Newest ver. of Firefox is incredibly faaaast!

nakamichi · Post by **nakamichi** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:55 pm

Have you checked out the newest nightly releases of Firefox?
Although they have a good share of bugs,the page rendering speed is so fast,it puts even the "legendary" Opera to shame :)

navi · Post by **navi** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 2:59 pm

was there a new release

FETUS · Post by **FETUS** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 3:11 pm

seems about the same

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:01 pm

im on 1.0 on my laptop right now, but my desktop has 1.0.4 on it, and i dont really notice any difference i must say

and according to getfirefox.com, 1.0.4 is the latest version

still i really like FF, i dont use IE anymore if i dont have too

MetaFox · Post by **MetaFox** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:33 pm

Indeed he does:

http://www.mozilla.org/developer/

EDIT:

Holy crap. It is fast.

navi · Post by **navi** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:56 pm

CVS version? -is lost-

butters · Post by **butters** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:59 pm

That means the version containing the latest development code. This means it's largely untested and unstable. It sounds like they are making some nice code optimizations.

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 5:53 pm

Those bastards need to release FreeBSD binaries. There is no way I am going to compile this on my laptop.

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:08 pm

Mozilla itself has actually been faster / better than Firefox for some time now. All the modifications (updated rendering engine and so on) have been happening in the development versions and Mozilla, but Firefox hasn't been getting any of them. At least, not in any official release versions.

Xylene - You could always run the Linux version on FreeBSD. You need to install the compatability libraries first (I think), but it should work fine. Might not be quite as good as a real FreeBSD binary would be, but it'd probably be better than nothing.

nakamichi · Post by **nakamichi** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:01 pm

Yes,I meant the newest ALPHA daily CVS release of Firefox 1.1

It's much faster than 1.0.4. If you can live with the bugs and want to test it,go and get it from Mozilla's FTP site

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 12:39 am

It sure is fast. It even seems a little faster than Konqueror now (I'm using Konqueror partly because it was faster than Firefox, partly because it works better with KDE, and partly because I just don't like the Linux version of Firefox), and I've not had any problems with it yet. Seems to start up quicker as well (although that could be the fact that the entire thing was cached in memory the first time I ran it).

One problem - no mouse gestures! Not really that big of a deal - I can just set KDE up to provide mouse gestures for Firefox. As an added advantage, KDE's mouse gestures work better than the Firefox extension anyway. They're just more difficult to set up.

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 1:23 am

hmm, i can only find mozzila 1.7.8, no FF 1.1

also, would 1.1 be a fully working exe, or do i need to compile/whatever?

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 1:28 am

There are precompiled versions available...

Windows (32-bit)
- EXE installer
  MSI installer
  ZIP
  ZIP with SVG support (unofficial build)
Linux
- Installer
  .tar.gz
  .tar.gz with SVG support (unofficial build)
MacOS X
FreeBSD 4.9
FreeBSD 5.3

The unofficial builds also have support for Solaris on various CPU architectures, OS/2 (!), NetBSD, and probably a few others.

Basically, the official builds are available here, with most of the unofficial builds available here. There are also unofficial binaries for 64-bit systems are available for Windows XP x64 and Linux. Unofficial builds are probably not quite as up-to-date as the official ones.

Also useful - modified extensions that work with the latest nightly builds.

Edit: The 64-bit versions seem to be even faster...

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 6:11 am

BlackAura wrote:Xylene - You could always run the Linux version on FreeBSD. You need to install the compatability libraries first (I think), but it should work fine. Might not be quite as good as a real FreeBSD binary would be, but it'd probably be better than nothing.

Yeah, I know, but I didn't think it would be as fast. Probably as fast as what I use now. Now that I see your other post about the 5.3 binaries, I am going to try them on 5.4.

Edit: Ok, I guess I'm not. The FreeBSD archive is nothing but an empty archive.

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 6:26 am

It also doesn't appear to have been updated in a few months. That's irritating.

I suppose you could try the BSD 4.9 binaries. Although I think you have to install compatability libraries for those as well, so it may not be worth it.

As far as I understand FreeBSD's Linux support, it emulates the kernel layer only, and uses a load of native Windows libraries. It should run almost (something like 99%) as fast as it would on Linux. Considering that you were having a lot of trouble with Linux, I think it's safe to say that it'll run faster than it would have on Linux, and almost as fast as it would on BSD.

I still want to know who is actually using the OS/2 builds...

nakamichi · Post by **nakamichi** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:41 pm

A question for you:

HOW to delete a pref from about:config? (or change it from String to Integer?)

I put a new pref: browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers as string instead of integer,and I cannot delete or change it now from the browser about:config.

Any way to delete or change the pref "mode"?

nakamichi · Post by **nakamichi** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:44 pm

Tried to add the pref again as an integer,but nothing happens

butters · Post by **butters** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:58 pm

Most of those prefs are in install directory/greprefs from what I can tell. Every pref firefox has is in a text file somewhere.

nakamichi · Post by **nakamichi** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 9:12 pm

I'm gonna install the ChromEdit extension first and see if it will address my problem

btm4k · Post by **btm4k** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:14 pm

Xylene wrote:Those fancy pants need to release FreeBSD binaries. There is no way I am going to compile this on my laptop.

haha you're using freebsd now? my work is finished