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  1. 1. What do you think about the Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 4?

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Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser that makes browsing more efficient than ever before. Firefox includes pop-up blocking; a tab-browsing; integrated Google searching; simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively; a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser; and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online.

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http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or...es/3.0b4/win32/

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That's the "final" one, if you go the the link in the first post, the exe is there.

bigmehdi is right in one way', but it's not a nightly build, it's the final beta version, but we can only say it's officially announced when it appears on the releases folder, since its after that that Mozilla announces the new versions, however the build is exactly the same.

Okay, the folder for the Beta 4 it's already on the releases folder (the executables are not there yet), i'll edit the post and replace the link.

(oh yes, it's the rc of beta of alpha of pre, on the past version was the same, but in fact wasn't, actually Mozilla will display that page until they officially announce it, which will be soon)

( http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or...es/3.0b4/win32/ )

Edit: word fixed.

Edited by EL1TE
Okay, the folder for the Beta 4 it's already on the releases folder (the executables are not there yet), i'll edit the post and replace the link.

(oh yes, it's the rc of beta of alpha of pre, on the past version was the same, but in fact wasn't, actually Mozilla will display that page until they officially announce it, which will be soon)

( http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or...es/3.0b4/win32/ )

Edit: word fixed.

why not go the whole way and make a thread stating FF3 is final? Then edit the post when it actually is :p

I believe Beta 4 is still at RC stage (meaning release candidates of a Beta if that doesn't confuse you). But for all intents and purposes, this is yes, Beta 4.

Meanwhile they have been building Beta 5 builds for the past few days. I believe they are planning a relatively quick turnaround on Beta 5.

One of the major new features of fx3 beta 4 is the PGO which should improve JavaScript speeds.

A quick comparison of JavaScript benchmark results on my system:

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  1. Firefox3 beta 4: 6775.4 ms
  2. Opera 9.5 beta build 9815: 10957.4 ms
  3. IE8 Beta 1: 15095.2 ms
  4. Firefox 2.0.0.11: 29346.0 ms

That's pretty much Blazing!

Edited by shakey_snake
One of the major new features of fx3 beta 4 is the PGO which should improve JavaScript speeds.

FWIW PGO will optimize all code, not just the JavaScript Engine. There's been a lot of effort put into optimizing the JavaScript Engine which resulted in a massive speed increase before PGO was even turned on.

PGO will eventually be used to tune all parts of the Firefox codebase. At the moment the PGO 'profile' used is: start firefox, close firefox - so really at the moment the only code-paths being optimized are the start-up and shut-down ones.

But once the profiling includes other stuff, for example doing the sunspider test, visiting gmail, going to graphically intensive sites, etc, etc, etc, all these codepaths will get profiled and the code generated will get PGO optimized.

For beta 5 there's some pretty hardcore memory patches coming which should help make Firefox 3 more efficient when it comes to allocating and using memory too. Yay!

BTW, in your results, you say "Firefox3 beta 4: 6775.4 ms".. since Beta 4 isn't out yet, what RC were you using? If it was RC1 and you're on Windows, I'd test again with RC2. (it was required because RC1 wasn't PGO optimized at all!)

I can't find the 3.0b4 releases, they've got pulled?

One of the major new features of fx3 beta 4 is the PGO which should improve JavaScript speeds.

A quick comparison of JavaScript benchmark results on my system:

post-202145-1204915172_thumb.png

  1. Firefox3 beta 4: 6775.4 ms
  2. Opera 9.5 beta build 9815: 10957.4 ms
  3. IE8 Beta 1: 15095.2 ms
  4. Firefox 2.0.0.11: 29346.0 ms

That's pretty much Blazing!

Amazing... Sorry Opera, but you'll have to go. :(

whoever proposed to put the Home button in the bookmarks bar should be hung. also, the fact that the GUI devs all agreed that it was a good idea and actually implemented it is REALLY disappointing. what in the world were/are they thinking. they better change that

btw, I know you can add the Home button to the main toolbar. I'm just saying it was a terrible decision to make the default as having it only on the bookmarks bar

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