Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 Released

balster neb writes "Mozilla has released the first Beta of Firefox 4, the next major version of the popular web browser. Apart from the new 'Chromified' tabs-on-top UI, there are many major improvements in performance and HTML5 support. This release also adds support for the new WebM video format. Other changes include faster DOM and CSS performance, improved UI responsiveness, hardware 2D acceleration, experimental WebGL support, and better JavaScript performance (though this beta does not include the new JaegerMonkey JIT engine). More details on the Mozilla blog."

Comments

Re:First Post !!

[sopssa]

It may trump IE, but it sure does feel and respond slower than Opera and Chrome. It's not always just about how quick the javascript engine and so on is, but how it feels to the user. Instant rendering of the page as soon as it starts loading (like in Opera) and responsive UI contribute a lot to user experience. Mozilla seems to forget this fact. Opera in comparison is really responsive, even while it comes build-in with huge amount of more features.

Memory footprint doesn't tell much because of the way modern OS tries to allocate RAM. After all, all non-used RAM goes to waste.

Re:Option to use the old UI?

[datapharmer]

Thank god. The on-top tabs is the single thing I hate most about chrome.

No easy way to close

[JSombra]

No close, minimize, maximize buttons at top?!? Come one guys that’s basic windows design 101