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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.
The most up to date thing in my system is the processor, which is about six months old (or, at least, it was released six months ago. I only dropped it in there about a week ago, prior to which I was using an X2 5400+.) Other than that, the newest piece of hardware in my system is the 1.5 T hard drive, and that doesn't really impact performance. The video card, which is close to two years old at this point, is hardly a heavy hitter.
So, yes, by today's standards it is quite out of date. ATI 4850, DDR2 instead of DDR3, the motherboard uses the AMD 780 chipset...it's definitely out of date. Still a great machine that can handle most anything I throw out at, but compared to what's out there, it's out of date.
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