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Firefox 4.0 Beta Candidate Available
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.
Mount your Failfoxes.
More importantly is it gonna finally fix the memory leak issue?
Tell me about it. Do you how annoying it is to walk into the office and see memory dribbling out of the computer because of the browser?! I hate it! And my IT support company: PHB IT Services says that memory leaks are actually an OSHA violation and if someone slips on that memory, I could be sued for MILLIONS! So I pay them to come in a clean up all that memory leaking.
That's my management secret: hire only the best!
RIP America
July 4, 1776 - September 11, 2001
What are you people doing that causes Firefox to have such horrible stability problems?
Porn. Vast amounts of porn.
most of those set to ADD and OCD forums, I'll warrant.
"Good lord, seriously, you're doing it wrong."
No need to be so intolerant towards different customs or beliefs!
It's not as if he's using emacs, after all...
Karma? What's that again?
Seriously. Complaining about Firefox instability when running hundreds of tabs simultaneously is like eating 10 burgers a day from McDonalds every day for a month and then complaining about how McDonalds is unhealthy when you gain a bunch of weight and suffer a heart attack.
Probably a bad analogy because McD's is rather unhealthy, but I'm sure you get the point.
"This is the main advantage of ether: it makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel...total loss of all basic motor skills: Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue-severance of all connection between the body and the brain. Which is interesting, because the brain continues to function more or less normally...you can actually watch yourself behaving in the terrible way, but you can't control it."
-Hunter S Thompson
;)
Nah. It's been working out for me so far.
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