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Get it now: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/
My initial non-scientific testing has been positive. 90% of my addons worked fine once I installed the Addon Compatibility Reporter addon which re-enables all addons and allows you to report back to Mozilla which ones work and which ones don't.
Overall, Firefox 4 beta 1 seems only a little different from my faithful 3.6. Sure, the tabs are now placed along the top but I can see myself getting used to that.
Things do seem more snappy and responsive. And there seems to be a significant, quantifiable, improvement in Javascript execution. I ran both Firefox 3.6 and 4.0b1 through a little benchmark I found online wherein Firefox 4.0b was rated as 266% time faster in executing Javascript.
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Posted 07 July 2010 - 02:29 AM
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Posted 07 July 2010 - 06:59 PM
Firefox 4.0 does not show tabs on the top side of window in Windows XP. The putting of tabs on top and Firefox button on top-left, looks like a copy of Opera style.
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Posted 07 July 2010 - 07:32 PM
I sure hope FF 4 addresses the host of 'memory leak' issues 3.6.X is plagued with.
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Posted 10 July 2010 - 04:50 PM
Hi, I am new to this forum.
i wonder if this version of Firefox will fix for me the old "Firefox can't find the server" issue.
I have had this problem with Firefox on 4 computers, one with XP, one with Vista and two with Windows 7.
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i wonder if this version of Firefox will fix for me the old "Firefox can't find the server" issue.
I have had this problem with Firefox on 4 computers, one with XP, one with Vista and two with Windows 7.
Martha
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Posted 10 July 2010 - 06:07 PM
mabagwell, on Jul 11 2010, 03:20 AM, said:
Hi, I am new to this forum.
i wonder if this version of Firefox will fix for me the old "Firefox can't find the server" issue.
I have had this problem with Firefox on 4 computers, one with XP, one with Vista and two with Windows 7.
Martha
i wonder if this version of Firefox will fix for me the old "Firefox can't find the server" issue.
I have had this problem with Firefox on 4 computers, one with XP, one with Vista and two with Windows 7.
Martha
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If Firefox cannot find the server then either the server is down or your DNS server is not responding like it should. What web site you get an error of "Cannot find the server" ?
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Posted 10 July 2010 - 06:24 PM
Andrew---Using the test you linked to, these were my results in Ubuntu/ Firefox 3.6.6 compared to Windows 7/ Firefox 3.6.6.
** TOTAL **: 1.15x as fast 1085.2ms +/- 0.4% 940.2ms +/- 2.6% significant (1085.2ms is Ubuntu/ Firefox)
How does that compare to your results? If you care to share.
** TOTAL **: 1.15x as fast 1085.2ms +/- 0.4% 940.2ms +/- 2.6% significant (1085.2ms is Ubuntu/ Firefox)
How does that compare to your results? If you care to share.
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Posted 13 July 2010 - 01:57 PM
So do you guys recommend to stay with Firefox 3.6.6 or upgrade to 4.0 Beta?
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Posted 13 July 2010 - 02:21 PM
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Posted 13 July 2010 - 03:23 PM
This is definitely not for your average Joe. Before testing out any beta of a Mozilla program, I highly recommend creating a backup of your profiles so that if anything goes wrong you can revert to the pre-beta state. Mozbackup is a great free program for backing up and restoring your Mozilla profiles.
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Posted 13 July 2010 - 04:49 PM
Please let this release fix the massive memory leak in the Ubuntu version......... or is that just ubuntu's junk
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Posted 13 July 2010 - 08:15 PM
^ It's the same with the Windows version.
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Posted 13 July 2010 - 09:55 PM
Same here and I love the beta on mac os x It looks the same but operates with a certain new flow! 
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