Final Beta of Firefox 4 On The Way
It has been a long journey for Mozilla, but it seems that the finish line is in sight, at last.
Mozilla developers have posted the first builds of Firefox 4 Beta 10, which is planned to be the final beta before the release of Firefox 4 RC.
The pre-Beta 10 builds arrive as Mozilla is getting ready to put Beta 9 into a freeze and release the software possibly later this week. Even with the revised release schedule in place, Mozilla has fallen behind again: Beta 9 was originally planned for a December 16 release. However, the most recent Beta was not published until December 22.
According to Mozilla's buglog, Beta 9 has still three blocking bugs that need to be fixed, while there are 227 blocking bugs for Beta 10. In fact, the number of bugs may be overwhelming for the final beta and Mozilla may decide to add Beta 11 to the schedule. In the most recent meeting, the developer team mentioned that there will be "at least" one more beta after Beta 9 and a new release schedule was under development.
In related news, Microsoft's IE9 is expected to be released as RC version on January 28.
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Bring it...
I'm running Beta 8 and I've only run into one noticeable bug so far, it's certainly nicer than 3.6.13, especially for Linux where 3.6.x is just horribly sluggish. The Linux builds are just like bad console ports.
I use Opera but also have the firefox 4 beta, it's speedy but I prefer Opera's interface
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im waiting for the final version for AGES. bring it on mozilla!
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If ratings worked. Only smart people rate this comment up because Firefox ROCKS!
Love firefox, can't wait!
ever since I've used FF 4 beta, there is weird keyboard cursor error when I use it...
on every web pages, there is a type cursor when I click on the text of that web page...
then there is scrolling error using keyboard where up and down arrow key scrolls web page as if it's a Word document...it scrolls by text line or the pictures....
page up and down also works as if it's a Word document...it takes to bottom of web page or that particular frame...
I hope this is a bug that will be fixed on final FF 4....
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CTRL+SPACE SHORTCUT!?
It lasted for a few betas and mysteriously vanished. They should bring it back...
I'm using beta 8 and it doesn't play nice with windows 7 64 bit aero. Usually when you move the mouse over the FF icon on your task bar you can see smaller version of any java or flash content that might be on the page (IM chat windows, youtube videos, etc). with beta 8 ( i suspect earlier betas too) you only get these black windows for java content and white windows for flash content.
I got the latest drivers for my hd 5770 and windows 7 is up to date, i even posted a question about it in the forums and no reply in 3 days. Might have to say with the 3.x versions of this is not fixed
Already using the beta and loving it.
Firefox is nice, but not good enough.
Chrome is noticeably faster both on Windows and Linux (and Mac too, although I never tried that myself and have to cite benchmarks on that one) and has all the essential extensions that FF has. What's more, it gets more regular security updates and bug fixes, it crashes less often and cold boots are a lot faster (on my PC at least).
The same thing can be said of Opera.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CTRL+SPACE SHORTCUT!?It lasted for a few betas and mysteriously vanished. They should bring it back...
You mean the Panorama shortcut? They changed to to Ctrl+E.
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Obvious troll is obvious.
Poor guys. Work for free and still have deadlines to meet
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