[aklug] Firefox 9 improvements

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Some interesting stuff this version:

* They implemented some kind of type inference algorithms to create
more efficient code during JIT compiling; they claim it improves
JavaScript benchmark performance by over 30%.
<https://blog.mozilla.com/futurereleases/2011/11/10/type-inference-to-firefox-beta/>

* Some more CSS3 implementations:
  - text-overflow property: specifying how content is clipped if it
doesn't fit in its box,
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/text-overflow>
  - font-stretch: moved font-stretch property from experimental
extension to standard property
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/font-stretch>
  - column-count/column-width: moved CSS3 column support from
experimental extension to standard properties
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/Using_CSS_multi-column_layouts>

* implemented some more WebGL attributes
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658856>

For the full list of bug reports addressed:
<https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/9.0b3/releasenotes/buglist.html>

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Received on Wed Jan 11 10:18:57 2012