Meet the browser: Firefox Next

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firefox 6 got a score of 312 or something on html5test.com, i'm only getting 302 + 9 bonus points with firefox 7 beta 1 build 1 :(

It happens to me too, don't know why :/

Changes in today's nightly are nice. The new addon compatibility checker thing that shows at startup after an update is much nicer, and faster.

Strange enough, i don't see in in my default profile, but i do in a fresh one. Do you know if there's a pref to change the default behavior?

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http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2280581&sid=01e96caf67bb055c1665d6023c57070f

Maybe this will help you solve why CPU utilization is high. I'm not sure.

Now running Nightly 9 a1.

And as main browser, Firefox 7 beta 1 ( build 1 not official yet ). The fonts on 7 beta 1 became perfect again. Still are Hardware Accelerated but on GDI like system. Don't know details. The point is: Perfect Fonts + Hardware Accelerated ( On UI too, not only on websites )

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Changes in today's nightly are nice. The new addon compatibility checker thing that shows at startup after an update is much nicer, and faster.

Just saw it for myself and it is much nicer than the old one. I've been mostly using the UX builds so didn't see it at first.

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Did animated tabs make it into Build 1 of Firefox 7.0 Beta? I'm using it now, and I don't have that feature. I know it's not officially released yet, so maybe it's still being worked on. I even disabled TabMixPlus and TabGroupsManager, and it still doesn't work. There is a version of TabMixPlus that had the code changed, so it works for Aurora 8.0a1 and maybe the nightly, but the tab animation feature still doesn't work. The author is working on it, though. Here is the version for anyone that needs it. http://www.mediafire.com/?mfz7npb6qa8pbjb

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Did animated tabs make it into Build 1 of Firefox 7.0 Beta? I'm using it now, and I don't have that feature. I know it's not officially released yet, so maybe it's still being worked on. I even disabled TabMixPlus and TabGroupsManager, and it still doesn't work. There is a version of TabMixPlus that had the code changed, so it works for Aurora 8.0a1 and maybe the nightly, but the tab animation feature still doesn't work. The author is working on it, though. Here is the version for anyone that needs it. http://www.mediafire.com/?mfz7npb6qa8pbjb

IIRC, tab animation only arrived on Nightly 8, so I doubt you'll see it on 7beta.

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having some freezes with firefox 7 beta 1, this happened in firefox 5 but this problem was fixed in either 5.01 or 6 for me, now the problem has returned :( The memory leaks don't seemed to have stopped for me, it uses around 600mb as i have loads of tabs open and increased over time, currently at 900mb, will be 1.2gb in a few hours i reckon which happened with v6.

Scrolling through tabs is incredibly smooth in v7, also rendering the pages when changing tabs seems significantly quicker for me.

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Thanks , I did the manual update through the ftp. However until it is "official", less addons are updated so gotta do some updating manually.

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Actually, looks like Lastpass doesnt like Aurora 8 yet, had to downgrade back to 7.. gonna wait for official update and hopefully updated addon.

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From today's nightly scratchpad syntax highlighting is turned on by default, and is customizable. So, since i don't like light color schemes, i ported a dark one from ACE ():

Scratchpad.png

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http://userstyles.org/styles/52601/scratchpad-vibrant-ink-theme

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Aurora 8.0a2 is since yesterday on ftp. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-aurora/

Looks like They updating servers for Nightly, also x64 version, hope we can get localized versions as well ;)

Updated.

Too early to say how it feels on the performance side, but I like how the back/forward and refresh buttons have a cool white glow.

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7.0 beta 1 is on the ftp server.

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/7.0b1/

This should be the exact same build as build 1, right? It's not newer at all? I was hoping tab animations would make it in 7.0 beta 1, but I guess it didn't according to one user in this thread. Thanks!

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