Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
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Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
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Re: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
#2Lots of cool stuff to come in the next beta as well:
Electrolysis (even more process seperation) merged with trunk recently: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571166
Hardware accelerated graphics should be turned on by default soon as well.
And of course, the continued iteration of the new theme, many platform featured to be added...
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
#3Lots of cool stuff to come in the next beta as well: Electrolysis (even more process seperation) merged with trunk recently: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571166 Hardware accelerated graphics should be turned on by default soon as well. And of course, the continued iteration of the new theme, many platform featured to be added...
Is it faster and/or less of a memory hog?
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
#4Noticeably 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...
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
#5Noticeably 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...
Maybe it's just faster because none of your extensions are running? The ones you listed sound like they probably use lots of CPU time and memory, and if they are disabled I'm sure FF runs much faster / lighter.
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
#6View > Toolbars to enable Tabs on Top on the Mac. Unfortunately, the current implementation looks terrible, as they're the same "underside" tabs as before, only now they're between the window controls and the toolbar. (They note that you should wait in Known Issues, so this should get better.)
They also need to adopt something like Safari's URL-field-as-progress-indicator, or at least an animating graphic to indicate loading. Simply switching the refresh button to an 'X' is way too subtle, and at first I didn't think it was actually loading anything.
Edit: Oh, that's weird. I fired it up again and saw the stopwatch graphic and other loading indicators. Now I'm wondering if these didn't work the first time around, or if I just wasn't paying attention to them given that I'm habituated to Safari's indicators.
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
#7Noticeably 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...
I agree definitly alot faster, but it's a shame almost no plugins work except for extensions/addons/plugins found at http://mozillalabs.com/
But just give it a little time, firefox 4 is definitly worth the wait.
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
#8Lots of cool stuff to come in the next beta as well: Electrolysis (even more process seperation) merged with trunk recently: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571166 Hardware accelerated graphics should be turned on by default soon as well. And of course, the continued iteration of the new theme, many platform featured to be added...
I want to know if Taskfox makes the final cut: http://geektechnica.com/2010/06/5-exciting-changes-coming-to...
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
#9View > Toolbars to enable Tabs on Top on the Mac. Unfortunately, the current implementation looks terrible, as they're the same "underside" tabs as before, only now they're between the window controls and the toolbar. (They note that you should wait in Known Issues, so this should get better.) They also need to adopt something like Safari's URL-field-as-progress-indicator, or at least an animating graphic to indicate…
At the bottom of: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/features/ note, "The new interface described above will soon be available for Mac and Linux users."
Re: Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
#10View > Toolbars to enable Tabs on Top on the Mac. Unfortunately, the current implementation looks terrible, as they're the same "underside" tabs as before, only now they're between the window controls and the toolbar. (They note that you should wait in Known Issues, so this should get better.) They also need to adopt something like Safari's URL-field-as-progress-indicator, or at least an animating graphic to indicate…
I'm sure they will fix the tab style issues in OS X before release:
"OSX and Linux Themes: The new interface described above will soon be available for Mac and Linux users."