Firefox 12 Released — Introduces Silent, Chrome-like Updater

MrSeb writes "Firefox 12 has been officially released, with only one major new feature: A silent, background updater. Now you will have to approve the Firefox Software Updater when you first install Firefox, but after that the browser will update silently — just like Chrome. In other news, the Find feature now reliably centers the page on any matches — hooray!" Here are the release notes, the list of bug fixes, and the download page.

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Re:What's best

[hairyfeet]

I can answer that friend...its an INTEL CPU isn't it? for some reason FF since version 5 has run a LOT shittier on AMD CPUs than it has on Intel. in fact with V 9 I even placed it side by side, a 2.2Ghz Pentium 4 with no HT which is obviously ancient and placed it against both a Bobcat APU (dual core 1.6GHz) and a Deneb quad and frankly on many metrics such as page load and responsiveness the P4 FF won.

So don't ask me as i'm not the guy that compiles it, but SOMETHING they are using down the line makes it run like shit on AMD. BTW FF is the ONLY browser I've found that isn't CPU agnostic, I tried Chrome, Dragon, QTWeb, Safari, and Opera and NONE of them seemed to show any difference between the Intel and AMD chips, only FF. damned if I know what they did but I wish they'd undo it, and I can confirm that whatever it is also affects Pale moon so its obviously something in the core since Pale moon compiles from source.