for bookmarks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Faster ? Did they implement DNS-prefetch or some other preloading ?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Thanks. tl;dr :

Speedometer 3 work has led to significant optimizations to the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine