Firefox 4.0 Beta 5
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Par Remi le mercredi 8 septembre 2010, 20:58 - Archives - Lien permanent
RPM of the fifth Beta of next major version of Mozilla Foundation browser is available in remi repository for Fedora 11, 12 and 13. Available for 39 locales.
The firefox4-4.0-0.8.beta5 package install this new version besides the version 3.x. So you will have 2 entries in the Internet menu.
WARNING : a backup of your profile (~/.mozilla/firefox directory) seems mandatory.
Start by reading :
As always :
yum --enablerepo=remi install firefox4
No xulrunner update, this RPM provides his bundled Gecko engine.
Actually lot of extensions and themes are not compatible and will be disabled. For those I use:
- Abblock Plus 1.2.2 : compatible
- Add-on compatibility checker 0.6 : compatible
- Dictionary switcher 1.0.1 : not compatible but works
- DOM inspector 2.0.8 : compatible
- Ecosia 1.0.5 : not compatible but works
- Firebug 1.6X.0b1 : compatible (there's still some bugs)
- freerecord 3.4.2 : not compatible but works
- Personas 1.5.3 : doesn't work
- SQLite manager 0.6.1 : doesn't work
- Web Developer 1.1.8 : not compatible but works
Some benchmark results:
| V8 Benchmark More is better |
SunSpider Less is better |
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| Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; fr; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091105 Remi/fc12 Firefox/3.5.5 | 3031 ms | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; fr; rv:1.9.2b1) Gecko/20091106 Remi/fc12 Firefox/3.6b1 | 2397 ms | |
| Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; fr; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100724 Remi/fc13 Firefox/3.6.8 | 225 | 2029 ms |
| Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b3) Gecko/20100815 Remi/fc13 Firefox/4.0b3 | 812 | 748 ms |
| Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b4) Gecko/20100825 Remi/fc13 Firefox/4.0b4 | 902 | 537 ms |
| Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b5) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b5 Remi/fc13 | 909 | 523 ms |
Commentaires
Until version 4.0b4, languages where provided compressed (a .jar file).
Starting with version 4.0b5, it have change. The (installed) package size increase significantly, but this should improve interface performance.
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Archived entry, see Firefox 4.0 Beta 6