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[bogas04]

Thread discussing feature landings and bugs etc in Pre-Release Builds of Firefox


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[Frylock86]

Are we slim yet? No, once you drop legacy support and build for the future and not the past, then you will be slim.

[bogas04]

Frylock86, on 13 April 2011 - 09:54, said:

Are we slim yet? No, once you drop legacy support and build for the future and not the past, then you will be slim.

Its for tracking memory usage , and dropping support for Xp (which aint legacy , it is still in use) would come in "are we modern yet" rather

[bogas04]

Hell Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://arewefastyet....=b&view=regress

[Frylock86]

bogas04, on 13 April 2011 - 09:58, said:

Its for tracking memory usage , and dropping support for Xp (which aint legacy , it is still in use) would come in "are we modern yet" rather

XP is all but. Look what dropping support for XP did to IE

[bogas04]

Frylock86, on 13 April 2011 - 10:33, said:

XP is all but. Look what dropping support for XP did to IE

and what did it do to IE ... ?

[Frylock86]

A fast, slim browser.

[SakuraKira]

A thread for 6.0... Isn't this getting a bit carried away?

[Grinch]

SakuraKira, on 13 April 2011 - 10:49, said:

A thread for 6.0... Isn't this getting a bit carried away?

I would agree if there wasn't already a build for 6.0 on Mozilla's FTP.

[Mr Nom Nom's]

Nice to see that once again Firefox is becoming primarily a Windows browser with Mac and Linux users supported by accident rather than actually deliberately designing for the platform. Promises of OpenGL accelerated layers in Firefox 5.0 and low and behold they've failed to deliver - why aren't I surprised.

[Samurizer]

Frylock86, on 13 April 2011 - 09:54, said:

Are we slim yet? No, once you drop legacy support and build for the future and not the past, then you will be slim.

Feel free to name ONE aspect of IE9 that is slimmer than Fx4.

Mr Nom Nom's, on 13 April 2011 - 11:02, said:

Nice to see that once again Firefox is becoming primarily a Windows browser with Mac and Linux users supported by accident rather than actually deliberately designing for the platform. Promises of OpenGL accelerated layers in Firefox 5.0 and low and behold they've failed to deliver - why aren't I surprised.

I don't know about OS X, but to be honest, it's hard to deliberately design GPU acceleration for a platform (Linux) with such a high level of fragmentation and crappy graphics drivers.

[bogas04]

Frylock86, on 13 April 2011 - 10:42, said:

A fast, slim browser.

erm , yeah ie9 is faster coz of dropping support for xp and not coz of some chakra (or dead code elimination ) , so yeah xp is the one to blame



Some new stuff regrading the branches

[bogas04]

bogas04, on 13 April 2011 - 10:16, said:

Hell Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://arewefastyet....=b&view=regress

Well m sorry , thats just an accidental increment
https://bugzilla.moz...gi?id=649376#c3

[alisalem]

Firefox is coming to getcha, Chrome!

[Mr Nom Nom's]

Samurizer, on 13 April 2011 - 11:05, said:

I don't know about OS X, but to be honest, it's hard to deliberately design GPU acceleration for a platform (Linux) with such a high level of fragmentation and crappy graphics drivers.

True, but there is no excuse when it comes to Mac OS X - a single OpenGL library to target at and even then they (Firefox developers) couldn't do it right.