Firefox keeps getting better, doesn't it?
- Thread starter Vincent
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Jaxel
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One of the things I like about chrome... I don't have to do any of this crap... Just click the tools icon and select "View Background Pages"... it will popup a summary about your memory usage and where it comes from.
Kim
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Select Customise, ignore the overlay which appears and just drag and drop the reload button, and any others.
Nice one krstep
Not very obvious or intuitive though, I have to say.
Select "Customise" where?
I don't seem to have that as an option
Kim
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Thank you Sir, I would NEVER have guessed that LOL
Dragapult
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So, move it to the left?
I have now.
Working out how to do it wasn't exactly obvious - try reading the posts after the one you quoted.
trilogy33
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Equal to Chrome then
Defqon
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Yeah , but Chrome did get a lot faster too ..Equal to Chrome then
SilverCircle
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For everyone getting bad performance (esp. rendering / scrolling), check the following:
Open a new tab, type about:support in the URL bar
On the resulting page, scroll to the end end review the output for the "Graphics" section. The absolute minimum for decently good performance is that layer acceleration is enabled. The last line (GPU Accelerated Windows) will state whether it is on or off and which version of DirectX is in use by the layer compositor. The lines above are less important for everyday browsing performance - Direct2D and DirectWrite will only accelerate a few special cases like the HTML 5 canvas elements. Right now, only benchmarks benefit from this and this will stay for a while.
WebGL Renderer Google Inc. -- ANGLE -- OpenGL ES 2.0 (ANGLE 0.0.0.541)
GPU Accelerated Windows 1/1 Direct3D 10
On XP, that would be Direct3D 9, 10 only on Vista or Windows 7. If it says something like 0/1, then GPU acceleration is disabled completely. The most common reason for this is that firefox found a incompatible and buggy video driver of which a lot are blacklisted in the code.
BTW: IE9 does exactly the same but it won't tell you and you are not going to notice it until you run some benchmarks, because IE9 doesn't even have a hardware accelerated layer compositor.
The most notable difference of the retained layers in FF4 are visible when you are scrolling a page with a static (non-scrolling) background image in which case scrolling w/o layer composition will be choppy. If the acceleration is enabled, it should be perfectly smooth even with the smooth scrolling feature enabled in the settings.
Open a new tab, type about:support in the URL bar
On the resulting page, scroll to the end end review the output for the "Graphics" section. The absolute minimum for decently good performance is that layer acceleration is enabled. The last line (GPU Accelerated Windows) will state whether it is on or off and which version of DirectX is in use by the layer compositor. The lines above are less important for everyday browsing performance - Direct2D and DirectWrite will only accelerate a few special cases like the HTML 5 canvas elements. Right now, only benchmarks benefit from this and this will stay for a while.
WebGL Renderer Google Inc. -- ANGLE -- OpenGL ES 2.0 (ANGLE 0.0.0.541)
GPU Accelerated Windows 1/1 Direct3D 10
On XP, that would be Direct3D 9, 10 only on Vista or Windows 7. If it says something like 0/1, then GPU acceleration is disabled completely. The most common reason for this is that firefox found a incompatible and buggy video driver of which a lot are blacklisted in the code.
BTW: IE9 does exactly the same but it won't tell you and you are not going to notice it until you run some benchmarks, because IE9 doesn't even have a hardware accelerated layer compositor.
The most notable difference of the retained layers in FF4 are visible when you are scrolling a page with a static (non-scrolling) background image in which case scrolling w/o layer composition will be choppy. If the acceleration is enabled, it should be perfectly smooth even with the smooth scrolling feature enabled in the settings.
AdamD
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Haven't really noticed much of a difference in terms of speed, but, the browser is nice
I like the default theme, but did move the refresh/home buttons back to the left, heh
I notice it's using up quite a bit of memory to, right now I've only got this thread open and it's using up 250mb of memory, seems excessive.
I like the default theme, but did move the refresh/home buttons back to the left, heh
I notice it's using up quite a bit of memory to, right now I've only got this thread open and it's using up 250mb of memory, seems excessive.
