The developers of the Mozilla community have a new beta version of the upcoming browser generation Firefox 4 published. About two months ago,Firefox 4 beta fixed only 6 bugs, the new Beta 7 scores contrast with new features and above all much more speed. The most important new feature in Beta 7 should the integration of just-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler monkey hunters in the JavaScript engine Spider Monkey be. Firefox users should be improved JavaScript engine include a faster browser startup benefit from, also downloads the latest Firefox Beta, according to the programmer websites faster.

Web applications and online games shows that the update, according to Mozilla better performance. Firefox also now supports hardware acceleration in Windows XP and DirectX on Mac OS X over OpenGL. However, not all video cards or drivers permit such hardware acceleration. The changes are reflected in the benchmarks again too. In octopuses and Sunspider showed Firefox 4 Beta 7 three times as fast compared to Firefox 3.6. In the V8 Benchmark, Version 6, 7, the managed beta testing even in five times the speed compared to Firefox 3.6.

Another new feature: 3D content can be customized with WebGL not need an extra plug-ins also represent. Firefox 4 allows developers to the development of multi-media and interactive Web applications equipped. What is needed is both Windows and Mac OS X is an OpenGL-capable graphics card. In the next beta version will Mozilla support for other types of graphics, for example, with Intel CPU and Linux offer. On board version is in the current beta includes support for the OpenType font format that allows the presentation of creative text effects. In addition, programmers have for the HTML5 Formular in the new beta packed improvements.