Firefox 4.0 Beta 2 Coming Soon

[JMH]

Mozilla has already moved past the first Beta Build of Firefox 4.0, and is cooking the next development milestone. And it appears that early adopters currently running Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 could very well upgrade to Beta 2 by the end of July 2010. Of course, nothing is set in stone at this point in time, let alone the release date for Firefox 4.0 Beta 2, but the open source browser maker did note that it is targeting a July 22nd release. In fact, Mozilla even said that “would like to ship on or about July 22nd” giving itself a little elbow room with the upcoming development milestone.

When Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 came out at the start of this month, Mike Beltzner, Mozilla’s Director of Firefox, made it clear that the company was looking to deliver additional testing releases once every two to three weeks. This does mean that the delivery of Firefox 4.0 Beta 2 is right on track according to the schedule mentioned by Beltzner.

Of course, Mozilla first has to deal with the blockers/severe bugs that are preventing Firefox 4.0 from graduating to Beta 2. At the same time, the evolution of the open source browser will continue, both under-the-hood and on the surface. At this point in time Mozilla plans to introduce Tabs-on-top to the Firefox 4.0 version designed to run on Mac OS X, just as it did for the Windows flavor of the Beta 1 release. Additional enhancements will involve add-ons manager UI post-install confirmation/notification, CSS transitions and Retained Layers.

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Firefox 4.0 Beta 2 Coming Soon - Possibly, as early as next week - Softpedia

 

[JonM33]

It doesn't matter. I am so fed up with Firefox that I have switched to Opera 10.60. I used Firefox since version 1.0 and dealt with the memory leak problems. I found the issues in Firefox 3.6.6 to be the last straw.

 

[swarfega]

Im using opera on this laptop atm, but for main pc I use either firefox or chrome. Id switch to opera if it had adblock.

 

[96accord]

I <3 Firefox. I switched to Chrome for a bit but it wasn't for me.. Tried Opera and hated it.

 

[Win7User512]

Anyone know why the new menu doesn't have the "check for updates" menu item, rather only the classic menu bar does?

 

[cloud8521]

It doesn't matter. I am so fed up with Firefox that I have switched to Opera 10.60. I used Firefox since version 1.0 and dealt with the memory leak problems. I found the issues in Firefox 3.6.6 to be the last straw.

...........good for you?

 

[AlexGP]

I`m itching to see the final build.... they better be careful and not rush it!

 

[96accord]

Anyone know why the new menu doesn't have the "check for updates" menu item, rather only the classic menu bar does?

I have "Check for updates" under HELP.

 

[Win7User512]

Anyone know why the new menu doesn't have the "check for updates" menu item, rather only the classic menu bar does?

I have "Check for updates" under HELP.

You are seeing that under the new style menu? The orange menu?

 

[96accord]

Oh I don't have an orange menu. Let me try a print-screen for ya.

 

[Win7User512]

Oh I don't have an orange menu. Let me try a print-screen for ya.

Yeah, that is the traditional one.

This is someone else's screen, but it shows the new menu:

There doesn't seem to be the item for updates. Really odd.

 

[Snowdog]

It doesn't matter. I am so fed up with Firefox that I have switched to Opera 10.60. I used Firefox since version 1.0 and dealt with the memory leak problems. I found the issues in Firefox 3.6.6 to be the last straw.

Good for you. Oddly I have about 17 extensions and don't have FF problems. I am looking forward to FF 4.0.

I Give most browsers a chance, and I used Opera for years until FF came out. I recently made an effort to try Opera again, but was quite annoyed it didn't keep bookmark organization on import so I had to manually setup my bookmark bar again, also annoyed that it middle click on items there didn't work like other browsers (FF, chrome, IE) and the loss of Extensions was painful. Opera is just a bit of an odd duck in its behavior. The other browsers have more in common so I will stick with them. Opera out.

Next I tried Chrome for about a month solid. It imported all my bookmarks exactly and put them properly in the bookmark bar. Good thing because it's bookmark management sucks. I spent a lot of time trying to get my extensions equal to FF. Almost every extension I found is a pale shadow of the FF equivalent. So while most of them exist now, they are not as good. But I actually grew to like the space saving interface of Chromes so looking forward to FF 4.0 getting a similar interface.
Why I ditched chrome:
Extensions are still weak compared to FF both in quantity and quality.
I prefer the way page search box stays open on FF when you click a link.
FF does color management.
Lack of fine grained config. No about:config like FF.


Bottom line I gave the others a serious shot, I am back with FF and its better config control, better bookmark management, vastly better extension library and looking forward to FF 4.

 

[JonM33]

Im using opera on this laptop atm, but for main pc I use either firefox or chrome. Id switch to opera if it had adblock.

It does: Fanboy's Adblock List for Opera

That blocks most things. If there is another then you can right click on it and select "Block Content".

Good for you. Oddly I have about 17 extensions and don't have FF problems. I am looking forward to FF 4.0.

That doesn't help me at all. After talking to others I believe that it's an issue with Firefox and websites that use heavy Javascript. I use MediaFire quite a bit to upload files and it was during this that Firefox kept having CPU spikes. The problem was when I was done uploading and closed the tab, the process was still pegged to the max. To me that is a flaw in the Firefox application.

 

[96accord]

Oh I don't have an orange menu. Let me try a print-screen for ya.

Yeah, that is the traditional one.

This is someone else's screen, but it shows the new menu:

There doesn't seem to be the item for updates. Really odd.

Oh you see where it says Menu Bar.. I clicked that and then it goes to the traditional one

 

[Win7User512]

Oh I don't have an orange menu. Let me try a print-screen for ya.

Yeah, that is the traditional one.

This is someone else's screen, but it shows the new menu:

There doesn't seem to be the item for updates. Really odd.

Oh you see where it says Menu Bar.. I clicked that and then it goes to the traditional one

Yeah, I can't imagine why the update item isn't on the new style bar...

 

[JonM33]

Yeah, I can't imagine why the update item isn't on the new style bar...

I can't imagine why they would copy Opera's menu bar like that.

 

[Win7User512]

Yeah, I can't imagine why the update item isn't on the new style bar...

I can't imagine why they would copy Opera's menu bar like that.

Um...who was talking about Opera?...

 

[JonM33]

That menu tab is exactly like Opera's. Just making a point.

 

[swarfega]

yeah ive noticed that browsers are beginning to look more and more alike. aka opera vs firefox 4 vs maxthon 3.