Firefox 3.5 Preview out

mrk · 9 Jun 2009 at 06:19

Edit:
RC1 out: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.5rc1-candidates/build1/

All working:

Extensions (enabled: 21, disabled: 2; total: 23)

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Tiger33 · 9 Jun 2009 at 09:25

any good?

bledd · 9 Jun 2009 at 09:43

adblock the ocuk logo for more forum space

dante6491 · 9 Jun 2009 at 10:27

Any idea how long it will be until the final build is released? I have been running 3.5b4 on the laptop and it is not that bad.

EDIT: It only gets 93/100 on Acid3

mrk · 9 Jun 2009 at 11:48

Few more weeks until final build

I should probably adblock the logo too aye

Tiger33 it's an excuse to have the latest so aye

it's a bit better at rendering speed and of course better Acid 3 and Java performance.

Tiger33 · 9 Jun 2009 at 14:31

mrk said:
Few more weeks until final build

I should probably adblock the logo too aye

Tiger33 it's an excuse to have the latest so aye it's a bit better at rendering speed and of course better Acid 3 and Java performance.

how did you test the java performance which websites did you use for reference?

i looked at some stats the other day and it didnt look as though this latest version of firefox is as fast as chrome or safari (although i dont like either)

dante6491 · 9 Jun 2009 at 14:34

Sunscript Java tester?

http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider-driver.html

Casdawer · 9 Jun 2009 at 15:02

How do you get the different forum skin?

.Griff. · 9 Jun 2009 at 15:06

Casdawer said:
How do you get the different forum skin?

http://userstyles.org/styles/10304

mrk · 9 Jun 2009 at 15:07

Ocuk stylish "black" skin

As for Java testing, I used http://celtickane.com/labs/web-browser-javascript-benchmark/ and the one linked above as well as Acid 3 test

To Compare:

IE8 32bit
394ms

IE8 64bit
374ms

FF3.5
193ms

Anyone care to try Chrome 2? (don't have it installed anymore)

Casdawer · 9 Jun 2009 at 15:14

Cool!

Bit of a strange way of doing it though... usually you just choose the theme in the forums settings... =/

eXor · 9 Jun 2009 at 15:18

bledd. said:
adblock the ocuk logo for more forum space

BTW, is that the "logo competition" winning entry? I haven't seen the logo in ages.

On the main site, I see a red and blue, er, spirally thingy.

Stevev · 9 Jun 2009 at 15:22

What's with the "Overclockers UK only the best hardware" ? I've never even seen that before, all i get is the red/white/blue OCUK logo in the top left.

Dup · 9 Jun 2009 at 15:33

Hmmm, the colours on some websites seem much darker in the preview. I'll have to compare with IE8 *vomit* however here we go:

Doesn't seem to like a mid grey.

mrk · 9 Jun 2009 at 15:57

Colours look all fine here

Dup · 9 Jun 2009 at 16:17

mrk said:
Colours look all fine here

On my screenshots or in your browsers?

If you look at your screenie on my screnshot you'll see what I mean. Seems to be just grey hues.

mrk · 9 Jun 2009 at 16:35

Yeah your screenshot shows the difference but on my screen looking at the actual source (inc my own screenshot) there is no colour difference at all.

I have a colour calibrated monitor too btw.

tolien · 9 Jun 2009 at 16:44

Sunspider tests JavaScript, not Java. They're totally different things.

mrk · 9 Jun 2009 at 16:50

You know what I mean!

As for the colour, here's how I see it, no issues at all but in the screen dup posted his firefox does appear to show some loss of grey detail.

Left to right = Mine actual,. mine screenshot posted by dup, dup's screenshot.

As you can see both mine look identical (ignore the slight variance in my two, CS4 is set in proof mode) whereas Dup's Firefox is darker.

Mystery....

tolien · 9 Jun 2009 at 17:15

Is there an embedded colour profile somewhere?
There are bugs for weird behaviour with ICCv4 profiles in 3.5.