Namoroka (Firefox) 3.6 Alpha 1 released

mrk · 12 Aug 2009 at 00:52

And is it fast? oh yes

I've used Nightly Tester Tools to force compat all my themes/extensions and styles and it works as flawlessly as 3.5 and co-exists with it while I continue to check out the feature set of 3.6

I'm on Win7 x64 btw. Everything just works...also Acid 3 test

Download here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/3.6a1/releasenotes/#downloadandinstall

Javascript speed test @ http://celtickane.com/labs/web-browser-javascript-benchmark/ gives me 200ms on the dot, 3.5 gives 297.

Page rendering seems swifter too especially when saving open media content page tabs when closing the browser and re-opening them.

Niceness!

DragonWoLf · 12 Aug 2009 at 01:00

oooo gonna try this out, cheers mrk!

Monkeynut · 12 Aug 2009 at 01:22

Cheers for this, looks impressive.

Kennysevenfold · 12 Aug 2009 at 01:22

cheers mate

gbradders123 · 12 Aug 2009 at 01:26

thanks

mrk · 12 Aug 2009 at 01:26

Only issue I have found while testing my most browsed sites is that quicktime (QT Lite) plugin and windows mediaplayer plugin for embedded content does not support it yet - everything else works nicely

FreeStream · 12 Aug 2009 at 02:14

Thanks, added it to my windows 7 setup.

Safari still beats it round the head! 100ms average here!

HEADRAT · 12 Aug 2009 at 09:02

Mine doesn't seem to have the nice "glass" effect.

mcalladine · 12 Aug 2009 at 09:11

cheers guna try this when i get home !

mrk · 12 Aug 2009 at 09:12

The Glassing is all due to the 3.7 mockup theme + Glasser extension (see mockup thread

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HEADRAT · 12 Aug 2009 at 09:17

mrk said:
The Glassing is all due to the 3.7 mockup theme + Glasser extension (see mockup thread )`

So you don't get the glass effect or you do? :confused:

HEADRAT

mrk · 12 Aug 2009 at 09:19

Hmm?

You don't by default but you do if you install the extension and theme mentioned exactly as above and tweak using the mockup thread's info.

HEADRAT · 12 Aug 2009 at 09:32

OK so this thread:-

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18034155&highlight=glass&page=4

I've tried to install the .jar but it says it's not compatible, tried to install MR Tech Toolkit but it reports that it's not compatible either.

HEADRAT

mrk · 12 Aug 2009 at 09:33

Nightly Tester Tools is better at making extensions/themes compatible. That will sort it out.

Fire Wizard · 12 Aug 2009 at 09:37

I have just installed Namoroka and I can't say I have noticed too much difference other than, scrolling down pages is a lot faster, I think I need to get use to that and also, any words that are misspelt are now underlined with a squiggly line as opposed to flat lines.

mrk · 12 Aug 2009 at 09:39

Yeah the squiggly lines I like, reminds me of office and is more visible than a flat line

HEADRAT · 12 Aug 2009 at 09:41

mrk said:
Nightly Tester Tools is better at making extensions/themes compatible. That will sort it out.

I've tried that, I have the theme in my list but can't "use" it.

HEADRAT

Fire Wizard · 12 Aug 2009 at 09:46

HEADRAT said:
I've tried that, I have the theme in my list but can't "use" it.

You have to click on the "Override all compatibility" option located at the bottom right hand corner by "Find Updates".

HEADRAT · 12 Aug 2009 at 10:06

Yep I've clicked on that but nothing happens

Fire Wizard · 12 Aug 2009 at 10:16

HEADRAT said:
Yep I've clicked on that but nothing happens

That's very strange, it should work straight away. Does it work for any other add-ons that aren't computability with this Namoroka build or is it the same for every one of your add-ons?