Firefox 4 Beta launches

[jalaneme]

Beltzner promises that Firefox 4 will be 'super-duper' fast

yeah and pigs might fly, each time firefox is released it uses more and more ram, no matter how many releases they have they will never fix the memory leaks which is a shame.

 

[.Darky]

still... how does one get the "x" "-" stuff back?

I don't know what you're talking about.

 

[Nintendo's S]

Thoob, is the picture your computer? I like the Win7 theme. What is it?

 

[dmonkey21]

I also don't really know how Mozilla generally handles their releases, anybody know when we can expect linux/mac dev builds? Or are betas usually only released for Windows?

 

[.Darky]

I'll stick with 3.6 until I can use my add-ons again.

 

[dragon574444]

Hmmm....very Chrome like. I'm not sure if I like it. Where'd my bookmarks go?

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Oh, that's interesting! I'll give this one a try, if it's good enough I might even quit Chrome.

EDIT: I must say I'm impressed with the speed and the large amount of changes they made. Props to the dev team!

 

[Danny600kill]

Looks nice, I use firefox on the odd occasion ( I'm a chrome user ) and they are finally making it look nice, the one thing I hated about FF was that even with a theme it looked horrible, but now its better

 

[Rydian]

Another thing, multiple tabs seem to show as multiple windows on the Win7 taskbar.That's 'cause they're multiple processes (which is the way almost every browser is going or has gone lately), so that a crash in one doesn't affect another (and for security concerns). It showing as multiple windows (instead of one) is likely something they can work on fixing later, though.

QUOTE(Thoob @ Jun 29 2010, 10:37 PM) Beltzner promises that Firefox 4 will be 'super-duper' fast

yeah and pigs might fly, each time firefox is released it uses more and more ram, no matter how many releases they have they will never fix the memory leaks which is a shame.

Nowadays memory use cannot be used as a measurement of speed, especially if you're on an OS that does aggressive precaching (such as Vista/7).
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000688.html
Since the caching is of data that's already on the harddrive, if that space is needed it can be overwritten without having to be paged, meaning the extra memory use actually speeds up things instead of slowing them down.

I'm on livehttpheaders is a must for me (with the text area resizer and greasemonkey), so it seems I'll have to wait to try this... as tempting as it is.

Linux 32
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...nux-i686/en-US/

Linux 64
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...x-x86_64/en-US/

 

[Zerousen]

Nice, I'm downloading just for the heck of it, and it looks great!

 

[pitman]

Too bad 90% of my extensions don't work.

I found this to be hilarious:

 

[iFish]

still... how does one get the "x" "-" stuff back?

I don't know what you're talking about.

Look

 

[.Darky]

That's weird. Maybe it has something to do with the Persona you're using. Or maybe because I'm using XP. :/

 

[Neo1Spider]

Just enable the menu bar, thats what got it back for me.

 

[Magmorph]

It is noticeably faster but I don't know if it's worth the loss of all my addon's.

 

[iFish]

Just enable the menu bar, thats what got it back for me.

That works.but if i use hte menu bar it does not blend in. also, looks more clutterd

 

[RupeeClock]

I just want to maintain my current interface in 3.6.6, they're not going to force this new UI on us are they?
Firefox is meant to be highly customisable after all.

 

[Danny600kill]

Just enable the menu bar, thats what got it back for me.

That works.but if i use hte menu bar it does not blend in. also, looks more clutterd

Agreed, maybe we should tell Mozilla about it, its the same for me by the way

 

[iFish]

Just enable the menu bar, thats what got it back for me.

That works.but if i use hte menu bar it does not blend in. also, looks more clutterd

Agreed, maybe we should tell Mozilla about it, its the same for me by the way

It is the same on the old one... but why add that sexy orange tool bar if we want to bee able to minimize and stuff not use it

 

[nutella]

can't you just use the default theme. that worked for me.

on another note, while it worked alright for windows, when i use linux, i need to have the bookmarks toolbar enabled, otherwise i get like 50 icons in my toolbar. i have no idea why that happens. oh well, i don't care much for this anyway until all my addons are supported.