Testing Firefox

[DontSayBanana]

First off, Gecko runs way faster than WebKit (Chrome and Safari run the same rendering engine- you're not gonna see much of a difference between those two), so you're going to find Firefox runs a lot faster than Chrome... if you don't pile on too many add-ons that bog down the program.

Right now, I'm running FF 3.6.15/NoScript/Adblock Plus(Fanboy's List).

[Barrister]

First off, Gecko runs way faster than WebKit (Chrome and Safari run the same rendering engine- you're not gonna see much of a difference between those two), so you're going to find Firefox runs a lot faster than Chrome...

Got a source on that?

I didn't think so.

[viper37]

First off, Gecko runs way faster than WebKit (Chrome and Safari run the same rendering engine- you're not gonna see much of a difference between those two), so you're going to find Firefox runs a lot faster than Chrome...

Got a source on that?

I didn't think so.

About wich part?
Chrome OS and Safari using Webkit?
WebKit powers Google Chrome and Apple's Safari,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit


Firefox 4.0 uses Gecko 2
Firefox 4 is based on the Gecko 2.0 engine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Firefox_4


About the speed?  Currently, Beta 10 and above (they're at #12 now) are faster than Chrome 9.x or any other browser currently available, as retail or open beta.

FF 4.0 uses the GPU to offload processing from the CPU, making it faster.

How much?  Depending on the scale you use, you can get interesting figures   But #figures, in absolute terms, do we really notice 100 milliseconds difference?

[Liep]

There is no noticeable difference between Chrome 11.x and Firefox Beta 12 when viewing Languish.org. 

[derspiess]

Nobody mentioned security, but FWIW: http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/10/safari-and-ie8-get-shamed-at-pwn2own-chrome-still-safe-for-n/

[DontSayBanana]

Nobody mentioned security, but FWIW: http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/10/safari-and-ie8-get-shamed-at-pwn2own-chrome-still-safe-for-n/

http://www.networksecurityedge.com/content/google-patches-19-chrome-vulnerabilities

Compare that to this advisory:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/

At the same time, Chrome had more known critical bugs than the entire list of known bugs for Firefox.

[DontSayBanana]

Just switched up to FF4 RC.  Anybody else giving it a test-drive?

[Liep]

Just switched up to FF4 RC.  Anybody else giving it a test-drive?

Yep, I like the design and it seems very fast. You can scroll down on heavy sites immediately, the two-three seconds you had to wait before was not worthy of 2011.

[DontSayBanana]

Yep, I like the design and it seems very fast. You can scroll down on heavy sites immediately, the two-three seconds you had to wait before was not worthy of 2011.

The new UI is nice and clean; it reminds me of the cleaner Chrome UI, but it's not a direct lift.  I'm also just wondering if anybody's been using the app tabs.

[lustindarkness]

FF4 for the last week or so. Love it.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Is it in beta or this the production version?

[DontSayBanana]

Is it in beta or this the production version?

4's in RC right now; something like: "we don't want to call this a beta, but enough people might be holding onto 3.6 that we don't want to call it the stable version."

[Liep]

Actually I'm pretty sure it's done, released and downloaded 40 million+ times already.

[Caliga]

Yes, I have Firefox 4 final.

[viper37]

Is it in beta or this the production version?

4's in RC right now; something like: "we don't want to call this a beta, but enough people might be holding onto 3.6 that we don't want to call it the stable version."

it's the final FF 4.0 since last week.