Firefox 4 Beta 1 Now Available for Download
Mozilla has announced that Firefox 4 Beta 1 is now ready for download and at the same time revealed some details about the newest iteration of the popular browser.
Windows users will notice a big change in interface design, which, among other things, has tabs located along the top by default. There's also a new Add-Ons Manager, which affords more space to managing add-ons, themes and plugins. Firefox 4 Beta 1 brings support for HTML5 and WebM, improvements to privacy, crash protection, and a boost in performance when it comes to start-up and page-load times.
Features expected in the future include the ability to sync your settings, passwords, bookmarks, history, open tabs and other customizations across multiple devices; better privacy controls; yet more improvements to performance; and the same themes for OS X and Linux.
Mozilla's Mike Beltzner warns that not everything in this release will make the final cut but, as always, the best way to ensure your favorite features are included is to get in on the Beta and provide feedback to that effect. FF4B1 even includes a Feedback add-on to make it easier to send in your likes and dislikes.
Download Firefox 4 Beta 1 for Linux, Windows or OSX here and let us know what you think are the biggest and most important improvements.
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hmm it reminds me of google chrome with the aero tabs.....It may be better than Chrome, i'ma give it a try =D
hmm it reminds me of google chrome with the aero tabs.....It may be better than Chrome, i'ma give it a try =D
Put things into other tighter things to make them bigger.
Oh hey it looks like Google Chrome c.2008 and Opera c.2009!
Well, at least people have stopped claiming that FF is revolutionary.
I'll have to take a gander after work!
I hope there's a way to make it look like the current version - if it can't be changed away from how IE8 / Chrome / everythingelse looks these days it'll be a shame. What's wrong with a file menu anyway?
Tabs on top can be justified for logical reasons, as shown in the video Mozilla released explaining the change (and is optional anyway). The "Firefox button" on the other hand is mindless stupidity, and I assume done simply because, in the eyes of some, menu bars are dated and out of fashion.
Sadly GUIs have degenerated from Windows 95 where the OS and all your programs had a consistent, uniform style to what we have now, which is just a complete mess, and every program working in completely different ways.
Where is our Firefox girl?!