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Among other things, Beta 7 should have the look and feel of the final version of Firefox 4, the new JavaScript engine JaegerMonkey, GPU acceleration support as well as the new Panorama feature which lets users group and quickly switch between different sets of open tabs. Perhaps not as important but still interesting, it appears Mozilla is finally adding Bing to the list of available engines on Firefox’s search bar – though it won’t be replacing Google as default.
The new version of Firefox comes as Microsoft works hard to retain its dwindling market share dominance with the upcoming Internet Explorer 9 and as Google’s Chrome wins over new users with frequent updates and new features. Although Mozilla’s browser remains the second-most-popular way to surf the web, over the years it's grown feature-heavy and has been criticized for being slow. Firefox 4 is largely seen as their chance to turn that around.
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Is the Graphics acceleration set on as default? or will it require that little tweak you mentioned a few weeks back to switch it on?
I guess we won't know till this comes out I guess.
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Yes. The graphics acceleration is set to on by default.
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I'm firing up IE9 beta, Chrome and Firefox from time to time to look at the same page, and Firefox really lags.
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gwailo247 said:
I'm firing up IE9 beta, Chrome and Firefox from time to time to look at the same page, and Firefox really lags.
Strange I do that as well but my IE9 starts quickest then my Firefox 3.6 then eventually Chrome?
and thanks bugejakurt
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treeski said:
gwailo247 said:I'm firing up IE9 beta, Chrome and Firefox from time to time to look at the same page, and Firefox really lags.
Also same here. With regard to page load time and software load time... Chrome > IE9 Beta > Firefox Beta
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I can be enabled in the options menu.
You wont have to do registry tweaks
try Minefield (the Devbuilds)
any you can do it like that
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sorry folks. expect some more postponements (delays) in the release of Firefox 4.0 Beta 7. It may or may not be released by the end of October due to some more unresolved, crash-producing bugs.
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