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[SlimShady]

I've been using Fx14 Beta and it works lovely! The borderless toolbar buttons need some time to get used to, but they're ok. And it sucks that they replaced the dynamic favicon with a static icon.

But besides that, it's speedier and more responsive than Fx13.

[wasd-]

Thanks for the video ;)

[mancode20]

I am not very sure but replacing the content of "App" of any regular Portable version of Firefox just might do it :p

Can anyone confirm this? If it is that easy to make it portable, can someone upload the contents of the app directory for the latest UX version with animated tabs? I'd like to try that out. Does the UX version contain the new downloads manager panel? Also, did anyone try this out yet? http://www.downloadcrew.com/article/27717-firefox_australis Let me know your thoughts. I doubt that version has the animated tabs, right? That's only in the UX version for now, but I imagine it will make it into Nightly soon. I hope so at least.

[Detection]

Anyone know how to fix FF 13.0.1 page tearing when you scroll up and down a long page ?

Looks like vsync is disabled sorta

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Firefox doesn't use vsync, it does cap painting to 60fps now but there's nothing syncing it up with the monitor refresh rate.

[Anthonyd]

Firefox doesn't use vsync, it does cap painting to 60fps now but there's nothing syncing it up with the monitor refresh rate.

Why can't it runs at 120fps with 120hz monitors? :(

[bogas04]

Can anyone confirm this? If it is that easy to make it portable, can someone upload the contents of the app directory for the latest UX version with animated tabs? I'd like to try that out. Does the UX version contain the new downloads manager panel? Also, did anyone try this out yet? http://www.downloadc...refox_australis Let me know your thoughts. I doubt that version has the animated tabs, right? That's only in the UX version for now, but I imagine it will make it into Nightly soon. I hope so at least.

Just try it yourself , download this and transfer its content to App folder. I can't try on super slow mobile net here :p Yes most of us have tried those Australis tabs , you can download the build (windows only) right from developers site

[bogas04]

Can anyone confirm this? If it is that easy to make it portable, can someone upload the contents of the app directory for the latest UX version with animated tabs? I'd like to try that out. Does the UX version contain the new downloads manager panel? Also, did anyone try this out yet? http://www.downloadc...refox_australis Let me know your thoughts. I doubt that version has the animated tabs, right? That's only in the UX version for now, but I imagine it will make it into Nightly soon. I hope so at least.

Just try it yourself , download this and transfer its content to App folder. I can't try on super slow net here :p Yes most of us have tried those Australis tabs , you can download the build (windows only) right from developers site

[Steven P. Administrators]

Oops Mozilla! https://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-new-tab-feature-exposes-secured-information

[Steven P. Administrators]

Most of the links are there on first post of this thread :)

http://people.mozill...ein/ux-nightly/

(ADMINS PLEASE PUT THIS LINK TO FIRST POST)

Added as UX Nightly, hope thats OK.

[bogas04]

Thanks captain! :D

Mind removing "UX Branch" (Redundant now) , "TM Branch" (Broken) and that Calendar (for its outdated now)? Thanks :)

And yeah , "Oops" indeed

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Why can't it runs at 120fps with 120hz monitors? :(

There used to be a preference for controlling the rate it called JS/updated animations/painted, but they removed it (Probably because it'd be easy to change it to a huge value and force the browser to repaint many times a second). When they actually enable vsync it'll paint at the monitor refresh rate.

[Detection]

Firefox doesn't use vsync, it does cap painting to 60fps now but there's nothing syncing it up with the monitor refresh rate.

I don't remember it being a problem with the same build before I reinstalled windows, my LCD is @ 60Hz too

It looks more like the page is made up of 3 or 4 horizontal rows which slightly overlap each other as I scroll up and down

[Steven P. Administrators]

Thanks captain! :D

Mind removing "UX Branch" (Redundant now) , "TM Branch" (Broken) and that Calendar (for its outdated now)? Thanks :)

And yeah , "Oops" indeed

Done :)

[gr9zev]

This is probably a dumb question because I'm guessing there isn't one, but is there a portable version to the latest UX? If there isn't one, can it be easily made? Also, a portable version for Firefox 14 Beta, Aurora 15, or even Nightly 16? Thanks!

Another option is to make a shortcut with Target: "<path_to_ff>\firefox.exe" -p "<path_to_profile>"

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bypassing_the_Profile_Manager

Link to build please :)

Which version are you using?

It was the UX 64-bit.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-ux/firefox-16.0a1.en-US.win64-x86_64.zip

However with high back-out/push-in frequency of these visual features I would not be sure that you can find this or that thing in the next build just because it was in a previous one.

Thanks captain! :D

Mind removing "UX Branch" (Redundant now) , "TM Branch" (Broken) and that Calendar (for its outdated now)? Thanks :)

And yeah , "Oops" indeed

How do you mean "Redundant"? Why no link to UX64

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Stuff landed:

Step closer to per-tab memory reporting: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711130

Little optimization in Graphics:Text: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763873

WebGL Regression fix: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766796

Speedup WebIDL: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768085

Graphics:Layers : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757347 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757346

Little D2D fix: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765845

Type Inference fix: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764148

UI fix: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684534

[mancode20]

Just try it yourself , download this and transfer its content to App folder. I can't try on super slow net here :p Yes most of us have tried those Australis tabs , you can download the build (windows only) right from developers site

I tried that, but it doesn't work. When I tried that, I got a message saying "Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system." Even though all instances of Firefox were closed. I checked Task Manager. The files I have in my App folder are: Folder AppInfo, Folder Bin, Folder DefaultData, Folder Firefox, and Readme.txt. I'm using the portable version of Firefox 14 Beta 8 from portableapps.com. I just now updated to 14 Beta, so I can use the new download manager panel. You have to turn it on under about: config, but it is there now. I guess that means it will be in the final version of Firefox 14. I'm trying to update my 14 to 16 UX, so I can have the animated tabs...assuming they are still in the latest version and they didn't get backed out yet again? Did the animated tabs make it into nightly yet? I'm using someone else's computer, so I can't install any .exe files that require admin access. I have to use portable .zip files, or self-extracting .exes from sites like portableapps. How do I do it?

[ViperAFK]

Does anyone else have a problem with aurora/nightly where you can't middle click a folder in the bookmarks sidebar to open it in new tabs?

[kilara1988]

WFM.It opens all the bookmarks in the folder in tabs.

[ViperAFK]

WFM.It opens all the bookmarks in the folder in tabs.

hmm, I've had this problem with both my computers in aurora, one was a fresh install too. I tried a nightly build a while ago and it had the same issue but is could have possibly been fixed in a newer one, I'll have to try.. :/

[kilara1988]

When i think about it now i think i recall a bug report about something like that being fixed.So yeah,you should try latest nightly and see if it works ok for you.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Snappy bug related to Cycle Collector: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754495

New Private Browsing dependent bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722872

Little speedup of Canvas 2D because of new bindings switching: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762654

JS Speedup across several benchmarks: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762561

Regression fix: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733630

[bogas04]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/goazw69kpfvc0b8/Q2%20FX%20Metro%20-%20UX%20Update.pdf

Some Metro mockups

[bogas04]

Concept of adding sites to new tab page

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ks2avp27lzdeoln/Xh5QR5jKUX#/

[bogas04]

Snapped Awesome Screen for Metro http://f.cl.ly/items/3U1A0I470y2g0N1I1x0J/awesome%20screen%20in%20snap%20view.pdf