• Mozilla Releases Firefox 4.0 Beta

    Mozilla Releases Firefox 4.0 Beta

    Techtree News Staff, Jul 07, 2010 1344 hrs IST

    Brings interface lift for Windows version and a bunch of new features

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Mozilla has released the first beta of its Firefox 4.0 web browser based on the Gecko 2.0 Web platform layout engine. Obviously, all the add-ons you've been using with the Firefox 3.7 version won't work on with the new Firefox 4.0 beta. This new 4.0 beta version of the web browser mainly revamps the looks and brings a sizeable number of features that include WebM video format and HTML5 support.

The first noticeable feature of this new Firefox 4.0 beta is that all tabs would be visible on the top. However, this is visible for Windows based OS users only. We believe that the visual delight would slowly appear for the Linux and Mac OS X versions of the web browser when the final build of Firefox 4.0 releases. The new significant features included in the Firefox 4.0 beta are:

  • Add-ons Manager: More space to efficiently manage your favorite add-ons, plugins and themes.
  • HD Video: The future WebM format is supported and promises HD-quality hardware accelerated HTML5 video on the web.
  • HTML5 Support: Better HTML parsing, support for HTML5 form controls and also runs the latest web apps based on HTML5 such as Google's Gmail and Yahoo's Mail interface for the mobile phones.
  • Full WebGL support for in-browser 3D rendering.

Apart from these features, the new Firefox 4.0 beta also promises performance improvement and the necessary security improvements to protect browser history.

Download the Firefox 4.0 beta for Windows, Linux or Mac OS X from here.

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(7) Comments
pjdkrunkt
,AVL, on Jul 23, 2010 11:52 PM
"The first noticeable feature of this new Firefox 4.0 beta is that all tabs would be visible on the top. However, this is visible for Windows based OS users only." Review fail much? Try right-clicking the toolbar or View > Toolbars > Tabs on top. It's easily swappable on any and all OS's in seconds.
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s kumar
,patna, on Jul 10, 2010 02:36 PM
nice it...
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Tan
,Hyd, on Jul 07, 2010 03:11 PM
"The first noticeable feature of this new Firefox 4.0 beta is that all tabs would be visible on the tab. " What is techtree trying to say here?
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Chandra
,Chennai, on Jul 08, 2010 01:47 PM
I see that it has now been corrected. The "Tabs on Top" feature can be availed in Firefox 3.7 by installing the Chromifox theme with Chromifox Extreme Companion. I prefer the Carbon style!!
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sachin
,goa, on Jul 08, 2010 10:18 AM
it certainly seems faster then previous versions.great browser got even faster!!
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arvind kumar
,delhi, on Jul 08, 2010 07:45 AM
i like firefox for web at home use
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swikaar chopra
,faridabad, on Jul 07, 2010 05:51 PM
the website is giving file that has a corrupted download... :( sad
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