Ok I think I found the reason, although with the previous firefox version it seems to behave better...both the machines i've tried have the boinc client installed and are constantly crunching. Once I suspended processing, firefox was quite snappier.
Might have to do something with process priority or something in that department.
That changes things some, but it doesn't replicate the font situation without HW acceleration. The kerning in particular is quite bad; it makes text difficult to quickly read.Workaround for the font problem is here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/anti-aliasing-tuner/
Set antialias to Cleartype, and rendering mode to GDI natural.
That changes things some, but it doesn't replicate the font situation without HW acceleration. The kerning in particular is quite bad; it makes text difficult to quickly read.
Is there a way to get the status bar on the bottom back?
Don't like how I have to right click on the Back Button to see previously visited sights. Used to be able to do with the left click.
That changes things some, but it doesn't replicate the font situation without HW acceleration. The kerning in particular is quite bad; it makes text difficult to quickly read.
I don't know why people are having so much difficulty with the status bar. Right click up top near your navigation buttons and reenable it. Enabling/disabling bars and customizing them is Firefox 101. I had mine back within a minute of installing FF4. No extensions needed.
We're talking about the bar on the bottom, right? I can't verify if those individual features worked but everything seemed fine to me (before I uninstalled FF4). I noticed the lack of the bar immediately because that's where I have my weather forecast, Camelizer, Greasemonkey, Download Statusbar, etc.. When I enabled it, everything was back.The add-on bar doesn't serve the same purpose as the status bar. The old status bar served a dual purpose of displaying your add-ons if they were set to show up there and displayed download status, link urls, etc.... If you enable the add-on bar in FF4 and hover over a link it shows the link URL above the add-on bar. It also doesn't display download status.
Personally not a big deal to me but it bothers other people.
RC2 Build 3 is the final version released to the publicStill using 3.6.13. Does version 4 have any improvement for slow action (keyboard lag, etc.) with a lot of windows and tabs open? This is my main complaint/problem browsing.
If I go to version 4, should I use one of the latest candidates, e.g. R2 build 3?
Still using 3.6.13. Does version 4 have any improvement for slow action (keyboard lag, etc.) with a lot of windows and tabs open? This is my main complaint/problem browsing.
If I go to version 4, should I use one of the latest candidates, e.g. R2 build 3?
That's not surprising. MS didn't push IE9 out as an update yet, Mozilla did so with Firefox however.firefox already past the number of downloads for IE9 for the first 24 hours
http://www.techpowerup.com/142727/Firefox-4-Clocks-Over-Six-Million-Downloads-in-First-24-Hours.html