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Firefox 4 RC1 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the final-stretch dept.

IgnitusBoyone writes "Mozilla has now released Firefox 4 RC1. For most beta participants the update should be automatic, but for those holding out until it gets closer to feature freeze, now is likely a good time to test the next major release. Aside from a complete redesign of the user interface, Firefox 4 offers several new features (release notes) including an integrated sync manager, improved methods for tab-switching and organization for tab-heavy users."

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  1. Re:Feature Bloat by Hatta · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For that matter, Firefox 2.x was just about as feature complete as you'd want a browser to be. All they really needed to do was fix the memory issues and keep the rendering engine up to date, but I guess we can't have nice things.

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  2. Re:Feature Bloat by Sonny+Yatsen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Firefox suffers from its constant desire to meet or beat Chrome and the gajillion UI features Google throws into the browser every other day. It's too bad, really, because it's gone way off-mission. I'll still use it over Chrome, any day (because I don't trust a company that makes its money by tracking my web movements and my web browsing habits to keep its mitts off of my web movements and browsing habits), but I don't recommend Firefox as enthusiastically as I used to back in the day.

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  3. Re:Tabs! by maxume · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Did they change it again? In 3.x, browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent is true by default.

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