Use Firefox 4 now! ;)

[uncleyap]

http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC110324-0000046/Internet-browser-battle-heats-up

Internet browser battle heats-up


04:46 AM Mar 24, 2011
NEW YORK - Mozilla released the latest version of its free and open source Web browser Firefox to the public on Tuesday.

The new browser was downloaded nearly 3 million times only hours after it was made available online - Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9, in contrast, was downloaded 2.35 million times within its first 24 hours last week.

But Firefox 4's time in the limelight was quickly cut short by Google's announcement yesterday that they have introduced support for the HTML5 speech input API (application programming interface) in their Chrome browsers, effective immediately. In simple terms, that means you will be able to talk to your browser.

The API opens up a slew of possibilities. Web developers, for instance, will now be able to incorporate speech-to-text transcription in their apps, allowing users to upload speech, via a microphone, to a transcription server and having it show up as text within the app.

Google's announcement overshadowed earlier news about Firefox 4's improvements, including increased privacy features - one security upgrade, "Do Not Track", will allow "users to set a browser preference that will broadcast their desire to opt-out of third party, advertising-based tracking", Mozilla said.

The new Firefox also promotes interactive capabilities with HTML5. Agencies

 

[halsey02]

You may be the only user here to think so.

Windows 7 itself is already crap (all windows are) not to say it's browsers. If your firefox felt slow inside it is mostly because of MS windows itself. Use Linux or Mac!

Right on!....but Mac is not without its problems, but certainly must more stable than Win Shit!...from years of using it..Linux is still for a handful of users only, I still have a drawer of Linux disc's when once I was so into it...but had stopped being a Linux user...or world out there are windows or Mac users...if you are in a working environment...is you know what I mean!

 

[uncleyap]

Right on!....but Mac is not without its problems, but certainly must more stable than Win Shit!...from years of using it..Linux is still for a handful of users only, I still have a drawer of Linux disc's when once I was so into it...but had stopped being a Linux user...or world out there are windows or Mac users...if you are in a working environment...is you know what I mean!

Linux progress of development is too fast. Each and everyday you can find new releases & many updates. It already developed to a stage that discs (CD DVD) are no longer really necessary. USB thumb drive & PXE net-install are available and reliable. Discs become not absolutely necessary, and will soon become redundant.

Major distributions all have USB thumb-drive creator utilities. These USB thumb-drives are all bootable.

 

[uncleyap]

More encouraging news:
___________Firefox 4 improves tabs and speed[/SIZE]

• By Justin Williams
• Evansville Courier & Press
• Posted March 25, 2011 at 1:04 a.m.

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Mozilla released the latest version of its flagship Web browser Firefox this week. Given that Google Chrome releases a new version of its browser every six weeks, it may seem as if Firefox has been slowing its pace. Not exactly, although Firefox 4 was delayed by a few months.
Firefox 4 is a major upgrade to version 3.6. The first thing you will notice is the user interface changes. Of note, tabs for each open page are now along the top of the window rather than underneath the address bar. Mozilla claims this will save on screen real estate since it meshes the tab and title bars together.
My favorite tab-related addition is app tabs. Users now can have Firefox pin tabs permanently to the left side of the tab bar so they are always open and updating in the background. I set one up for Gmail, Facebook and Twitter and now want the feature in all browsers.




Aesthetics aside, Firefox 4 feels much faster compared to the previous version both in page rendering and interface responsiveness. I used to be a heavy Firefox user, but switched to Apple's Safari as Firefox began to feel bloated and unresponsive. Those lags and delays are nonexistent in 4.0, which makes Firefox feel its lean former self.
I don't believe in hard benchmarks for browser tests at this point because as long as you are using the latest version of Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome or Safari, pages are going to load quickly with only milliseconds in differences between them all.
The one thing that can speed up Firefox is its support for hardware acceleration. Traditional browsers have relied on a user's CPU to render pages, but browsers are starting to shift some rendering tasks to a machine's dedicated graphics processor. This can speed up the rendering of text and images on Web pages.
Firefox Sync is another feature Mozilla "borrowed" from Chrome. You now can sync your bookmarks, settings, passwords, browsing history and open tabs across multiple computers so you won't be missing anything whether you are using Firefox at work or at home.
If you are a Safari or Chrome user, there is no reason to switch unless you are a browser junkie.
If you are using any version of Microsoft Internet Explorer other than the just-released 9.0, I'd look at Firefox as an alternative.
If you still are running Internet Explorer 6, run, don't walk, to Mozilla's website and download Firefox.
Even Microsoft is recommending people stop using IE 6 at this point.
Justin Williams is the owner of Second Gear. You can contact him at [email protected].

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http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?87748-Use-Firefox-4-now!-%29

 

[uncleyap]

Bus 64 the member of this forum filed a complain here on sammyboy.com against firefox 4 so interesting! :-)

The above screen was captured on my virtual machine running firefox 4, I am using and so far no complain. There are lots of misleading arguments on speed without differentiating several aspects of browsers' speed. I am not joining these arguments. Survey said that firefox market share is 22% and a huge count of 32 million so far had downloaded the new release within just 2 days of release.

BusNo64's complain is his browser add-on are no compatible with this new version.

I say this is expected because it is new, and will 100% solve in due time, the add-on programs need just some time to update to firefox 4. Just like any other browsers' new release, add-ons needs time to catch up.

Just give it some time to catch up.

 

[CCBCaoPi]

No good! Firebox 4!