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FF 4.0 final released
#14163555 - 03/22/11 08:44 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Firefox 4.0 was released today.

I like it. It does seem a little faster to me, both in initial loading and browsing.
Although I went to a couple webgl demo sites and it says 'browser does not support WebGL' which I thought 4 does out of the box.
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Re: FF 4.0 final released [Re: veggie]
#14163575 - 03/22/11 08:58 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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You can go to about:support to see if the various hardware acceleration features are enabled. Due to various compatibility problems there are a number of drivers which are blacklisted, although like it says on that page, you could try going to about:config and setting webgl.force-enabled=true.
I don't get any hardware acceleration with my six year old laptop, but FF4 does run SunSpider even faster than Chrome on my system.
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Re: FF 4.0 final released [Re: veggie]
#14163632 - 03/22/11 09:30 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Damn fine browser, though architecturally a bit behind the times when compared to Chrome and IE9. That'll change hopefully in the not too distant future with their faster update schedule.
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Re: FF 4.0 final released [Re: Ythan]
#14163652 - 03/22/11 09:36 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I set webgl.force-enabled to true, no luck. And my laptop is about six years old also, so I guess my hardware just doesn't support this.
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Re: FF 4.0 final released [Re: Ythan]
#14163734 - 03/22/11 09:58 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
Ythan said: You can go to about:support to see if the various hardware acceleration features are enabled. Due to various compatibility problems there are a number of drivers which are blacklisted, although like it says on that page, you could try going to about:config and setting webgl.force-enabled=true.
I don't get any hardware acceleration with my six year old laptop, but FF4 does run SunSpider even faster than Chrome on my system. 
I am trying to find this for my Mac, I wonder where it would be?
Everything about this new version seems improved. I haven't done a lot testing just yet, but the speeds feels a lot like Chrome.
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sweet.
and its already in the Arch repos
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Re: FF 4.0 final released [Re: veggie]
#14203010 - 03/29/11 10:27 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Hate it. Slow and bloated. My two favorites addons no longer work with it and I am switching to Google Chrome.
Firefox was great for awhile but it lags behind the times now and has been overtaken in several areas.
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Re: FF 4.0 final released [Re: zorbman]
#14203036 - 03/29/11 10:35 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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meh.. i thought it felt a little quicker than 3.x.
ive been switching back and forth between FF and Conkeror recently though. Conkeror is a very fast browser modeled after the Emacs text editor.
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Re: FF 4.0 final released [Re: frith]
#14205258 - 03/29/11 06:41 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Eh... It's ok, but I'm sticking with IE 6.
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Re: FF 4.0 final released [Re: Bacchus]
#14205982 - 03/29/11 08:50 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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never looked back.
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Re: FF 4.0 final released [Re: cortex]
#14208723 - 03/30/11 10:30 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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netscape.. HA!
I have Mosaic installed on my thinkpad.
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Re: FF 4.0 final released [Re: frith]
#14211192 - 03/30/11 06:34 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I like yer wallpaper, what theatre is that?
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Re: FF 4.0 final released [Re: cortex]
#14211210 - 03/30/11 06:37 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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cortex said: I like yer wallpaper, what theatre is that?
that is the Paris opera house.
http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details/2525/palais_garnier.html
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Re: FF 4.0 final released [Re: frith]
#14211253 - 03/30/11 06:44 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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cool, thx!
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