Firefox 4 Beta 7 came out this week. You can get it here http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html I strongly recommend encouraging friends and family to install it (first explaining the nature of beta).
Why?
Firefox 4 is a very important release. Firefox has lost a little bit of market share recently. Firefox 4 has features, speed and otherwise, that may help to correct that. The more people that you move (knowing the risks) to Firefox 4 Beta 7 the more stable the next release is going to be and also the better Mozilla will understand how things like tabs are used (thanks to user surveys).
Want even less stability? / Want to be on 64 bit?
I run it and have no problems with it.. (your mileage may vary, for instance it could explode) http://nightly.mozilla.org/ Nightly builds!
Help get hardware acceleration on Linux
Learn more - http://blog.mozilla.com/joe/2010/09/15/so-you-want-to-help-us-with-hardware-acceleration/
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Test out Firefox 4 Beta 7
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I do not have numbers to go with my impression. I use Google Chrome as my day to day web browser on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I tried FireFox 4 on a number of my usually visited web pages both fresh and with a cache built up. FireFox seemed noticeably and appreciably slower in my side by side comparison. This informal test was done on the same PC, same OS, same settings, same internet access and same time period.
Also when using Google for searches, FF4 would get caught in a picture/web page trap loops; causing me to exit FF4 and restart the browser. I am not sure how to explain this; Google pops up the picture you chose from image search in the for-ground with the web page in the back ground. FF4 gets trapped in a loop between the pop-up picture and the web page; I was unable to break this loop with out restarting FF4.
Does it work with the Ubuntu global menu bar? Years ago I switched from FF to Epiphany over that, and last week the same thing pushed me from Chromium to Midori. It's the reason I try KOffice and Abiword, Gnumeric, Ease, and so on every few months to see if they do enough of what I want that I can get rid of OO.o, the reason I use GIMP 2.8 pre-releases or Pinta over 2.6, the list goes on and on.
If it does, I'll give FF another shot.
@Robert Did you try Beta 7?
For the google bug try Firefox with no-addons or safe mode and see if it still happens.
@EthanAnderson No such luck with Global Menu. But Ubuntu is apparently using it in 10.10 Netbook (I personally find it incredibly annoying) so likely support will be in 11.04 for Ubuntu
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