If you are a Firefox lover, you may be aware of the latest development of Mozilla Firefox 4. After much targeted and talked improvements over Firefox 4, Mozilla has released Firefox 4 Beta Version-1 on 06/July/2010.
Whats new in this release?
- Tabs are now on top by default on Windows only – OSX and Linux will be changing when the theme has been modified to support the change.
- On Windows Vista and Windows 7 the menu bar has been replaced with the Firefox button.
- You can search for and switch to already open tabs in the Smart Location Bar
- New Addons Manager and extension management API (UI will be changed before final release)
- Significant API improvements are available for JS-ctypes, a foreign function interface for extensions.
- The stop and reload buttons have been merged into a single button on Windows, Mac and Linux.
- The Bookmarks Toolbar has been replaced with a Bookmarks Button by default (you can switch it back if you’d like).
- Crash protection for Windows, Linux, and Mac when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins.
- CSS Transitions are partially supported.
- Full WebGL support is included but disabled by default at this time.
Read the complete release note here.
If the above features appeal you, you can straight away head to download the Firefox 4 beta version here
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Looks really appealing, but I do not have any problem with Chrome.
It is becoming so harder to choose between browsers as Opera 10.60 Just released, which got positive reviews and now FF 4.0 Beta launches.
How is a user supposed to decide between these browsers? It is too time consuming to try all of them out.
Nabeel
Hi Nabeel,
Well, I believe its a user preference and choice. There are hardcore firefox lovers who would just use ff and so are chrome lovers too.
Thanks for your comment
wow,looks interesting gonna try out this
The thing is there’s no Google Toolbar support for it which is a big thumbs-down.
most of the extensions are not updated yet.. I believe you should wait until stable release to have all the extensions to work. This is for those who would play around with beta testing.
I’ll have to give it a shot, I hope they’ve sorted out some of the speed issues that the previous version was having, that’s the main reason I moved over to Chrome!
Hi Karen,
Firefox 4 seems to have most of the bugs fixed.. However, as this is still a beta version, its better to wait for a stable version release unless you want to beta test it.
Yay, will install it right now.
Downloaded it yesterday , this is nice design is great
Cool, will try the beta, waiting for the stable release.