Meet Firefox 4.0.1

[Brandon H Supervisor]

My "stop" and "reload" buttons became two separate buttons for some reason. I'm not sure how it happened. Is there a way to change it back to the single button like it's supposed to be, without any stylish codes?

just go into customize and reset default layout that should fix your problem

[aznkid25]

just go into customize and reset default layout that should fix your problem

Alright, that fixed it. Thanks.

[Kirkburn]

Disappointing :(

Mozilla shouldn't be dropping the axe like this, we've seen a few features ruled out already , Who cares if the release slips, It wouldn't hurt us to wait that little bit longer for a solid, fully featured release rather than a half baked one.

Sure they should be dropping the axe. 64bit Firefox is not a top priority item. Continually delaying Fx for features that were never guaranteed to be in Fx4 would be foolish - it would be months behind schedule, and the stuff that is finished would be out of people's hands for far too long.

Cutting features in order to reach a stable, timely release is a fact of any software. You just don't hear about it most of the time. It is done specifically to reach a 'solid' release.

[bogas04]

There is always Firefox 4.1 :) And anyways , i am pretty sure that even when Firefox 4 final is out , i will be using trunk builds

[Darrian]

Why wait for 4.1? They are still compiling 64-bit nightlies. I'm sure even if they don't push an official 64-bit browser they'll still be spitting out 64-bit minefield builds. I'd be using it now if Adobe would get off their ass and release a 64-bit flash plugin already; I think the 64-bit builds run a lot smoother, but I can't bear to use them long since so many sites are so dependant on Flash.

[skyli]

Scrolling is still laggy in the newest hourly :(

[Corris Veteran]

Anyone know when we are going to get the tab loading bar thing on OSX?

I thought I read it was going to be in this beta somewhere on here.

Would like to see this as well, one of my biggest desires from Firefox (via official options or addon).

Nice to see I'm not the only one, such a waste of space for no reason.

Though I haven't found anything that will work for the Beta's yet.

[bogas04]

Great progress in landing theme fixes (Linux fixes are almost there)!

[iwod]

JM wont make it into Beta 5, so it looks like we will have to wait for Beta 6 for some true speed improvement to the browser.

[Darrian]

Anyone know when we are going to get the tab loading bar thing on OSX?

I thought I read it was going to be in this beta somewhere on here.

I'm not even convinced it's landed in the Windows build yet; I have to use an extension to emulate it.

[skyli]

Hi! I think that new firefox uses the videocard to render. How can i turn off this feature?

[bogas04]

Hi! I think that new firefox uses the videocard to render. How can i turn off this feature?

[skyli]

Thank you!! Firefox seems faster without the hardware "acceleration" :D

No laggy scrolling anymore :) (and switching GPU-s don't mess up the browser:))

[xendrome]

THREAD CLEANED - Please stay on topic!

[gahbmwM5]

Hey, thanks for this graphic, as I neglected to 'check' smooth scrolling, along with autoscrolling....much better now!

:)

[Mouettus]

wow... stability is still a huge issue in beta4

huge hang time on first boot... worst yet; it's loading a blank page on as a "homepage"

lotsa crashes on several websites for no obvious reasons.

still some big lag problems when scrolling with flash video content on screen. everything goes back smooth when it's outta sight.

d2d and directdraw enabled

latest adblock plus dev build

that's all

I've sent feedback numerous times. i dunno if it's gonna make a difference or not.

[Unknown_97784568745]

d2d and directdraw DirectWrite enabled

:)

[Brandon H Supervisor]

still some big lag problems when scrolling with flash video content on screen. everything goes back smooth when it's outta sight.

the flash issue finally just got fixed a few nightlies ago

edit: just updated to the latest nightly and the issue seems to have reappeared again .....

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Slow/buggy plugin rendering will most likely be fixed with Bug 556487.

And Bug 588055 wouldn't hurt either.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

When is beta 5 due again? Thanks

[Sub_Zero_Alchemist]

Sept 7... According to this

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/

[MaSx]

How do I make Firefox bookmark like this....

Normally it will stay like this as shown below. It's kind of like border around them...

Toolbar-button (bookmark):

On Click:

I got this from Opera's Z1-AV69 theme, if you use the theme you'll know clearly what I mean.

They used 3 image for this to be done...so, I was wondering if this can be done with Firefox as well?

These transparent images were used:

Thanks =)

[mNiosu]

Are the "home button as tab" and "loading bar over address bar" UI features still going to land the final version of FF 4 ? I ask because I know that FFb6 will be "feature freeze" and except the new menu and the combined stop-go-reload button there is nothing there (maybe except the fact that disabling the FF menu doesn't move tabs on top any more, but that's not a good thing :angry: ). I loved the "fission" add-on and the creator of it abandoned it because he thinks a similar feature will land in the final release of FF4... So is it?

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Feature freeze, is for actual features (like calc() support, etc.), theme changes don't fall under that.

That being said, it seems there's no work being done on the progress bars (Bug 544818), so it might not make it.

[Skittelor]

Even I've been concerned about the continued elusiveness of the "home tab" and more so about the tab progress bars.

I don't know if domain name highlighting/substitution has made it into the nightlies, but I'd very much like to see that too.

A lot more is missing... progress line in the address bar, the new Downloads window, etc etc.

If these features were to be missing in the final release, it'd be an incomplete release for me. Call me superficial, but GUI matters a lot to me (and to the OP too I guess) :p