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I don't know about you, but today's build is the fastest i ever had till now.With this build browsing feels more nimble and it scored the lowest score on SunSpider i ever scored with FF4.I feel when FF4 Final lands it will be damn fast compared to FF3 and at least as fast as other browsers or close to them.

Keep up the good work FF Team.

PS:With the latest Chromium build i get 311ms on SunSpider, and with today's FF Nightly i get 364ms.The difference of 50ms is nothing to me.

Anyone having problems with flash with AdBlock Plus installed on today's nightly?It's like it blocks it even if you didn't tell it to do it.For example the flash part of www.speedtest.net where you chose server to test doesent load with adblock enabled.I have to disable adblock from addons menu to get it working, but then i have no adblock at all.

Anyone having problems with flash with AdBlock Plus installed on today's nightly?It's like it blocks it even if you didn't tell it to do it.For example the flash part of www.speedtest.net where you chose server to test doesent load with adblock enabled.I have to disable adblock from addons menu to get it working, but then i have no adblock at all.

Very few flash objects are loading for me, so I can confirm that. :(

Very few flash objects are loading for me, so I can confirm that. :(

are you guys using the official adblock build of the dev one?

the dev build seems to work better with the nightlies get it from the official adblock website

With the official build i had bugs like no background on adblock mouse menu,not all lines of the menu visible,not working some of the menus from the mouse menu when clicked.So i installed latest dev build, but it is the same with the dev build too.So i guess its just some major conflict between adblock and todays nightly.

How come there have been such dramatic Flash related problems for these betas so far?

I've generally always used the Alpha and Beta's of Firefox builds for main release versions and have never come across problems that can affect general browsing so much before.

The main painting issues would be due to the fact that they're now using Direct2D to render all the page content, and that they've overhauled how the page is actually drawn to the screen (And that's shown some issues in how plugins are drawn that never mattered before).

It's still bugged in todays nightly. it's weird as not ALL flash objects are gone - Like on my website, the ustream player works, but if I go to the ustream pages, it doesn't! Some websites you see the flash object loading for a split second then it vanishes from view.

(Mac OS X 10.6.4)

I think I may go back to a nightly from a few days ago for now as I can't get by without ABP.

Anyone using Firefox 4 64bit out there?

I just bought a new computer and was thinking of installing the 64bit version (I'm running in7 64bit) but should I? I can see official nighties for 64bits but last time I heard, Mozilla stated that the 64bit version was not going to happen for version 4. Did that change in the meantime? Will Mozilla officially release a final Firefox 4 64bit version?

There's also the matter with plugins. A 64bit browser is no good without 64bit plugins; otherwise I won't be able to use those plugins, right? Or can I use 32bit plugins on a 64bit browser? As of now I have a bunch installed like Adobe Acrobat, Google Earth, Java, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Windows Media Player, QuickTime, Shockwave Flash, Shockwave for Director, Silverlight and Windows Live Photo Gallery. Most of them were automatically installed with some apps and I don't really need them; the ones in bold are the most important ones. Are there 64bit version of the bold plugins or can I use the 32bit version?

Some enlighten me please...

Anyone using Firefox 4 64bit out there?

I just bought a new computer and was thinking of installing the 64bit version (I'm running in7 64bit) but should I? I can see official nighties for 64bits but last time I heard, Mozilla stated that the 64bit version was not going to happen for version 4. Did that change in the meantime? Will Mozilla officially release a final Firefox 4 64bit version?

There's also the matter with plugins. A 64bit browser is no good without 64bit plugins; otherwise I won't be able to use those plugins, right? Or can I use 32bit plugins on a 64bit browser? As of now I have a bunch installed like Adobe Acrobat, Google Earth, Java, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Windows Media Player, QuickTime, Shockwave Flash, Shockwave for Director, Silverlight and Windows Live Photo Gallery. Most of them were automatically installed with some apps and I don't really need them; the ones in bold are the most important ones. Are there 64bit version of the bold plugins or can I use the 32bit version?

Some enlighten me please...

There is 64 bit java (there has been for quite some time) and a beta 64 bit flash. I think thats it for 64 bit plugins right now though.

It's still bugged in todays nightly. it's weird as not ALL flash objects are gone - Like on my website, the ustream player works, but if I go to the ustream pages, it doesn't! Some websites you see the flash object loading for a split second then it vanishes from view.

(Mac OS X 10.6.4)

I think I may go back to a nightly from a few days ago for now as I can't get by without ABP.

ABP works for me. The latest Deb build.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101015 Firefox/4.0b8pre

You can get it here:

https://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/adblockplus/

When the 64bit build becomes an officially supported release, the ability to run a 32bit plugin with a 64bit host will come with that.

The OS X build already has that functionality, and it works ok (except for the fact that the plugin situation on OS X is a bit of a mess, so only fully Cocoa plugins work OOP, Carbon plugins like Silverlight don't)

ABP works for me. The latest Deb build.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101015 Firefox/4.0b8pre

You can get it here:

https://adblockplus....ds/adblockplus/

That doesn't seem to solve the issue for me on OS X at least

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101015 Firefox/4.0b8pre

Flash is still temperamental in whether it displays or not.

I haven't tried windows as I haven't booted to windows all week (hackintosh)

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