Firefox 4.0 Official Beta 1 Released

[Airbot]

July 6th, 2010


Official FF 4.0 Beta 1 - Firefox 4 Beta

Mozilla has quietly posted the first “candidate build” for the Beta 1 of its Firefox 4 browser early this morning.

Mozilla Posts Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 | ConceivablyTech

4.0b1-candidates/build1/win32/en-US

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

Mozilla has quietly posted the first “candidate build” for the Beta 1 of its Firefox 4 browser early this morning.

Mozilla Posts Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 | ConceivablyTech

You beat me to it! Though I was going to link it to Neowin.

Neowin.net - Firefox 4 Beta 1 candidate build released

 

[RST101]

Thanks for that, I will install and take for a spin to see what's what.

Can't see it wrestling chrome from my hd but we'll see.

 

[Wii Master 64]

Wait, so this isn't the actual beta, but what the beta could be? Like an RC?

 

[Airbot]

No, it's like a beta-test, or pre-beta. Not quite the real Beta, which would be right before an official Beta 1.

 

[RST101]

Things are actually looking very positive at the minute and this has the real potential to be very very fast. I'm quite surprised right now!

Will test some more and reserve judgement until v1.

 

[Fliplip]

Does anyone find that this release causes the taskbar to not pop up when you hover the mouse over it?

EDIT: Actually it seems to always be on top. Anyone know a way of preventing this?

EDIT 2: Ok, i feel stupid. I can see how to turn this off. Just ignore me.

 

[bigcitycat]

I think I will wait till beta 2. I don't feel like screwing with it.

 

[swarfega]

Mine has major issues:

 

[Fliplip]

wow, thats not good. Glad this isnt the final release.

I've given up on it. As i posted above it seems to want to always be on top. I tried turning the Tabs on top off but it still wants to be on top, although its random.

 

[swarfega]

As said previously, its not even considered beta 1.

 

[Fliplip]

Yep, well aware of that.

 

[blackroseMD1]

I've tried it. I kind of like the new look, and it's definitely faster than FF has been in past releases, but I'm not super impressed. Once the beta, RC and final come out, I could see that changing though. Probably won't be enough to switch me from Chrome, but it's nice to see Mozilla making some much needed speed improvements.

 

[adamsuail]

it looks gorgeous and sites looks brighter, icons looks much better on big screens..kool
but full screen mode is still screwed up and there are very weird pop ups that does not want to go way...i will use it for sometime anyway.

 

[Fliplip]

Ive just loaded this on to a XP PC and it seem to be working well. In fact, completely the opposite to my W7 PC.
I'll stick with it for XP for now.

 

[BCXtreme]

Mine has major issues:

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Yeah, yours is majorly messed up. Can't even begin to imagine how that happened.

wow, thats not good. Glad this isnt the final release.

I've given up on it. As i posted above it seems to want to always be on top. I tried turning the Tabs on top off but it still wants to be on top, although its random.

Turning tabs on top off worked fine for me ... hmmm..

 

[Wii Master 64]

I guess I'll wait for the official beta 1 before I download it.

 

[kpo6969]

I'm using the 4.0b2pre, so far pretty fast except for addon compatibility.

Index of /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk

 

[Fliplip]

Turning tabs on top off worked fine for me ... hmmm..

That works for me as well but its not what i wanted. All that seems to do is put the tabs above the navigation bar.

Actually i tried this version again on my W7 PC and its behaving itself now.....so far.

 

[DarkDavil]

Firefox 4 !!!!

Index of /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk

Scroll to the bottom - its a .zip !

By Mozilla's own admission, the Firefox 4 Beta isn't quite ready yet, but you can snag a copy all the same from Mozilla's directory of nightly builds. No release notes accompany the early beta build, and that's probably because there aren't a whole lot of changes from the latest Alpha release of Firefox 3.7.

Codenamed "Minefield," the Firefox Beta is reportedly a hair more stable than 3.7, but there are some caveats. Direct 2D hardware acceleration comes disabled by default, and Mozilla's developers are still tweaking JavaScript performance, which runs slower than most of the competition.

Mozilla Posts Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 | ConceivablyTech
THose are benchmarks.!