Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 Released 190
balster neb writes "Mozilla has released the first Beta of Firefox 4, the next major version of the popular web browser. Apart from the new 'Chromified' tabs-on-top UI, there are many major improvements in performance and HTML5 support. This release also adds support for the new WebM video format. Other changes include faster DOM and CSS performance, improved UI responsiveness, hardware 2D acceleration, experimental WebGL support, and better JavaScript performance (though this beta does not include the new JaegerMonkey JIT engine). More details on the Mozilla blog."
Re:First Post !! (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:First Post !! (Score:3, Insightful)
Option to use the old UI? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:First Post !! (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:First Post !! (Score:3, Insightful)
While it's technically true that unused RAM goes to waste, RAM that isn't used by programs is typically used for disk cache, which does speed things up (sometimes a lot). So lower RAM usage is still a plus.
Re:Option to use the old UI? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I'll never let go, Firefox. I'll never let go. (Score:2, Insightful)
Why do you need to? Chrome renders pages faster, sure, but I don't really give a shit about a couple of milliseconds rendering time.
We're talking real-world (not synthetic benchmarks, but actual page loads) improvements of 100% or more, probably due largely to the fact that Chrome can execute Javascript on something like a reasonable schedule.
Chrome has isolated tabs, but crashes more than Firefox anyway (at least for me).
For me it's quite the reverse. And I'm running dailies!
Finally, when you have a really nice open source browser that isn't entirely controlled by a giant behemoth that knows everything about you, why not use it?
Chrome isn't "entirely controlled by a giant behemoth" either, it's based on WebKit. And Chromium is entirely open-source so if you really want to, you can see what's going on in there, change things, et cetera. Meanwhile, every time I've ever installed Firefox it's defaulted to google search with suggestions/autocomplete, which means that google is spying on you when you use firefox.
P.S. Gecko is still much faster at some things, i.e. image rendering and animation.
If every damned site out there wasn't overusing Javascript that might be a compelling argument.
Re:Now hopefully... (Score:1, Insightful)
financing it through advertising/marketing
This meme needs to die. Who do you think pays marketers salaries? You do via higher cost products and your lost time and attention. Marketing pays for nothing.
Re:I'll never let go, Firefox. I'll never let go. (Score:5, Insightful)
P.S. Gecko is still much faster at some things, i.e. image rendering and animation.
If every damned site out there wasn't overusing Javascript that might be a compelling argument.
A lot of sites with heavy image content scroll smoothly in Firefox, Opera, and even IE, but struggle along at about 5 fps when scrolling with the webkit browsers. That's my main issue with Chrome.
Re:Not bad (Score:5, Insightful)
Why would it matter who came up with any given feature first? In software, all ideas are recycled.
Re:Option to use the old UI? (Score:5, Insightful)
tabs are a hack by applications to make up for the failure of the traditional WM model and it's inability to handle large numbers of windows.
"Faster" for who? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Now hopefully... (Score:4, Insightful)
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