Saurabh32 Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Beta 2 Released http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b2/ as always the webpages are not yet updated edit : the above link is not currently working for me so here's new link(works for me) http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-4.0b2&os=win〈=en-US Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592961912 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lalalawawawa Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 And I'm back to Firefox. Got somehow bored of Chrome. Still misses a lot of features. Any release date for the final 4 version? This winter or something? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592961936 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saurabh32 Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 And I'm back to Firefox. Got somehow bored of Chrome. Still misses a lot of features. Any release date for the final 4 version? This winter or something? Tentative Release date for Final Firefox is "November" Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592961954 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted July 27, 2010 Administrators Share Posted July 27, 2010 Beta 2 Released http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b2/ as always the webpages are not yet updated edit : the above link is not currently working for me so here's new link(works for me) http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-4.0b2&os=win&lang=en-US Thanks :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592961968 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightShadow Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Beta 2 Released http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0b2/ as always the webpages are not yet updated edit : the above link is not currently working for me so here's new link(works for me) http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-4.0b2&os=win〈=en-US I was able to get Beta 2 downloaded from the 2nd link. Installing it now,. Installed, oddly it installs in another directory so you can keep Beta 1 too. But odd thing, stylish is still enabled but none of the styles want to work currently for me. (NVM, That was just the theme) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592961974 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Udedenkz Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Ok, here is what I don't get - why do people wait for Beta releases? You can just keep up with the daily builds... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592961986 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightShadow Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Ok, here is what I don't get - why do people wait for Beta releases? You can just keep up with the daily builds... The Beta's tend to be a little more stable. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592961998 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted July 27, 2010 Administrators Share Posted July 27, 2010 Whats the Firefox Nightly builds link again? (and I don't mean Minefield). Echofon stopped working again :/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592962000 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke D Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Ok, here is what I don't get - why do people wait for Beta releases? You can just keep up with the daily builds... A lot of people don't have the time to keep fixing/adjusting their firefox to keep up with all the breaks/changes that the nightly builds bring. Betas make it so that people that still want the "bleeding edge" can have it without having to maintain their browser on a daily basis. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592962014 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightShadow Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Just want to point out, this should be announced soon as the release page shows the 27th now. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592962034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted July 27, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted July 27, 2010 Whats the Firefox Nightly builds link again? (and I don't mean Minefield). Echofon stopped working again :/ Minefield builds are the Firefox nightly builds - only betas like 4.0b2 get the Firefox branding. Link to the nightlies: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592962050 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted July 27, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted July 27, 2010 Anyone have a changelog between beta 1 and 2? Graphically from pictures above doesn't seem to have changed much on that front. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592962056 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saurabh32 Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Anyone have a changelog between beta 1 and 2? Graphically from pictures above doesn't seem to have changed much on that front. http://www-trunk.stage.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/4.0b2/releasenotes/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592962084 Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrentthief Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 please rename this topic from Beta 1 to Beta 2, thanks :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592962092 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted July 27, 2010 Veteran Share Posted July 27, 2010 I doubt it's fully correct, but there's this. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL%20blocking2.0%3Abeta2+ Edit: Yeah, nowhere near correct. Use the one Mozilla provide in the release notes from above. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592962100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightShadow Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 I can confirm App Tabs are now in this Beta :) But look to me they need a UI tweak. And you can search in the Location Bar like the Chrome Omnibar now. And the Stop/Reload button is combined from the start. