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Firefox 4.0 Beta Candidate Available

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Re:more importantly by Pojut · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What are you people doing that causes Firefox to have such horrible stability problems? I leave Firefox open for literally days at a time, with anywhere between 10-25 tabs open, and I have no stability problems.

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  2. Re:Screenshot/Mockups by Darkness404 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Firefox will still be used so long as Chrome maintains its policy of not really allowing any major customizations. Firefox lets you customize -EVERYTHING-, seriously, type in about:config in Firefox, until Chrome lets you do this, I for one will stay with Firefox because I've got it customized exactly how I like it and Chrome won't let me.

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  3. Re:Didn't recognize exactly how slow Firefox is..w by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Iron really doesn't provide any advantage over Chrome with regard to privacy.

  4. Re:Didn't recognize exactly how slow Firefox is..w by dkegel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Boy, I wish I could mod this up. Iron is definitely a scam. (I was in the chromium irc channel when its developer came on the scene, and he openly admitted he was just playing on people's fears. It seems his goal is to make money with google ads on the download page.) Disclaimer: I used to work on Chromium at Google, now I'm just a happy user.

  5. Re:more importantly by Abcd1234 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I typically have 300-400+ tabs open in multiple windows

    Good lord, seriously, you're doing it wrong.

    30-40 tabs? Fine, whatever. *300-400*? Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you? How the hell can you even manage to *find* the tabs you need? What, did you never learn about that fancy feature called "bookmarks"?

  6. Mozilla has not shipped Firefox 4 Beta yet by asa · · Score: 5, Informative

    This account is wrong. 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.

    - Asa Dotzler
    Mozilla

  7. Re:more importantly by geschild · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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...

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