Firefox 4 RC expected to ship roughly on March 9

[EchoX860]

I can't tell if it's because I don't have my Chromifox Skin on here, but this seems really really fast. So I'm switching over.

 

[EchoX860]

Why does the text look different, especially on EchoFon.

 

[G1LLY]

Why does the text look different, especially on EchoFon.

How do you mean?

Is it blurry?

 

[EchoX860]

It looks really fuzzy

 

[EchoX860]

This is what my F4 looks like

I also downloaded Status-4-Evar

This allows me if I hover over a link it puts it in the addon bar (wasn't it the status bar)? Anyways, it lets me put the progress thing back in there instead of where it was before like so. I don't know why people 'fix' what isn't broken.

 

[G1LLY]

It looks really fuzzy

I think it's to do with the Hardware Acceleration.

Go to Options > Advanced > Under Browsing uncheck Use hardware acceleration when available > Restart Firefox.

See if its clearer now

 

[smiths22]

i bet its gonna be released same date as IE9.

 

[EchoX860]

Looks the same to me.

 

[pparks1]

Please be aware that when you install the Release Candidate version of FF4, it overwrites FF 3.6. You need to do a custom install and change the path if you want to continue using both.

 

[EchoX860]

Yeah I found that out the hard way. Going back to 3.6 until they fix the text issue

 

[G1LLY]

Yeah I found that out the hard way. Going back to 3.6 until they fix the text issue

Strange... Works on all my computers that have that problem & I wouldn't get your hopes up on a fix, its been a known issue for quite some time, Beta 5 I think is the first report of it due to the inclusion of hardware acceleration or maybe you have another newly discovered issue?

Report of blurry/fuzzy text in Firefox 4 - https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/751988

Another possible fix (I think its old & maybe its just another way to my initial tip) - # Fix Firefox 4 Font Problem in Smoothing, Blurry Rendering in FF 4 Beta

 

[pparks1]

I needed the RC to run in another location as a few of my add-ons (fiddler, free download manager and chatzilla) don't work yet in FF4...or at least don't pass the check which I have yet to disable.

 

[EchoX860]

Still blurry, I'm already on my way back to 3.6. If it's known why aren't they doing anything about it

 

[G1LLY]

Still blurry, I'm already on my way back to 3.6. If it's known why aren't they doing anything about it

It's to do with how their hardware acceleration works & I don't think they can do anything about it otherwise I recon it would of been sorted by now considering they've gone through 6 betas since it was reported, shame really.

IE9 does it with my computer as well, everything looks awful & gets painful to read, Chrome is the only one where I don't get this blurred text issue using HWA, one of the reasons its my default browser.

 

[Airbot]

I believe they haven't fixed it because they say it's a bug in Microsoft's Directwrite that MS itself needs to address, not Mozilla.

If just turning off the HA option in Firefox's option doesn't work, go to about:config in the address bar, and make sure that setting there is set to True.

 

[EchoX860]

I did, doesn't matter though. Back enjoying 3.6

 

[G1LLY]

I believe they haven't fixed it because they say it's a bug in Microsoft's Directwrite that MS itself needs to address, not Mozilla.

If just turning off the HA option in Firefox's option doesn't work, go to about:config in the address bar, and make sure that setting there is set to True.

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Thanks, did not know that

Anyone know why Google Chrome isn't affected by that bug, does it even use the same HA as FF4 & IE9?

 

[johnwillyums]

Just got this in the mail. Don't really understand it. The link doesn't seem to lead to a download site.
I've not really been following this, I'm using Chrome and having fun with Lunascape6 at the moment.
A tip of the hat to David Ben Yosef for mentioning that browser elsewhere
Can anyone enlighten me as to what this is on about and/or where I can get the RC?

 

[Airbot]

You can get it from the link posted here - http://www.sevenforums.com/news/148...ted-ship-roughly-march-9-a-2.html#post1281145

And also at majorgeeks.com - |MG| Mozilla Firefox 4.0 RC1 Download

Rumor has it this particular one is the RC, even though it's labeled as RC1 candidate or build1. Also as your email mentions.

I've been running it since last night, and I actually do notice quite a difference from Beta 12. Quite fast.

 

[G1LLY]

Just come across an awesome add-on to move the Firefox Menu - https://services.addons.mozilla.org...ble-firefox-button/?src=discovery-upandcoming