Firefox 4.0 Beta 9 Drops Next Week

[JMH]

Mozilla is gearing up to release the ninth Beta of the next iteration of its open source browser.

According to the open source browser maker, the current plan is to have Firefox 4.0 offered to testers next week.

Following a range of delays which impacted the Firefox 4.0 project, the Beta 9 development milestone was pushed into early 2011.

The upcoming test release of the open source browser is intended as a date-driven Beta, and Mozilla hopes to have it right this time around.

The browser maker wants to code freeze today, January 7th, 2010, and then produce the first Builds as early as Monday January 10th.

Firefox 4.0 Beta 9 Drops Next Week - Softpedia

 

[Johnathan Lyman]

9 Betas later... is it still slow like poop?

 

[mikedl]

9 Betas later... is it still slow like poop?

Hardly. Try it. In real world experience, it flies!

4.09bpre x64 for me - look at my sig with the user-agent string. However, apparently, soon to be 4.09b10pre ...

Thanks, JMH!

 

[ie9]

This has got to be a record for the most beta's by a top level company

 

[Johnathan Lyman]

9 Betas later... is it still slow like poop?

Hardly. Try it. In real world experience, it flies!

4.09bpre x64 for me - look at my sig with the user-agent string. However, apparently, soon to be 4.09b10pre ...

Thanks, JMH!

Yeah it does seem to be faster than before. I don't know if I'm willing to switch from Chrome, however.

 

[G1LLY]

Currently using the Minefield builds, just updated to the latest build today & I'm really glad the option for tabs on top have finally made it now

Could be going back to Firefox full time from using Chrome if they keep up the good work, one of the main reasons I switched to Chrome was the look of FF4 but lately it's really started to grow on me, possibly the only thing holding me back now is the Sync option, I just don't find it as good and easy to use as the one in Google Chrome.

 

[Fayla]

The 64 bit minefield b9pre is very stable on my computer, an improvement over the prior minefield pre version I tried Mozilla are really working the kinks out quickly. Hopefully this and the other coming versions keep on improving/adding.

 

[mikedl]

Currently using the Minefield builds, just updated to the latest build today & I'm really glad the option for tabs on top have finally made it now

Could be going back to Firefox full time from using Chrome if they keep up the good work, one of the main reasons I switched to Chrome was the look of FF4 but lately it's really started to grow on me, possibly the only thing holding me back now is the Sync option, I just don't find it as good and easy to use as the one in Google Chrome.

Speaking of "Tabs on top" :



I've got a great .css customization and I love it!

 

[G1LLY]

Anyone come across this site before? Bugs In Firefox 4

NOTE: Use FF4 to see it best, Chrome 8 & IE9 didn't fully load everything, well on my system they didn't seem to anyway?

I thought it was kinda cool to read & look at

 

[Gornot]

9 Betas later... is it still slow like poop?

Hardly. Try it. In real world experience, it flies!

Really? I do hope so.
Last time I installed FF4b8, the browser immediately crashed upon startup, lol.
I reopened it and tried to resize the window and move it around to an appropriate position on my desktop, but... Both of my CPU cores jumped to 100% as soon as I started this, and finally FF froze, then crashed...

Start Menu-> Revo Uninstaller -> FF; thank you very much.

 

[Robearl2x]

9 Betas later... is it still slow like poop?

Hardly. Try it. In real world experience, it flies!

4.09bpre x64 for me - look at my sig with the user-agent string. However, apparently, soon to be 4.09b10pre ...

Thanks, JMH!

Yeah it does seem to be faster than before. I don't know if I'm willing to switch from Chrome, however.

Really hooked on Chrome as well...will give it a try.

 

[Johnathan Lyman]

The only complaint I have now is that when I open most sites for the first time after firing up the browser, it'll freeze completely for roughly ten seconds. Most of the time it recovers and acts like nothing is wrong but sometimes it won't. It'll do it on seemingly normal sites like Facebook, Google, and Hulu, specifically. After that site freezes once, it won't freeze again for a day or so, roughly.

Odd.

 

[mitchell64]

I have been using it since b7 and like it, although i disable Hardware Acceleration (i found no increase in performance with it enabled but just a whole lot of CPU activity and extra load on my GPU)

 

[virusjun2]

guys a quick question: where do you download beta release for ff

 

[virusjun2]

need to reformat again to win7 32bit! cnt find ff64bit there

 

[ie9]

need to reformat again to win7 32bit! cnt find ff64bit there

Wait! Look here: Firefox Nightly Builds

It's not the beta, it's the nightly so it's updated every day

 

[mikedl]

need to reformat again to win7 32bit! cnt find ff64bit there

Wait! Look here: Firefox Nightly Builds

It's not the beta, it's the nightly so it's updated every day

Not even the Beta, it's a pre-beta:



Still, it's what I use daily. I prefer the x64 version. Look at my sig ...

 

[virusjun2]

thanks guys gonna try it now!
btw guys, which you preffer 32 or 64 bit for cq40-517tu with 3g RAM

 

[yowanvista]

thanks guys gonna try it now!
btw guys, which you preffer 32 or 64 bit for cq40-517tu with 3g RAM

Go with x64, it will save you from a reinstall if you want to add more than 4GB in the future

 

[mikedl]

thanks guys gonna try it now!
btw guys, which you preffer 32 or 64 bit for cq40-517tu with 3g RAM

Still, it's what I use daily. I prefer the x64 version. Look at my sig ...

Hi, virusjun2! Read the quote above that I presented right before your question.

Also, thanks, yowanvista, I agree with your advice.

Go with x64, it will save you from a reinstall if you want to add more than 4GB in the future