Firefox 4 Beta launches

[prowler]

Any way to have FF4 and FF3 at the same time?

The beta installs into a different folder than the default Firefox folder.

 

[ericling]

Thanks Man

Installed FF4. Oh gawd. It's thunder! Everything work fine so far. It's lot faster than Chrome (My experience)

 

[D34DL1N3R]

If some of you noobcakes bothered to actually read anything before posting, I already outlined how to get 95% or more of your retarded plugins working with the beta. I'm sick of seeing "Yeah... but none of my plugins work".

 

[Urza]

If some of you noobcakes bothered to actually read anything before posting, I already outlined how to get 95% or more of your retarded plugins working with the beta. I'm sick of seeing "Yeah... but none of my plugins work".

Welcome to humanity.

No matter how hard you try, the average person will always be technologically disabled.

 

[shakirmoledina]

i think the slow rise in % for chrome users has got firefox disturbed so they try to mimic... first time i saw someone copying google and not the other way round
also, the topic pic was a great idea... thanks for the news but i think a full fledged release would be more safer (in all aspects)

 

[ProtoKun7]

Spoiler

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

Not the point.

It's supposed to be customizable

Not the point.

It's a beta.

I'll probably give this a try. Considering that it defaults to a different install folder then I'm not losing much if I try.

 

[kagutsuchi]

I didn't see this posted yet:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ad...15003/versions/

It will disable compatibility checks for addons. Most of them will still work well from my experience.

 

[Rydian]

Even full versions of Firefox seem to be "buggy" to me and crash A LOT.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode
Run firefox's safe mode, is it still all slow?
If so, then it's one of your plugins/addons/themes, no matter how much you don't want that to be true.

If not, make a new profile with the profile manager.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager
If that fixes it, there was something corrupt in your user profile, and I recommend backing up your bookmarks and moving to the new one, then deleting the old one.

 

[Issac]

only thing I think is annoying is the lack of minimize, maximize and exit buttons at the top right.... oh, and not being able to middle-click the tabs to close them

 

[DeltaBurnt]

I love how Ad Block Plus is already compatible with 4.0

 

[Cyan]

I found on my add-on manager page "add-ons can now be compatible with Firefox 4.0b2pre."
So, there's already few bugs and things changed (I still haven't find the list of changes for the 4.x series)

For beta testers, you can find the newest Nightly builds here (new one every few days).

And like mozilla says :

We make nightly builds for testing only. We write code and post the results right away so people like you can join our testing process and report bugs. You will find bugs, and lots of them. Mozilla might crash on startup. It might delete all your files and cause your computer to burst into flames. Don't bother downloading nightly builds if you're unwilling to put up with problems.So, it's only for beta testers, not a stable firefox, don't complain if it doesn't work like you want.


DeltaBurntI love how Ad Block Plus is already compatible with 4.0

And mine too

Automatic Save Folder, beta 78 is for 4.0.*

/advertising off

 

[Deleted User]

WOW. It is way faster than FF3 and Ad Block Plus works straight away.

 

[iFish]

Cyan, you think they will fix the issue what i HAVE to have the menu bar in order to have the "close" "maximize" and "minimize"

 

[Mantis41]

I didn't like the new layout. I tried it for a day and had to go back to 3.6

I seem to loose a little more of my browsing space than with the old layout.
The transparent text looks horrible when you have the menu bar on which I always like to have.
The whole layout looks horrible in general.

On the up side it is quicker.

 

[NeSchn]

Eww, I don't like Chrome and this looks exactly like it. Looks like when this comes out I'm back to Opera.

You can make it look pretty much the same as firefox 3

Interesting, I'm cool with it then lolz

 

[DeltaBurnt]

Also, dunno if this has been posted here before, but Firefox released the beta 2 preview today (and as with all previews it's nicknamed minefield).

I haven't noticed anything different really, maybe just some behind the scenes stuff.

 

[Cyan]

Cyan, you think they will fix the issue what i HAVE to have the menu bar in order to have the "close" "maximize" and "minimize"

I don't know.
Maybe it's only based on the OS detection (2K/XP or vista/7) and can't be changed.
OR maybe it's an option set in about:config which let you decide if you want the aero-like theme or not. (but maybe it will deactivate the aero-style completely and go back to an XP-style, not the title bar only)

I don't have vista/7 to test, but maybe I can find a preference to set this title bar on/off.
I'll check the mozilla knowledge base website for the hidden preferences.

 

[iFish]

Cyan, thanks so much. becuase i want hte bar. just not the menu part :

 

[ZeroGwafa]

I must be doing it wrong, the FTP download links do not appear for me...

Nevermind, figured it out...

 

[seahorsepip]

Ok it looks ugly now but this is not how the final version will look, so heres the way the look when final(mockups):
7&Vista: link
XP: link
Ubuntu(Linux): link