Chaltalian Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 It looks to me like the new UI still has a long way to go. Doesn't the Add-Ons tab and the Preferences window still need to completed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneyardBrew Member Posted October 28, 2010 Member Share Posted October 28, 2010 It looks to me like the new UI still has a long way to go. Doesn't the Add-Ons tab and the Preferences window still need to completed? Yes...it is a complete mess right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 yeah they say early 2011 but what happens if they run into more delays.. to be fair, the original plan was to have 3.7 and then release 4.0. So it makes sense the plans are not as stable as you'd expect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisdoland Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 If your using beta 6 it is only human to be discouraged. It hangs & is slow! Since they merged Jaegar Monkey into 4.0b8pre there is new life. Almost all of the positive comments are from those who are using 4.0b8pre. That should give you an idea of what to expect for those struggling with beta 6. If you dare try 4.0b8pre, DO NOT disable compatibility with extensions or you will experience nightmares. There's a handful of working extensions on Mozilla that are listed as compatible. I used "application compatibility reporter" & my beta 6 extensions hosed 4.0b8pre. If unsure what extensions can be "forced to work" without breaking firefox, just ASK! All of us have broke Ff at least once and learned what works & what doesn't. Probably should be thread of it's own. "Extensions that are working with force 4.0b8pre" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Udedenkz Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 If your using beta 6 it is only human to be discouraged. It hangs & is slow! Since they merged Jaegar Monkey into 4.0b8pre there is new life. Almost all of the positive comments are from those who are using 4.0b8pre. That should give you an idea of what to expect for those struggling with beta 6. If you dare try 4.0b8pre, DO NOT disable compatibility with extensions or you will experience nightmares. There's a handful of working extensions on Mozilla that are listed as compatible. I used "application compatibility reporter" & my beta 6 extensions hosed 4.0b8pre. If unsure what extensions can be "forced to work" without breaking firefox, just ASK! All of us have broke Ff at least once and learned what works & what doesn't. Probably should be thread of it's own. "Extensions that are working with force 4.0b8pre" ? ... Beta 5 = Beta 5 Beta 6 = Beta 5 w. bug fixes Beta 7 = Beta 7 w. certain parts of Beta 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmax Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 Firefox 4.0b8pre 32bit V8 - 3295 Sunspider - 267.4ms Kraken - 6999.6ms +/- 0.8% Amazing upgrades to this build. It has broken all benchmarks thus far on my system :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmax Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 It just gets better Firefox 4.0b8pre 32bit V8 - 3364 Sunspider 0.9.1 - 260.2ms +/- 7.2% Kraken - 6871.4ms +/- 0.8% Beats yesterday's score :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeezy Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 Is the little tabs issue fixed in the latest minefield? I never liked how slow to open/close the tabs were in comparison to 3.6. I know it's all nightly/beta and whatnot, but that was like the only thing keeping me from using the nightly full-time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knaarfje Posted October 29, 2010 Share Posted October 29, 2010 oy, that firefox button thing is purple in private browsing mode... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skittelor Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Is the little tabs issue fixed in the latest minefield? I never liked how slow to open/close the tabs were in comparison to 3.6. I know it's all nightly/beta and whatnot, but that was like the only thing keeping me from using the nightly full-time. Yep, that bothers me too. I think its because of HW acceleration of layers still being bugged. This also causes corruption in "about:config" context menus. Setting "layers.accelerate-all" to "false" turns off acceleration of layers (without turning off DirectWrite and Direct2D). This solved the corrupted context menu problem and slightly increased tab responsiveness for me. YMMV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deo Domuique Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 For overall tab responsiveness, you can turn to false this: "browser.tabs.animate;false" For now at least. It's getting a bit better, more responsive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoapyHamHocks Member Posted October 30, 2010 Member Share Posted October 30, 2010 Does anyone else get "uncloseable" tabs? I close them but they still show up in Tab Candy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViZioN Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Does anyone else get "uncloseable" tabs? I close them but they still show up in Tab Candy. I haven't had any uncloseable tabs, but I did get a popup that spawned a new window that wouldn't close. Not sure if the two things are related. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeezy Posted October 30, 2010 Share Posted October 30, 2010 Yep, that bothers me too. I think its because of HW acceleration of layers still being bugged. This also causes corruption in "about:config" context menus. Setting "layers.accelerate-all" to "false" turns off acceleration of layers (without turning off DirectWrite and Direct2D). This solved the corrupted context menu problem and slightly increased tab responsiveness for me. YMMV. For overall tab responsiveness, you can turn to false this: "browser.tabs.animate;false" For now at least. It's getting a bit better, more responsive. That fixed it for me, pretty sure I could use Minefield now full-time with no problems*. Thanks duders! :3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corris Veteran Posted October 30, 2010 Veteran Share Posted October 30, 2010 Anyone know if we will ever be able to right click in the firefox drop down menus on OSX, I've always found it odd that you can't. I also don't seem to be able to click on the text box when creating a bookmark, odd. Miss having a beta to update to like every other week mind, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted October 30, 2010 Veteran Share Posted October 30, 2010 It used to support right clicking menu items, but they disabled it since no other app did it (well, no well known app, I'm sure there are apps that do it out there) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corris Veteran Posted October 30, 2010 Veteran Share Posted October 30, 2010 It used to support right clicking menu items, but they disabled it since no other app did it (well, no well known app, I'm sure there are apps that do it out there) Just found it strange, lol. Though I would only use it for one thing, which is to auto-arrange my bookmarks in folders which are inside other folders on my nav toolbar, I know I can go through organise bookmark window, but when I came from Firefox on windows to OSX, it was odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogas04 Posted October 31, 2010 Author Share Posted October 31, 2010 http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2010/10/some_sunspider_numbe.html Asa posted another Sunspider benchmark test , showing Firefox TM build to be the fastest (yes the browser!) Yippe! :D Now make the tab animations and stuff faster please!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaltalian Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 oy, that firefox button thing is purple in private browsing mode... It looks good! I like it! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogas04 Posted October 31, 2010 Author Share Posted October 31, 2010 It looks good! I like it! :D Even i like it :D LOL , but others doubt me then :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 so does anyone know if the tabs are going to be brought up into the title bar or if it's going to be left where it is now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogas04 Posted October 31, 2010 Author Share Posted October 31, 2010 so does anyone know if the tabs are going to be brought up into the title bar or if it's going to be left where it is now? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572160 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogas04 Posted October 31, 2010 Author Share Posted October 31, 2010 9 beta7 blockers left , 2 critical crashes , we will see beta 7 this week (i hope so :p) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pow Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 I installed minefield, because it's very customizable, but why is it so laggy? I mean actually everything is so slow, opening tabs, going to sites. When clicking it takes ages to open a new tab. Yet in the old firefox, it's much better. Even IE for me is faster than this beta firefox. Is there any fixes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogas04 Posted October 31, 2010 Author Share Posted October 31, 2010 I installed minefield, because it's very customizable, but why is it so laggy? I mean actually everything is so slow, opening tabs, going to sites. When clicking it takes ages to open a new tab. Yet in the old firefox, it's much better. Even IE for me is faster than this beta firefox. Is there any fixes? browser.tabs.animate;false Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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