Firefox 4 brings a lot of new features and a refreshing minimalistic user-interface, in the new design the back/forward buttons don't feature the handy drop down history list arrow but worry not, the feature is still there and all you need to do is to right-click the button(s) to make the "back/forward history drop-down list" appear.
One of the major new feature introduced in recently released Firefox 4.0 is the browser's ability to make use of computer's hardware capabilities to offer better text-rendering using hardware graphic acceleration, to make most out of this new feature Firefox addon "Anti-Aliasing Tuner" is here allowing customization of various Direct2D/DirectWrite text rendering parameters for personalized optimal results.
Mozilla Firefox 4 has made it's way to the final release, and while most of the addons are compatible with the new update few still needs updation. There could be two reasons for an addon not to work with Firefox 4 - the first being it got functionally broken because of the new changes made in Firefox 4 (very rare), and secondly the developer has not yet updated/declared the addon to support the updated firefox version. Luckily, we have a fix for the second problem as shown below.
Final build for Mozilla's major update of their web-browser Firefox 4 will officially get revealed on 22 March, but as expected the build had already made it's way to Mozilla's official FTP servers and can be downloaded right now.
For users with the older version of the web-browser, Firefox 4 brings in lots of new features, the most notable being a completely revamped new streamlined user interface, enhanced performance, support for newest open Web technologies, hardware acceleration, jet-powered JaegerMonkey JavaScript engine, built-in Sync, restartless add-ons, and Panorama workspace management.
I am using Firefox 4 Beta 5 and it's noticeably faster than Firefox 3.6, Mozilla is working hard to further enhance the browser performance and a new nightly developer build is now available for download with faster "JägerMonkey JavaScript Engine". The new javascript rendering engine is the code-name for the new JIT being developed for Mozilla's JavaScript engine where Jaeger means "hunter" in German.
Firefox 4 Public Beta 5 is finally landed and can be downloaded from the direct links provided below, the latest beta build of upcoming major update to Firefox features a brand new “Firefox Menu Button” which will be replacing the Menu Bar saving screen estate coupled with other new features as listed below.
Firefox 4 is getting ready to take on the browser war to next level and public beta 2 of the application is now available for download, the new version now supports "App Tab" feature allowing users to have an permanent faviconed tab for websites, powered by the new Gecko 2.0 page-rendering engine the browser now supports even more CSS3 standards specifically "CSS Transitions".
Apart for addressing 652 issues, performance has also been tweaked to offer faster javascript, improved scrolling and better startup times - to test things out without affecting your existing Firefox install you can use the Firefox 4 Beta 2 Portable version download provided below.
Mozilla has posted very first mockups of Firefox 4.0 on Windows, the new mockups proposes two designs one including top-tabs similar to Google Chrome and the other one similar to existing design minus some buttons and new location bar, in both the designs the main aim seems pretty clear and that is to save some space, I hope the Google Chrome style made it to final release.
Mozilla has posted very first mockups of Firefox 4.0 on Windows, the new mockups proposes two designs one including top-tabs similar to Google Chrome and the other one similar to existing design minus some buttons and new location bar, in both the designs the main aim seems pretty clear and that is to save some space, I hope the Google Chrome style made it to final release.