updates Meet the browser: Firefox Next

[BetaAddict]

UX builds to get some updates ( new tab page and updated download manager ) and finally Nightlies and UX build will run well on Win8 as of today.. :D

Looking forward to the new conditional forward button whenever that makes it into the nightlies. Running pretty smooth again without any issues or annoyances since the awesomebar arrow key nagivation bug got fixed last week.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

bidi element and unicode-bidi support landed on Inbound:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662288

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613149

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Looking forward to the new conditional forward button whenever that makes it into the nightlies. Running pretty smooth again without any issues or annoyances since the awesomebar arrow key nagivation bug got fixed last week.

The conditional forward button is in the Windows and Linux nightly builds.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

The conditional forward button is in the Windows and Linux nightly builds.

what's holding it off for the Mac build?

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

what's holding it off for the Mac build?

It's being worked on, see the progress on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674744

[phendrome]

I was wondering if there's a PPA for UX on Linux? I know you can download it from their FTP, but I'd prefer to have it updating automatically.

[ViperAFK]

I was wondering if there's a PPA for UX on Linux? I know you can download it from their FTP, but I'd prefer to have it updating automatically.

That would be nice. I've seen PPA's for all the other channels but not ux.

[Oz.]

The new tab page look great (UX build), a lot much better than Opera, Chrome, IE.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

The new tab page look great (UX build), a lot much better than Opera, Chrome, IE.

cant see it on the OSX build yet :(

screenshots?

[+Heartripper Subscriber¹]

cant see it on the OSX build yet :(

screenshots?

it's not on the "nightly" UX, only in the "hourly" UX:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/ux-macosx64/1319022186/

[dnast]

Guess I'm gonna create a new profile and try it out when it lands tomorrow. I haven't used the UX builds in a while since changes were happening so slowly and not too long ago one dev or contributor mentioned that it's not a good idea to share profiles between Nightly and UX for reasons I cannot recall. I'll stop being lazy now because this looks promising.

cant see it on the OSX build yet :(

screenshots?

http://forums.mozill...73479#p11373479

It's still very much a work in progress, but it looks like they're going in the right direction. What they now have in the hourlies appears to be somewhat of a "live" preview of where they're going. It already looks way better than what was going on with the previous attempt of the new tab page.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Firefox got WebGL Antialiasing... landed on Inbound.

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=615976

and Memory bug fix:

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=685783

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669096

[+Zlip792 MVC]

New Tab Page design:

and New inactive look on the way:

Credit to poster in UX thread on forums.mozillazine.org...

[bogas04]

Credit to poster in UX thread on forums.mozillazine.org...

That's me :p

[+Zlip792 MVC]

That's me :p

Yes Man!! Credit to you.... Thanks for sharing...and your presence here..

[Chasethebase Veteran]

Looks great, quite liking where the UI of Firefox is going now.

[remixedcat]

i like that new tab thing.... nice.

[Kaoxt]

Looks great, quite liking where the UI of Firefox is going now.

I do too on OSX. To me the inactive tabs on Windows isn't so great. Don't like how it's using so much Aero.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

One Memory bug backout:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685783

Scrolling improvement on GMAIL:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681867

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Any chance of that new tab page hitting nightly soon? Or should I just change over to UX? (it has download manager as well right?)

[phendrome]

That would be nice. I've seen PPA's for all the other channels but not ux.

I installed UX today and afaik it automatically updates without a PPA. It's like in Windows (when you go to Help > About UX) it check for updates.

Any chance of that new tab page hitting nightly soon? Or should I just change over to UX? (it has download manager as well right?)

I don't know. It's clearly not done yet. I'm getting tired of these twitter tumbnails. And yes, the download manager has been here on the UX side for a while.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Scrolling improvements on the way:

Fixed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681867

In fixing: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=696248

[bogas04]

Any chance of that new tab page hitting nightly soon? Or should I just change over to UX? (it has download manager as well right?)

Its not even done yet , will take few weeks or maybe months...

[+Heartripper Subscriber¹]

New developer tools patches are landing in dev-tools:

see http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2342387

[.beta]

anyone know when they're gonna fix the new tab page in the ux build? the twitter thing is annoying..