Firefox 4 Beta 12 Released; Fixes Over 650 Bugs

darthcamaro writes "At last! Firefox 4 Beta 12 is now available. There are over 650 bug fixes in this massive update including a fix for a memory leak that kept Firefox consuming RAM even without opening new tabs. The other big thing that many users have asked for is that FINALLY, when you hover over a link, the URL is displayed in the status bar, instead of the location bar."

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Re:Status bar?

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Basically as of Beta 12 they're imitating Chrome.

What else is new? "Imitate Chrome" has been the mantra for the entire Firefox 4 project. Everything about it reeks of "we can't think of anything original, so let's just copy Chrome". Violating the non-client area by putting tabs and buttons in the title bar (much more likely to break in future versions of $OS), removing important UI elements (decreasing usability), increasing the release schedule to artificially balloon version numbers, etc.

The best part is that everything I hate about Chrome, and all the reasons I don't use it, will now be translated over to Firefox 4. I can only hope that IE9 doesn't fail quite as hard as the other two, otherwise I guess I'll be sticking with Firefox 3 for the foreseeable future.