{"id":1089,"date":"2010-07-17T20:42:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T10:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2010-07-17T20:42:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T10:42:43","slug":"firefox-4-beta-1-first-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/firefox-4-beta-1-first-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 4 Beta 1 – First Look"},"content":{"rendered":"

Firefox 4.0 has been a long time and for those who might not have been following its development could probably be forgiven for thinking that things have gone into a bit of a holding pattern recently. Thankfully, a beta release has emerged from Mozilla and I’ve taken a quick look at it.<\/p>\n

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Firefox 4 (New Toolbar)<\/p><\/div>\n

What you will notice is that the toolbar arrangement has undergone a significant change (at least in the Windows version at this point in time). The traditional worded menu across the top of the window is gone and\u00a0mimics\u00a0a layout similar to Google Chrome. The other thing you might notice is that the tabs are now above the address bar (another similarity to Google’s browser). Careful thought has been given to this change to the default setting from a user interface perspective, primarily because the address bar is unique to each tab (i.e. it contains the URL opened in each tab). However, if you like the old way of doing things, you can change it back in the Firefox menu.<\/p>\n

There have also been a raft of other tweaks under the hood including improved JavaScript performance as well as support for hardware accelerated webpage rendering which will be good news for those of us with respectable video cards.<\/p>\n

Of course, beta releases can also come with some bugs and Firefox 4.0 Beta 1 is no exception. As you can see, \u00a0I am using a “persona” (a fancy word for the background in the toolbar). An unfortunate side effect of using a persona in this beta release is that the minimise, maximise and close buttons you would expect to see in the top-right corner are not present. Also, your add-ons may or may not work with the beta release until they are updated to be compatible with this new major release.<\/p>\n

At this stage, I would not recommend that you use it as your default browser on a critical computer. There are kinks still to be worked out and you might find yourself caught short when you really need to do something important. If you are wanting to have a muck around with it to see how it performs, you can download it from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Firefox 4.0 has been a long time and for those who might not have been following its development could probably be forgiven for thinking that things have gone into a bit of a holding pattern recently. Thankfully, a beta release has emerged from Mozilla and I’ve taken a quick look at it. What you will … <\/p>\n

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