Thursday, March 17th 2011
Mozilla Firefox 4 Launch Date is March 22
After the much hyped Internet Explorer 9 launch, it's time for the open-source Firefox to get its facelift. Mozilla has decided to launch the stable version of Mozilla Firefox 4 on the 22nd of March. Firefox 4 is a single-process web-browser that runs plugins in separate container processes. It will be up to date with the latest in web standards, including HTML5, will feature a much faster Javascript engine, and will use GPU hardware acceleration to speed up rendering. March 22 is turning out to be quite a day for the tech sphere, with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 590 graphics accelerator, and EA/Crytek's self-proclaimed blockbuster game release, Crysis 2, also releasing on the same day.
33 Comments on Mozilla Firefox 4 Launch Date is March 22
I find it sluggish with 200 bookmarks loaded in and for heavy tab users it's just needlessly time consuming to scroll through the tabs.
I've switched to Google Chrome since Firefox 3.6 took several seconds to load up a page and even though I can find a lot of flaws in Chrome so far, I still prefer it compared to the alternatives.
Only flaw is that with hardware acceleration enabled, text goes blurry - seems to be an ATI driver issue, nvidia doesnt have it (and intel dont have it due to lack of hardware acceleration suport)
I had blurry text too but it sorted it's self out after I updated CAT to the latest version.
By the by is FFs java engine multi threaded like IE 9?
Heck, I might as well play the lotto!
When I tested the IE9 on my system, it was the fastest to open and display a saved web page, and when I say fast, I mean instantaneous!:eek:
Chrome was 2nd fastest, although I don't like it that much, Opera 3rd, and Firefox by far the slowest.
I hope FF4 will end the days of Firefox being a RAM hog. FF has gone from originally being the fastest & smallest, to being the slowest and biggest (although I still use it most).:shadedshu:wtf:
I'm more or less just waiting for well refined Opera plugins to be developed at this point and then the rest becomes history.
Or buy a Mac.
What's so special about 22nd of March ?!!
1. Nvidia will release 590
2. Crysis 2
And now Firefox !! :confused::confused:
Why do they want to change EVERYTHING that works just fine in this country!If I wanted Chrome id download and use the damn program!!! :mad:
F you Firefox for copying another shitty browser! :banghead:
Means more room for tabs! YEAH!
As for copying, it's actually just an implementation of what was a plugin for fire fox that's been around for years. Mini menu or something, I can't remember been using the beta to long.