Firefox 4 Beta 1 Shines On HTML5 256
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner takes a first look at Firefox 4 Beta 1 and sees several noteworthy HTML5 integrations that bring Firefox 4 'that much closer to taking over everything on the desktop.' Beyond the Chrome-like UI, Firefox 4 adds several new features that 'open up new opportunities for AJAX and JavaScript programmers to add more razzle-dazzle and catch up with Adobe Flash, Adobe AIR, Microsoft Silverlight, and other plug-ins,' Wayner writes. 'Firefox 4 also adds an implementation of the Websockets API, a tool for enabling the browser and the server to pass data back and forth as needed, making it unnecessary for the browser to keep asking the server if there's anything new to report.'"
Re:Have I missed any? (Score:2, Informative)
Gecko is the rendering engine of Firefox.
Re:Firefox needs better support for security token (Score:5, Informative)
Horray Websockets! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Have I missed any? (Score:1, Informative)
You can also view memory usage in detail by putting this into the location bar:
about:memory
Re:Have I missed any? (Score:4, Informative)
Both of which can be disabled using about:config settings.
Re:Firefox needs better support for security token (Score:5, Informative)
You mean "Edit" -> "Preferences" -> "Advanced" -> "Encryption" -> "Security Devices".
Re:Its too bad the UI got messed up (Score:1, Informative)
Firefox 4 still has separate address and search fields.
Re:Acid test still not 100/100? (Score:3, Informative)
You can find a semi-official rationale for not implementing them here: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2010/06/not_implementin.html [mozillazine.org]
Re:Peter Wayner (Score:3, Informative)
Where does this myth come from? Most of OOo is written in C++, and even many parts written in Java are compiled to machine-code using GCJ. The only parts of OOo that require a JRE (Java interpreter/JIT compiler) are:
* the media player on Unix-like systems
* all document wizards in Writer
* accessibility tools
* Report Autopilot
* JDBC driver support
* HSQL database engine (used in OpenOffice.org Base)
* XSLT filters
* BeanShell, the NetBeans scripting language and the Java UNO bridge
* export filters to the Aportis.doc (.pdb) format for the Palm OS or Pocket Word (.psw) format for the Pocket PC
* export filter to LaTeX
* export filter to MediaWiki's wikitext
Re:Have I missed any? (Score:4, Informative)
You don't need about:config for the Tabs on top config:
"To disable the tabs from the top position, click on the Firefox button on the top left corner. From the menu, click Customize-> Tabs on top. Uncheck the box against "Tabs on top"."
Re:Its too bad the UI got messed up (Score:4, Informative)
> Merging the address and search fields is a big drawback
Of course Mozilla hasn't merged them. So I'm not sure what you think they got wrong.
Re:Acid test still not 100/100? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:On Windows 7 (Score:4, Informative)
It is supposed to use Direct2D, just like IE9. I don't know if it does yet or if it is enabled by default
FF 4 beta 1 does that, but it is not enabled by default. Here [mozilla.org] are the instructions on how to enable it.
Re:I don't believe that (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Its too bad the UI got messed up (Score:1, Informative)
When working in a call centre, customers would routinely enter URLs in the search bar rather than the address bar (despite asking them to click the bar with the "http" in it, and whatever else I could think of). From that, they would click on the sponsored links. This was a pretty common occurrence.
Re:Peter Wayner (Score:1, Informative)
And what exactly is a Type III Secretory gland? Gland? SInce when did bacteria get glands? Bacterial type III secretion systems are a protein complex typically used to inject proteins into a host cell. A gland is a hormone secreting organ found in animals. More different they could not be...