Firefox 4 Beta is now available for download. Download here. As we have already discussed about this in my past month’s post titled FireFox 4 plans.
As posted in the above post it was the same change that expected to appear in Firefox 4. So it is not necessary to discuss it here. To add up with some statistical report, it is 20% faster than its predecessor. Most of the changes are targeted to support HTML 5 features.
Regarding GUI, It resembles chrome in all angle. Comparison of both Chrome and Firefox 4 is chronicled in ‘computerworld.com‘ as 5 parts.
Mozilla adds a feedback button in the top right corner of the Beta to collect user experience for its future modification of Firefox 4.x. So don’t forget to submit your feedback. This feedback button may or may not be available in the future standard version.
Mozilla being largely supported by Google’s Search based adsense revenue, Firefox now supports WebM video format which may be accepted as a HTML 5 video where Firefox before gave its full support to Ogg format of video. Behind the browser it is not built with the best JavaScript rendering machine but Mozilla release notes says that better JIT (Just In Time) compiler for JavaScript and layered rendering engine are “coming soon.”
Firefox 4 now resembles Google Chrome in all features, and have some more than chrome. But chrome still stood first in light weight feature, that means it just occupies very low memory when compared to firefox, and that means more speed.
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