[CS-FSLUG] Firefox 0.9

[Frank Bax]

At 08:45 AM 6/19/04, Jukka Y wrote:

>On Saturday 19 June 2004 15:26, Frank Bax wrote:
> > At 11:14 PM 6/18/04, Jukka Y wrote:
> > >Has anyone tried latest version of Mozilla Firefox? I have used Opera for
> > >over
> > >two years (bought both windows and linux versions) and in my opinion other
> > >browsers couldn't match its speed and functionality (well - maybe
> > >functionality but not the speed). After trying both windows and linux
> > >versions of Firefox 0.9, I agree with Brian Proffitt, editor of
> > > LinuxToday: "...I was thinking "how fast would this be? I don't want to
> > > be too technical, but in my professional opinion: really, really fast..."
> > >
> > >http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2004-06-18-020-26-RV-SW-NT
> > >
> > >If you want more speed for browsing, the Firefox 0.9 is worth of trying.
> > > :-)
> >
> > MSIE crashed one too many times last week and I also made the switch to
> > Firefox on Tuesday!  No looking back!  Then I found out they just released
> > 0.9 on Monday, so I'm already out-of-date (I had downloaded but not
> > installed earlier)!  Anyone considering upgrade from 0.8 to 0.9 should be
> > warned to read upgrade procedure (do *not* simply install 0.9 over 0.8)!
> >          http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=84091
> >
> > I haven't upgraded myself yet, but my son did (the wrong way).
> >
>
>For me there was noticeable speed improvement between versions 0.8 to 0.9 - I
>think you should upgrade it right away :-).


Wow - definitely faster - especially links from email - also like the 
feature "Select new tabs opened from links" - 0.8 appeared to be 
inconsistent - sometime it would open a new window, sometime use an 
existing one.  On my Win98 system, I avoided upgrades to MSIE after 5.01SP2 
because of performance concerns - Firefox 0.9 appears even faster than IE5.

On pages made up almost entirely of tables, Firefox (0.8 and 0.9) will 
start rendering (and then changing presentation) as table is loaded - MSIE 
always waited until table was completely loaded.