Thursday, March 10, 2011

Browser: Almost finished version of RC: Firefox 4 impressions

After a long test phase, the team of Mozilla-designer Alex Faaborg has set: the individual tabs in Firefox 4 walk up there and should provide more clarity when browsing - and take advantage of this arrangement already. Friends of the old designs to make the placement with a few clicks. Instead of using classic menu bar, you control all future options to save space on a color-highlighted button.

The old view is also selectable. Since Firefox is the fifth in a position for the first time for the calculations mitzunutzen addition to the processor. Compute-intensive web pages load it thanks to the graphic interface "DirectX 10" (Windows) and OpenGL (Mac OS X) appreciably faster. The hardware acceleration on Windows Vista and Windows 7 active immediately after installation.

Whether the GPU acceleration works on your PC, test by typing in the address bar of Firefox 4th Submerged under the entry "1 / 1 Direct3D 10", you benefit from the added performance. Thanks to the technology "WebGL" it is from beta 7 is possible, without plug-play 3D content into the browser.

Firefox users had in the past few months to see how the competition much more upbeat browser ready for download. With the pre-release versions of Mozilla Firefox 4 found another connection and the speed increased significantly. Compared to the release candidate is more than three times as fast.

Looking up, the Firefox 4, but over and the preliminary version of the. Press the Ctrl, Shift and E keys simultaneously, you get to the panorama mode. Firefox has combined all the open tabs into groups. Using drag and drop (left mouse button pressed drag hold and release) to create groups.

By clicking on the magnifying symbol to open a preview. The new feature provides greater clarity and is primarily aimed at users who open the same time very many tabs. Windows 7: The groups do not recognize this, the view of the tab previews is therefore completely - regardless of the created groups.

A confirmation of the Mozilla developers: With new "jaeger monkey" engine and optimized "WebGL" technique of Firefox 4 significantly faster than its predecessor 3.6, and on par with their browsers from Microsoft and Google. The hardware acceleration through the graphics processor and the native representation of 3D content pave the way for the Firefox 4 graphically complex Web sites.

The new design and the modified arrangement of the elements available to the Firefox browser to shame. Once the final version of Firefox 4 is available, the release candidate updated automatically. It still is, however, a preliminary version, some work not yet complete. The publication of the final version of Mozilla has promised for March 2011.

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