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Web & Frontend
2011
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Firefox 8.0 is Released

v.8.0, offered to release channel users on November 8th, 2011 Check out what’s new, the known issues and frequently asked questions about the latest released version of Firefox. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .

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SpiderMonkey is on a diet

One thing I’ve learnt while working for Mozilla is that a web browser can be characterized as a JavaScript execution environment that happens to have some multimedia capabilities. In particular, if you look at Firefox’s about:memory page, the JS engine is very often the component responsible for consuming the most…