The first mailstone of the next generation Firefox (aka Namoroka) is available for download. The basis was the pre-release of Gecko 1.9.2. List of changes:
● Composer (phase 1), on transition to which Gecko will use one native widget per top-level document. ● New focal model ● The chromedir attribute has been replaced by a pseudo-class ● Several new properties from CSS 3, including background size and gradients for background images ● Increased speed of TraceMonkey engine for JavaScript ● Increased application launch speed and reduced response time to user actions. ')
UPD Held Peacekeeper benchmark, three checks for each browser, the averaged results are as follows: Chrome 2 - 1358 Chrome 3 - 1999 Firefox 3.5.2 - 1560 Firefox 3.6a1 - 1951