Elvis-Virtus

One thing I’m a fanatic about are browsers, there are around 6 browsers or more installed on my computer and all of them have their own features, but my primary browser of choice are Avant’s Orca Browser and Google Chrome, will Firefox 4 be included on my list? let see



It took me 3 days to fully test and play around with Firefox 4, and Mozilla’s new browser seems to have a lot of hits and also miss.




The new look of the browser was great especially if you’re using Windows 7 as they really integrated the glass panel look of Windows 7 to the browser. Another great thing I liked is the tab grouping (See video below). It really manages your tabs really well, a welcome feature. The new Firefox sync worked well, as all my bookmarks,settings and passwords can easily be accessed and applied to another Firefox in another computer by just simply logging in. The New engine and HTML 5 were great and it was really noticeable when opening Firefox as it only took less than 2 seconds compared to 5 seconds on the old Firefox 3.
With all the great new features, there were still a lot of things that I didn’t like about Firefox 4. One of the biggest thing that surprised me upon opening Firefox 4 for the first time is that 95% of all my plug ins are no longer compatible, and it seems it will take at least a week for the authors to redo their code for the new Firefox 4, which is a big turn off. Even though the start up is now faster, it is still a notch slower to Chrome, and one thing I really hate about Firefox4 is the theme from my old Firefox 3 was carried on and applied to the new one, which fucked the whole browser, I had to turn it off manually after 5 minutes of researching how to.

I did 2 tests comparing the 4 browsers , (IE9, Orca Browser *Uses Firefox 3 engine, Google Chrome, and Firefox 4) here are the results.

The first test is the ACID TEST 3, which tests the various elements of the browsers especially JavaScript and Document Object Models.








Rating: (out of 5 stars)



Eijan Says: IF you are a Firefox fanatic, get it and start using it. If not, Stay with Chrome or Opera, they are still superior.

That’s all for now

Peace Out