Firefox 4.0 Release Candidate (RC) is Live and ready to download

[hclarkjr]

9 hardblockers to go http://canweshipyet.com/

 

[hclarkjr]

correction, it is 8 now

 

[tivo20]

6 are left

 

[hclarkjr]

5 now

 

[Munky]

Is it faster than Chrome when opening 6 or more tabs at the same time?

 

[lxskllr]

Is it faster than Chrome when opening 6 or more tabs at the same time?

Not in my experience. It's still the slowest of the 3rd party browsers but much quicker than Fx 3.x

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Did you mean slowest to open for the first time or slowest to use normally?

Not in my experience. It's still the slowest of the 3rd party browsers but much quicker than Fx 3.x

 

[lxskllr]

Did you mean slowest to open for the first time or slowest to use normally?

Slowest to use normally. I don't pay close attention to opening times. I open my browser once every several days, so open times aren't that important to me. It's slow to open anyway, and I don't think this release has changed much in that regard. I'd say that's still slower than Opera or Chrome.

I think people give to much weight to speed in the browser equation. There's other equally important features, but everyone uses speed as the defining benchmark.

 

[Munky]

Speed and features are both important. I recently switched from Firefox 3.x to Chrome, and it's noticeably faster, more crash-resistant, and also supports some revolutionary features like WebGL. The only part where it lacks is the number of extensions available for Chrome, but most of the ones I like are available for both browsers.

 

[hclarkjr]

down to 3 now, looks like the RC might make it this week

 

[james1701]

Back to 4 now.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/firefox-4-rc-expected-to-ship-roughly-on-march-9/8386

 

[Engineer]

2 now (whatever that means).

 

[VirtualLarry]

When are we going to get an official release build of 64-bit?

 

[Chiefcrowe]

great question! you should ask the developers that or maybe ask on their site?

 

[Chiefcrowe]

1 left! they are crankin' this week!!!

 

[hclarkjr]

2 now (whatever that means).

that means the RC will be released

 

[hclarkjr]

When are we going to get an official release build of 64-bit?

check this thread out http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1993643

 

[Steltek]

Down to one....

 

[zokudu]

Lists 2 now:

Update system requirements page for Firefox 4
Firefox 4.0b12 crash [@ DrawPlugin ] (Only on Mac)

 

[Chiefcrowe]

YES!!!!

http://canweshipyet.com

 

[hclarkjr]

wonder when it will hit the FTP server?

 

[hclarkjr]

guy in this thread says the RC is being built right now http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2115689&start=30

 

[hclarkjr]

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/4.0rc1-candidates/

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Such great news!!! Since it has taken this long, my hope is that the RC is pretty much the final version and it is coming soon!!