Noticeably faster that 3.6.6, except none of my extensions work. FF4b1 disabled: 1 Password, Delicious Bookmarks, Firebug, Greasemonkey, Google Toolbar, Stylish, YSlow and others...
Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
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Re: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
#12Noticeably faster that 3.6.6, except none of my extensions work. FF4b1 disabled: 1 Password, Delicious Bookmarks, Firebug, Greasemonkey, Google Toolbar, Stylish, YSlow and others...
You can set `extensions.checkCompatibility.4.0b` to false in `about:config`.
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
#13Really nice summary of the features in the beta, and coming soon to Firefox 4:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/technology/
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
#14Either my eyes are playing tricks on me, or this thing is now faster at rendering HTML than chrome.
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
#15When I look through the new features spotlighted (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/features/), it seems to me that the vast majority are already in Chrome, some copied directly from it (tabs on top).
I'm genuinely curious why that is. Options I can think of are a) they are spotlighting features that take away a perceived edge that Chrome has, b) they really are playing feature-catch-up and letting other browsers determine the roadmap, or c) some features (the web console?) are far more ambitious than I've given them credit for.
Can anyone shed some light on what is really going on here?
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
#16When I look through the new features spotlighted ( http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/features/ ), it seems to me that the vast majority are already in Chrome, some copied directly from it (tabs on top). I'm genuinely curious why that is. Options I can think of are a) they are spotlighting features that take away a perceived edge that Chrome has, b) they really are playing feature-catch-up and letting other br…
Are you trolling?
The three highlighted features are 'new addons manager,' webm support, and fixing the :visited privacy issue. NONE of these are in any released Chrome, although the early early preview of Chrome 6 has WebM support.
Of the three UI elements highlighted, tabs on top is the only one in Chrome (or did I miss the Chrome button in some developer preview?).
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
#17The big deal with Firefox 4 is support for Jetpack:
https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/
Like with Chrome, and more recently Safari, we can now write Firefox extensions using HTML/CSS/Javascript.
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
#18When I look through the new features spotlighted ( http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/features/ ), it seems to me that the vast majority are already in Chrome, some copied directly from it (tabs on top). I'm genuinely curious why that is. Options I can think of are a) they are spotlighting features that take away a perceived edge that Chrome has, b) they really are playing feature-catch-up and letting other br…
Are you trolling? The three highlighted features are 'new addons manager,' webm support, and fixing the :visited privacy issue. NONE of these are in any released Chrome, although the early early preview of Chrome 6 has WebM support. Of the three UI elements highlighted, tabs on top is the only one in Chrome (or did I miss the Chrome button in some developer preview?).
From my view, the highest highlighted feature was the tabs, followed by the 3 you mention. I counted WebM as Chrome, given that it is Google's codec, but I'm not sure its in Chrome 5 either :(.
Looking further down, I was thinking that WebSockets, Indexed DB, Crash Protection, and the key feature of JetPack (Add-Ons not requiring restart) were all pioneered by Chrome. That leaves The Web Console, which I have not yet tried so can't really comment on either way, and the two givens (HTML5 and CSS3). To my eyes this seemed odd. But I take it you disagree?
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
#19The big deal with Firefox 4 is support for Jetpack: https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/ Like with Chrome, and more recently Safari, we can now write Firefox extensions using HTML/CSS/Javascript.
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Re: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
#20The big deal with Firefox 4 is support for Jetpack: https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/ Like with Chrome, and more recently Safari, we can now write Firefox extensions using HTML/CSS/Javascript.
So Jetpack obsoletes GreaseMonkey?