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Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Beta 4

Posted by Zonk on from the tuesday-toys dept.

Somecallmechief writes "Firefox 3 Beta 4 is now available for download. This is the twelfth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso."

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  1. Fucking idiot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    You sir are a fucking idiot. Using such an un-macintosh program on OSX is like eating your own shit on a Christmas Dinner.



    people like you and all those newbies wannabe Mac users (read other OS morons) need to FUCKING die! Hands off from the MAC!

  2. Re:And now, for the two burning questions: by Millennium · · Score: -1, Troll

    Firefox released a public build that passed Acid2 in December 2006.

    That was not a final release. The general public doesn't use prereleases, and so prereleases don't count.

    According to some sources (including Ian Hickson, who developed the Acid2 test), IE 8 Beta 1 still does not pass.

    Yes, because of the horrible quirks-switch that was planned for IE8. That switch has been removed, and it was the only remaining obstacle.

    Firefox (along with Opera and Safari) has far surpassed IE in standards compliance.

    Opera and Safari, yes. Firefox still lags behind on the standards that people care about: so far behind, in fact, that IE actually has a shot at catching up. How pathetic is that? Certainly Firefox has made great strides in standards that few people have any plans to use, but the everyday stuff has been sorely neglected for the sake of the relatively obscure.

    Can we stop it with the Firefox FUD?

    It is not my intent to spread FUD. I use Firefox myself, among a wide spread of browsers. But I am not comfortable with the fact that the browser which made Web standards a household term has deprioritized the very thing that made it so good.

    I thought we were glad that Firefox is helping to get MS off its rear to get IE up to speed with the other browsers?

    "We" are, but Firefox has been resting on its laurels for too long, and the roles have reversed: now it seems it's IE's turn to get Mozilla off its rear to get Firefox up to speed with the other browsers. How pathetic is that?