Meet Firefox 4.0.1

[Kyang]

Button improvements landed in the latest nightly, looks a lot better. (Y) I keep having to disable SoapyHamHocks stylish scripts :p

Changes are shown here:

Looks like the bottom corners on the pressed state need to be fixed. I also noticed that the when the Firefox window is unfocused, and the mouse is hovered over the app button, the orange spills a little bit out of the border. I figure it's a mistake that will be fixed, but I sort of like it. Actually, it would be really cool if the button could light up just like the window controls on the right. But I'm not sure if that's even possible... :cry: .

[gahbmwM5]

My Help---> 'About Firefox' (which I always copy and paste into my sig @mozillaZine Forums) shows:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0b5) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b5

Probably just a typo mistake when compiling as this 4.0b5, seems to come from the 20100831 RC1 build...

[Lamp0]

DirectWrite can be really crippled on some websites:

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Yeah, Light on Dark text gets some really bad colour fringing, Microsoft is working on fixing that (since every app using DirectWrite has the same issue, including the new Steam UI and IE9)

[Unknown_97784568745]

that new style of menu button landed in the latest hourly build 1283919660/ to be specific.

No, it was first available yesterday in build 1283867116/.

[+Neyht Subscriber²]

Combined Stop / Go Button: Not Sure If Like

Go to customize and put an adjustable spacer between the address bar and the stop and reload buttons....or just move the buttons anywhere else.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Beta 5 seems to have a problem with animated .gif-files. They all seem to restart after the first few frames, never playing completely.

Example:

I got this too, but it's been fixed for me at least in the latest nightly.

[+John. Subscriber¹]

The flash plugin issue is very annoying.

[Udedenkz]

D2D + D3D works fine now.

Go to customize and put an adjustable spacer between the address bar and the stop and reload buttons....or just move the buttons anywhere else.

Actually, I am talking about the distance between the combined button and the back/forward buttons.

The combined button is on the other side of the URL input, on a normal sized screen (1080p+), this ends up a large distance.

You have to swing your mouse to get there.

Putting the button next to back/forward buttons makes it work out much better.

[+Neyht Subscriber²]

Also noticed improvements to the site address, wonder what else I missed!

Soapy's left side star addon was causing that to not show. I had to disable it.

[Steven P. Administrators]

Wow just enabled smooth scrolling and finally it doesn't suck!

[+Neyht Subscriber²]

D2D + D3D works fine now.

Actually, I am talking about the distance between the combined button and the back/forward buttons.

The combined button is on the other side of the URL input, on a normal sized screen (1080p+), this ends up a large distance.

You have to swing your mouse to get there.

Putting the button next to back/forward buttons makes it work out much better.

If you want the combined look on the right side of the bar there is a stylish script for that. I think it looks odd on the right (using the script).

[WindSailor]

Uninstalled and reinstalled, same failure after checking add-on compatibility: "The operation can not be completed because of an internal failure. A secure network communication has not been cleaned up correctly". :unsure:

Win7 64bit.

I use 3.6 as my default browser. Love it. But the first time opening 4 beta after using 3.6 or any other browser it fails when checking for add-on compatibility.

After that you can close beta 4 build 5 and it will open up and run (because it is not checking for add-on compatibility) and it will then display web pages correctly...

My favorite add-on's are not yet compatible...

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

I've been getting that "error" after every major update (i.e. b5pre to b6pre)

No idea what's causing it, but it doesn't result in any badness.

[Steven P. Administrators]

Well with the latest nightly I have:

GreaseMonkey

Flash Video Downloader

Ad Block Plus (Neowin & Various other sites Whitelisted)

FoxyProxy

Stylish

Echofon

Omnibar

All working with Add on compatibility reporter!

I'm happy.

[vajlent]

Please have a look at the tab width, they are way to big/oversized!

Doesn't look good at all...

[Steven P. Administrators]

Please have a look at the tab width, they are way to big/oversized!

Doesn't look good at all...

They are dynamic with Window size and amount of tabs in the window. I'm sure you can set a max width with a stylish script, but you'll just have to Google it :p

Edit:

Are you talking about Tab width? You can change that its just done using CSS now.

.tabbrowser-tab {
  max-width: 100px !important;
  min-width: 100px !important;
}

Ah here it is (found via Google) lol

Personally I find it helpful that much of the page title is displayed when there are fewer tabs.

[M_A_D]

I got this too, but it's been fixed for me at least in the latest nightly.

Somehow all i had to do was restart the browser and gifs play fine now.

[ViZioN]

It may have something to do with the browser cache. I set Firefox to never remember history and the problem seems to have gone away.

Yeah I cleared the browser cache and it's gone now. Thanks :)

[JinRoh]

So no one else experiencing problems with Text? I had to go back to beta 4...

[gahbmwM5]

Hi Gang,

Although, I am not presently 'testing the nightlies', I am signed up for the Mozilla Nightly News Letter, and just received this.. I know that a lot of our collective membership within this thread are also testing the nightlies, and may find this of interest:

Hi,

some exciting news re: Landings on Trunk.

Accelerated compositing using Direct3D 9 (on Windows) has been turned on by default on mozilla-central!

* If you notice problems with Direct3D 9 (like on your favorite website), please report them in Bugzilla (and would super awesome if you could also post the bugnumber on this list). You will want to accompany your bug report with the Graphics section of about:support, so we can more easily work out what's wrong.

* To narrow down whether a problem is caused by Direct3D 9, you can set the about:config pref layers.accelerate-none to true, and restart your browser.

Let me know when you have any question!

Cheers,

- Tomcat

[Yorak]

Anybody able to get Greasemonkey scripts working in the betas? They will not install through a site such as UserScripts or manually.

[MaSx]

Hey. I just realized this code to hide label for bookmark menu container button does not work after upgrading to Beta 5. Any idea why?

/* Remove text for bookmark menu button container */
#bookmarks-menu-button-container .toolbarbutton-text {
     display:none !important;
}

Also, how do I get rid of this space between the tab and menu bar? Thanks!

-I was wondering, if Firefox will get rid of this new menu bar? I think it's taking up way more space. I'd prefer a tiny button with Firefox logo in it. It can be placed on the top edge of the browser. =)

[Karl-Johan]

Hey. I just realized this code to hide label for bookmark menu container button does not work after upgrading to Beta 5. Any idea why?

/* Remove text for bookmark menu button container */
#bookmarks-menu-button-container .toolbarbutton-text {
     display:none !important;
}

Also, how do I get rid of this space between the tab and menu bar? Thanks!

-I was wondering, if Firefox will get rid of this new menu bar? I think it's taking up way more space. I'd prefer a tiny button with Firefox logo in it. It can be placed on the top edge of the browser. =)

Try this instead. Works for me.:

/*Hides bookmarks button, bug scheduled to be fixed in later releases*/

#bookmarks-menu-button {

display: none !important;

}

[MaSx]

Try this instead. Works for me.:

/*Hides bookmarks button, bug scheduled to be fixed in later releases*/

#bookmarks-menu-button {

display: none !important;

}

Thanks but I'm not trying to remove the button completely, just remove the text labeling from it, that's all. =)

Edit:

This one works with Beta 5! without adding # before toolbar button.

/* Remove text label for bookmark menu button container */
toolbarbutton.bookmark-item:not([container]) > .toolbarbutton-text {
display: none !important;
}

Edited September 9, 2010 by MaSx