FireFox 4 final ready for download

[Seymour Clufley]

Crikey, I didn't mean to kill the conversation!

[c4s]

Just for your information:
I'm not that happy about Firefox anymore. Version 4.0 constantly crashes, not just a program crash but my whole system freezes!
I never had this issue with earlier versions and also tried to disable the new hardware-acceleration but it doesn't help...

[buddymatkona]

@c4s
I had the same problem with FF4 Beta crashing but the final FF4 has never had any problem on Win 7 64-bit. Some people are complaining about the new FF and Chrome both crashing without the latest video drivers. Mozilla has a list of problem drivers here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/B ... cs_Drivers

[TomS]

Only one crash so far. No OS involved though. Everything else kept working.
FF 3.6 was a real pain. Almost once a day a crash -_-

But what really bothers me is the fact, that websites don't get displayed right away.
Firefox is downloading the stuff and displays a white page until enough data is downloaded to display at least one screensize. Then it's displayed all at once.

[c4s]

@buddymatkona
Thanks for the tip! My driver for Radeon 9800 Pro/XP is indeed a little outdated...let's see if it will help.

[c4s]

@buddymatkona
Thanks for the tip! My driver for Radeon 9800 Pro/XP is indeed a little outdated...let's see if it will help.

Unfortunately updating the driver didn't help, just crashed again.

[MachineCode]

Does anyone else think it sucks that a VIDEO DRIVER can crash a WEB BROWSER? The world of software is truly turning to crap lately. Too many stupid ideas going into apps these days. I mean, come on, hardware video acceleration for web browsing? WTF? Insane!

[eesau]

Does anyone else think it sucks that a VIDEO DRIVER can crash a WEB BROWSER? The world of software is truly turning to crap lately. Too many stupid ideas going into apps these days. I mean, come on, hardware video acceleration for web browsing? WTF? Insane!

Certainly not insane, it makes a lot of sense to use the full capabilities that your computer and your gpu can offer you. Besides, you can turn off the hardware acceleration.

[c4s]

Besides, you can turn off the hardware acceleration.

I disabled it because I thought it might fix my problem of constant system crashes, but it didn't help at all.

@MachineCode
My system just crashes without any notice! I always have to cold reboot my computer. This really sucks and makes me mad as hell.

[Zach]

Hardware acceleration is the future of web browsing, sorry to break it to those who do not think highly of the idea.

Where do you think complex Flash Games, streaming video decoding, and all these other cool new real time effects are going to get their power from?

Sure you can do it on CPU but I'm sure we've all opened a sluggish Javascripted-in-overdrive web site before and been frustrated that it was so slow.. Even sites that do some of these things now, can be seen as somewhat slow and the user-interface can feel unresponsive when there is a lot of content on the screen.

A new level of graphics and interactivity is coming to the web in the future.. 3D games in your web browsers, more traditional type games played over the web, etc.. Hardware Acceleration will be the key component/backbone making it possible.

[blueznl]

FF3.x didn't crash on my, FF4 didn't crash on me. On none of my machines, actually. (All running XP though.)