Meet Firefox 4.0.1

[epk]

Trying the 3rd candidate build for beta 4, Directwrite looks pretty good on my display ^^.

[Mouettus]

Trying the 3rd candidate build for beta 4, Directwrite looks pretty good on my display ^^.

where do you get those builds and how do you install them?

[yowanvista]

where do you get those builds and how do you install them?

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/4.0b4-candidates/build3/win32/en-US/

[+Thom Vee Subscriber²]

I downloaded a beta4 version of Firefox on Sunday. Is this legit?

[SkyDX]

Where did "check for updates" went? I have the latest nightly and it's not in the "About Minefield" window :pinch:

[Brandon H Supervisor]

it will be added to the about window eventually, right now you still have to use the old menu :/

[SkyDX]

it will be added to the about window eventually, right now you still have to use the old menu :/

Oh I didn't realized the old menu is still there, no problem then :p

[ambiance]

The anticipation is killing me! Why must I be such a geek?

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

I downloaded a beta4 version of Firefox on Sunday. Is this legit?

It is a candidate for Beta 4. It is legit, just maybe not the one they choose. I am using the same one. :cool:

[MaSx]

Could somebody please help me with a stylish script?

It makes the statusbar transparent, but sometimes it doesn't extend to the findbar.

#browser-bottombox, statusbarpanel, #status-bar, #downbarHolder, .findbar-container
{ -moz-appearance: none !important;
  border: transparent !important;
  border-bottom: 0px !important;
  background: transparent !important;
  text-shadow: 0 0 1em white, 0 0 1ex white; }
.findbar-textbox.findbar-find-fast:not(:hover)
{ opacity:0.7!important; }[attachment=272404:Untitled-2.png]

I'd like to have it like in the upper picture all time :)

Same here but failed to do so. It would not work. I'm not good at css at all but this is the closet I got..myself.

/* Change the find bar color (100% transparent does not work) */

findbar {
background-color: rgba(223,233,245,.99) !important;
border-top: 1px solid #686868;
border-bottom: none;
min-width: 1px;
}

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

SoapyHamHocks can be proud - his work for the Firefox menu is praised by Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's director of Firefox himself:

Delicious, soapy ham hocks

Good job! (Y)

[Buio]

Yess!! So now not I'm the only one who dislikes the quality of directrite :p

I made a new pic which is even more noticable. (GDI is the non directwrite rendering)

It's known to have bugs like that. So don't go all overboard until it is done. The feature isn't even enabled per default in the upcoming official beta.

Known Issues:

- Some fonts do not render properly depending on a number of factors including Video Card and drivers.

[Steven P. Administrators]

Any idea when FF4 Beta 4 will be released?

[BantryRed]

Same here but failed to do so. It would not work. I'm not good at css at all but this is the closet I got..myself.

/* Change the find bar color (100% transparent does not work) */

findbar {
background-color: rgba(223,233,245,.99) !important;
border-top: 1px solid #686868;
border-bottom: none;
min-width: 1px;
}

This is my code, seems to work for me.

#browser-bottombox, #status-bar, #status-bar > *, #nav-bar, #PersonalToolbar, #ybToolbar, #find-bar {

 background: transparent !important;
  color: #ffffff !important;
  text-shadow: #000000 1px 1px 2px, #000000 -1px 1px 2px, #000000 1px -1px 2px, #000000 -1px -1px 2px !important;
    -moz-appearance: none !important;
border: #000000 !important;
 font-weight: bold !important;

[Malisk]

Any idea when FF4 Beta 4 will be released?

It was supposed to be out yesterday, but they seem to be having some issues with the Beta 4 candidate builds.

Firefox 4 Beta 4 blockers *shrug*

My guess would be late this week, or early next week.

