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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.
I knew Firefox was piss slow compared to Chrome, but my god to see how slow is sad. It's why I have been slowly migrating to Chrome where I can, though the lack of some features I need (such as a master password) make Chrome not an option for all the places I need to work. I hope Firefox starts improving as its add-ins and features will only last so long as the other more modern browsers catch up on features next...
Stay relevant: See the Top 300 Crashing Signatures in the latest version, Firefox 3.6.6. Those are just the top 300. They don't include the crashes that don't invoke the crash reporter.
Often Slashdot discussions are degraded by people trying to make jokes.
And when you realize that you're a moron, and that AdBlock for Chrome actually stops ads from downloading, then what? Does the Firefox cock come out of your ass?
I care, reloads of 100+ tabs at once takes ages. And I wasn't complaining about stability, I was complimenting Firefox on surviving my massively excessive workload of long periods.
That's pretty much how I work too. If I'm googling the answer to something, I'll tab open a good number of results from several pages of google search results, THEN go through them and prune out and irrelevant ones and start reading the useful ones. If I find what I'm looking for right away, I lose maybe two seconds in hitting ctrl+w a few times to close the remaining tabs. If it takes me 5 different dispersed pages to find the information I need, I've saved a massive quantity of time over forward&backward-ing between each result and the google search page. And have the flexibility to use multiple search points, and to branch out searching into sites and forums.