Firefox 4.0 Beta Candidate Available

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @04:08AM from the beta-burning-fox dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla quietly posted the first beta build of its Firefox 4 browser early this morning. The 'Chromified' browser leaves a solid first impression with a few minor hiccups, but no surprises. If you have been using a previous version of Firefox 3.7, which now officially becomes Firefox 4.0, you should already feel comfortable with this new version. Mozilla has not posted detailed release notes yet, but there seem to be no major changes from Firefox 3.7a6-pre, with the exception that the browser is running more smoothly and with fewer crashes." Update: 06/29 18:40 GMT by S : Mozilla's Asa Dotzler writes, "Mozilla has not shipped Firefox 4 beta yet. We are in the process of making and testing the final set of changes, but we're not quite there yet." Changed headline to reflect this.

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Yikes I didn't mean to troll! by blahbooboo · 2010-06-29 07:13 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Funny, I didn't mean to be "trolling" . My original comment went from +3 Insightful to Troll! Yikes, sorry to say something negative about Slashdot's pet project! I will know better next time.
Re:Download Link by geminidomino · 2010-06-30 06:10 · Score: 0, Flamebait

This is a very tired meme - Firefox is extremely stable and very fast - except for its Javascript engine, which is mediocre to crappy.
It's not a meme, it's my experience. And don't bother with the bullshit copout blaming extensions. I use adblock plus and passwordmaker. That's all.
As for the memory, not every machine is infinitely or cheaply expandable. Your weakest desktop isn't my laptop which caps at 1GB which, if "normal" web browsing (as in, not opening 10-20 tabs at a time) leads to swap thrashing, there's a problem.