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Dave Mandelin from the JS team and Joe Drew from the Graphics team summarize the key performance improvements in Firefox 4.
The web wants fast browsers. Cutting-edge HTML5 web pages play games, mash up and share maps, sound, and videos, show spreadsheets and presentations, and edit photos. Only a high-performance browser can do that. What the web wants, it’s our job to make, and we’ve been working hard to make Firefox 4 fast.
Firefox 4 comes with performance improvements in almost every area. The most dramatic improvements are in JavaScript and graphics, which are critical for modern HTML5 apps and games. In the rest of this article, we’ll profile the key performance technologies and show how they make the web that much “more awesomer”.