Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 and TabIMSwitch

Yesterday Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 was launched by Mozilla. The new version of Firefox supports many new features, within which the most exciting thing may be the new, fast TraceMonkey JavaScript Engine.

How fast the new engine is? The anwser may be "Beyond your expetations" (See this comparation). Go to about:config now, type "jit" to filter box, and set both value to "true" to get the free lanch!

However, newer version of Firefox means more work for Firefox extension authors. We authors must do a regression test to ensure our extensions works for the new version. If you are not lucky, you may have to change code and repack the extension again.

I am glad to announce that my Firefox addon, TabIMSwitch, version 1.1.0.44, is 100% compatible with Firefox 3.1 beta, and even better, with the performance improvement of TraceMonkey engine, the latency of switching input method is shorten a lot.

I have updated the TabIMSwitch to latest version 1.1.0.45, which is a repack of 1.1.0.44, while supporting Firefox 3.1 Beta 1. Update your TabIMSwitch will not effect your Firefox 3.0 installation.