Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 7

[anuraag]

Portable Edition 4.0 Beta 7

Download 4.0 Beta 7for Windows, English

9MB download / 27-77MB* installed

[Night Owl]

@ anuraag: Thanks, I was waiting for this PortableAppS edition. :D

[DKT27]

Benchmark:

Well, it was expected to be faster. But I read somewhere that Beta 8 has many speed related tweaks, Beta 7 is more concentrated on looks and features. As for javascript speed, I'm starting to doubt PeaceKeeper now in javascript. All the other javascript testing sites have shown that Beta 7 is 3-4 times faster in javascript but peacekeeper doesn't think so.

As for the looks and speed of using it. I'm seeing some speed here. And also loving the looks. I really don't know why the hell they have removed the status bar but ah well. Overall, Beta 7 better than Beta 6.

I've been reading things on Mozilla sites. And I believe it has some nice tricks up it sleeve for the next builds. Not that it will come beat Chrome, but will surely satisfy the fans.

[DKT27]

Ignore Beta 5. My computer was (mistakenly) overclocked when I tested it. ;)

[Night Owl]

@DKT27: Thanks for the browser performance test results. :) Your results show Beta 7 to be a little faster than Beta 6, while mara- saw the opposite. The difference between Beta 6 and Beta 7 is probably statistically insignificant. Both of you are showing that Chrome and Opera rule for now.

[DKT27]

Yup you are right. But dunno why people run on Chrome so fast. Give Mozilla some time and trust them. As mentioned in past, the browsing interface is what keeps me with Mozilla. If Chrome beats it in future, then why not. Chrome may have some addons, but Mozilla still leads the addon numbers and quality for addons. Every breakthrough addons are not released on Chrome Gallery first. Speed comes 4th in my list. :)

One day I frontpaged an item with Chrome 6, and it was all messed up. No way to fix it. Whole frontpage's looks was messed up. Had to come to Firefox to fix it.

Chrome still has a long way to go to become perfect. ;)

[Night Owl]

I've been trying Firefox 4.0 Beta 7 Portable for the past few days. I have to agree with mara- that the blurry fonts are not nice. I also have to agree with mara- that the initial start up is really slow — subsequent start ups though are fast. The browser seems pretty fast overall too.

What happened though to the progress bar in previous betas that went from the left side of a tab (0%) to the right side of a tab (100%)? I see that's replaced with a spinning circle just like in Google Chrome and Chromium. :( With the progress bar you used to know exactly how much of the page had loaded. I hope they bring it back. Maybe more people can give them feedback about this with the Feedback button? :whistle:

@DKT27: No browser is perfect. That's why I'm always switching between them. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. ;)

[DKT27]

Right about the fonts and startup. They are a bit blurry. Wonder if they need to adjust the cleartype fonts thingy. I think you can report it via the feedback, I would have done but I don't use betas...... As for startup, well, only the first startup has some problems. Later everything is fine.

[Night Owl]

I'm trying Firefox 4.0 Beta 7 Portable on my netbook now and the fonts are a bit blurry, but on my notebook the fonts are more blurry. Both are running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. My netbook's display though has 135 pixels per inch (PPI) whereas my notebook is lower at 120 PPI. Perhaps the tighter packing of pixels on the smaller display makes the fonts better. :unsure:

OK, I reported it through the Feedback button.

[*dcs18]

Good-bye

[implague]

some addons not working with the beta version like "wot","password exporter" other wise this one is a good combination of chrome,opera,ie9 and good old FF

one i noticed is this took a long time to load when i configured it as mt need after the first load it works as lightning a gr8 change to in FF cause i am almost changed my mind to opera

[mara-]

Unfortunately most benchmarking reports do not test the browsers with add-ons. Certain add-ons (when properly configured) boost up the loading - most convenient way is to test one's own browsers for 'execution time' at the nSane FrontPage. I tested mine (the results are quite surprising.)

When I tested, there were no addons, and I used fresh profile. Results were not good for me.

Cheers ;)

[DKT27]

Unfortunately most benchmarking reports do not test the browsers with add-ons. Certain add-ons (when properly configured) boost up the loading - most convenient way is to test one's own browsers for 'execution time' at the nSane FrontPage. I tested mine (the results are quite surprising.)

When I tested, there were no addons, and I used fresh profile. Results were not good for me.

Cheers ;)

@dcs18: Benchmarking only tests browser's power to render etc things. Not aware of many addons that help improve it.

@mara-: Yup that's what I always do. New profile, most of the preinstall addons disabled, restart, though restart is not needed in Firefox 4, it's best to do so, and benchmark. :)

[*dcs18]

Good-bye

[DKT27]

I see, you mean real time normal usage. But as you hinted, don't know any benchmarking site that allows that. But to repeat what I said, these benchmarking sites are only for testing the page loading etc on you computer and the networking/internet speed has no effect on the results.

[*dcs18]

Good-bye

[irefay]

DKT27's performance graph with Firefox 4.0 Beta 7 should be interesting ... :D

Well, it's better to say graph is huge disappointment for me (attached). And they still didn't fix the damn thing with fonts. I'm installing myself Chrome tomorrow. From what I could see it has nice extensions and I tried it on some other computers and it's so much better then Firefox (faster startup, faster pages loading, low RAM usage). I'll probably stick with it till final version of Firefox 4, but if final will have this poor results I'll stay with Chrome.

Cheers ;)

I stayed away from chrome for a long time. Then one day I tried it. I havent looked back since. Im alreay on my second webpage in the time that it takes FF to load.