Firefox Mobile 4 beta 2 available for Android and Maemo
The Mozilla Foundation has released the second beta of its mobile browser (Firefox Mobile 4 aka "Fennec") for Maemo and Android (destined to become MeeGo but is on two Nokia smartphones). This version improves the memory footprint, the visual rendering of text and 25% the score of the browser at SunSpider test.
Firefox 4 RC and final version not before 2011
The Mozilla Foundation, has readjusted its schedule for Firefox 4 and pushes back the launch of its Release Candidate and the final version, previously announced for next month, to "the early 2011".
Firefox 4, already very late, is now in its sixth beta.
The seventh sense to include all new features and provide a basis for extension developers was scheduled for Sept. 17 before being postponed, too, about the month of November.
This change was announced by the project director Mike Beltzner declared that: "finalize this work [Firefox 4] takes longer than anticipated initial estimates, by dint of driving the regressions, and sources of instability."
The Wiki beta 4 of Firefox has been updated to present the new schedule.
We learn that not only beta 7 released with more than a month and a half late, but there will still be 3 more this year betas, 8, 9 and 10 (until 10 December).
Source :Firefox's mailing list
Firefox 4 is the fastest
Firefox 4 became the fastest browser on the web.
That make Mozilla's Spidermonkey JavaScript engine (including the Tracemonkey and JägerMonkey JITs) the fastest Sunspider scores in the world!
Source : Aza Dotzler's blog
Firefox 4 beta1 available
Mozilla has posted the first beta version of Firefox 4. Finally, tell the impatient, as it was expected by early June, then postponed to mid-June
The arrival of this beta confirms the work areas of the development team of browser plug-in insulation for greater stability (the 'Lorentz'), supports HTML 5 (see also "A member of Mozilla claims that Apple and Google want to own the HTML5 ") and shorter startup time.
The interface is also reviewed in depth.
Minimal for some and major for the other, the tabs are now placed by default at the top of the browser (the famous "tabs-on-top *" popularized by Chrome). You can still return them to their traditional place in two small clicks.
A "Firefox" menu centralized (inspired by the Opera?) Also appeared.
Finally, the management interface extensions has been totally redesigned - Electrolysis first demonstration project designed to completely isolate the extensions and allow their installation in warm (without restart of Firefox).
For developers, Mozilla said the following new features:
- A HTML5 parser
- Support for WebSocket
- The use of IndexedDB
- The addition of a Web console Analysis
- And of course, a simplified development of extensions with the integration of the SDK Jetpack
Finally we note without surprise the official support of the codec Webm, for "accelerated HD video (see above).
The complete list of new "under the hood" is available online.
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