Firefox 4 Beta

[Jake hd]

Firefox 4 Beta (version 1) considered to be stable and safe to use for daily web browsing, though the features and content may change before the final product release. At this time many Add-ons may not yet have been tested by their authors to ensure that they are compatible with this release. If you wish to help test Add-on compatibility, please install the Add-on Compatibility Reporter - your favorite Add-on author will appreciate it!

 

What's New?

 

* 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.

 

Known Issues?

 

All Systems

 

* The Bookmark Toolbar is turned off by default even on existing profiles (see bug 574514)

* If you try to start Firefox using a locked profile, it will crash (see bug 573369)

* After using the Customize Toolbars feature, the Bookmarks Toolbar context menu will not work until you restart the browser (see bug 557225)

* Rendering of the popular Tuenti website is broken, though already fixed for the next beta (see bug 573969)

 

Microsoft Windows

 

* Some graphics drivers may not work properly with full screen Ogg Theora HTML video acceleration (see bug 564391)

* When using a Persona, the maximize, minimize and close window buttons will not appear, though they will still work (see bug 574833)

* When using the Windows "Classic" theme the toolbars and tab strip may appear gray for several seconds as Firefox starts up (see bug 574638)

 

Mac OS X

 

* Although you can customize Firefox to show tabs on top for OSX, it really doesn't look good. We suggest you wait.

* When plugin content is loaded in a separate process, a second icon appears in the OSX Dock (see bug 557225).

 

Windows OS Download (English)

 

Mac OS X Download (English)

 

Linux Download (English)

[blacklabelfosho]

http://www.drweb.com/pix/online/clean_en.gif http://download.mozi...=win&lang=en-US redirects to http://ftp.halifax.r...%20Beta%201.exe

 

 

Checking: http://ftp.halifax.r...%20Beta%201.exe

Engine version: 5.0.2.3300

Total virus-finding records: 1573395

File size: 8.96 MB

File MD5: 697bc1861546d9a0d85c61e90dc8c505

http://www.drweb.com/pix/online/bg_bot.gif

[Rogue Modder]

Meh, Minefield (made by mozilla, much more open source community based) > Firefox. Updates every night, can add your own code ect. Very good.

[matty0]

its all about google chrome

[Lockon]

Meh, Minefield (made by mozilla, much more open source community based) > Firefox. Updates every night, can add your own code ect. Very good.

 

Updating is a ******* annoying. xD

[Jake hd]

http://www.drweb.com/pix/online/clean_en.gif http://download.mozi...=win&lang=en-US redirects to http://ftp.halifax.r...%20Beta%201.exe

 

 

Checking: http://ftp.halifax.r...%20Beta%201.exe

Engine version: 5.0.2.3300

Total virus-finding records: 1573395

File size: 8.96 MB

File MD5: 697bc1861546d9a0d85c61e90dc8c505

http://www.drweb.com/pix/online/bg_bot.gif

 

 

i noticed that as soon as i posted that im not sure why it goes there and none of the others do

[test10]

Firefox is open source so most of their servers are donated on a case by case basis. It takes alot of bandwidth to give 4.8 billion downloads, so thus they use all the servers they can. Even some random german one.