Meet Firefox 4.0.1

[Unknown_97784568745]

You didn't look close enough because I'm not the only one who has this since I just used a script I found......

http://yaku.dk/s/scr...firefox4ftw.png

And you didn't read what he wrote.

Yes - by enabling the menu bar. AFAIK there's no official way to have the Firefox button and the menu off at once though.

[Lewism]

The latest nightly seems to break tabs in titlebar implementations... or at least for me, the tabs get pushed down again :(

Same here. Using Minimal 1.0 skin, the tabs moved down a bit and the new tab button is messed up. But that's what you expect when you use nightly.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

The latest nightly seems to break tabs in titlebar implementations... or at least for me, the tabs get pushed down again :(

for some reason i have a feeling it has to do with the new code added to make the menu button work in xp and the basic theme, should hopefully be fixed soon

[Growled Member]

I've broke down and am giving beta 2 a try. I must say I am very impressed. It seems faster than Chrome to me.

[nXqd]

I've broke down and am giving beta 2 a try. I must say I am very impressed. It seems faster than Chrome to me.

Really, can you do some test ? I'm lazy of installing new stuff on windows now . Thanks first :)

[+kpo6969 Subscriber¹]

Beta 3

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Firefox-4-0-Beta-3-for-Windows-7-NUI-151621.shtml

[+kpo6969 Subscriber¹]

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Firefox-4-0-Beta-3-for-Windows-7-NUI-151621.shtml

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b3/

[torrentthief]

please rename this thread to Beta 3, thanks.

[Quillz]

Thanks for the notice.

[omganinja]

Woot, works with minimal theme.

[Steven P. Administrators]

Done :)

[omganinja]

Woot, works with minimal theme. App tabs still dont work :(

[torrentthief]

SunSpider results (perfomed on laptop with win7 x64, core 2 duo 2ghz T5800, 3gb ddr2, nvidia 9200LE gpu):

I get a 2.4% speed improvement with SunSpider with ff4b3 compared to ff4b2 as you can see below:

Firefox 4.0 Beta 3:

RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
--------------------------------------------
Total:                  810.0ms +/- 2.4%
--------------------------------------------

  3d:                   132.8ms +/- 14.0%
    cube:                40.6ms +/- 17.9%
    morph:               39.0ms +/- 45.9%
    raytrace:            53.2ms +/- 10.6%

  access:               112.6ms +/- 5.0%
    binary-trees:        25.2ms +/- 15.4%
    fannkuch:            54.8ms +/- 3.0%
    nbody:               15.2ms +/- 53.8%
    nsieve:              17.4ms +/- 35.2%

  bitops:                34.8ms +/- 14.4%
    3bit-bits-in-byte:    1.2ms +/- 46.3%
    bits-in-byte:        15.2ms +/- 38.1%
    bitwise-and:          3.6ms +/- 52.4%
    nsieve-bits:         14.8ms +/- 11.0%

  controlflow:            9.4ms +/- 27.4%
    recursive:            9.4ms +/- 27.4%

  crypto:                52.8ms +/- 22.4%
    aes:                 27.4ms +/- 5.2%
    md5:                 16.8ms +/- 46.6%
    sha1:                 8.6ms +/- 50.7%

  date:                 106.6ms +/- 9.2%
    format-tofte:        65.0ms +/- 14.8%
    format-xparb:        41.6ms +/- 14.7%

  math:                  71.8ms +/- 15.2%
    cordic:              41.2ms +/- 19.7%
    partial-sums:        21.6ms +/- 26.3%
    spectral-norm:        9.0ms +/- 69.8%

  regexp:                67.6ms +/- 8.8%
    dna:                 67.6ms +/- 8.8%

  string:               221.6ms +/- 11.6%
    base64:              10.8ms +/- 57.2%
    fasta:               33.0ms +/- 26.8%
    tagcloud:            84.2ms +/- 5.7%
    unpack-code:         68.6ms +/- 6.6%
    validate-input:      25.0ms +/- 43.2%

Firefox 4.0 Beta 2:

RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
--------------------------------------------
Total:                  829.6ms +/- 3.4%
--------------------------------------------

  3d:                   132.2ms +/- 10.6%
    cube:                40.6ms +/- 17.8%
    morph:               40.8ms +/- 36.3%
    raytrace:            50.8ms +/- 19.5%

  access:               113.8ms +/- 14.2%
    binary-trees:        22.2ms +/- 2.5%
    fannkuch:            52.2ms +/- 2.6%
    nbody:               27.6ms +/- 56.6%
    nsieve:              11.8ms +/- 4.7%

  bitops:                34.6ms +/- 11.0%
    3bit-bits-in-byte:    1.0ms +/- 0.0%
    bits-in-byte:        10.6ms +/- 15.7%
    bitwise-and:          2.6ms +/- 64.2%
    nsieve-bits:         20.4ms +/- 3.3%

  controlflow:           11.0ms +/- 33.0%
    recursive:           11.0ms +/- 33.0%

  crypto:                53.0ms +/- 16.7%
    aes:                 29.0ms +/- 10.1%
    md5:                 14.8ms +/- 58.3%
    sha1:                 9.2ms +/- 58.4%

