Peer into Firefox's future in latest beta (CNet) [LWN.net]

CNet looks at the first beta for Firefox 4. "Firefox 4 beta also sees significant improvements to Firefox under the hood. There's a new HTML5 parser, and support for more HTML5 form controls than in previously released Firefox betas or the nightly builds. The HTML5 WebM video format for HD is natively supported, and APIs have been improved for Websockets, HTML History, and JS-ctypes, a foreign function interface for extensions. CSS transitions are partially supported too."

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Peer into Firefox's future in latest beta (CNet)

Posted Jul 7, 2010 3:46 UTC (Wed) by will.huang (guest, #66095) [Link] (2 responses)

How about cold startup speed?

Peer into Firefox's future in latest beta (CNet)

Posted Jul 7, 2010 8:30 UTC (Wed) by sbakker (subscriber, #58443) [Link] (1 responses)

I'd love to be able to report on that, but the Mozilla team seem to ignore 64-bit beta-users.

Peer into Firefox's future in latest beta (CNet)

Posted Jul 7, 2010 9:03 UTC (Wed) by Lionel_Debroux (subscriber, #30014) [Link]

64-bit versions of 4.0b1 do exist on the mirrors, e.g. http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.... :)
But I agree that Mozilla should provide direct links from the beta page ( http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html ), just like they already do from the nightlies page ( http://nightly.mozilla.org/ ).