Mozilla has released Firefox 3.1 Beta 1.
The company in its blog release has highlighted support for the 'video' and 'audio' HTML tags, a new tab-switching shortcut that copies an existing Firefox add-on called Ctrl-Tab, and a new API that uses third-party services to pinpoint the user's location and feed that information to Web sites and services. However while the new services look intriguing, Mozilla has switched its new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine off.
Tracemonkey came into the limelight recently around the time Google chrome was released. The new engine is supposed to boost rendering speeds up to 40 times faster than Firefox 3.0. This new engine can be enabled by typing "about: config", "javascript.options.jit.content" in the Filter field, then setting that to "True" by double-clicking the item. The browser needs to be restarted for it to be enabled.
The browser is expected to be released later this year or in Q1 of next year.
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