Hi, a quick heads up for the people reading here. Up to now Firefox 4 beta was installable in parallel to previous versions. This just changed for Firefox 4.0b4 which is just about being published from the mozilla:beta repository. Please keep in mind that most addons are not compatible yet and there might be other issues. Do _NOT_ update blindly but I felt it was time to ship the next step within a "beta" repository. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday, August 23, 2010 02:13:10 pm Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Up to now Firefox 4 beta was installable in parallel to previous versions. This just changed for Firefox 4.0b4 which is just about being published from the mozilla:beta repository. Please keep in mind that most addons are not compatible yet and there might be other issues.
Do _NOT_ update blindly but I felt it was time to ship the next step within a "beta" repository.
thanks for the warning. might have got me into trouble otherwise :) -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday, August 23, 2010 02:13:10 pm Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Up to now Firefox 4 beta was installable in parallel to previous versions. This just changed for Firefox 4.0b4 which is just about being published from the mozilla:beta repository. Please keep in mind that most addons are not compatible yet and there might be other issues.
Do _NOT_ update blindly but I felt it was time to ship the next step within a "beta" repository.
this means if i want to run both versions, i have to compile one from source with different prefix, right? -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am 23.08.2010 10:58, schrieb phanisvara das:
On Monday, August 23, 2010 02:13:10 pm Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Up to now Firefox 4 beta was installable in parallel to previous versions. This just changed for Firefox 4.0b4 which is just about being published from the mozilla:beta repository. Please keep in mind that most addons are not compatible yet and there might be other issues.
Do _NOT_ update blindly but I felt it was time to ship the next step within a "beta" repository.
this means if i want to run both versions, i have to compile one from source with different prefix, right?
Depends on what you want to do. The previous method which allowed to install both at the same time was not optimal anyway since they were using the same profile. Parallel execution was not possible therefore and it's always a bit dangerous to go back major versions with a profile. That's another reason why I stopped providing the parallel install. If you want to try FF4 you can backup your profile, install the new version and use it. If you want to go back you can do so by downgrading to the 3.6 version. You can also install the new version, copy /usr/lib/firefox to /usr/lib/firefox4 (or whatever), downgrade to 3.6 again so you have both installed. There would be no desktop file though but you could start FF4 by /usr/lib/firefox4/firefox.sh. Or you just can fetch the upstream tarball which is not 100% perfect integrated into openSUSE but the differences are not that much. It all depends what you want to do. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday, August 23, 2010 02:45:32 pm Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
If you want to try FF4 you can backup your profile, install the new version and use it. If you want to go back you can do so by downgrading to the 3.6 version.
i've been using both, with a different profile for each, for the last ... don't remember how long. quite convenient.
You can also install the new version, copy /usr/lib/firefox to /usr/lib/firefox4 (or whatever), downgrade to 3.6 again so you have both installed. There would be no desktop file though but you could start FF4 by /usr/lib/firefox4/firefox.sh.
right, that's what i was doing with the tarball from mozilla a long while ago. simple, no compiling required. and now i get the benefit of oS integration. just didn't remember. thanks. -- phani. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
El 23/08/10 04:43, Wolfgang Rosenauer escribió:
This just changed for Firefox 4.0b4 which is just about being published from the mozilla:beta repository.
Works fine here, still much slower than chromium and not passing 100% ACID3 test suite. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Am 23.08.2010 17:35, schrieb Cristian Rodríguez:
El 23/08/10 04:43, Wolfgang Rosenauer escribió:
This just changed for Firefox 4.0b4 which is just about being published from the mozilla:beta repository.
Works fine here, still much slower than chromium and not passing 100% ACID3 test suite.
For the first (for JS performance): http://www.arewefastyet.com/ Actually I haven't met a site where Firefox performance was bad enough to actually made me notice a difference. Since openSUSE 11.3 the main performance bottleneck I have with my browsing performance is the very very very bad 2D performance of the nvidia Xorg stack. For ACID3 (not being a Gecko layout guy) I understood that it's not a real life thing and is no priority for Mozilla to get this test passed. I remember that Webkit had extra conditions in the code in the beginning just to pass the test. Impressive ;-) Anyway thanks for testing! Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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