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by ahpeeyem 6323 days ago
Hey you're right, I can't notice a difference in speed/responsiveness between Safari on OS X and Chrome on XP inside Parallels, whereas it's painfully slow on Firefox both on OS X and XP+Parallels.

Does this mean Firefox is slow because of its Canvas implementation, and not the Javascript?
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jdavid 6322 days ago
Firefox has not enabled by default "tracemonkey" yet. If you get one of the beta or nightly builds it should be turned on.
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ahpeeyem 6322 days ago
But Safari doesn't have its own new, fast JS interpreter (Squirrelfish) yet either - I'm only using v3.2.1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)#Mac)
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