Mozilla puts out a Firefox 4 release candidate

I don't want google to track everything that I do. Moreover FF4 is as good as chrome and I can have the chrome interface and looks on my FF4. Ain't that great.

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Ah, so the reason Chrome is a faster, more stable and memory resourceful browser is because "tracking ID than allows Google to track your habits forever."

Thanks, that explains it all adequately.

And to Magius: It was probably when they became a corporation paying employees and board members huge salaries, began earning hundreds of millions of dollars and then fell well behind the competition. Since Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Corp has been just like MS in the years following IE6.

Google Chrome dispenses of all the nerdy baggage too, which is why so many normal people are ditching Firefox for it. They don't care about Google spying on them otherwise they'd be using Iron instead. But that appears to them as yet another nerdy browser.

Apple had a chance to usurp Firefox but blew it by being too control freaky and trying to impose Appleness in a Windows world. At first Safari on Windows wouldn't even draw the fonts like a PC. So, Google just made all the necessary changes for them, called it Chrome and then started moving off in their own direction.

What's very telling about how Mozilla lost their way is how they took the address bar and turned it into an extravagantly complicated mess in Firefox 3. Nerds may have loved it but normal people just saw a kaleidoscope and demanded it be switched off. When it couldn't easily, they started changing. Meanwhile, Chrome has simplified the address bar and is even talking about getting rid of it all together. That's what people want, but Mozilla don't understand that. Whether a techie thinks getting rid of the address bar is bad, is irrelevant. people who work in offices, shops or drive lorries like what Google is going more than what Mozilla Corp has done.

Agree. No more google tool bar to keep track of where you go, its built right in chrome.Same with all the other tool bars from different companies, other then ignorance and using up your monitor space, people still believe in getting something for nothing. When will they ever learn. Firefox still has one of the best adblocking addons going. The others just talk about it. Even if their was a work around to give me ads while I'm browsing,I don't see them, and the sites that won't let me on unless I turn Adblocker off, no big deal, I take my money and go else where.

"Chrome doesn't get fallated nearly as much as Firefox, despite being a much better, faster, more stable and memory resourceful browser with more frequent proper releases than FirePossum has betas."

Probably because Chrome assigns a tracking ID than allows Google to track your habits forever.

Thanks, but no thanks.

Reading some of the comments here makes me wonder when did Mozilla earn spite reserved for the likes of MS in the past.

Sure, the browser has gone through some growing pains, but it is a good browser as long as the user doesn't go overboard installing add-ons (specially without verifying the quality of said add-ons).

I really like Chrome, what I don't like about it is how limited is the range of controls offered to manage tabs. You only have a single row that keeps getting smaller and smaller. Mozilla default tab control isn't any better but it gives enough control that add-ons like TabMixPlus, TabGroups Manager, and Session Manager became possible.

TMP lets me enjoy multiple rows of tabs so I can at least read what's on each tab at a glance. TGM lets me organize my tabs as I see fit, keeping only the selected group visible. It also lets me hibernate the groups and export them among other things. SM is like Firefox or TMP's session restore only on steroids.

Those three add-ons are a million times better than anything I have seen on Chrome and even on Firefox 4 built in tab groups manager. They let me enjoy a self-contained browser. I do not need to have multiple browser windows open if I am in the mood to have 30, 40, or 50 tabs open simultaneously (believe me, when you do research the number of tabs can grow pretty fast). I can also access my tabs and groups instantly, without having to access special windows/menus or having to drag anything anywhere. Its simplicity at its best.

Common extensions like Colorful Tabs and the tabx.xpi, along with themes like Mosaic Fox will need to work before this new FF 4.0 will be of any interest.

Given the amount of foreplay The Inquirer and Another Place have given Mozilla over the course of 14 betas and now a series of release candidates, I can't help but wonder what kind of affair the eventual release will be.

Will these sites change to a special FireBadger theme for the day? Flood the frontpage with more articles, reports, interviews and reviews than FirePheasant Phwoar has had beta releases?

Or will it pass with one brief mention that quickly falls off the front page, like a thoroughly disappointing climax to 14 exhausting hours of foreplay?

Chrome doesn't get fallated nearly as much as Firefox, despite being a much better, faster, more stable and memory resourceful browser with more frequent proper releases than FirePossum has betas.

Remember this the next time one of your writers wants to have a go at the BBC for fawning like a catnip intoxicated tabby over Apple products and announcements.

If they want to catch up to Chrome, why don't they just do a Microsoft and go straight to Firefox (20)11? ;-)