Firefox 4 beta is out

[Caiyuo]

Features breakdown as well as what 4 offers in the way of HTML5 and youtube support:
- http://lifehacker.com/5580817/first-...gned-firefox-4
- http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/05/fir...tube-and-webm/

[Krandor]

In my windows 7 taskbar every tab is being treated as a separate window, anyone else getting that?

[Johnblaze]

yeah i was gettin that then i changed a setting in my Taskbar properties... Made it so that it only combines when taskbar is full. Temp fix but meh it works.

EDIT: I noticed in doing this, I couldn't open up any bookmarks in a new tab (via right click)

[GRT]

isn't that the way how the newest IE works in Windows 7 also?

[Devolver]

I like this so far. Does seem faster (Vista Home prem.) and all my addons/themes are functional.

[Kaisha]

As mentioned, not much change on OSX, just the new default theme basically.

You can force tabs to be on top, but it looks ugly since it literally takes the tab bar and just places it on top without any visual change whatsoever.

Digging the new page load icon though. Seems like they finally got Flash and other plugins to load into their own process now under OSX so Firefox won't crash with them when that occurs. Just wish they'd give them a name rather than "Firefox" like.....Firefox itself.

Not really liking how No-Script/Ad-Block/Etc have the rectangular box forced around them and their icons shrunk, but it's probably just the theme which I'll be changing when authors get caught up. Shit seems faster overall, so I'm going to stress-test it with a shitload of tabs open and see if it still chugs like FF 3.6 did.


[EDIT] Oh, slick, I can drag the corner of text-boxes and make them larger if I please.


Also, I'd have to say WebM is a bigger deal than FF4 at the moment. Open-source video encoding that's royalty free? H264 is going to get shoved aside asap in favor of that for web-videos, and allows us Firefox users to have a decent codec for HTML5 playback since Mozilla has a policy against other licenses that involve money.

[Pandum]

not noticing much speed difference between this and palemoon

[Kaisha]

So did anyone else lose right-click menu in Flash?

[Mistress Stowastiq]

Wonder if it is using that plugin container.exe thing too...

[Kaisha]

Is it just me or is the menu/toolbar area ridiculously over sized? >.>

Dunno, this is how it looks on my end in OSX after removing a couple things from the navigation bar I didn't need, seems smaller to me than what I had in FF3.6.

Spoiler: show

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...FF/ff4beta.png

Anyone know how to get rid of that bookmark icon btw? It refuses to leave when I try to drag/drop it out like I did the other crap I didn't need.

In my windows 7 taskbar every tab is being treated as a separate window, anyone else getting that?

In OSX, everything is under the main instance of the program, although as I mentioned earlier there seems to be a separate process running for me also to deal with plugins, which unfortunately also has its own icon to select when I'm Cmd+Tabbing about (with no way to differentiate which one is Firefox or not).

Also seems the plugin container is unable to take focus when it's called. Tried uploading something to photobucket and I had to cmd+tab to the upload window it pops up rather than it just becoming the active window as it normally would.

[cdgreg]

Security wise, is it safer to stick with V3.whatever for now?

[Baelorn]

Being able to switch tabs via the location bar is pretty nice if you have a ton of tabs open.

[fishstix]

Is there a plugin to show the top viewed pages by you? like safari's top sites, chrome's new tab, or google's toolbar plugin (doesnt work for 4x yet)

[Kaisha]

Looks like Firefox 4 is 3-points up on FF3.6 in terms of the Acid3 test: http://acid3.acidtests.org/

Wonder when their gecko engine will hit 100 on that, it's been quite awhile.

Managed to have FF4 beachball on me twice now, one of them involving the awesome bar's need to take a fucking year to cache, and one that randomly happened when I decided to open a blank tab.

[Ketna]

man i hate the awesome bar so much, ive been using chrome so long that i forgot that was the reason i switched.

[Kaisha]

What reason? I love the crap out of it aside from it locking up the browser for a good 10 seconds on a cold boot due to it trying to cache a good couple years worth of history.



And on a random note, beta 1 busted Flash on OSX. A few games (such as Transformice) ignore all key input, and right-click menu is definitely not showing. Time to find other forms of time killers until that's fixed. -.-

[lathia]

Neat, I can open url sites by just selecting a written text then right clicking. Saves a lot of time, especially with pictures. Pron too!

[Akiyama]

How's Bookmark management with FF4? I rely heavily on Bookmarks as I have a shit ton saved through firefox.

[Scythiroth]

How's Bookmark management with FF4? I rely heavily on Bookmarks as I have a shit ton saved through firefox.

Seems to be the same as the previous version. At least I don't see any changes to it, I could be missing something.

[Zeh]

They're as accessible as they were before, either via the toolbar or the handy dandy drop down thing in the main toolbar.