Meet Firefox 4.0.1

[+Heartripper Subscriber¹]

No statusbar? Looks like it'll be suicide for me then.

:(

statusbar is still there. now it's simply a toolbar, where you put all the buttons you can put in the upper toolbars ;)

[Quillz]

Is there a way on Beta 7 to automate Firefox Sync? I have about 10 computers with Firefox 4 B7 using the syncing service, but I find that the lesser-used computers never get updated unless I manually go the Firefox button and "Sync Now." Every other similar service syncs on some kind of automated schedule.

[Chasethebase Reporter]

Thanks to SoapyHamHocks, I have Firefox looking how it should, and it looks great. Really impressed with the work you've done. (Y)

You should create a thread with all your tweaks and hacks so we can find them in one definitive place. Makes it easier than scouring the web for a link.

[vajlent]

Thanks to SoapyHamHocks, I have Firefox looking how it should, and it looks great. Really impressed with the work you've done. (Y)

You should create a thread with all your tweaks and hacks so we can find them in one definitive place. Makes it easier than scouring the web for a link.

Please show your setup?

[aznkid25]

You should create a thread with all your tweaks and hacks so we can find them in one definitive place. Makes it easier than scouring the web for a link.

The thread already exists. Here you go:

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/921416-share-your-custom-firefoxminefield-4-stylish-scripts

[bogas04]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=blocking2.0:beta8+

33 Bugs left :o We might get beta 8 this november only!

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

A lot of those bugs are already fixed, they just haven't landed on the trunk (but they have landed on a branch, so they're just waiting on a merge)

I think a few have actually been landed on the trunk, and the bugs just haven't been updated.

[DexMorgan]

Code freeze for b8 is this monday.

[torrentthief]

they sure are fixing the bugs pretty quick for beta 8, they may very well release beta 8 in november :) Anyone know what improvements other than speed and bug fixes there will be in beta 8? Will there be things turned on which were turned off due to quality problems in beta 7?

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

I don't think there will be too many new things, but one thing that should be in Beta 8 is tab-modal prompts.

So now a single site won't be able to lock you out of the whole browser. I think Opera does it as well, it's a cool feature to have.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

I don't think there will be too many new things, but one thing that should be in Beta 8 is tab-modal prompts.

So now a single site won't be able to lock you out of the whole browser. I think Opera does it as well, it's a cool feature to have.

Tab-modal prompts are landing in today's nightly according to the trunk builds thread on the mozillaZine forums.

[kilara1988]

Sorry,but i didn't understand the purpose of tab-modal prompts.Can someone explain it to me again?What is tab-modal prompt and what it does.?

[bogas04]

Sorry,but i didn't understand the purpose of tab-modal prompts.Can someone explain it to me again?What is tab-modal prompt and what it does.?

go to location bar , type

javascript:confirm("I am Prompting")

observe , then compare with above image :)

Purpose (what i see) : Less annoyance , less eyesore , smooth User Experience

[Udedenkz]

Those things made up some attack sites, now that won't work.

[dnast]

^ Yep. Great new feature. Looks nice, too.

[ViperAFK]

Yeah I have liked the way opera does its prompts, they are less intrusive and don't steal focus and such.

[flexkeyboard]

Yup, I don't know what's up with the UI team. They seem to take the simplest idea and implement the most complicated solution that cripple performance. Doing the blurring out take FF a second to apply the effect, then it refreshes the screen with the new render image. That is just ridiculous! I think they should just stick with CSS transform instead and do what Opera does by darkening the page. But there is suppose to be major UI fix for the next release, so I hope they'll optimize it then. Cross my fingers.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Yeah, I don't think the blurring is staying.

Enough people are complaining about the speed (justified, it's a 1 second or so pause on my system) that it'll probably be dropped.

[InPCHell]

So what themes are working that actually look good? The less transparent the better.

[kilara1988]

Is it me or the nightly build are getting slower and slower?Around the time b7 was released i could get 6800ms on kraken benchmark now i get 15k!!!

[ViperAFK]

Is it me or the nightly build are getting slower and slower?Around the time b7 was released i could get 6800ms on kraken benchmark now i get 15k!!!

I've noticed this with other browsers in kraken too. I remember getting around 10k in kraken with opera when kraken was first released, and now its like 16k.

EDIT: Yeah just tested the most recent minefield build in kraken, went from below 10k to 16k.

[kilara1988]

I am now using b7 and i get 7.8k on kraken as opposed to 15k with todays minefield.I guess i'm going to stay with b7 since there aren't as much bugs left as there were for b7 and next betas will be released faster.

[ViZioN]

Latest nightly on kraken for me:

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RESULTS (means and 95% confidence intervals)

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Total: 10381.5ms +/- 0.6%

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ai: 775.2ms +/- 1.8%

astar: 775.2ms +/- 1.8%

audio: 2984.2ms +/- 0.8%

beat-detection: 1039.1ms +/- 2.2%

dft: 534.8ms +/- 2.0%

fft: 823.8ms +/- 0.5%

oscillator: 586.5ms +/- 0.7%

imaging: 5463.9ms +/- 0.5%

gaussian-blur: 4520.4ms +/- 0.5%

darkroom: 283.2ms +/- 0.7%

desaturate: 660.3ms +/- 3.1%

json: 253.7ms +/- 1.7%

parse-financial: 178.0ms +/- 2.3%

stringify-tinderbox: 75.7ms +/- 0.6%

stanford: 904.5ms +/- 2.8%

crypto-aes: 214.0ms +/- 1.9%

crypto-ccm: 148.6ms +/- 1.3%

crypto-pbkdf2: 307.3ms +/- 1.2%

crypto-sha256-iterative: 234.6ms +/- 9.7%

[Kirkburn]

Benchmark results are meaningless unless compared to previous results or other browsers.

[Kreuger]

For anyone like me who dislikes that they changed the context menu order (Open in New Tab/Window) and would like to revert it back to FF3's order, edit your userChrome.css and add

#contentAreaContextMenu > * {
   -moz-box-ordinal-group: 2;
}
#context-openlink {
   -moz-box-ordinal-group: 1 !important;
}