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ive just installed firefox 4 beta, and noticed one thing right away and wondered if anyone with an AMD card has noticed the same thing.

as soon as i open firefox my fan on my 2nd gpu goes from 23% to 35% and the clocks go from idle clocks to full clocks
as soon as i close FF the clocks go back to idle and the fan back to 23%, firefox 3.6 doesnt do this

has anyone else noticed this ?

uninstalled right away
 
Well I just loaded it and tested a few web pages. It only jumps to full clocks when it's loading the web page, then back to idle speeds.

I'm running a MSI 5850.
 
anyway, because of this im back on chrome
firefox has got to speed up to chromes speeds before i move on
 
It's a beta, it's not meant to work right :p

Oh and just so you know, ff, ie, opera etc are as speedy as chrome at the same resource level. The reason chrome runs faster is because its eats up more ram, cpu and a lot of gpu power that the other don't. Considering almost everything we do now is done in a single piece of software (browser) it makes total sense for it to use as much free resources as possible yet despite this every month or so there's at least one chrome is wasting my ram thread on here :) Everyone else is playing catchup really.

Full gpu acceleration for 2d imagery is done at idle clocks anyway ala flash 10.2. Not sure why we needed another thread for a single bug in piece of beta software though.
 
Azuse05 said:
It's a beta, it's not meant to work right :p

Oh and just so you know, ff, ie, opera etc are as speedy as chrome at the same resource level. The reason chrome runs faster is because its eats up more ram, cpu and a lot of gpu power that the other don't. Considering almost everything we do now is done in a single piece of software (browser) it makes total sense for it to use as much free resources as possible yet despite this every month or so there's at least one chrome is wasting my ram thread on here :) Everyone else is playing catchup really.

Full gpu acceleration for 2d imagery is done at idle clocks anyway ala flash 10.2. Not sure why we needed another thread for a single bug in piece of beta software though.
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Azuse05 said:
It's a beta, it's not meant to work right :p

Oh and just so you know, ff, ie, opera etc are as speedy as chrome at the same resource level. The reason chrome runs faster is because its eats up more ram, cpu and a lot of gpu power that the other don't. .
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Well except Chrome doesn't have GPU acceleration yet :p
 
It does, it's been in nightly build for a while. Seems fair to mention it because ff4 is also beta. In all honesty I've always wonder why other browsers still have fixed limits on hardware use still, but perhaps googles just got a more speedy development cycle :)
 
The latest beta is very buggy and Mozilla should be really worried. Firefox 4 allready is a few months late. Clearly the company does not have sharp enough technicians to take advantage of the Firefoxhype. It is kind of sad to see how they have ruined the brand in less than one year.

And no indications that they are improving either.

Personally I was the biggest of Firefox fans but since the browser got worse and buggier for every release I really didnt had much choice but to change to chrome.
 
Just trying Firefox 4 beta 11 now and it's the smoothest browser I've used so far.

Haven't come across any bugs yet.

Great to finally use hardware acceleration on my silent passive ATI 4600.

It's the only one, other than IE8, that goes full screen on/off from mouse control.
 
DVD Cinema said:
Just trying Firefox 4 beta 11 now and it's the smoothest browser I've used so far.

Haven't come across any bugs yet.
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I have had the opposite experience. One absolutely major bug that cause UAC to hang, take ages for WMC to maximise and ages once I press CTRL ALT DEL to load up the blue page.

Using Chrome 10Beta now as my main browser. Awesomely fast. Just a shame google haven't developed their own Awesomebar.
 
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