Firefox 3.5 - dreaming about the future of the web.

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/35-days/

by chanux • 17 years ago

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TweedHeads2• 17 years ago

I hope they implement WebSockets, that sole feature will change the way we know the web.

The real-time web, the next "wave".

megaduck2• 17 years ago

Hear, hear!

The sooner we can ditch elaborate long-polling hacks, the happier I'll be. We've got a lot of features on the drawing board that would be enormously simplified by WebSockets.

TweedHeads2• 17 years ago

Oh absolutely, I've been struggling with java, ajax, comet and flash sockets for a multiplayer game.

But imagine all the possibilities for IM, Email, web alerts, twitter, etc.

omouse2• 17 years ago

Or uh, you could use Java or an easily installed desktop client.

mseebach• 17 years ago

I've been running 3.5b4 for a while. I've seen the future, and it looks a lot like the current version of the web, just a bit faster.

jakozaur• 17 years ago

It is pointed that the features of Firefox 3.5 are mainly for developers not users. So we will have to wait a bit longer before websites will make use of them.

ryanvm• 17 years ago

A bit sad how Firefox is now chasing IE and Chrome for features and speed. Oh well, were it not for Firefox we'd all still be running IE6.

The King is dead. Love live the King.

boundlessdreamz• 17 years ago

It is definitely not chasing IE for speed. AFAIK firefox is faster than IE in JS and rendering and is also more standards compliant

edave2• 17 years ago

Glad to see I'm not the only that finds it ironic how Firefox only took 2 versions to abandon the original reasoning (lightweight, fast, better UI) that made them so much better than anything else. It's not like in the last few years people have suddenly wanted heavier, slower, harder.

johnnybgoode• 17 years ago

I never thought they did such a great job of that anyway. For example, the early versions of Firefox were about twice as big as Opera (in download size) and had a fraction of the features.

megaduck2• 17 years ago

Exactly. The situation today is exactly what freaked Microsoft out back in the 90s, so much that they went all-out to murder Netscape: Continuously improving standards-based browsers. We've got Firefox to thank for that.

Say what you will about the Mozilla project, over the past decade it's been the single largest force for making our lives as web developers better. It's good to see that they're keeping up the tradition, and pushing forward. The feature list for 3.5 is damned exciting.

enomar• 17 years ago

Anyone know what their Javascript threading model will look like? I am both excited and scared.

niels• 17 years ago

I think they are referring to html5 web workers http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/

lamnk• 17 years ago

I have just two requests for Mozilla: please make Firefox faster on Linux, and troubleshoot its memory leak problem.

Even Firefox on my Virtualbox windows machine runs a lot more responsiver than on Linux host machine ...

boucher• 17 years ago

Firefox on Linux has never really compared to the Windows version. I hear that Chrome on Linux is working pretty well though.

Firefox 3.5 - dreaming about the future of the web.

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