Meet Firefox 4.0.1

[Duality]

Beta 1 just got announced as official on the Mozilla twitter - installing now :) Might as well try it out.

[Lee G. Veteran]

I'm downloading Firefox 4 Beta 1 now. Looking forward to using this.

[BoneyardBrew Member]

Downloading Beta 1 now...

[LightShadow]

When you get it, can anyone report back with what's it like. And if they fixed the App Menu already!

[BoneyardBrew Member]

When you get it, can anyone report back with what's it like. And if they fixed the App Menu already!

What exactly do you want to know?

The Firefox Menu seems to still be missing loads of options, and looks odd where it's connected to the window. If you've used the latest nightlies I'm sure this isn't much different.

[LightShadow]

What exactly do you want to know?

The Firefox Menu seems to still be missing loads of options, and looks odd where it's connected to the window. If you've used the latest nightlies I'm sure this isn't much different.

That's all I really wanted to know :) Thanks. But not getting this. It's a BETA and Mozilla still has not fixed funcionatiity. I like Firefox, but in Chrome. It has most of it's UI options implemented by the time it hits DEV and BETA. Not likely putting them in a few builds before official.

Same with Opera. They had most of there menus in the App Button working in the Alpha. Wish Mozilla would have put that in before releasing it, having to use ALT to get to the other menus, and if you permently show the Menu Bar, it turns off the App Button :pinch:

[sharp65]

That's all I really wanted to know :) Thanks. But not getting this. It's a BETA and Mozilla still has not fixed funcionatiity. I like Firefox, but in Chrome. It has most of it's UI options implemented by the time it hits DEV and BETA. Not likely putting them in a few builds before official.

Same with Opera. They had most of there menus in the App Button working in the Alpha. Wish Mozilla would have put that in before releasing it, having to use ALT to get to the other menus, and if you permently show the Menu Bar, it turns off the App Button :pinch:

The code was frozen for the beta awhile ago, if you want to see more current changes run one of the nightlies In terms of UI, beta 1 only really has major changes to windows and thats will a work in progress. Most of the UI is still to come. Not sure what chrome having small UI changes in has to do with this though.

[Unrealistic]

Does the official Beta 1 have App Tabs?

[Knife Party]

Does the official Beta 1 have App Tabs?

nope

[Natsu1305]

Is this build1 or build2 of beta1? I remember downloading build1, which was then redirecting to the wiki, then build2 was out (kind of)

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

Beta 1 just got announced as official on the Mozilla twitter - installing now :) Might as well try it out.

The nightly builds are far superior and stable. App Tabs sort of work but not at 100%. I am just glad that this was not a bogus Beta!

[Udedenkz]

Good news everybody, retained layer builds scroll faster than SRWare Iron.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

When you get it, can anyone report back with what's it like. And if they fixed the App Menu already!

no, true menu UI will come later, nothing new in beta, it doesn't even have app tabs

the only extra thing it has is a send feedback button

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Good news everybody, retained layer builds scroll faster than SRWare Iron.

Ideally they should scroll faster/smoother than any other browser.

[kyosuken]

Using the mac os beta 1 here... tabs on top is ugly, the normal layout works better, overall it's slick though much better than ffox 3.x.

[bogas04]

[ambiance]

Is it possible to hide the status bar?

[Bioran]

Some lag with Aero Snap over here, but generally a pretty solid and good release.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Ok, TabCandy is awesome.

When hardware accelerated Layers lands it should be even more awesome, at the moment moving in and out of tabs is a bit "stuttery".

Edit: And obviously, being an Alpha it's buggy, I'm getting random windows and random mode switching when opening/closing tabs and moving tabs around.

[bogas04]

Is it possible to hide the status bar?

Press Alt>View>Status bar

Ok, TabCandy is awesome.

*pic*

When hardware accelerated Layers lands it should be even more awesome, at the moment moving in and out of tabs is a bit "stuttery".

Edit: And obviously, being an Alpha it's buggy, I'm getting random windows and random mode switching when opening/closing tabs and moving tabs around.

Yes it is , but when it is landing? Any bug tracking it?

Edit: Its available as an extension for now!

http://www.azarask.in/projects/tabcandy/

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574217 but it's currently very very early (the talk is about setting up a branch to work on it)

[ambiance]

Press Alt>View>Status bar

Thanks.

[Descartes]

#appmenu-button {
height: 21px !important;
border-style: solid !important;
border-width: 1px 2px 2px 2px !important;
-moz-border-top-colors: rgba(0,0,0,0.6) !important;
-moz-border-right-colors: rgba(255,255,255,0.6) rgba(0,0,0,0.6) !important;
-moz-border-bottom-colors: rgba(255,255,255,0.6) rgba(0,0,0,0.6) !important;
-moz-border-left-colors: rgba(255,255,255,0.6) rgba(0,0,0,0.6) !important;
-moz-border-radius: 0 0 5px 5px !important;
-moz-box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.6) !important;
}

Still don't know, how to remove that steam from the inside :p

edit: found out, working on it

[bogas04]

Can anyone make a stylish code to modify tabs and new tab button like in the mockups?

[Udedenkz]

Ideally they should scroll faster/smoother than any other browser.

It is not just that scrolling is very nice, pages load faster too.

Neowin loads in what seems to be under half a second (on my netbook); I think it is time for new potato gun video.