Firefox 4 Delayed Again

[Marco925]

but Mozilla is playing with fire at this time

Firefox is INVULNERABLE to fire! Firefox practically eats fire!

 

[Netherscourge]

I already converted to Chrome. It's much faster than IE or Firefox for me.

I'll try Firefox eventually, but Chrome is just fine.

 

[navigator7cs]

[citation][nom]Marco925[/nom]Firefox is INVULNERABLE to fire! Firefox practically eats fire![/citation]
RIGHT ON !!!!!

 

[mitch074]

According to bug 636190, "4.0beta13pre" comes from the automatic numbering of trunk (Minefield) builds - as beta 12 has been branched.

So no, Firefox is NOT "delayed again": after b12, it'll be RC. And, seeing as 'only' 6 software bugs remain (2 bugs are not software ones, but have to do with the website), of which 4 have a patch being evaluated, I doubt (barring an onslaught of sudden blocker bugs) that the RC will be delayed.

Contrary to IE9, whose RC introduced new features, Mozilla RC will include bug fixes ONLY and will NOT differ in functionality from the final product.

While IE9 Final's actual state is still anybody's guess.

 

[Wish I Was Wealthy]

Well it's good in one way that mozilla's firefox is late,because it gives them more time to fix all the problems up...So hopefully when they release it,it will be worth the wait...

 

[omnimodis78]

They are pushing back the release date to address critical issues, so, that's 100% fine, in fact, it's rather respectable. What's the rush anyways? The beta is great, and I would much rather have them deal with whatever needs to be dealt with rather than please the masses (of complainers) and push out an unfinished and crappy product. I sense that the consensus is overwhelming in support of Mozilla's determination to release a wholesome product late, rather than an incomplete product on time. If you don't like it go and get something else, you'll be back anyways later.

 

[captaincharisma]

Firefox 4 still has issue with websites like this one with long loading times i had to switch to opera to use this website but i still keep up with the beta's

 

[marraco]

Beta 13 is older than a week, and forgets to ask if should remember all the tabs open when I close it.

Also, www.lanacion.com.ar frequently never loads.

It needs lot of work.

 

[t7yivn45hf]

Delaying it to make sure it works is a GOOD thing. Most companies just release to meet a marketing date. Its good to see them wait till its ready.

Firefox 3 works just fine right now, its not like we NEED it NOW.

 

[powerbaselx]

The problem i see with this delay is that many people choose the browser by its functionalities and innovation (remember what happened when FF introduced the tabs - multiple pages on the same browser instance?).
If IE Comes with new stuff people like and with a great and expensive marketing strategy then most will choose IE and FF gets a marketshare problem.
On the other hand, if FF is keeping its innovative secrets waiting for IE to come out without the same, maybe FF can get some advantage later on.

 

[Guest]

Your article is incorrect, there will not be any Beta 13 unless something goes wrong, the pre-13 builds are not intended for actually making a beta 13 see here: http/groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/c29495a651f3eb73?pli=1

 

[abswindows7]

I bet they learned on Activion/Trey arch fail.
They will release a free product with better programming.

 

[Wish I Was Wealthy]

Go jerrb...Go,go,go...

 

[bzbarsky]

> forgets to ask if should remember all the tabs open

It doesn't forget to ask. It just always remembers them. When you restart, if you want to reopen your tabs from last time it's a menu item under the History menu "Restore Previous Session".

 

[bzbarsky]

> forgets to ask if should remember all the tabs open

It doesn't forget to ask. It just always remembers them. When you restart, if you want to reopen your tabs from last time it's a menu item under the History menu "Restore Previous Session".

 

[Silmarunya]

Firefox is great, but it has a few issues:

1) It's pretty slow to open right after a cold boot, especially compared to Chrome or IE.

2) When closing FF and immediately reopening, you keep getting the error message that Firefox.exe is still running and crashed. Usually waiting helps, but occasionally you have to manually clos the process using ctrl+alt+del. FF has had that bug for years.

3). It doesn't look good with the Windows classic theme, unlike Chrome (yes, there are still people who use that).

4) It still crashes more often than Chrome, especially with multiple extensions. Even the browser crashes due to Flash related issues persist, despite promises of them being fixed. Okay, it's Adobe's fault that those crashes occur, but in Chrome they don't impact other tabs, while they sometimes do that in FF.

5) Raw speed is lacking compared to Chrome and to a lesser extent IE 9.

 

[someguynamedmatt]

I see absolutely nothing wrong with the current version of Firefox. If anything, I'm going to completely ignore FF4 so that I can keep my current themes and addons.

 

[Noworldorder]

I don't care how long Firefox takes, I would not use anything else.
I will never use IE due to M$'s endless denials and obfuscations.
I will never use Chrome or Google's search engine due to their shady politics and megalomania.

 

[JOSHSKORN]

I could've gone the rest of my life without reading half of this article. Seriously, can we just get to the point? I didn't need an editorial. Most of us are completely happy waiting for a quality product, unlike a Microsoft with a Bill Gates as CEO.

 

[f-14]

The critical bugs need to be fixed, but Mozilla is playing with fire at this time as it delays a browser that is now four months behind schedule and will collide with the release of IE9

i would much rather have a product with which no patch needs to fix bug issues to begin with than to have a hastily thrown together product which fails me constantly until a patch is put out (ahem IE and specifically i can say IE9 which already needed patching)