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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

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Post by mbrubeck »

jmillikin wrote: post #7

My 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!

SVG in XHTML - works in almost all browsers: http://limpet.net/test/svg.xhtml

SVG in HTML - works only in Firefox 4: http://limpet.net/test/svg.html

Re: Firefox 4 with lots of speed improvements and inline SVG

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Post by cookiecaper »

I don't have very high hopes for Firefox. They promised V8-like speed with 3.5, 3.6, and now they're promising it with 4.0, but they're still more than twice as slow, and have been every single time I have tried them.

The only reason I use Firefox anymore is Firebug. All of my normal browsing occurs in Chrome. Even if they eventually get Firefox's VMs as fast as V8 or SquirrelFish Extreme, the interface is clunky and old and much, much slower than Chrome, and really that's what makes it feel so much faster; Chrome starts immediately, I can move tabs quickly, there's no needless address bar/search bar segregation, and so on. I think I am a permanent Chrome user.

Firefox has had years to catch up to Chrome by this point and their results have been pretty bad, imo. Unless they can get it together, I think that Fx is destined to decline permanently soon.

Re: Firefox 4 with lots of speed improvements and inline SVG

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Post by Sadranyc »

mbrubeck wrote: post #4
Sadranyc wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/…

Thank you very much for such an informative comment.
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