| Firefox 4 Beta Released
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Brett_Tabke
msg:4165521 | 2:03 am on Jul 7, 2010 (gmt 0) |
- Tabs are now on top by default on Windows only - OSX and Linux will be changing when the theme has been modified to support the change.
- On Windows Vista and Windows 7 the menu bar has been replaced with the Firefox button.
- You can search for and switch to already open tabs in the Smart Location Bar
- New Addons Manager and extension management API (UI will be changed before final release)
- Significant API improvements are available for JS-ctypes, a foreign function interface for extensions.
- The stop and reload buttons have been merged into a single button on Windows, Mac and Linux.
- The Bookmarks Toolbar has been replaced with a Bookmarks Button by default (you can switch it back if you'd like).
- Crash protection for Windows, Linux, and Mac when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins.
- CSS Transitions are partially supported.
- Full WebGL support is included but disabled by default at this time.
- Core Animation rendering model for plugins on Mac OS X. Plugins which also support this rendering model can now draw faster and more efficiently.
- Native support for the HD HTML5 WebM video format.
- An experimental Direct2D rendering backend is available on Windows, turned off by default.
- Web developers can use Websockets for a low complexity, low latency, bidirectional communications API.
- Web developers can update the URL field without reloading the page using HTML History APIs.
- More responsive page rendering using lazy frame construction.
- Link history lookup is done asynchronously to provide better responsiveness during pageload.
- CSS :visited selectors have been changed to block websites from being able to check a user's browsing history.
- New HTML5 parser.
- Support for more HTML5 form controls.
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Fribble
msg:4165602 | 7:30 am on Jul 7, 2010 (gmt 0) |
| CSS :visited selectors have been changed to block websites from being able to check a user's browsing history. |
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Crap! :)
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idolw
msg:4165719 | 11:44 am on Jul 7, 2010 (gmt 0) |
does it launch under 3 seconds?
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Brett_Tabke
msg:4165784 | 1:53 pm on Jul 7, 2010 (gmt 0) |
It takes about 12 seconds to load on my netbook. Opera loads in 1. IE in 3. Safari in 8 and Chrome in 4.
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ronin
msg:4165918 | 5:08 pm on Jul 7, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Hooray! >;->
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bill
msg:4166274 | 4:18 am on Jul 8, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Is this compatible with a lot of existing add-ons? If so, is it stable enough for day-to-day use, or is the beta tag warranted?
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jkovar
msg:4166288 | 5:09 am on Jul 8, 2010 (gmt 0) |
| The stop and reload buttons have been merged into a single button on Windows, Mac and Linux. |
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I hate the person who thought of this.
I couldn't tell you how many times I've gone to hit the stop button in Opera only to have it quit loading a few milliseconds before I actually click the button and end up reloading the damn page.
I really, hate the person who thought of it. I'm afraid to even use the stop button now.
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bumpski
msg:4166559 | 3:09 pm on Jul 8, 2010 (gmt 0) |
| It takes about 12 seconds to load on my netbook. Opera loads in 1. IE in 3. Safari in 8 and Chrome in 4. |
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Even more important is how long it takes to shut down. 20,40,60 or more seconds (sometimes never!)? To date Firefox clearly has some kind of significant memory management problem.
I love the add-ons etc, especially for performance analysis, but basic start up and shut down have been poor. Hope 4.0 is improved in this regard.
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Matthew1980
msg:4167642 | 10:20 am on Jul 10, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Hi all,
The only thing that I hope has been changed is the matter of closing the firefox.exe processafter the program has been closed for over 5 mins, When ever I close mine (V3.6.6) I always have to go into the process's menu to manually turn off that file, then once that's done I can restart FF - lets hope the crash handler works now too :)
I love using FF, hopefully in this version, they have got it right ;)
[UPDATE:] I have just installed it, first impressions: Get rid of the orange firefox button, or at least give me that option! Load time was 8 seconds ~ not too bad (2nd start was only 2 seconds! Cool, certainly a + point), but I shall have to play with it for a while to see what I think.
Cheers,
MRb
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dreamcatcher
msg:4181080 | 11:16 am on Aug 3, 2010 (gmt 0) |
Get rid of the orange firefox button
I`ve just popped FF4 Beta 2 on one of my small laptops. I don`t see any orange button, layout looks pretty much the same as the current version. I can see changes to the add ons layout though.
dc
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