Firefox 4 Delayed Again

[Guest]

I hardly use extensions and found Firefox to be too unstable at times to warrant its use. I think Firefox is very much reliving what Internet explorer went through. Its become long in the tooth and has developed bugs that seem to cross versions and never seem to get addressed. Maybe its because Mozilla is trying to crank out a new version too fast. But right now Chrome and Safari with Webkit seem to be kicking everyone and IE9 is doing pretty good too.

 

[CoryInJapan]

I mean I like google chrome...But I miss my good ol firefox and chrome is better then 3.6...cant wait to go back to FF once 4.0 is released.

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]f-14[/nom]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)[/citation]
IE9 isn't out yet...

 

[damian86]

nice, because it is still buggy, I reported a few bugs recently. It is weird how Mozilla is having a hard time with this new release.

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately Firefox, is not that good lately. Beta 11 has been a mess (Beta 10 was, oddly, better), and 3.6 is nearing archaic status, and isn't that stable either. My reaction to hearing it was going to be delayed was a very simple "duh".

Until Chrome came along, I used Firefox (nearly) exclusively. While I switched over to that as my main browser, I still used Firefox for specific tasks, for which Chrome was inferior. Those tasks have largely disappeared (as advantages for Firefox) in the stable version, and I'm finding it hard to stomach the latest beta even though it keeps superiority in some of them, and I really wish I could.

Maybe they'll end up with a stable and good Firefox 4; that would be great. It has a lot of potential, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

 

[Khimera2000]

[citation][nom]f-14[/nom]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)[/citation]

Thank you for stating that a beta program needs pathing... I beleave the sky is blue to and that clouds can be eather grey or white although some other colors can occure.

On a differant note I did try the FF beta in followed by the IE9 beta, and i have to say i like the lay out of IE9 better (thats just personal preferance).

Lets hope that they can get FF out sooner then later. Im looking forward to compareing all three after final release, at which point I will officially have me browser!

I would also like to see an article on how these browsers compare after final release especially the GPU assisted portion, looks like im getting some slower computers in the house soon (discreet vido on all of them) and would like to know which one of these would really shine.

 

[mayankleoboy1]

4.12b is good. really good.