Monday, May 19th, 2008 (No comments yet)

If there was a disadvantage to Firefox, it would be stability and memory. Those have apparently been fixed in version 3 (due out in June), but one of the most exciting features will be Firefox’s brand new speed advantage.

Mozilla VP of engineering Mike Schroepfer claims that Firefox 3 is 9.3x faster than Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 2.7x faster than Firefox 2 in terms of JavaScript performance. In terms of Gmail message load time, he claims Firefox 3 is 6.8x faster than IE7 and 3.8x faster than Firefox 2. And he says Firefox 3 beats Apple’s Safari, which is also faster than Firefox 2.

I’m looking forward to it.