Channels ▼   Mozilla Releases Firefox 9.0 Into The Wild  Mozilla
has readied the 9.0 version of the Firefox browser for public
download. In line with the product release, Mozilla confirms
that an existing agreement with Google has been extended for at
least three years to keep the search giant's technology closely
tied to the browser.  Suitable for Android, Windows, Linux, and
Mac OS X deployment, the new browser boasts of 30% performance
improvements due to JavaScript enhancements. In real terms for
web developers, Mozilla has engineered the integration of "Type
Inference" technology here to boost JavaScript performance and
allow rich websites and web apps with lots of pictures, videos,
games, and 3D graphics to load and run much faster.  Firefox
Engineer Brian Hackett explains that the Type Inference research
project has been under way for over a year now, and there is a
feature in the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine that generates
type information about JavaScript programs by analyzing the
program's code an