Journal #7193 by Striker

Striker

Posted 13 years ago2011-05-01 08:36:50 UTC

StrikerI forgot to check the oil pressure

I just upgraded to Firefox 4(after being lazy for more than a month since I said I will do it).
I know I have a lot of tabs opened all the time, and firefox 3.6 sometimes consumed 50% of my CPU for no reason. Oh, and it also consumed about 700 mb with all these tabs...

But, surprise! Firefox 4 seems to be worse: it went up to 1,2 gb of RAM with the same things opened. And it still consumes a lot of CPU power. Argh.

[EDIT] Also, what's with wrong with the text? It's not pleasant to read with such a "skinny" text:

I mean, in Firefox 3.6 the text was "normal". Has a new feature been added or something?

[EDIT2] Found the problem. It's because Windows ClearType. But it was already turned on, so I don't really see what's the actual problem.

[EDIT3] Oh wait, it doesn't affect at all the text in Firefox, or in Chrome. Although on the Firefox help page this is what it tells me to do.

Skals

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-01 11:00:54 UTC Comment #57516

my text doesn't look like that. Ur firefox is fucked.

Striker

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-01 11:23:19 UTC Comment #57518

That would mean that your firefox is fucked too since you downloaded the same program as me.

Oskar Potatis

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-01 11:47:38 UTC Comment #57523

My text doesn't look like that either.

Penguinboy

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-01 11:51:27 UTC Comment #57515

I turn off cleartype whenever I can. It always looks awful on every setup I've seen, except for bold text or large font sizes. Give me my perfect pixelated text any day.

Striker

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-01 12:03:27 UTC Comment #57519

If I turn off cleartype, everything looks awful :|.

Strider

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-01 12:15:32 UTC Comment #57513

Penguinboy's stuck in the Middle Ages of text smoothing.

Looks like Firefox 4 is using a different solution for subpixel rendering, it's too strong.

Are Skals and potatis using ClearType? If not, it would explain why it doesn't look like that.

SpaG

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-01 13:34:47 UTC Comment #57514

Encountered the same problem after upgrading to ff4. Learned to live with it.
And it's either fixed already, or I just don't notice it anymore.

4N!M4T0R

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-01 13:40:07 UTC Comment #57527

Opera is da best!

Striker

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-01 13:53:25 UTC Comment #57520

Opera is for old people.

Oskar Potatis

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-01 14:20:53 UTC Comment #57524

Let's not turn this into a browser fight.

Striker

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-01 15:00:01 UTC Comment #57521

I think we are more civilised than that...

Maybe.

Crollo

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-01 18:06:24 UTC Comment #57529

Go with firefox if you want to be 'cool', use chrome if you want a functional web browser, use opera if you want a functional browser with a kickass UI, and use internet explorer if you want to be circumcised in the internet world. It couldn't be more simpler.

Striker

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-01 18:37:41 UTC Comment #57522

What about Safari? What about Lunascape?

Notewell

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-01 18:49:33 UTC Comment #57526

"use chrome if you want a functional web browser" Not in my experience, no.

Crollo

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-01 19:10:47 UTC Comment #57530

I've never tried Safari enough to warrant judging it, and I've never even heard of Lunascape. Will probably try them out later.

Stojke

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-01 20:19:02 UTC Comment #57531

Opera is the best. Max zoom is 100% clear. Opera FTW.

4N!M4T0R

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-02 00:53:48 UTC Comment #57528

^ True story

Oskar Potatis

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-02 01:18:54 UTC Comment #57525

It is in Firefox, too. And in Safari and Chrome and even in Internet Explorer.

Moaby

Commented 13 years ago2011-05-02 10:00:01 UTC Comment #57517

I have yet to see any problems in Firefox after using it for the past year or two. Firefox is just IE that is safe(r) and loads quicker. I can't see what more you could need from a browser. Not to mention it works.

Oh and: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNofb-OlZyQ Just a thought.

Journal #7193

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