Firefox4

Fighthing with the roadmap and nasty bugs, the 12th beta of Firefox 4 is finally available now. Probably this is the last one of the long beta streak. Over this period, beginning right from the first beta, developers have fixed nearly 7000 bugs. With Firefox4 getting into its final shape, this release brings overall stability and performance improvements to the browser in addition to some usability changes.

Well, the time has come. For the first time probably, we can see firefox with tabs on the title bar. This is not available in the current beta 8 release but this feature will most probably be added and supported in the upcoming 9th beta.

This "tabs on title bar" feature is only supported on windows systems as of now and that too when its maximized. Here is a screenshot of how it would look like.

Its Firefox time people, after all this wait, the first Beta of Firefox 4 is available now . Firefox 4 aims to bring more for both end users and web developers and its clearly visible with this beta release. Hardware acceleration for HD quality HTML5 videos, the plugin protective feature is now supported on all platforms, web sockets, new addon manager and a lot more. So, while you are downloading it, let me show you some of its features.

So, the changes in the next generation browser, Firefox 4, have already started taking place. Currently, the top priority of the developers is to show all the secondary UI as inline content i.e. no more dialog boxes. Mozilla designer Stephen Horlander posted some mockups on his blog.

Ladies and Gentlemen, its time for the beginning of a new era of  Firefox, one of the most popular opensource applications. Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's Director of Firefox, shared the organization's plan about the next big thing, Firefox 4, in a presentation last week. As it seems, Firefox 4 aims to be faster, in both looks and performance, sleek and light interface, various improvements to enhance the user experience.