Tenfourfox dev blog update#
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I really love my Powerbook, i bought it five years ago, tired of Window's bugs and problems, and i wanted to buy the best non-windows laptop i could afford, so the Powerbook seems a great choice, with an incredible design, a 15 inches screen, usb, firewire and supervideo ports, and of course, Tiger (i've tried Leopard and the lack of classic support made me discard it). When first Apple and then Mozilla, and then everybody else, started to stop supporting PPC, i felt cheated. Thanks to this blog, too, i can now watch youtube videos perfectly with Mactubes, and i hope to find here a lot of useful and well done soft for PPC in the future.

Well, i´m not able to do that yet, but thanks to you i´m right now using TenFourFox, and it rocks! Far better than Firefox 3.6, faster and smoother, it´s now my default browser. I´ve found your blog looking for a way to play HD videos on my Powerbook G4 in a decent 'non-slideshow' way. So if you're using Firefox 3.6 and not TenFourFox, then you probably haven't read this far yet 'cause your renderer is so slooooooooow.

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So should you use the beta instead of the final? Well, the final had security fixes, but I have a need for speed so I'll stick with the beta.Īddendum: Lest you think the final release is some kind of slouch, it still beats the pants off Firefox 3.6, whose Sunspider score was 18786.2 ms, a full two and a half times slower. However, the beta was consistently very slightly faster. So in Sunspider, the beta's javascript performance remains about 4% faster than the final, and slightly faster still in Dromaeo, though these results aren't always absolutely consistent when repeated. Then I went over to Dromaeo, and the results were (higher number is faster): I tested both browsers with Sunspider and here were the results (lower number is faster):

Tenfourfox dev blog update#

The developer then released another quickie update that he said largely corrected the speed hit, so I wanted to check out which was faster, the last beta (12) or the updated final release (4.0s). This bug wasn't present in the betas, just the release candidate. On the TenFourFox development blog, the 4.0 final release came with a caveat that a last minute bug fix caused a 10% to 15% slowdown in javascript performance (stability wins over speed).