Firefox 4.0 beta 7 released

[yowanvista]

Download here: Firefox 4.0 beta 7

Changelog:

• Uses JägerMonkey, a new, faster JavaScript engine
• WebGL is enabled by default on Windows and Mac OS X. WebGL support requires an OpenGL-capable graphics card. Support for other graphics cards on Windows (specifically Intel GPUs) and Linux will be coming in a future beta
• Certain rendering operations are now hardware-accelerated using Direct3D 9 on Windows XP, Direct3D 10 on Windows Vista and 7, and OpenGL on Mac OS X
• Improved web typography using OpenType with support for ligatures, kerning and font variants
• HTML5 Forms API makes web based forms easier to implement and validate

 

[yowanvista]

Its a lot faster than 3.6

 

[StokesleyLad]

Hi, I'm currently running FF4 beta 6 without any problems. Will downloading/installing FF4 beta 7 overwrite the earlier version or does it need to be uninstalled.
Will appreciate your advice - thanks.

 

[Hamnat]

Thanks. I am finding it much faster and more stable than b6 so far from the little I have tested.

Hi, I'm currently running FF4 beta 6 without any problems. Will downloading/installing FF4 beta 7 overwrite the earlier version or does it need to be uninstalled.
Will appreciate your advice - thanks.

It doesnt overwrite it. I had b6 and b7 on for a sec till I saw b7 was stable enough for me to dump b6 so I uninstalled that.

 

[blackzero]

330 MB RAM is being used by this FF version although I only have two addons enabled, Adblock Plus and Foxmarks. Something is wrong with this version.

I will revert back to 3.6.12 for now.

 

[Airbot]

It's a shame you have to disable Hardware Acceleration on it to get rid of the horrid blurry text in FF 4.

 

[si8mon]

Firefox 4 Beta 7

On Wednesday, Mozilla released Firefox 4 Beta 7, with significant JavaScript improvements, more support for accelerated graphics, and even 3D support.

Furthermore, Mozilla said, the plug-in API support is now considered stable so that developers can begin finalizing their plug-ins for the final version of Firefox 4, now due in 2011.

Firefox said the flagship addition to the new beta is probably the addition of the JägerMonkey JIT compiler, which can dramatically boost performance: by five times the beta 4's performance in the V8 Version 6 benchmark, and by three times beta 4 in both SunSpider and the Kraken benchmark.

Firefox 4 Beta 7 Boasts 3D, GPU, Java Enhancements

 

[Wii Master 64]

It's a shame you have to disable Hardware Acceleration on it to get rid of the horrid blurry text in FF 4.

You get used to it after a while... and from what I've read, it's a bug that has to do with Cleartype, or something like that. You might want to check me on that one.

 

[Airbot]

Microsofts Direct2D/DirectWrite, and Antisotropic Filtering.

Direct2D/DirectWrite Accelerated Rendering For Minefield • mozillaZine Forums
Firefox beta 4 -> 5...text is now painful to read • mozillaZine Forums
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588880

etc..

 

[mitchell64]

:huh: Ccleaner appears to not be able to see cookies in this build

 

[Airbot]

Looks like you're right. Just have to do it through Clear Recent History on FF menu I suppose until it's worked out.

 

[mitchell64]

Looks like you're right. Just have to do it through Clear Recent History on FF menu I suppose until it's worked out.

lol i thought it was about time i cleared all my cookies and when i went to reset my home page settings in firefox they were already set to how i have them.
Then came here & i was already logged in, oh well all part of running beta

 

[StokesleyLad]

Thanks for the advice; installed FF4 ob7 and all running well. Will uninstall ob6 in a few hours time.
Regards.

 

[yowanvista]

It's a shame you have to disable Hardware Acceleration on it to get rid of the horrid blurry text in FF 4.

H/W acceleration works fine here

 

[Airbot]

Not really the point. What the Hardware acceleration does to the text making it blurry is a confirmed bug and is reported all over the place.

http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers-mail/123869-firefox-4-0-beta-7-released.html#post1069250

 

[shaunk37]

Not pushing it but it's gooooooood