Edit: LOL, just within 5 minutes, one of those bugs there were resolved as fixed. :D (only 2 listed bugs right now)

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Yess!! So now not I'm the only one who dislikes the quality of directrite :p

I made a new pic which is even more noticable. (GDI is the non directwrite rendering)

The difference in that picture is due to the fact that the DirectWrite rendering is using grey scale anti-aliasing, due to a D2D issue/bug, GDI doesn't have the issue since it's pretty "dumb".

When DirectWrite is told to draw sub-pixel AA text on a transparent surface, it actually makes a copy of the surface (the sub-pixel component colours depend on what's behind them), draws the text over it, then copies it back over only where the pixels were touched. Which leads to a small problem in that the background contents are actually drawn twice (so they're coloured differently). There are ways to avoid it, but they're slower (and would need to be implemented by MS)

[DexMorgan]

If you can't wait, here's final b4:

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b4/

[epk]

it's also up on the ftp ^^

Edit: seems to be the same as build 3

[yowanvista]

Beta 4 direct link: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-4.0b4&os=win〈=en-US

[torrentthief]

please can the topic title mods.

Sun Spider results are slower than beta 3 for me, 810ms vs 826mb :(

RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)
--------------------------------------------
Total:                  [b]826.8ms[/b] +/- 2.0%
--------------------------------------------

  3d:                   138.4ms +/- 8.2%
    cube:                43.2ms +/- 9.4%
    morph:               38.4ms +/- 11.4%
    raytrace:            56.8ms +/- 12.9%

  access:               139.8ms +/- 10.7%
    binary-trees:        38.2ms +/- 12.0%
    fannkuch:            62.6ms +/- 8.7%
    nbody:               16.6ms +/- 34.2%
    nsieve:              22.4ms +/- 11.5%

  bitops:                48.8ms +/- 30.9%
    3bit-bits-in-byte:    1.8ms +/- 30.9%
    bits-in-byte:        19.8ms +/- 30.9%
    bitwise-and:          5.0ms +/- 17.6%
    nsieve-bits:         22.2ms +/- 38.1%

  controlflow:           16.8ms +/- 42.3%
    recursive:           16.8ms +/- 42.3%

  crypto:                50.6ms +/- 13.1%
    aes:                 24.6ms +/- 16.2%
    md5:                 14.8ms +/- 31.1%
    sha1:                11.2ms +/- 29.8%

  date:                 108.4ms +/- 3.1%
    format-tofte:        64.4ms +/- 5.9%
    format-xparb:        44.0ms +/- 8.5%

  math:                  87.0ms +/- 14.8%
    cordic:              45.6ms +/- 14.8%
    partial-sums:        27.0ms +/- 29.5%
    spectral-norm:       14.4ms +/- 30.9%

  regexp:                48.8ms +/- 10.9%
    dna:                 48.8ms +/- 10.9%

  string:               188.2ms +/- 7.7%
    base64:              11.6ms +/- 36.0%
    fasta:               35.8ms +/- 17.6%
    tagcloud:            58.6ms +/- 17.3%
    unpack-code:         52.8ms +/- 3.9%
    validate-input:      29.4ms +/- 16.0%

[Brandon H Supervisor]

well the flash issue's is partially fixed in todays nightly, it doesn't wig out at random anymore but it still has issues when scrolling

[Corris Veteran]

well the flash issue's is partially fixed in todays nightly, it doesn't wig out at random anymore but it still has issues when scrolling

Same here, doesn't seem to be so flakey with flash which was my biggest problem with Beta 3.

Nice to have gifs load proper too now, no doubt it was fixed in the nightlies pretty quickly, but nice to have them load normally now, lol.

[Pheee]

I have a problem with Beta 3 with flash on MAC OS, I cannot install flash player, is there a special method?

[LightShadow]

Someone on another forum just was able to get Beta 4 from the Official beta website link. So beta 4 should be out shortly.

[bogas04]

Our thread got mentioned in https://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-4-beta-4-release-slips-again (see last line)

I feel so great now :D