Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 6

[DKT27]

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[anuraag]

waiting for benchmark

[Bizarre™]

@All:

Expect a lot of bugs. You all have been warned.

[henz]

i suddenly cancel my download, lol

waiting more feedback..:)

[Bizarre™]

Check out what has only been fixed in this Beta: Link

Now compare it to what has been / will be fixed in the next Beta: Link

[DKT27]

Well, I did benchmark, but I wont post them right now as I feel it was a bit horrible what I was seeing. This build scored a bit less in numbers than the previous one but there were hell lot of glitches. I'll tune my system further and will test again later. And yes, I don't recommend anyone to use this build.

[Night Owl]

Downloaded ... and deleted. :fear: I'll wait for Beta 7.

[Bizarre™]

As long as Mozilla doesn't fix the high CPU consumption, I'm gonna stay with 20100909 Build ^_^

[ck_kent]

:( And I was just about to download it. BTW, how many betas will there be before the final release?

[SacredCultivator]

Ehhh no idea... Since we aren't at RC's yet...

Right now, from what I've read... There will definitely be at least 8 betas...

Not too sure how many RC's after that.

[steven36]

They say 7 betas then a Freeze then into RC

I had to reinstall Firefox on this build beta 6 I lost all my addons almost from upgrading Firefox beta so many times :fear:

I reinstall the Add-on Compatibility Reporter now getting my addons back for this beta 6 B)

[R0H1T]

I've been using Minefield(4.0b7pre) for about a couple of years now & its pretty stable unlike what popular belief is with regards to alpha(pre-beta) software. The main problem is with incompatible addons/plugins or when the browser preferences(about:config) are tweaked around too much. If you still have the browser crashing then I suggest go for a thorough system repair(cleanup junk files/folders & registry entries). I've also got chrome (7.0.524.0 canary build) which is quite stable itself but with regards to jaegermonkey(tinderbox) builds of firefox(which I've been using for over a month now) chrome is still atleast twice as fast.

For those who wanna keep their addons &/or custom preferences should copy the firefox profile from the

C:\Users\CURRENT USER\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

folder & overwrite it in case you wanna reinstall the browser, better still you can use the zip folder(instead of the standard installer) to escape the hassle of (re)installation & extract it anywhere you want just like a portable app(you'll still have a new profile created though if the default firefox profile isn't there already).

[Bizarre™]

@R0H1T:

JM has just been merged to TM so bugs and instability should be expected.

Furthermore, Mozilla has added / modified a lot of features in Firefox.

A lot of Firefox 3.6.* users are in for a surprise once Firefox 4.0 comes out ^_^

[silencer]

As I know you should wait for beta 7 with bigger changes. Beta 6 has only small bug fixes after 5 like CPU freezing (which I had).

[jofre]

Have to try... I am not afraid ... Let`s go to the war !!! :tank: :ninja:

[bashar]

it's getting like hollywood movie

Just wait us in the next Beta ... and the next Beta fails

Bad for mozilla and it's Fans . i thought they were at it for real :huh:

[jofre]

No problem here.

A bit faster than Beta 5, I´ll keep this 6 .

Maybe because I still use WinXP (32bits)... :D

[DreamHaters]

Thanks for the info and not the update ;)

[JessicaLeigh]

What a disappointment; even with the full understanding it's a beta release. Please wake me up when the final is released. I'll continue to eek by with v3.6.9 until then. Peace mah homies. J-Pō: out! ;) lolz!

[jofre]

2 hours after installation :-

Good navigation; nothing found abnormal .

But remember :---» Mine is WinXP Pro Sp3 (32bits) :D

[DKT27]

Before you guys start fearing about it, as silencer mentioned, this beta is just a bug fixing release. All the changes planned for Beta 6 were shifted to Beta 7, the new javascript jagermonkey was (probably, not 100% sure) not included in this release.

[mara-]

Since beta 5 fonts looks terrible here. Anyone have same issue? When I disable Direct 2D fonts are normal again. BTW, here is my benchmark.

Cheers ;)

[jofre]

mara:

According to y / Benchmark Firefox beta 6 is slower than beta 5. However I feel the contrary. Beta 6 is a little bit faster than Beta 5... :)

and works fine .

No intentions to return to v. 3.6.9 or even .10

[Night Owl]

Since beta 5 fonts looks terrible here. Anyone have same issue? When I disable Direct 2D fonts are normal again.

Yes, I see the same thing with Beta 5 fonts. They're usually a bit "blurry" — not good readability at all. Thanks for the tip about disabling Direct 2D. :)

[mara-]

@jofre

I can't say how it feels because I don't use it as not all addons I use are compatible. And, DKT also did the benchmark and beta 6 is a bit slower for him, too.

@Night Owl

Yeah, that will return good font, but will decrease browser performance significantly.

Cheers ;)