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Mozilla Firefox 4 is here!!!.

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Mozilla Firefox 4 is here Mozilla has launched Firefox 4 today, after 12 betas, 2 RCs and a year of development.

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The browser offers a streamlined, minimalist user interface, hardware acceleration, speed boost, and added support for WebM and HTML5.

Mozilla notes that the browser is available for Mac, Windows, Linux and soon for Android.

Most of the speed boosts come via JavaScript engine enhancements, and the company says the browser should be over 200 percent faster than Firefox 3.6.

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The full change log + video:

What’s New in Firefox 4:

Fastest Firefox Ever

Performance: Firefox is up to six times faster than the previous release. With improved start-up and page load times, speedy Web app performance and hardware accelerated graphics, Firefox is optimized for rich, interactive websites.

App Tabs: give a permanent home to frequently visited sites like Web mail, Twitter, Pandora, Flickr.

Switch to Tab: easily find and switch to any open tab from your Awesome Bar without opening duplicate tabs.
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Have just found out that if you dab the ALT key, it will display the traditional menu on top of screen, dab again will clear.
 
Millions download latest Firefox browser

More than five million people have downloaded the latest version of Firefox since its release a day ago.


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Mozilla, which makes the number two web browser, has been keeping a real-time map showing where in the world users are installing the software.

Despite the rapid uptake, downloads have been slower for version 4 than its predecessor.

Over the past year, Firefox's market share has declined slightly in the face of competition from Google's Chrome.

Firefox 4 was made available for download less than a month after Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 9, the latest version of its market-leading browser.

Both pieces of software promise users a faster, more secure online experience.

Firefox, like its rival, now makes extensive use of HTML 5, one of main the programming languages used to build websites.

Both browsers feature hardware acceleration when displaying HTML 5 pages - drawing on the power of a computer's graphics processor to improve the speed of complex visuals.


Declining share

Within its first 24 hours, more than 5.5 million users had downloaded Firefox 4. However, that falls short of the 8 million who downloaded version 3 on its release day in 2008.

The lower figure may be explained by the widespread availability of pre-release versions of Firefox 4 in the months ahead of its launch.

Firefox has enjoyed rapid growth since it first appeared in 2004. At its peak, in 2009 it held a 24% market share, according to Netmarketshare.

However, by February 2011 its slice of the browser market had fallen to 21%.

At the same time, Google's Chrome browser has grown from 1% to 10%, according to the same figures.

Internet Explorer remains the dominant platform, although its fall has been the most precipitous - from 68% in March 2009 to 56% in February 2011.

Some analysts believe that Firefox could still secure a bigger piece of the increasingly fragmented market, especially among corporate users.

"Internet Explorer 9 is only for Windows Vista and 7. Two thirds of companies are still using Windows XP," said Ovum analyst Richard Edwards.

"If you want to make the most of the HTML 5 stuff that is out there then you have to go to IE9 and a Windows 7 upgrade or switch to Firefox.

"That may be a significant opportunity for Firefox," he said.
 
Linny40 said:
mmm not so sure. Its not compatible with a lot of my add ons :(
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The bottom line? If you use a ton of add-ons, you’re going to want to check them out before you upgrade, to make sure they are compatible. Firefox 4 changes the underlying extension architecture a great deal, and many add-ons just won’t work.

Hopefully the Dev's of the popular ones will update them?
 
Just and i getting used to chrome!

I'm just on the new firefox 4 browser now but i think chrome is still slightly faster.
Gonna stick with this for a few days to try it out though.
 
I wanna try it but I'm skerd.... lol. HT does it work well or has it been like 3.x with all the updates and freezing and such?? That was my issue with 3.x in the beginning... if I could have I would have slapped around those developers during the first few months of 3.x..... LOL

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axxxo said:
Just and i getting used to chrome!

I'm just on the new firefox 4 browser now but i think chrome is still slightly faster.
Gonna stick with this for a few days to try it out though.
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axxxo the only thing that I don't like about Chrome is the dang program tracks everything you do... well from what I was told... I used it for a while and don't use google.com that much either.... it just bothers me I guess. :dunno:

Please let us know how you like it... I"m a big FF fan and will d/l it this weekend I'm sure.... I just can't stand not trying it... lol
 
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greensman said:
axxxo the only thing that I don't like about Chrome is the dang program tracks everything you do
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I would agree with you there and i suppose thats what helps it go so fast.

