Mozilla Releases 'Feature Complete' Firefox 4 Beta 7
Mozilla Releases 'Feature Complete' Firefox 4 Beta 7
Posted 11/11/2010 at 12:33pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Mozilla has delivered the seventh Firefox 4 beta, albeit almost a couple of months behind its original beta schedule. The open source outfit had originally scheduled the release of the “feature complete” Beta 7 for September 17, 2010, but ended up pushing back the release of both the beta and the release candidate, which is now expected to arrive in early 2011.
Now that the Add-ons APIs for Firefox 4 are stable, add-on developers can begin updating their add-ons to support Firefox 4. This is how the browser developer summed up the enhancements in a blog post: “This release boosts performance in some important ways: it adds the JägerMonkey just-in-time (JIT) JavaScript compiler; adds more support for hardware-accelerated graphics, as well as hardware acceleration for Windows XP and Mac OS X; and enables 3D capabilities, without the need for plug-ins, with WebGL.”
According to Mozilla, the new features translate into a snappier and much more exciting browsing experience.
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ShadowDragoonFTW
November 15, 2010 at 12:22pm
After Beta4 crashed every time I tried to open more than five tabs (and kept dying every time I reloaded my browser and tried to recover my tabs), I swore I wouldn't use 4 at all, ever, until it came out of Beta. Well... fine, I'm giving 4b7 a try. But if I don't like it, Mozilla! Ooh, how you'll pay!!
JohnP
November 12, 2010 at 8:41am
Extremely fast, faster than Chrome. Bookmarks, bookmark toolbar, and Histories all got moved over.
Got to keep all of my favorite Add-ons except Firegestures. Found a mouse shortcut instead for closing a tab. Roboform uses the RIGHT button mouse click for most of its stuff. Adblock Plus (sorry MPC), WOT, and Search Preview are there also.
So its a keeper. Still would like to be able to use mouse gestures...
JE_Delta
November 11, 2010 at 2:38pm
I Like it so far.
It is very snappy and clean.
AND I LOVE MY FIREFOX ADDONS!
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