  date:                 107.0ms +/- 4.1%
    format-tofte:        66.0ms +/- 3.3%
    format-xparb:        41.0ms +/- 12.5%

  math:                  67.2ms +/- 8.5%
    cordic:              38.6ms +/- 9.3%
    partial-sums:        19.0ms +/- 0.0%
    spectral-norm:        9.6ms +/- 54.6%

  regexp:                75.0ms +/- 15.0%
    dna:                 75.0ms +/- 15.0%

  string:               235.8ms +/- 3.3%
    base64:               9.0ms +/- 0.0%
    fasta:               28.0ms +/- 4.4%
    tagcloud:            81.4ms +/- 3.2%
    unpack-code:         85.4ms +/- 11.1%
    validate-input:      32.0ms +/- 7.8%

Firefox 3.6.8:

RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
--------------------------------------------
Total:                 1268.8ms +/- 4.0%
--------------------------------------------

  3d:                   219.6ms +/- 24.1%
    cube:                57.2ms +/- 13.2%
    morph:               65.8ms +/- 14.2%
    raytrace:            96.6ms +/- 45.4%

  access:               190.2ms +/- 5.0%
    binary-trees:        50.2ms +/- 15.5%
    fannkuch:            82.2ms +/- 7.4%
    nbody:               33.2ms +/- 20.4%
    nsieve:              24.6ms +/- 29.2%

  bitops:                60.4ms +/- 17.6%
    3bit-bits-in-byte:    4.0ms +/- 38.1%
    bits-in-byte:        16.0ms +/- 22.7%
    bitwise-and:          4.8ms +/- 53.1%
    nsieve-bits:         35.6ms +/- 39.6%

  controlflow:           53.8ms +/- 24.5%
    recursive:           53.8ms +/- 24.5%

  crypto:                69.0ms +/- 19.7%
    aes:                 36.6ms +/- 20.2%
    md5:                 18.4ms +/- 17.0%
    sha1:                14.0ms +/- 55.8%

  date:                 200.2ms +/- 10.9%
    format-tofte:        99.4ms +/- 9.0%
    format-xparb:       100.8ms +/- 15.3%

  math:                  80.0ms +/- 17.0%
    cordic:              37.4ms +/- 13.2%
    partial-sums:        28.4ms +/- 50.8%
    spectral-norm:       14.2ms +/- 42.6%

  regexp:                68.6ms +/- 12.9%
    dna:                 68.6ms +/- 12.9%

  string:               327.0ms +/- 6.5%
    base64:              18.4ms +/- 36.9%
    fasta:               74.0ms +/- 8.1%
    tagcloud:            90.8ms +/- 6.5%
    unpack-code:        104.2ms +/- 13.4%
    validate-input:      39.6ms +/- 18.8%

With 1 tab open firefox 4b3 uses 59mb ish ram, firefox 4b2 used 82mb ish ram, firefox 3.6.8 uses 60mb ish.

[Descartes]

I think it should be a bit bigger on XP.

I think it shouldn't be there at all :s

[SoyoS]

How do I stop the extensions compatibility check? Tried extensions.checkCompatibility but that doesn't seem to work.

[HawkMan]

Nags with the beta.

Apparently you can no longer get rid of the annoying tab scroll (who the F wants to scroll through a whole bunch of tabs... they need new UI/usablity designers)

also Who thought it was a good idea to remove the min,max,close widgets.... seriously, that's more annoying than apps that use non standard size/position widgets. again, they need new UI/Usability designers.

When you think FF can't get more stupid, the designers go an prove you wrong again.

[Salty Wagyu]

Sigh, inactive tab still has hard-to-read text when using dark wallpaper for desktop background.

[Hari]

How do I stop the extensions compatibility check? Tried extensions.checkCompatibility but that doesn't seem to work.

extensions.checkCompatibility.4.0b false

[SoyoS]

extensions.checkCompatibility.4.0b false

Thanks, I had 4.0b3 instead.

[torrentthief]

Sigh, inactive tab still has hard-to-read text when using dark wallpaper for desktop background.

Yep, this problem has been in all the firefox beta's, i used a black background so its very hard to read :(

[Knife Party]

just updated

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Nags with the beta.

Apparently you can no longer get rid of the annoying tab scroll (who the F wants to scroll through a whole bunch of tabs... they need new UI/usablity designers)

also Who thought it was a good idea to remove the min,max,close widgets.... seriously, that's more annoying than apps that use non standard size/position widgets. again, they need new UI/Usability designers.

When you think FF can't get more stupid, the designers go an prove you wrong again.

Hm? Do you mean the min/max/close widgets provided by Windows? They should still be there. :blink:

[Boeing 787]

When does Tab Candy become official?

[Gaffney]

Firefox 4.0 Beta still has a problem that has changed a bit but not much.

Beta 1 if I launched it from restore with eg 6 tabs it would lag and then half of the time it would crash and I don't have a slow computer.

Beta 2 it would launch but take quite a while and almost crash.

Beta 3 A tiny bit faster again but still around 10-20 seconds.