Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Beta 4

[thealexweb]

Anyone knows what's the score of Acid3 test in this version? :rolleyes:

93 / 100.

Edit: Didn't scroll down enough to see +Mephistopheles's post before replying.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Hmm, that square in the top right corner shouldn't be there (that part tests @font-face, which was also in the previous beta)

Acid3 depends on a couple of big things to pass, for example an SMIL and SVG Fonts implementation, both of which should hopefully be in Gecko 1.9.2 (And I think it'll get another point due to a fix in the HTML parser). This also gives you a good idea of how long it'll take IE to pass the test.

There's also a few issues (like the favicon, but there's still questions about that, if the server returns a 404 and data, what should the client do?) and Acid3 breaks the back/forward buttons (due to iframes it uses).

Edit: Oh yeah, the current nightlies are up to 96/100 if you enable SMIL in about:config.

[+Cryton Subscriber²]

The TraceMonkey JS engine is beta 4 is faster than the one in beta 3. Lots of work has been done to it; literally 100s more fixes for this area alone.

[Macsen]

I just got the update right now.

I wonder when Neowin will report that they have indeed upped the milestone to 3.5?

[Quillz]

If I'm using Minefield, should I bother with this beta? Is Minefield already as advanced as 3.5 Beta 4?

[ViperAFK]

If I'm using Minefield, should I bother with this beta? Is Minefield already as advanced as 3.5 Beta 4?

Minefield is newer, but the beta is probably much more stable.

[Fred Derf Veteran]

If I'm using Minefield, should I bother with this beta? Is Minefield already as advanced as 3.5 Beta 4?

Well, that would depend when you last updated your Minefield. If you are using daily updates then you should have something newer than 3.5 Beta 4.

If, however, you have a Minefield build that was downloaded months ago then that changes things.

[dead.cell]

One way of forcing extensions to work is to type

about:config

into the URL bar, then to set

extensions.checkCompatibility

to false.

First, had to create those settings. Second, it didn't help. :(

Any other ideas maybe?

[ViperAFK]

Use nightly tester tools for extension comparability forcing. WIth that installed just go to the addons window and there is a "force override compatibility" button.

[dead.cell]

Use nightly tester tools for extension comparability forcing. WIth that installed just go to the addons window and there is a "force override compatibility" button.

Thanks!

[BoDEAN]

I find flash videos just don't run with this beta. Anyone else?

Example, http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4131450 I see the still, hit the play, and nothing happens.

[Tai]

I find flash videos just don't run with this beta. Anyone else?

Example, http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=4131450 I see the still, hit the play, and nothing happens.

running here with no problems ... and after a clean install I find this beta much better than 3.0.10

[BoDEAN]

Odd. Maybe it has to do with windows 7? not sure.

Went to http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

and it says You have version 10,0,22,87 installed

[+KibosJ Subscriber²]

Flashgot doesn't work properly in 3.5 Beta 4, messes up the Save (download) Dialog:

Odd. Maybe it has to do with windows 7? not sure.

Went to http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

and it says You have version 10,0,22,87 installed

The Video plays fine for me too. Windows 7 x64 build 7100

[ViperAFK]

Odd. Maybe it has to do with windows 7? not sure.

Went to http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

and it says You have version 10,0,22,87 installed

I have two pc's running win7 64 bit build 7100 and firefox 3.5 beta 4 and flash works flawlessly on both.

[Scirwode]

I can't use my back and forward buttons on my MX Revolution. I thought it was my mouse at first but then it works in IE8 and Google Chrome. I also have the same issue as James_478 with FlashGot but other than that it runs flawlessly. Just a bit annoying that I have to move my mouse a bit to return to a previous page.

Scirwode

[ViperAFK]

I can't use my back and forward buttons on my MX Revolution. I thought it was my mouse at first but then it works in IE8 and Google Chrome. I also have the same issue as James_478 with FlashGot but other than that it runs flawlessly. Just a bit annoying that I have to move my mouse a bit to return to a previous page.

Scirwode

Back and forward buttons on my mx518 work fine.

[Marcus16]

I can't use my back and forward buttons on my MX Revolution. I thought it was my mouse at first but then it works in IE8 and Google Chrome. I also have the same issue as James_478 with FlashGot but other than that it runs flawlessly. Just a bit annoying that I have to move my mouse a bit to return to a previous page.

Scirwode

Works fine on my MX Revolution.

[Scirwode]

Back and forward buttons on my mx518 work fine.

Then I have no idea what's wrong, I have SetPoint installed so it should work. The fact that it works in other places means it is something to do with Firefox, as the previous version worked fine but this didn't.

Scirwode