IceCat 4.0 RC1 so far...

[Christopher Svanefalk]

Played around with RC1 so far, here are some comments from scratching
the surface.

install:
Painless. Had to pull down Yasm for WebM support dependency but that was
it. Compiled without problems.

Running:

Initially, could not start from the terminal (and I wish I had not
closed it before I copied the error message). Now it is working fine
though without any fixes from my side.

YouTube works fine using proprietary Flash.

YouTube HTML5 Beta also worked fine. Quality was not too good visually
speaking, and it felt a bit choppy, but this could be due to either the
videos themselves or the fact that it is, well, beta technology. WebM
seems to be working fine though all in all so far.

bookmarks were imported, but the folder icon next to folder-type list
items have dissapeared (perhaps this was an intended feature?)

Sunspider test passed (results appended at bottom)

Html5test.com passed with 249/400 points (not a single point in some
categories).

Acid3 test passed with 97/100 points.

Tabbed browsing works fine.

All in all, not found any issues just yet. Please let me know if you
need anything in particular tested.

Chris

Sunspider Results:

============================================
RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
--------------------------------------------
Total:                  610.6ms +/- 1.5%
--------------------------------------------

  3d:                    93.8ms +/- 1.6%
    cube:                35.6ms +/- 3.7%
    morph:               19.4ms +/- 1.9%
    raytrace:            38.8ms +/- 1.5%

  access:                79.5ms +/- 1.5%
    binary-trees:        11.9ms +/- 7.2%
    fannkuch:            37.6ms +/- 2.0%
    nbody:               14.4ms +/- 2.6%
    nsieve:              15.6ms +/- 3.2%

  bitops:                36.3ms +/- 2.1%
    3bit-bits-in-byte:    1.6ms +/- 23.1%
    bits-in-byte:        17.0ms +/- 2.0%
    bitwise-and:          4.1ms +/- 5.5%
    nsieve-bits:         13.6ms +/- 2.7%

  controlflow:            6.0ms +/- 5.6%
    recursive:            6.0ms +/- 5.6%

  crypto:                41.3ms +/- 2.7%
    aes:                 22.6ms +/- 3.4%
    md5:                 10.5ms +/- 3.6%
    sha1:                 8.2ms +/- 3.7%

  date:                  82.0ms +/- 3.1%
    format-tofte:        54.3ms +/- 2.6%
    format-xparb:        27.7ms +/- 4.9%

  math:                  63.7ms +/- 4.1%
    cordic:              21.8ms +/- 2.1%
    partial-sums:        28.4ms +/- 4.1%
    spectral-norm:       13.5ms +/- 11.8%

  regexp:                35.0ms +/- 4.4%
    dna:                 35.0ms +/- 4.4%

  string:               173.0ms +/- 2.1%
    base64:              11.2ms +/- 4.0%
    fasta:               30.4ms +/- 3.9%
    tagcloud:            53.3ms +/- 4.3%
    unpack-code:         56.0ms +/- 1.0%
    validate-input:      22.1ms +/- 2.4%