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592962112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted July 27, 2010 Administrators Share Posted July 27, 2010 please rename this topic from Beta 1 to Beta 2, thanks :) Done :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592962208 Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrentthief Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 SunSpider results (perfomed on laptop with win7 x64, core 2 duo 2ghz T5800, 3gb ddr2, nvidia 9200LE gpu): Firefox 4.0 Beta 2: RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals) -------------------------------------------- Total: 829.6ms +/- 3.4% -------------------------------------------- 3d: 132.2ms +/- 10.6% cube: 40.6ms +/- 17.8% morph: 40.8ms +/- 36.3% raytrace: 50.8ms +/- 19.5% access: 113.8ms +/- 14.2% binary-trees: 22.2ms +/- 2.5% fannkuch: 52.2ms +/- 2.6% nbody: 27.6ms +/- 56.6% nsieve: 11.8ms +/- 4.7% bitops: 34.6ms +/- 11.0% 3bit-bits-in-byte: 1.0ms +/- 0.0% bits-in-byte: 10.6ms +/- 15.7% bitwise-and: 2.6ms +/- 64.2% nsieve-bits: 20.4ms +/- 3.3% controlflow: 11.0ms +/- 33.0% recursive: 11.0ms +/- 33.0% crypto: 53.0ms +/- 16.7% aes: 29.0ms +/- 10.1% md5: 14.8ms +/- 58.3% sha1: 9.2ms +/- 58.4% date: 107.0ms +/- 4.1% format-tofte: 66.0ms +/- 3.3% format-xparb: 41.0ms +/- 12.5% math: 67.2ms +/- 8.5% cordic: 38.6ms +/- 9.3% partial-sums: 19.0ms +/- 0.0% spectral-norm: 9.6ms +/- 54.6% regexp: 75.0ms +/- 15.0% dna: 75.0ms +/- 15.0% string: 235.8ms +/- 3.3% base64: 9.0ms +/- 0.0% fasta: 28.0ms +/- 4.4% tagcloud: 81.4ms +/- 3.2% unpack-code: 85.4ms +/- 11.1% validate-input: 32.0ms +/- 7.8% Firefox 3.6.8: RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals) -------------------------------------------- Total: 1268.8ms +/- 4.0% -------------------------------------------- 3d: 219.6ms +/- 24.1% cube: 57.2ms +/- 13.2% morph: 65.8ms +/- 14.2% raytrace: 96.6ms +/- 45.4% access: 190.2ms +/- 5.0% binary-trees: 50.2ms +/- 15.5% fannkuch: 82.2ms +/- 7.4% nbody: 33.2ms +/- 20.4% nsieve: 24.6ms +/- 29.2% bitops: 60.4ms +/- 17.6% 3bit-bits-in-byte: 4.0ms +/- 38.1% bits-in-byte: 16.0ms +/- 22.7% bitwise-and: 4.8ms +/- 53.1% nsieve-bits: 35.6ms +/- 39.6% controlflow: 53.8ms +/- 24.5% recursive: 53.8ms +/- 24.5% crypto: 69.0ms +/- 19.7% aes: 36.6ms +/- 20.2% md5: 18.4ms +/- 17.0% sha1: 14.0ms +/- 55.8% date: 200.2ms +/- 10.9% format-tofte: 99.4ms +/- 9.0% format-xparb: 100.8ms +/- 15.3% math: 80.0ms +/- 17.0% cordic: 37.4ms +/- 13.2% partial-sums: 28.4ms +/- 50.8% spectral-norm: 14.2ms +/- 42.6% regexp: 68.6ms +/- 12.9% dna: 68.6ms +/- 12.9% string: 327.0ms +/- 6.5% base64: 18.4ms +/- 36.9% fasta: 74.0ms +/- 8.1% tagcloud: 90.8ms +/- 6.5% unpack-code: 104.2ms +/- 13.4% validate-input: 39.6ms +/- 18.8% With 1 tab open firefox 4b2 uses 82mb ish ram, firefox 3.6.8 uses 60mb ish. With 40 ish tabs open firefox 4b2 uses approx 1gb ram, firefox 3.6.8 uses approx 520mb ram. Unfortunately firefox 4 beta 2 is just as much a memory hog as beta 1 :( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592962400 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ci7 Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 What?s New in this Firefox 4 Beta Firefox 4 Beta 2 is available in 24 languages. Tabs are now on top by default on Windows and OSX - Linux will be changing when the theme has been modified to support the change. You can turn any tab into an "App Tab" by right-clicking on it and selecting "Make into App Tab" from the context menu. Web developers can animate content using CSS Transitions. Responsiveness and scrolling improvements from the new retained layers layout system. JavaScript speed improvements due to engine optimizations. Changes to how XPCOM components are registered in order to help startup time and process separation. See the complete changelist from the previous beta. As well as these features from previous Firefox 4 Betas: You can search for and switch to already open tabs in the Smart Location Bar New Addons Manager and extension management API (UI will be changed before final release) Significant API improvements are available for JS-ctypes, a foreign function interface for extensions. The stop and reload buttons have been merged into a single button on Windows, Mac and Linux. The Bookmarks Toolbar has been replaced with a Bookmarks Button by default (you can switch it back if you'd like). Crash protection for Windows, Linux, and Mac when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins. CSS Transitions are partially supported. Full WebGL support is included but disabled by default at this time. Core Animation rendering model for plugins on Mac OS X. Plugins which also support this rendering model can now draw faster and more efficiently. Native support for the HD HTML5 WebM video format. An experimental Direct2D rendering backend is available on Windows, turned off by default. Web developers can use Websockets for a low complexity, low latency, bidirectional communications API. Web developers can update the URL field without reloading the page using HTML History APIs. More responsive page rendering using lazy frame construction. Link history lookup is done asynchronously to provide better responsiveness during pageload. CSS :visited selectors have been changed to block websites from being able to check a user's browsing history. New HTML5 parser. Support for more HTML5 form controls. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592962432 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Beta 2 definitely loads pages faster than 1 for me. Anyone know if d2d is worth enabling yet? or it it still buggy as hell? EDIT: stylish 1.0.10 stopped working for me (was working fine in beta 1) is there a version that works in beta 2??? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592962504 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Heartripper Subscriber¹ Posted July 27, 2010 Subscriber¹ Share Posted July 27, 2010 Beta 2 definitely loads pages faster than 1 for me. Anyone know if d2d is worth enabling yet? or it it still buggy as hell? EDIT: stylish 1.0.10 stopped working for me (was working fine in beta 1) is there a version that works in beta 2??? http://userstyles.org/apps/Stylish-1.0.11.xpi Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592962678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kool Box Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 D2D is a bit quicker than the previous beta but it still delays the initial launch of the browser by a good 10-15 seconds. I wish I knew what it was doing. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592962680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoapyHamHocks Member Posted July 27, 2010 Member Share Posted July 27, 2010 Beta 2 definitely loads pages faster than 1 for me. Anyone know if d2d is worth enabling yet? or it it still buggy as hell? EDIT: stylish 1.0.10 stopped working for me (was working fine in beta 1) is there a version that works in beta 2??? 1.0.11 http://userstyles.org/apps/Stylish-1.0.11.xpi Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592962692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yowanvista Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Any omnibar version that works with b2? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592962926 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 1.0.11 http://userstyles.org/apps/Stylish-1.0.11.xpi Thanks Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/896934-meet-firefox-401/page/50/#findComment-592962948 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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