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Different (Chrome-inspired) UI; faster (rendering speed) compared to previous versions and some techy-things like hardware acceleration. They also have synchron

by RossM 16y ago

Different (Chrome-inspired) UI; faster (rendering speed) compared to previous versions and some techy-things like hardware acceleration. They also have synchronisation built-in now. I'm also a Chrome user but I'd quite like to switch back if they've sorted out the chronic lag issues I've always had. Update: In ff4 now, looks and feels great, if a little sluggish with page scrolling. I don't know, Chrome just feels slicker. Update 2: Just froze up loading a flash game, shame.

weaksauce 16y ago
I have been using chrome on a Mac and it felt so sluggish that I looked at ff4 betas to improve it. The ff betas feel much more responsive and the rc was even more so. It might have something to do with my mbp having trouble with the high res external monitor but anecdotally that's what I have seen.
- tvon 16y ago
  It's not my main browser but I don't seem to have issues with Chrome on OSX, I'd suggest maybe purging your install (or at least it seems you're experiencing something unusual).
  - weaksauce 16y ago
    It was working ok until I got a 30" monitor. Then it became a choppy scroll and sluggish. Sluggish I can handle more than the scrolling.
    - ephemient 16y ago
      Are you on OS X Leopard? My understanding is that the out-of-process rendering used by Chrome forces blitting the whole page from the child process to the parent chrome on systems predating Snow Leopard.
      - weaksauce 16y ago
        Nope snow leopard with the latest patches applied.
trezor 16y ago
Different (Chrome-inspired) UI I would say it is a carbon-copy of Opera, but that's just me: http://imgur.com/IzVxJ http://imgur.com/IzVxJ
- sad_hacker 16y ago
  I was surprised also that the UI is so similar to Opera. I always wanted to go from Opera to Firefox (because Opera's lack of Adblock and some problems with google apps like calendar, gmail), but it was too slow and ugly. Now I give it a good test.
- philikon 16y ago
  If anything it's the other way around. Mozilla works out in the open and the designs of the new UI had been released long before Opera released its software, as Alex Limi points out: http://limi.net/articles/firefox-4/ http://limi.net/articles/firefox-4/. That said, what's wrong with taking the good ideas from other products? It's a net win for the users and the web.
- RossM 16y ago
  Wow, that's strikingly similar, I had no idea (I don't use Opera).
brianloveswords 16y ago
If you're using OS X and have kinetic scrolling ("scroll with momentum") enables at the OS level, you can try disabling "Smooth Scrolling" in FF4 (Advanced -> General -> Use Smooth Scrolling).

by RossM 16y ago

weaksauce 16y ago

I have been using chrome on a Mac and it felt so sluggish that I looked at ff4 betas to improve it. The ff betas feel much more responsive and the rc was even more so. It might have something to do with my mbp having trouble with the high res external monitor but anecdotally that's what I have seen.

tvon 16y ago
It's not my main browser but I don't seem to have issues with Chrome on OSX, I'd suggest maybe purging your install (or at least it seems you're experiencing something unusual).
- weaksauce 16y ago
  It was working ok until I got a 30" monitor. Then it became a choppy scroll and sluggish. Sluggish I can handle more than the scrolling.
  - ephemient 16y ago
    Are you on OS X Leopard? My understanding is that the out-of-process rendering used by Chrome forces blitting the whole page from the child process to the parent chrome on systems predating Snow Leopard.
    - weaksauce 16y ago
      Nope snow leopard with the latest patches applied.

trezor 16y ago

Different (Chrome-inspired) UI I would say it is a carbon-copy of Opera, but that's just me: http://imgur.com/IzVxJ http://imgur.com/IzVxJ

sad_hacker 16y ago
I was surprised also that the UI is so similar to Opera. I always wanted to go from Opera to Firefox (because Opera's lack of Adblock and some problems with google apps like calendar, gmail), but it was too slow and ugly. Now I give it a good test.
philikon 16y ago
If anything it's the other way around. Mozilla works out in the open and the designs of the new UI had been released long before Opera released its software, as Alex Limi points out: http://limi.net/articles/firefox-4/ http://limi.net/articles/firefox-4/. That said, what's wrong with taking the good ideas from other products? It's a net win for the users and the web.
RossM 16y ago
Wow, that's strikingly similar, I had no idea (I don't use Opera).

brianloveswords 16y ago

If you're using OS X and have kinetic scrolling ("scroll with momentum") enables at the OS level, you can try disabling "Smooth Scrolling" in FF4 (Advanced -> General -> Use Smooth Scrolling).