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Firefox 4 Beta 2 is coming soon
MOZILLA IS GOING to put out Firefox 4 Beta 2 next week, it claims.
The Firefox 4 team released Beta 1 in the first week in July and must have been beavering away like, er, beavers to get this done. It posted a set of meeting notes online with a notice schedule to have Firefox 4 Beta 2 shipped around 22 July.
The discussion points around Beta 2 involved the Add-Ons Manager UI, CSS transitions and the fact there are currently too many blockers.
However the biggest talking point is the new tabs system. Firefox 4 will include the same tabs on top interface for Mac OS X users that Mozilla gave Windows punters a couple of weeks ago.
Most Firefox users will be happy with the change and other web browsers have done a similar tab system. But Mozilla's Alex Faaborg was forced to put together a short video to keep some disgruntled Firefox fans happy.
Faaborg said the tabs are on top because that best suits web applications.
"Recently modern browsers have been transitioning to placing tabs on top, and that decision isn't arbitrary, it isn't about fashion," he insisted.
"The change to placing tabs on top isn't about one browser versus another browser, it's about the evolution of the Web as a platform." µ
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From Faaborg's blog: "This entry was posted on Thursday, June 24th, 2010 at 12:58 pm". Your article made it seem like he was putting the video out now due to recent critical complaints. This sort of misrepresentation is very disappointing.
Also, right click the navigation bar and deselect "Tabs on top". Voila, they're now on the bottom. That's not too hard is it?
They would have done much better, had they included multithreading like all other browsers, instead of some cosmetic facelift of this aging browser.
Who cares about tabs on top? The fact that they're horizontal means they're still fundamentally flawed. You can have, what, five or six at a time before they become unreadable?
Vertical tabs are the only reason I even keep using this damn memory-leaking slow Firefox browser instead of Google Chrome. I hate Firefox's caching memory problems. Why doesn't Mozilla concentrate on *that* fundamental aspect (bug) of its browser rather than this worthless tab functionality?
Isn't fashion arbitrary?