Firefox 4 with lots of speed improvements and inline SVG
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Re: Firefox 4 with lots of speed improvements and inline SVG
#2Just installed the Beta on OSX. It's Fast. I mean: Chrome fast.
Re: Firefox 4 with lots of speed improvements and inline SVG
#3Just installed the Beta on OSX. It's Fast. I mean: Chrome fast.
Could you post the link for the download? I can only find 3.6.4 build 7
Re: Firefox 4 with lots of speed improvements and inline SVG
#4Just installed the Beta on OSX. It's Fast. I mean: Chrome fast.
Could you post the link for the download? I can only find 3.6.4 build 7
Firefox 4.0 beta 1 is not released yet, but it probably will be within a few days. (There was a candidate build yesterday, but we decided to wait for a second build with some more fixes.) When it is actually released, it will be announced on http://blog.mozilla.com and available from http://mozilla.com/firefox/all-beta.html
For now you can download the latest nightly "Minefield" build from http://nightly.mozilla.org/
See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_4.0b1 to track progress of the release.
Re: Firefox 4 with lots of speed improvements and inline SVG
#5Just installed the Beta on OSX. It's Fast. I mean: Chrome fast.
Keep in mind the Jaegermonkey project, which will greatly improve javascript performance is still under heavy work. So as of today, the javascript performance is still significantly behind chrome. (http://arewefastyet.com/)
That being said, javascript performance currently has little impact on user-perceived speed, and the "Reducing I/O from the main thread", GPU accelerated rendering, and startup/shutdown perf improvements are already causing incredibly noticeable perf gains.
Re: Firefox 4 with lots of speed improvements and inline SVG
#6What an absolute blast of new technology for the browser!
I've got to believe it's going to open a whole slew of new attack vectors though.
Re: Firefox 4 with lots of speed improvements and inline SVG
#7My current install of Firefox (3.6.4) supports inline SVG -- there's a demo on Mozilla.org at https://developer.mozilla.org/presentations/xtech2005/svg-ca... >. The URL suggests this demo was published in 2005.
What's special about inline SVG in Firefox 4? Is it hardware-accelerated?
e: and this inline SVG demo https://developer.mozilla.org/samples/svg/swarm-of-motes.xht... > says it works in Firefox 1.5!
Re: Firefox 4 with lots of speed improvements and inline SVG
#8Just installed the Beta on OSX. It's Fast. I mean: Chrome fast.
Keep in mind the Jaegermonkey project, which will greatly improve javascript performance is still under heavy work. So as of today, the javascript performance is still significantly behind chrome. ( http://arewefastyet.com/ ) That being said, javascript performance currently has little impact on user-perceived speed, and the "Reducing I/O from the main thread", GPU accelerated rendering, and startup/shutdown perf imp…
That being said, javascript performance currently has little impact on user-perceived speed
Especially now with workers. I'm still hoping for OpenCL-for-JS, though. That would revolutionize the web & gaming.
Re: Firefox 4 with lots of speed improvements and inline SVG
#9My current install of Firefox (3.6.4) supports inline SVG -- there's a demo on Mozilla.org at https://developer.mozilla.org/presentations/xtech2005/svg-ca... >. The URL suggests this demo was published in 2005. What's special about inline SVG in Firefox 4? Is it hardware-accelerated? e: and this inline SVG demo https://developer.mozilla.org/samples/svg/swarm-of-motes.xht... > says it works in Firefox 1.5!
The first link you give is to an SVG document, the second is SVG in namespaced XHTML.
SVG (and MathML) is now part of HTML5 so you can put it in HTML documents. Firefox just replace their HTML parser with a new one which is faster, runs on its own thread, understands HTML5 properly and supports SVG inline in HTML as a feature too. This blog post goes into some details:
http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/05/firefox-4-the-html5-parser-...
Re: Firefox 4 with lots of speed improvements and inline SVG
#10Just installed the Beta on OSX. It's Fast. I mean: Chrome fast.
Keep in mind the Jaegermonkey project, which will greatly improve javascript performance is still under heavy work. So as of today, the javascript performance is still significantly behind chrome. ( http://arewefastyet.com/ ) That being said, javascript performance currently has little impact on user-perceived speed, and the "Reducing I/O from the main thread", GPU accelerated rendering, and startup/shutdown perf imp…
I didn't mean Javascript. Although it is better than 3.6.x — I meant the application. It loads fast, it's light and robust. It feels incredible