Firefox is almost up to version 4. Today, I had occasion to boot into Windows (in short, I was forced). My Firefox needed updating after a long period of neglect. So I updated it, and noticed that there was a Release Candidate for the newest version. Now a release candidate isn’t the finished product. You might run into bugs. Then again, I almost never use Windows, so why not give it a try? Next boot, there will probably be Firefox 4.5 or so to install anyway :)
I did. While it was downloading, I wasted some time browsing slashdot (a site which I should stop browsing since it no longer is as good as it was, but okay). Slashdot uses quite some javascript. So after finishing the install, I figured to test the speed claims on Slashdot, check if there was an improvement.
BY GOLLY THERE WAS!! The flames left by the racing speedmonster Firefox had become threatened to engulf my desktop (metaphorically speaking, of course). I’m now actually tempted to install RC1 in Ubuntu as well. If I do, I will let you trusty reader(s?) know all about it :)