Here's a result from sun spider browser speed test, i have no idea what it means though lol

Results in the middle is Firefox 4 and on the right is chrome 10, according to the results the results are "significant" lol

** TOTAL **: *1.053x as slow* 442.0ms +/- 0.9% 465.3ms +/- 2.9% significant

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3d: 1.098x as fast 77.4ms +/- 1.5% 70.5ms +/- 9.4% significant
cube: 1.53x as fast 31.5ms +/- 1.6% 20.6ms +/- 11.1% significant
morph: *1.180x as slow* 17.2ms +/- 2.6% 20.3ms +/- 3.7% significant
raytrace: ?? 28.7ms +/- 3.7% 29.6ms +/- 19.3% not conclusive: might be *1.031x as slow*

access: *1.096x as slow* 56.5ms +/- 1.9% 61.9ms +/- 8.5% significant
binary-trees: 2.21x as fast 8.4ms +/- 4.4% 3.8ms +/- 7.9% significant
fannkuch: *1.65x as slow* 21.9ms +/- 1.0% 36.1ms +/- 16.0% significant
nbody: *1.104x as slow* 10.6ms +/- 3.5% 11.7ms +/- 5.0% significant
nsieve: 1.51x as fast 15.6ms +/- 4.9% 10.3ms +/- 28.3% significant

bitops: *2.06x as slow* 21.7ms +/- 2.7% 44.6ms +/- 22.4% significant
3bit-bits-in-byte: *4.36x as slow* 1.1ms +/- 20.5% 4.8ms +/- 59.5% significant
bits-in-byte: 1.23x as fast 9.8ms +/- 3.1% 8.0ms +/- 25.3% significant
bitwise-and: *4.65x as slow* 3.1ms +/- 7.3% 14.4ms +/- 2.6% significant
nsieve-bits: *2.26x as slow* 7.7ms +/- 4.5% 17.4ms +/- 39.6% significant

controlflow: *1.100x as slow* 4.0ms +/- 0.0% 4.4ms +/- 25.6% significant
recursive: *1.100x as slow* 4.0ms +/- 0.0% 4.4ms +/- 25.6% significant

crypto: *1.114x as slow* 29.9ms +/- 1.8% 33.3ms +/- 7.2% significant
aes: 1.109x as fast 16.3ms +/- 3.6% 14.7ms +/- 4.0% significant
md5: - 7.5ms +/- 5.0% 7.1ms +/- 29.4%
sha1: *1.89x as slow* 6.1ms +/- 3.7% 11.5ms +/- 11.8% significant

date: 1.38x as fast 66.1ms +/- 1.3% 48.0ms +/- 2.8% significant
format-tofte: 1.54x as fast 33.2ms +/- 1.4% 21.5ms +/- 7.1% significant
format-xparb: 1.24x as fast 32.9ms +/- 1.9% 26.5ms +/- 2.3% significant

math: 1.151x as fast 40.3ms +/- 1.2% 35.0ms +/- 10.1% significant
cordic: 1.75x as fast 13.3ms +/- 2.6% 7.6ms +/- 28.8% significant
partial-sums: *1.20x as slow* 16.3ms +/- 2.1% 19.6ms +/- 3.5% significant
spectral-norm: 1.37x as fast 10.7ms +/- 3.2% 7.8ms +/- 30.2% significant

regexp: 1.162x as fast 23.0ms +/- 5.1% 19.8ms +/- 6.3% significant
dna: 1.162x as fast 23.0ms +/- 5.1% 19.8ms +/- 6.3% significant

string: *1.20x as slow* 123.1ms +/- 1.6% 147.8ms +/- 2.4% significant
base64: *1.34x as slow* 7.3ms +/- 4.7% 9.8ms +/- 3.1% significant
fasta: *1.24x as slow* 21.6ms +/- 2.3% 26.8ms +/- 4.8% significant
tagcloud: 1.048x as fast 39.3ms +/- 2.8% 37.5ms +/- 3.8% significant
unpack-code: *1.27x as slow* 39.8ms +/- 1.7% 50.4ms +/- 1.9% significant
validate-input: *1.54x as slow* 15.1ms +/- 3.5% 23.3ms +/- 8.4% significant
 
must admit ive put it on the other pc as i dont have so many add ons but it looks very similar to chrome!
 
Just downloading now,will have a run at it later,if the boss(HiTeck) is raving about it,it must be good
 
well so far so good for me, put it on this morn when H put this up,

mind you have'nt done much messing about with it but will lol
 
time for an upgrade then, some of the add-ons shown by HT look good.

but i'll stick to Google Chrome :)
 
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