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  • Firefox 4 is finally out

    More zoom zoom, better looking, awesome web features.

    Faster page loading, less memory usage and packed with features, the new Firefox is here.


    What's new:
    Faster page loading, less memory usage and packed with features, the new Firefox is here.


    Summary:

    1) New UI
    2) Much faster
    3) GPU acceleration
    "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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    "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
    Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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    • #3
      Not bad. They have even solved the problem with mouse wheel not working in other tabs when having a pdf in one.
      With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

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      • #4
        HTML5 real-time download tracker for FF4. Cool.

        "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
        Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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        • #5
          A few of my plugins aren't "compatible," but they work fine when using nightly tester tools. The noia skin isn't compatible (as in, looks like ****), but I can live with the default skin indefinitely.

          I love the collapsed menu bar
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          • #6
            Looks pretty. Not sure which I prefer, Chrome or FF4 now...
            You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Krill View Post
              Looks pretty. Not sure which I prefer, Chrome or FF4 now...
              This is my dilemma. I actually use both randomly.
              "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
              Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Asher View Post
                In the first one, how is is "more than 3.5x faster". I don't understand. Is it an error, or do I fail to grasp what it's talking about.
                One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                • #9
                  I think it's an error. 3.5 times faster would be 4083ms
                  Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
                  Jon Miller: MikeH is a shockingly revolting dolt and a masturbatory urine-reeking sideshow freak whose word is as valuable as an aging cow paddy.
                  We've got both kinds

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                  • #10
                    And there's the million...
                    You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Dauphin View Post
                      In the first one, how is is "more than 3.5x faster". I don't understand. Is it an error, or do I fail to grasp what it's talking about.
                      Marketing people like the phrase "more than". Marketing people cannot do arithmetic.
                      "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                      Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                      • #12
                        Idiot question -

                        When they say 3.5X faster are they referring to the speed at which a web page will load?
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                        "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Wezil View Post
                          Idiot question -

                          When they say 3.5X faster are they referring to the speed at which a web page will load?
                          No, they're referring to specific benchmarks testing specific things. In those cases in the bar graph, those are Javascript benchmarks. Javascript benchmarks seldom massively affect pageload, except in modern web apps (like gmail, Google Docs, etc).

                          Web page loading speed itself on the vast majority of sites will be marginally faster. On sites like gmail it should be noticably faster. But it's most important in that the extra speed enables future capabilities not possible on older web browsers.
                          "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                          Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                          • #14
                            Okay then. It sounds above my tech level to be sure.

                            If it was page speed I was wondering if anyone really has a problem with that as is? As long as I am not relegated to my **** backup machine I never have a problem on that front.
                            "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
                            "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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                            • #15
                              I assume that most site loads are IO/network bound rather than CPU bound, so there's not much that the browser can do to speed up page load times besides caching
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