Firefox 4.0 Beta 6 Released

[yowanvista]

Download from Mozilla:
Firefox web browser | Help us test the latest beta

Changelog:

• Fixed a stability issue affecting Windows users.
• Fixed an issue causing rendering errors with plugins

Release Notes: Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta Release Notes

 

[mhasanbulli]

Thanks for the heads up

 

[si8mon]

Download from Mozilla:
Firefox web browser | Help us test the latest beta

Changelog:

• Fixed a stability issue affecting Windows users.
• Fixed an issue causing rendering errors with plugins

Release Notes: Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta Release Notes

Thanks, seems it was more than a bug fix then anything else.
Interesting how Mozilla released the beta just hours before IE9 is released.

 

[s31]

firefox had already planned heaps of beta's before IE so not really interesting and according to the firefox website beta 6 was released on the 14th

 

[si8mon]

firefox had already planned heaps of beta's before IE so not really interesting and according to the firefox website beta 6 was released on the 14th

I know, bad choice of words on my part. It's more of a coincidence.

 

[swarfega]

Firefox 4 Beta 6 Renamed to Beta 7

 

[Lemur]

Firefox 4 Beta 6 Renamed to Beta 7

And to make this more confusing, the pre 7 is out. Yawn.

 

[gaz]

ff

hardly no add-ons work im afraid, out of 11 only 1 of mine worked!!!!!!!!!!!
sad really, i prefer Firefox

 

[Lemur]

hardly no add-ons work im afraid, out of 11 only 1 of mine worked!!!!!!!!!!!
sad really, i prefer Firefox

That's the price of trying betas. If you really wanted to continue with your add-ons, you can do it a couple of ways.

Type about:config in your browser address bar and agree to the warning message. Now right click inside the browser, choose New –> Boolean, type the preference name as extensions.checkCompatibility.4.0b and set it to False.

How to Make your old add-ons work with Firefox 4

 

[hackerman1]

add-ons: NoScript, AddBlockPlus, WOT is working.

although i miss other add-ons, those 3 makes beta 6 usable at least ...

beta 6 renamed ?

swarfega´s link:
"According to Mozilla’s Developer Center, company will issue a minor update to Beta 5 sometime this week, which will fix stability bug on Windows systems as well as OSX rendering and keyboard/mouse focus issues. As a result of this update, upcoming Beta 6 release will be renamed to Beta 7 and it set for the second half of September release."


"upcoming Beta 6 release" ?

i just downloaded the latest, which is beta 6...

 

[mikedl]

Firefox 4 Beta 6 Renamed to Beta 7

And to make this more confusing, the pre 7 is out. Yawn.

Indeed.

(64 bit FF shown above)

And with the new Flash x64 Preview out it makes running the 64 bit version worthwhile. The two add-ons I use are compatible with FF x64, fortunately.

 

[BCXtreme]

I think what's happened is that the need for a bugfix pushed Beta 6 to Beta 7, because they had to add a release in there. So what WAS Beta 6 is being renamed Beta 7, NOT the Beta 6 we actually got.

On a side note, Beta 5 ran perfectly for mine, Beta 6 crashed my entire system within 5 minutes of updating, so I am back on Beta 5.

 

[Klaw117]

Firefox 4 Beta 6 Renamed to Beta 7

And to make this more confusing, the pre 7 is out. Yawn.

Indeed.
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(64 bit FF shown above)

And with the new Flash x64 Preview out it makes running the 64 bit version worthwhile. The two add-ons I use are compatible with FF x64, fortunately.

Where did you get FF4 x64?

 

[BCXtreme]

And to make this more confusing, the pre 7 is out. Yawn.

Indeed.
View attachment 97953
(64 bit FF shown above)

And with the new Flash x64 Preview out it makes running the 64 bit version worthwhile. The two add-ons I use are compatible with FF x64, fortunately.

Where did you get FF4 x64?

You can get the Minefield builds in x64 for Windows. Although I haven't tried it personally...

 

[mikedl]

Where did you get FF4 x64?

Here...

It works fine. I played with it a bit a while ago and today dusted it off to be my everyday browser after the Flash x64 preview came out.

 

[Klaw117]

Where did you get FF4 x64?

Here...

It works fine. I played with it a bit a while ago and today dusted it off to be my everyday browser after the Flash x64 preview came out.

Thanks.

 

[mikedl]

You're quite welcome. I hope you have as much fun with it as I'm having. It's really great for a pre beta...heck...it's pretty good for an RTM!

My biggest issue is with sites that combine flash and Java like MSNBC. As long as the video is in full screen (dual monitor setup) the browser in the other screen works flawlessly. Once I put the video in windowed mode, the browser on the other screen locks up (not so much a lock up but choppy enough it might as well be) until I go full screen again.

I don't have this problem on YouTube or most other Flash video sites.