Posts Categorized: Firefox

Web Browser Benchmarking – HTML5 Test

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Web Browser Benchmarking with HTML5 Test

It’s been a while since I wrote about browser performance test using Peacekeeper. Let’s start this post by comparing the browsers on the parameters of HTML5 specifications. Web is changing rapidly and the web browsers are trying to cope up with the pace. We see the browsers getting updated with shorter iterations. Each release brings Continue reading…

Browser Performance Test – Peacekeeper

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With each update, all the browser vendors claim to achieve the sky. I was curious to test the browser performance on various test parameters to see where each browser stands. After going through so many online browser performance evaluation tools, I shortlisted HTML5Test, Peacekeeper, IE SpeedTest, BrowserScope, for browser evaluation. Each of the tools uses Continue reading…

Firefox 5 Coming

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For so many years, Mozilla’s Firefox gave a tough competition to Microsoft’s IE. The arrival and success of Google Chrome saw all vendors making serious changes to their products and adopting new standards and technologies. Until last year, Mozilla Corporation has been releasing a major new version once every 2 years. But, this year they Continue reading…

New Features in Firebug 1.7

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On 21st March, Firebug Working Group(FWG) have announced the release of Firebug 1.7. This is the first Firefox 4 compatible stable version of firebug. Those developers who upgraded to Firefox 4 were eagarly waiting for a stable web debugger and thankfully, they had not to wait for too long. FWG released 11 alpha and 4 Continue reading…

Firefox 4 Released

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Mozilla Firefox Released

Mozilla’s Firefox is popular free and open source web browser. On 22nd March 2011, Mozilla launched Firefox 4, which was codenamed “Tumucumaque”. Firefox 4 promises to deliver a fast, sleek and customizable browsing experience. It is based on Gecko 2.0 engine and it either adds  or improves support for HTML5, CSS3, WebGL. Support for WebGL Continue reading…