Firefox 4.0 Beta 9 released

[yowanvista]

Download: Firefox 4.0B9

Release Notes

Changelog:

• Overhaul of the bookmarks and history code, enabling faster bookmarking and startup performance
• Per-compartment garbage collection is now enabled, reducing work done during complex animations
• See the complete changelist from the previous beta

Note: Not yet posted on main beta site

 

[stve]

A big improvement over beta 8 .
The menu button needs some work its lacking some options that the menu bar has.
Will probably displace Chrome as my backup browser.

 

[Manigue]

Thanks Yowanvista for the info.

 

[Victek]

Beta 9 is working just fine for me and does not introduce any new compatibility issues with my plugins. Mozilla is apparently getting close to the final release, although I believe an RC is coming first.

 

[yowanvista]

Beta 9 is working just fine for me and does not introduce any new compatibility issues with my plugins. Mozilla is apparently getting close to the final release, although I believe an RC is coming first.

Beta 10 is still to be released followed by 2+ RCs, but the final version should be out in less than 2 months

 

[sbrads]

I've only noticed one bug in day to day browsing with the last few betas, it's pretty solid. User reviews of products show/don't show up erratically on Shop Online with Argos.co.uk - your Online Catalogue for Home Shopping and the page autoscrolls to the bottom, works OK on Firefox 3.6 and all other browsers.

 

[Victek]

Beta 9 is working just fine for me and does not introduce any new compatibility issues with my plugins. Mozilla is apparently getting close to the final release, although I believe an RC is coming first.

Beta 10 is still to be released followed by 2+ RCs, but the final version should be out in less than 2 months

Thanks for the details. I'm looking forward to the final so the folks who make the plugins will restore compatibility. Fortunately the main ones I need have been working OK with the beta releases. I had to disable the compatibility check though.

 

[yowanvista]

I've only noticed one bug in day to day browsing with the last few betas, it's pretty solid. User reviews of products show/don't show up erratically on Shop Online with Argos.co.uk - your Online Catalogue for Home Shopping and the page autoscrolls to the bottom, works OK on Firefox 3.6 and all other browsers.

No such problem here, it might be some of your addons

 

[sbrads]

I've only noticed one bug in day to day browsing with the last few betas, it's pretty solid. User reviews of products show/don't show up erratically on Shop Online with Argos.co.uk - your Online Catalogue for Home Shopping and the page autoscrolls to the bottom, works OK on Firefox 3.6 and all other browsers.

No such problem here, it might be some of your addons

It's the same in safe mode for me. Are you clicking on a row of gold stars with the number of reviews shown in brackets after it? It's the page this loads that is wrong, with no customer reviews showing. It worked for me yesterday all afternoon whenever I tried it, it doesn't work at all now.

 

[ccya965041]

The new beta run very smooth in my computer,
beta 8 is a bit disappointed for the opening speed.

 

[Victek]

I've only noticed one bug in day to day browsing with the last few betas, it's pretty solid. User reviews of products show/don't show up erratically on Shop Online with Argos.co.uk - your Online Catalogue for Home Shopping and the page autoscrolls to the bottom, works OK on Firefox 3.6 and all other browsers.

No such problem here, it might be some of your addons

One problem I've noticed with the FF 4 betas (including b9) is my screen capture programs can't grab a scrolling browser window. I've tried two or three different programs, all of which work with IE9, so I think it must be an issue with FF 4.

 

[mikedl]

One problem I've noticed with the FF 4 betas (including b9) is my screen capture programs can't grab a scrolling browser window. I've tried two or three different programs, all of which work with IE9, so I think it must be an issue with FF 4.

Which programs are you using, Victek? Faststone Capture works fine for me:

 

[Maxxwire]

+1 for FS Capture!

~Maxx~

 

[Victek]

One problem I've noticed with the FF 4 betas (including b9) is my screen capture programs can't grab a scrolling browser window. I've tried two or three different programs, all of which work with IE9, so I think it must be an issue with FF 4.

Which programs are you using, Victek? Faststone Capture works fine for me:

I'm using Ashampoo Snap 4, however I also have Faststone Image Capture 5.3. I just tried it and although it can scroll the window in FF 4b9 the resulting image is an incoherent mess. I'm not sure what the problem is. I use Zemana Antilogger which has an anti-screen logger feature, however it doesn't interfere with scrolling window captures in IE9, so I don't think it's the problem. Just to be sure I disabled that feature and it didn't make a difference. Not sure what else to look at, but I'm open to suggestions.

 

[mikedl]

With FastStone, I always use the "Ctrl" option to select the window I want to capture then press the down arrow followed by the Esc key when I'm finished. That's the only way it's ever worked properly for me.

 

[greeman]

Re: Firefox 4 beta 9 released

I am loving it. I got tired of the old firefox 3 so much that I was using Chrome most of the time. I think the new Firefox is a huge improvement. The only problem I had was getting Foxit Reader to open PDFs in a tab. I finally gave up, uninstalled Foxit Reader and installed PDF X-Change Viewer. Now all is fine again. I will also be glad when Opanda Iexif develops a new plugin to work with FF4.

 

[sbrads]

Foxit 2.0.0.1102 plugin works well for me in 4.0b10pre.
For EXIF tools, FxIF and PhotoMe both work OK.