Actually, WebKit's Javascript engine is called Nitro (formerly SquirrelFish Extreme), and it is definitely a different thing from V8. V8 is the Javascript engine developed by Google and used in Google Chrome. Nitro and V8 are currently pretty neck-and-neck for the fastest Javascript engine, but the newest V8 builds seem to be slightly faster, especially on XP platform. But guenter is
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Thanks, ndebord! Your points are well taken. Granted, my points could be raised for just moving KM to Gecko 1.9.0 that does not use SQLite, but I agree that any changes to KM should be done in their good time. And also to note, there are at least three other Gecko 3.x-non-XUL-based browsers which are using the latest Gecko and update in a timely manner: Orca and Lunascape which are using Gec
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I shall contact Dorian, desga2 and guenter about the schedule for Gecko 1.9.1x based K-Meleon. I also wonder why KMCCF ME 0.096 hasn't been made into the official Gecko 1.9.1 KM? But that of course is the difference: will there be an official Gecko 1.9.1 KM or not? The KMCCF one specifically says not official, and that is all the difference. As well, willingness to wait a year or two f
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So presumably these new, severe JS bugs are already in/have been entered into Mozilla's bugtracker? ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ ) Yogi, did you just read about these JS bugs from Mozilla bugs, or is there a list of these bugs somewhere else? And in case if not, will these new, severe JS bugs be entered into Mozilla bugs? In fact, I am very impatient for an official alpha/beta of
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When we say Gecko 1.9.1, we mean the layout engine developed by the Mozilla Project, which is used in Firefox and all other "Gecko-based" browsers, including K-Meleon (and no, that's not XULRunner). See also: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko_(layout_engine) You can get Gecko 1.9.1 by downloading the source for Firefox, for example: ft
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