Mozilla developers are fighting the advances of Chrome in the segment of browsers. The development of Google continues to grow market share at the expense of not only Internet Explorer but also Firefox, which is losing the occasional user for Chrome and Chromium.

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said a few hours ago, Firefox is available in 6 and stable release, and although no official packages for the distributions you can install binary 32 and 64 bits offered by Mozilla enjoy the possibilities of this new version from scratch.

developments are important, and you can discover all the change log maintained on the official Mozilla wiki. These include opportunities for developers (with a powerful new web console , among other things), optimization of the groups of tabs in Outlook or the new Scratchpad to test JavaScript code in a simple, and improved boot times.

are also interesting new control options personal information and permissions (about: permissions) and memory (about: memory) in which you can check which data are yielding to certain web services and what parts of Firefox are responsible for memory consumption.

But one of the most important sections and more attractive to users is the speed tests JavaScript , which has again improved over previous editions.

However, Firefox is still behind its main competitors in this section, and in fact has been 11.50 Opera which has better performance in the test from FutureMark Peacekeeper in our pruebas.Ni even Chrome latest version of the channel developer (Chrome 15) we reach out to Opera, which again speaks highly of the Opera browser software, how we often olvidadito.

11.50 Opera is the best behaved in the JavaScript tests we have done.

any case, the data from the execution speed of JavaScript, while important, is not decisive for many users. The UI benefits in the day to day management and accessories catalog values ​​are rising, and that’s Chrome seems to be setting the standard .