Firefox 4 is nearly ready for showtime, according to a recent post on Mozilla's mailing list.
"I'm seeing the same burst of excitement and activity that we've seen in the endgame of every release," the open source browser maker's platform engineering director Damon Sicore enthusiastically noted yesterday.
He said that Mozilla has around 160 hard blockers to knock down, before proceeding to Release Candidate stage of the next iteration of the outfit's browser.
"We have to reach Release Candidate status as quickly as possible, ideally finishing the hard blockers by the beginning of February and shipping final before the end of February," he said.
I know I'm going to sound naive - but is there a comprehensive list of improvements?
My biggest concern is it's leaching of memory (as with most FF users).
Not too fond of the Opera styling - I like variety between my browsers (FF, IE9, Opera, SRiron) - That's what makes me curious is the different stylings and operational offerings of each. I'm sure that's just the default skin.
FF is my dedicated browser on my Win7/mac machines, my ubuntu is Chrome. I don't know if it was just me, my distro, or my machine, but FF didn't click well with it.
I am looking forward to this release- but hoping it won't require a bunch of readjustments to get it back to my preferred operation.
and I hope Open Font doesn't welcome some wonky font decisions by developers, site owners. Verdana, Arial work just fine.
I'm skeptical they'll make this deadline after all others were missed last quarter. But I will be excited to try the final version. Been using it since 2004.
Y'all would be quite surprised at the number of add-ons and extensions that work with the betas. If you have a few you cannot live without, go to their web sites and look for development or beta builds - you will be pleasantly surprised in most cases.
The new look of FF 4 is going to take a bit of adjusting for some but I really like it and still mod it through my userChrome.css file.
Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Release Candidate (RC) on February 10, 2011 - Softpedia
RC Released:
x86: https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=46110ac1-d77f-4492-b887-c30977865d8c
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