updates Meet the browser: Firefox Next

[SoapyHamHocks Member]

Anyway to get my fonts back to Firefox 4 style?

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Anyway to get my fonts back to Firefox 4 style?

Yep, set "gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families" to be blank, and set "gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size" to 0 (so it never uses GDI positioning)

Do both of those and you'll always have correct positioning, vs. having it vary based on the font size and font used.

[SoapyHamHocks Member]

Yep, set "gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families" to be blank, and set "gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size" to 0 (so it never uses GDI positioning)

Do both of those and you'll always have correct positioning, vs. having it vary based on the font size and font used.

Great, thank you.

[bogas04]

Yes I have noticed it. As a matter of fact on several sites I have noticed the Aurora to be noticeably faster rendering the pages than the latest Nightly

PGO is disabled in nightlies to track crashes

[Lion and Lamb Ministry]

PGO is disabled in nightlies to track crashes

PGO?!?!? What's PGO?

[ViperAFK]

PGO?!?!? What's PGO?

Profile Guided Optimization. Its a compiler option that improves performance.

[Lion and Lamb Ministry]

Profile Guided Optimization. Its a compiler option that improves performance.

Ahhhh...Thank you very much...

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

PGO is disabled in nightlies to track crashes

Is there any way to enable it?

[+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹]

Is there any way to enable it?

Unless you're compiling your own firefox builds... not that I know of.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

Unless you're compiling your own firefox builds... not that I know of.

Thanks.

[revanmj]

Did anyone noticed that they have finally updated the look of Bookmarks Manager to match the rest of application (Windows version)?

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Hmm, I think I preferred the native theme myself, but I'm sure this will grow on me.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Included in today's nightly: Bug 661869 - Consider including Segoe UI in the list of typefaces that fall back to GDI classic

With Segoe UI being the default UI font on Windows Vista/7 some of you will notice a slight difference in how the Firefox UI looks now.

[Udedenkz]

Included in today's nightly: Bug 661869 - Consider including Segoe UI in the list of typefaces that fall back to GDI classic

With Segoe UI being the default UI font on Windows Vista/7 some of you will notice a slight difference in how the Firefox UI looks now.

It looks better, but now some people found that their fonts are invisible.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

Did anyone noticed that they have finally updated the look of Bookmarks Manager to match the rest of application (Windows version)?

it's about time, they should have done that before the even released 4

that just seemed sloppy to me leaving it in the old style

[Deo Domuique]

And still we have the Directwrite's benefits. Fx is using exactly the same system as IE 9.

Just perfect.

Revanmj, that's old change/news. :p

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

It looks better, but now some people found that their fonts are invisible.

An issue which only occurs if the user has ClearType turned off: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662115

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Any landing date for Tab animation and startup patches??

[Guest mattburles]

it's about time, they should have done that before the even released 4

that just seemed sloppy to me leaving it in the old style

any chance this will make firefox 5?

[Kirkburn]

Zlip792, you're obsessed.

any chance this will make firefox 5?

None whatsoever. It's not really an important change - they only tweak critical/near-critical stuff during beta.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

@Kirkburn

Well, I was just asking since I don`t see them landing. Also I also like Bug fixes but demanding some new features does not make me obsessed.

[grayscale]

After a major release (3.6->4,and with the new version number implementation, 4->5 shouldn't be considered a 'major' release), don't expect big new 'features', and I don't really see tab animation as anything to be excited about, but we have our opinions on things.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

One old bug fixed:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125608

Also:

http://www.basschouten.com/blog1.php/comparing-performance-azure-vs-cairo

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Can't wait to try out builds with Azure, it'll be interesting to see how the performance changes moving from a stateful drawing API to a stateless one.

[kilara1988]

You can try a build with azure from the second link in Zlip792 post.It is awesome.I can't wait this to officialy hit nightly and eventually beta and stable.With azure the HA is even better than IE9s(at least in FishBowl test) :woot: