I found that the various betas of FF 4 would oftentimes lose my tab groupings, and sometimes the tabs themselves. This seemed to improve in the newest betas, though.
The absence of a drop-down for the back button is a "feature" I don't understand. Notice the behavior when you go to a site that submits form data. Just TRY to go back to the page BEFORE the form, using just that back button. I don't think you CAN. Thankfully, I found an add-on that restored the drop-down. Small a thing as it is, it would have been a deal-breaker for me. Out of curiosity, WHY did they dump it?
Now that Mozilla has finally released Firefox 4 to the masses, it’s time for a BIG browser benchmark where we take the leading browsers and pit them against four of the toughest benchmark tests available to see which is the tortoise, and which is the hare.
Note: This post has been updated for the final release of Firefox 4.
Here are the browsers that will be run:
- Internet Explorer 9 (9.0.8112.16421) 32-bit
- Internet Explorer 9 (9.0.8112.16421) 64-bit
- Firefox 4
- Chrome 10.0.648.151
- Safari 5.0.4
- Opera 11.01
Here are the tests that the browsers will face:
- SunSpider JavaScript 0.9.1 - A JavaScript benchmark developed by Mozilla with a focus on real-world problem solving.
- V8 Benchmark Suite - A pure JavaScript benchmark used by Google to to tune the V8 JavaScript engine.
- Peacekeeper - FutureMark’s JavaScript test which stress-tests features such as animation, navigation, forms and other commonly utilized tasks.
- Kraken 1.0 - Another JavaScript benchmark developed by Mozilla. This is based on SunSpider but features some enhancements.
All testing carried out on a Windows 7 64-bit machine running a Q9300 2.5GHz quad-core processor with 4GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GTX 260 graphics card.
On with the testing!
