Chrome already supports H264, they won't remove it in favour of WebM. Firefox needs to suck it up and support H264 too. Cheap bastards.
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Mozilla Releases First Beta of Firefox 4
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Chrome already supports H264, they won't remove it in favour of WebM. Firefox needs to suck it up and support H264 too. Cheap bastards.
Here is my experience summed up in one picture (yes I took the screen shot)
Epic.
Looks fine on mine. Still operates slower. Haven't found a convincing reason to leave Safari 5 yet for any browser.
Guys, seriously. This is in BETA.
The UI will probably change, the speed will improve, and all the glitches will be fixed.
If you're just going to come on here and complain about everything that doesn't work, don't download the Beta, just wait for the final release.
The UI will probably change, the speed will improve, and all the glitches will be fixed.
If you're just going to come on here and complain about everything that doesn't work, don't download the Beta, just wait for the final release.
i haven't gotten to see all the features yet, but the first thing i noticed was how fast it was! im really impressed, good job firefox!
Here is my experience summed up in one picture (yes I took the screen shot)
disable all themes and plug ins
This is beta 1, the UI has a long way to go. Here is a mockup what is should look more like:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/4.0_Mac_Theme_Mockups
Tabs underneath make no sense. The adrress bar is relevant to the tab, not the application. Webapps using HTML5 are coming too, they may have zero need for a back/forward buttons and even an address bar, the current UI means they are always visible, and they will add clutter.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/4.0_Mac_Theme_Mockups
Tabs underneath make no sense. The adrress bar is relevant to the tab, not the application. Webapps using HTML5 are coming too, they may have zero need for a back/forward buttons and even an address bar, the current UI means they are always visible, and they will add clutter.
Tell me when it has normal native UI look, but now it's half-baked inconsistent UI.
I thought "Tabs on Top" saves some pixels, but do you see it here? It just puts tab above address bar.
Well .. that apparently is not the feedback agent .. very annoying second globe
T.
PS: I do like the new "switch to tab" feature. When you enter a url and happen to have that website open in another tab, it suggests jumping to that tab.
You can still view PDFs in the browser, you just have to download the add-on, just type pdf in the add-on search engine and you'll find it.
I can't stand the new UI, it is so darn ugly.... I didn't even try out any of the new features in the beta due to not being able to get past the interface. Installed and uninstalled in under 5 minutes.
Only way I'll upgrade is if a Firefox 3 skin is made available to lay over it.
Only way I'll upgrade is if a Firefox 3 skin is made available to lay over it.
This is beta 1, the UI has a long way to go. Here is a mockup what is should look more like:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/4.0_Mac_Theme_Mockups
Tabs underneath make no sense. The adrress bar is relevant to the tab, not the application. Webapps using HTML5 are coming too, they may have zero need for a back/forward buttons and even an address bar, the current UI means they are always visible, and they will add clutter.
That's nice. If that blue line shows page loading progress
, but i still hate that big button.This is beta 1, the UI has a long way to go. Here is a mockup what is should look more like:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/4.0_Mac_Theme_Mockups
Tabs underneath make no sense. The adrress bar is relevant to the tab, not the application. Webapps using HTML5 are coming too, they may have zero need for a back/forward buttons and even an address bar, the current UI means they are always visible, and they will add clutter.
Looks like someone read the release notes. If any of you would care to stop whining and read the release notes Mozilla explains that they are updated OS X and Linux soon to include the taps on top and other GUI updates. Also, Chrome can't even play Netflix movies thats what I dont use it. And Safari has awful addon support.
One can track the Mac UI revamp here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544821
The second beta should be more interesting. There are several large parts that should give some significant performance increases landing on the trunk (nightly) build in the coming weeks.
The second beta should be more interesting. There are several large parts that should give some significant performance increases landing on the trunk (nightly) build in the coming weeks.
Here is my experience summed up in one picture (yes I took the screen shot)
It's the Camifox theme that does that. Not surprisingly it doesn't work well with Firefox 4 (yet). Like suggested before me, just disable it and restart Firefox and things will be alright.
That's nice. If that blue line shows page loading progress
In FF 3.6 you can change it so that it has the same size. I did this. I am guessing FF 4.0 will let you do the same thing....
I'm using Firefox 4 beta1 to post this. So far, I'm happy with it!
The technological (read: behind the scenes) upgrades to Firefox make it significantly better, even in this early state.
The technological (read: behind the scenes) upgrades to Firefox make it significantly better, even in this early state.
Awesome
. Looks like i will be at least testing FF 4 to see if it's worth replacing Safari.