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I just put the tarball of firefox4 in my /home/eric/programs directory and linked a launcher to the firefox.sh. Great way to try out stuff without installing anything to usr!
I must say it is smokin' fast and boots instantaneously. And this is on a Pentium M 1700. Unlike the 3.6 series it parses javascript like a scorched cat!
Now I will start to try to kill it with some bazaar usage that I know causes browsers to have fits.
I think you can still try it out on Windows without installing (but I will leave that to the Windows Gurus) ..... Windows has become too difficult for a simpleton like me to wrap my head around anymore...
I still like audacity, firefox and other great opensource software that is easy to use and where developers actually care about testing, and so do not force users to install everything. Heck they even let you run their releases from anywhere you like for that matter. No hooks or crooks attached.
anyway back to testing...
Just opened a tab and surfed to http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/national_security/topics/69/ to see if jumping to full screen causes trouble like with the 3.6 series and mplayer does. Good news is that it is much better and does not freeze out! So javascript to embedded players is finally fixed!
Oh boy...no more flashplayer trouble at all as well..... just went to my favourite youtube stuff and sure enough the javascript did work perfectly! f11 worked flawlessly.
It sits there and uses 0 resources if you do something else and just keep it on the screen in the background.
I cannot seem to break it...yet
The browser sits at 0-0 on the processor and polls 79 meg with all sorts of activity post processed so obviously it is holding a ton of stuff on the stack so that you can do the backbutton and have it just pop up.
I would not recommend it for less than a gig of ram on older machines for this reason though. But on this p111 based m with 1.5 gig it really rocks! It should work really well on older machines with over 512 meg and not too much else going on at the same time. Mint Linux sits at about 230 meg +or- so anything over 512 meg of ram will work well. Can't see this being the case on Windows though but we will see.
All I can say is that on Linux it is the fastest browser around to date....except for maybe Lynx with no X if you have the stomach for it
I must say it is smokin' fast and boots instantaneously. And this is on a Pentium M 1700. Unlike the 3.6 series it parses javascript like a scorched cat!
Now I will start to try to kill it with some bazaar usage that I know causes browsers to have fits.
I think you can still try it out on Windows without installing (but I will leave that to the Windows Gurus) ..... Windows has become too difficult for a simpleton like me to wrap my head around anymore...
I still like audacity, firefox and other great opensource software that is easy to use and where developers actually care about testing, and so do not force users to install everything. Heck they even let you run their releases from anywhere you like for that matter. No hooks or crooks attached.
anyway back to testing...
Just opened a tab and surfed to http://archives.cbc.ca/politics/national_security/topics/69/ to see if jumping to full screen causes trouble like with the 3.6 series and mplayer does. Good news is that it is much better and does not freeze out! So javascript to embedded players is finally fixed!
Oh boy...no more flashplayer trouble at all as well..... just went to my favourite youtube stuff and sure enough the javascript did work perfectly! f11 worked flawlessly.
It sits there and uses 0 resources if you do something else and just keep it on the screen in the background.
I cannot seem to break it...yet
The browser sits at 0-0 on the processor and polls 79 meg with all sorts of activity post processed so obviously it is holding a ton of stuff on the stack so that you can do the backbutton and have it just pop up.
I would not recommend it for less than a gig of ram on older machines for this reason though. But on this p111 based m with 1.5 gig it really rocks! It should work really well on older machines with over 512 meg and not too much else going on at the same time. Mint Linux sits at about 230 meg +or- so anything over 512 meg of ram will work well. Can't see this being the case on Windows though but we will see.
All I can say is that on Linux it is the fastest browser around to date....except for maybe Lynx with no X if you have the stomach for it