Firefox 4.0 Beta 7 - Super fluid, beats everyone on sunspider

Post by ilitirit » Thu, Nov 11, 2010, 11:32 AM UTC

robin_reala wrote: post #59

ilitirit wrote: post #58

Seems very buggy. This is what mine looks like: http://imgur.com/64D7h Also, here are a few other issues: * Navigating to www.google.com gives me a 302 page before redirecting me to the localized version (seems like it does this on other sites as well) * The AdBlock icon is missing * No status bar means I can't access my NoScript, MultiProxy Switch, or FireBug addons easily * Sometimes tabs just refuse to close * It…

The status bar has been replaced with the addon bar. If it’s not showing up for you then look under View / Toolbars / Add-on Bar. Regarding your other problems, something’s definitely wrong because I can’t reproduce any of them. Maybe try with a new profile? Check the troubleshooting section on http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/4.0b7/releasenotes/

Post by baq » Thu, Nov 11, 2010, 11:54 AM UTC

kylemathews wrote: post #11

jmillikin wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Odd title though for this post, for where is the "everyone"? The link shows comparisons to previous versions of Firefox, not other browsers. http://arewefastyet.com/ Sunspider’s not a very good benchmark; more interesting to me is that they’re nearly even with V8 in V8’s own benchmark. Though I wonder why they can’t backport TM, or at least a subset, to 3.6; is Firefox so monolithic that improvements to the scripth…

I ran the tests on my Ubuntu 10.10 laptop running Firefox-4.0 Beta8pre and Chrome 9.0.570.0 (64571) and Firefox actually beat Chrome 2943 to 3645 (or a 23% improvement) averaged over two runs. Gotta love browser competition!

Post by nfg » Thu, Nov 11, 2010, 12:00 PM UTC

robin_reala wrote: post #59

ilitirit wrote: post #58

Seems very buggy. This is what mine looks like: http://imgur.com/64D7h Also, here are a few other issues: * Navigating to www.google.com gives me a 302 page before redirecting me to the localized version (seems like it does this on other sites as well) * The AdBlock icon is missing * No status bar means I can't access my NoScript, MultiProxy Switch, or FireBug addons easily * Sometimes tabs just refuse to close * It…

The status bar has been replaced with the addon bar. If it’s not showing up for you then look under View / Toolbars / Add-on Bar. Regarding your other problems, something’s definitely wrong because I can’t reproduce any of them. Maybe try with a new profile? Check the troubleshooting section on http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/4.0b7/releasenotes/

Post by nfg » Thu, Nov 11, 2010, 12:17 PM UTC

robin_reala wrote: post #66

nfg wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The status bar has been replaced with the addon bar. Is there some alternate way to check where a link is pointing with a mouseover?

Yep, look in the location bar. Link targets are shown on the right hand side.

Post by primigenus » Thu, Nov 11, 2010, 12:56 PM UTC

Tomek_ wrote: post #52

bambax wrote: post #38

Browser vendors talk about benchmarks all the time but what really matters to me is startup and closing times; here Chrome really shines and FF3.6 is slow as hell. It's probably about perception; maybe the browser should show a window even if it's not really ready (and maybe there is a problem with plugins and add-ons that need to initialize themselves, etc.) Anyway, how is FF4b7 doing in this regard...?

For me it's UI responsiveness - seems I must be one of few people in the world that care about it since I've never seen any article or benchmark on that (there was a couple about startup times), so I'm not even sure if it isn't only a matter of perception, but for me the problem with Firefox is that the UI feels slow, like there is a lag between clicking on an element and an action being taken by the program. Safari…