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New Firefox JavaScript engine uses WebKit code

Discussion in 'TechSpot News and Comments' started by Matthew, Mar 9, 2010.

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  1. megrawab Newcomer, in training

    i never thought firefox would use webkit. but its fine, atleast only on java so there would still be distinctions from other browsers that use webkit as rendering engine...
  2. jjbeard926 Newcomer, in training

    Am I the only one that sees this as a threat to the security of both WebKit and Firefox? The more code shared between different products, the more likely that a hack, exploit or virus will affect said code. One of the main reasons I embraced Firefox early on was that few exploits and hacks were written for it as most hackers went after the much larger market share IE. The new diversity of browser options out there between Chrome, Opera, Safari, etc. has actually been one of the best things for security on the net. If these browsers begin to share code and work the same way we risk large scale exploits and hacking issues (ala the issues with Flash).
  3. cocodel Newcomer, in training

    Good news from firefox! Use to love firefox but they need to improve in speed evrything else its ok.
  4. rskapadia2294 Newcomer, in training

    i have never used firefox!
    i was a chrome user them moved on to opera 10.50!
    chrome used to hang very much! opera is the best! it has speed! and atleast it doesn't hangs! :p
  5. jobeard TechSpot Ambassador

    that was JavaScript, not JAVA :(
  6. nmayer79 Newcomer, in training

    Either way FireFox is and always will be the king of browsers!
  7. Yoda8232 Newcomer, in training

    If it's faster we'll like it, if slower we won't it's that simple.
  8. levar Newcomer, in training

    eh...
    Chrome ok, I'll let that slide fastest browser in the world, Opera not the most complete; there a bunch a sites like gmx.com, wachovia.com and gylde.com for example that still can't be viewed in the browser sure this is probably the only browser that passed the ACID3 test and if that's was your point of saying its complete then yes I'd agree but from my point of view its not complete, they just added the spell checking feature and private browsing in the Opera release in March.
    Safari I can't comment on it, never really used it much but I'd probably call it stable because there really isn't anything you can do to it, well its not open source so.. you get my drift.
    IE yes definitely the most used browser but that will change trust.
    And firefox I agree with the way you described it but its also open source I think Mozilla is the most experience browser. But to go back on topic looking forward to using this new JavaScript engine hope to see Firefox on top in the next upcoming speed wars.
  9. megrawab Newcomer, in training

    "that was JavaScript, not JAVA :(

    Was this for me?... sorry just making it short...
  10. LGraves Newcomer, in training

    I love Firefox but I recently went back to Google Chrome. I must say it seems alot faster than Firefox.
    Haven't tried Opera yet.
  11. Safari and Chrome are the fastest. And forever will be.
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