Comments on: What can you do when your browser is 7 times faster?

By: Somnath Banerjee

Somnath Banerjee — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:48:45 +0000

I could not run this demo on Chrome.
That is somewhat understandable.

But I could not even run it on IE7.
Ami i doing anything wrong?
I tried the following url:
http://people.mozilla.com/~schrep/image12.html

Best Regards, Somnath

By: Bert

Bert — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:23:26 +0000

Although stated that your (great, fascinating) demo works with webkit, it doesn’t work with google’s new chrome browser? (Yes, of course it is new

By: Paercebal

Paercebal — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:52:30 +0000

Amazing.
And congratulations to all the peoples involved.

I agree with Al: I have DSL, but still, viewing the movie was painful. I am right now downloading the full 33mb SWF file hoping it will be enough to see it on the browser.

As for Joseph, this improvement won’t probably decrease nor increase the current security of your browser. It will only make it faster. So, don’t get paranoid. Or next week, you’ll come here claiming to touch your keyboard only with gloves (”because, you know, the aliens…”).

By: Al

Al — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:35:22 +0000

Well, this poor chap has to wait an eon anyway as my downloads rarely exceed 5k/sec being on a dialup modem, yes there are places that still have no better than a basic copper telephone wire to connect to the internet, so I clicked on the image, after all it said it would run the demo in 1 minute, so I waited 3 minutes, but it still didn’t happen?? maybe someone will put the pictures into words, or a series of screenshots to explain the improvements??? it would certainly be appreciated

By: my

my — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:15:53 +0000

Just a 4 times faster here.

By: skierpage

skierpage — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:22:32 +0000

Fabulous. Mozilla site should have a page for “next-generation web awesomeness examples” like CSS3, interactive SVG, and processing.js, with a sub-page for “even more awesomeness coming with Firefox 3.1″. I try to tell people how great the HTML5 features in Safari and Firefox are and then have to search blogs to find examples.

It’s funny that you made a .swf to publicize this work. Maybe you can get Jing to create screencasts using the tag with fallback to swf for lesser browsers.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:48:01 +0000

Another comment specially for dubed. Remember that Silverlight 1.1 basically is a JS driven canvas. ORLY? yes.. really. Tho we will all love the CLR based version of Silverlight, the majority of the currently Silverlight deployed websites running in Mozilla will benefit from these improvements.

And since Adobe’s ‘involvement’ we can only expect that they might at least do ’something’ with the new found JS glory in Mozilla.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:43:36 +0000

Joseph, maybe you should like reconfigure this amazing system of superb stacked firewalls you use to like filter out software in general. Both local and remote.

In other news, kudos to the Mozilla team for this huge improvements in this difficult domain. Without doubt this will help to feature enrich the already rich Internet applications. I can only hope that the WebKit team will learn and catch-up in regards to their JS performance.

By: klaus

klaus — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:04:21 +0000

Joseph, JavaScript runs in a sandbox, very similar to the Java applet sandbox. And “three levels of firewall software”, now you’re being ridiculous.

By: klaus

klaus — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:49:27 +0000

Looks like it doesn’t yet work in the latest x86_64 nightly?