Firefox 4.0 Beta 4 Download a Taste

Nem · 24 Aug 2010

I forgot where i seen it but i heard that they plan making it go up to like BETA 7. Is this true?..if so it should be a 2011 release then.

s31 · 24 Aug 2010

“Publicly, we think it’s best to start moving away from associating a number to a particular release. As of now, we have 7 scheduled Betas, and there is a possibility that we may need to have more,” Mesa noted."

Firefox Beta 4, 5, 6, 7 Coming, and All Betas Are Equal - Softpedia

Dark Nova Gamer · 24 Aug 2010

Firefox 4.0b4 runs extremely quick on Ubuntu 10.10 (daily) and OS X 10.6.4. However it is rather sluggish on Windows. Same goes for 4.0b5pre

swarfega · 25 Aug 2010

Yea Im finding the same, tbh Im not holding out much hope for 4, compared to the speed of other browsers.

BCXtreme · 26 Aug 2010

Running Firefox 4 beta 4 with hardware acceleration on Windows 7 x64, absolutely lightning fast. DarkNovaGamer and swarfega, do you have a lot of addons installed in your Windows install of Firefox?

P.S. And finally, we can turn off that new "feature" that makes Windows 7's taskbar treats every tab like a separate window!

Dark Nova Gamer · 26 Aug 2010

BCXtreme said:

Running Firefox 4 beta 4 with hardware acceleration on Windows 7 x64, absolutely lightning fast. DarkNovaGamer and swarfega, do you have a lot of addons installed in your Windows install of Firefox?

P.S. And finally, we can turn off that new "feature" that makes Windows 7's taskbar treats every tab like a separate window!

Not running any extensions that are not default. This installation of Windows has only ran Opera and Google Chrome since it was installed, this is the first install of Firefox that is has gotten. It loads horrendously slow compared to Google Chrome and Opera.

You could turn that feature off via about:config before. :)

BCXtreme · 26 Aug 2010

DarkNovaGamer said:

BCXtreme said:

Running Firefox 4 beta 4 with hardware acceleration on Windows 7 x64, absolutely lightning fast. DarkNovaGamer and swarfega, do you have a lot of addons installed in your Windows install of Firefox?

P.S. And finally, we can turn off that new "feature" that makes Windows 7's taskbar treats every tab like a separate window!

Not running any extensions that are not default. This installation of Windows has only ran Opera and Google Chrome since it was installed, this is the first install of Firefox that is has gotten. It loads horrendously slow compared to Google Chrome and Opera.

That's very strange. Mine only takes a couple of seconds, and that's even with multiple addons and over a dozen saved tabs.

DarkNovaGamer said:

You could turn that feature off via about:config before. :)

Didn't know that. Wish I had, that feature was driving me crazy. Having it as a visible option is still nice though, instead of it just being buried in about:config.

Wii Master 64 · 26 Aug 2010

Firefox 4 runs pretty fast for me as well. I actually turned the tab previews on in the tab bar back in 3.5 or so. I thought and still think it's a nice feature.

Snowdog · 26 Aug 2010

DarkNovaGamer said:

Not running any extensions that are not default. This installation of Windows has only ran Opera and Google Chrome since it was installed, this is the first install of Firefox that is has gotten. It loads horrendously slow compared to Google Chrome and Opera.

Define horrendously slow.
I timed it with my watch:
FF 4.b4 1-2 seconds.
FF 3.6.8 3-4 seconds.

I guess that is 1 or 2 seconds you will never get back.

Josh7 · 27 Aug 2010

I was wondering do add on's not work for the beta? I have 2 add on's from my regular firefox it says incompatible does that mean it wont ever work or it just wont work right now?

Thanks