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Firefox 4 Beta 8 has been released
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Firefox 4 Beta 8 has been released
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Re: Firefox 4 Beta 8 has been released
#2Even more impressive is their HTML5, WebGL, audio and video demo linked to in the post:
http://videos-cdn.mozilla.net/serv/mozhacks/flight-of-the-na...
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 8 has been released
#3the thing that keeps me using firefox, yet prevents me from using the new beta releases, is extensions.
i have a lot of extensions that i use on a daily basis and yet only about half of them work with firefox 4 so far. some probably don't even require any code changes other than bumping up the version marker that lets firefox install it on a new version, but a lot of extension developers seem to wait until releases are stable before testing and updating.
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 8 has been released
#4the thing that keeps me using firefox, yet prevents me from using the new beta releases, is extensions. i have a lot of extensions that i use on a daily basis and yet only about half of them work with firefox 4 so far. some probably don't even require any code changes other than bumping up the version marker that lets firefox install it on a new version, but a lot of extension developers seem to wait until releases a…
Usually after release most of these extensions get updated pretty quickly. I'm currently using Firefox (same reasons) and I'm waiting for the final release. I'll probably update right away and live with a few broken extensions (or hack up their version numbers) until they all get updated.
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 8 has been released
#5Beta 8 was released a week ago. Beta 9 is available now:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...
I tested beta 8 a few days ago, it was still twice as slow as Chrome 8 (Sunspider benchmark).
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 8 has been released
#6the thing that keeps me using firefox, yet prevents me from using the new beta releases, is extensions. i have a lot of extensions that i use on a daily basis and yet only about half of them work with firefox 4 so far. some probably don't even require any code changes other than bumping up the version marker that lets firefox install it on a new version, but a lot of extension developers seem to wait until releases a…
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 8 has been released
#7Even more impressive is their HTML5, WebGL, audio and video demo linked to in the post: http://videos-cdn.mozilla.net/serv/mozhacks/flight-of-the-na...
I remember some months (maybe more than a year ago) when there was a story about a Doom-style engine in Javascript and someone commented how sad it was that with all this powerful technology, we're getting excited about 1990s style graphics in web browsers.
I had sympathy for that but it now seems to me like web technologies are improving at such a rate that we'll hit near-native performance in a few years (of course, technologies like Google's NaCl can do that now but it would be quite something to see technologies like WebGL and Javascript close the performance gap).
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 8 has been released
#8Beta 8 was released a week ago. Beta 9 is available now: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates... I tested beta 8 a few days ago, it was still twice as slow as Chrome 8 (Sunspider benchmark).
Check out http://www.arewefastyet.com for daily benchmarks against Chrome and Safari/WebKit; it definitely shows something different, and my experience is also different; Firefox 4 is about even with the others now. Perhaps you have a misconfiguration somewhere?
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 8 has been released
#9the thing that keeps me using firefox, yet prevents me from using the new beta releases, is extensions. i have a lot of extensions that i use on a daily basis and yet only about half of them work with firefox 4 so far. some probably don't even require any code changes other than bumping up the version marker that lets firefox install it on a new version, but a lot of extension developers seem to wait until releases a…
http://dotnetwizard.net/soft-apps/firefox-3-beta-4-disabling...
The correct way to do this is to install Mozilla's Add-on Compatibility Reporter. It lets you selectively disable and report those add-ons that aren't working correctly on new versions.
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 8 has been released
#10Beta 8 was released a week ago. Beta 9 is available now: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates... I tested beta 8 a few days ago, it was still twice as slow as Chrome 8 (Sunspider benchmark).
(I work on Firefox)
Beta 9 is not available. You are linking to nightly builds that will eventually become Beta 9.
That SunSpider score vs Chrome is nigh impossible in the default configuration. Maybe you have Firebug turned on? I'd expect the Firefox SunSpider score vs. Chrome to be very close, with the winner varying depending on the machine, OS, and release channel.