Firefox 3.6 Delayed; 4.0 in Late 2010/Early 2011

[randomizer]

Oi! Put my tabs back below the address bar where they belong!

 

[liquidsnake718]

Neat... I wonder if this browser will make use of the gpu? I remember reading an article here at toms stating that this is where onboard graphics chips and future gpus will also be utilized within browsers... i wonder what for?

 

[steiner666]

my FF doesnt really look anything like the default anyways. Smaller buttons, compact menu, hidden title bar, and other add-ons and customizations to make it use less screen space and be more efficient for my uses... that's really what firefox is all about. so as long as ver4 lets me make it look like i have it look now, i'll be happy.

 

[maestintaolius]

[citation][nom]supertrek32[/nom]Erm... what?On 2003 any feature that isn't on the menu takes 3-6 dialogs to get to. Most I've seen in 2007 is 3. Not to mention that once you get used to 07, it's much faster. If you don't like the default layout, just customize it. The ribbon means a LOT fewer menus. Your entire arguement seems like you've either A) never used it, or B) used it so few times you can' fairly judge and are just going, "I wasn't used to it, so it was slow for me. It's slow for me, so it must be bad."At first I wasn't much of a fan either, but after re-learning how to get to everything, I'm at least 4 times faster than I ever was with 2003.[/citation]

To the contrary, I use it every day because we moved to it from 2000 at work a year or so ago. I could cite quite a few things that are irritating to me and ridiculously difficult to change but I'll limit it to two for now: changing how excel default formats entries based on how they were input (it seems to really love changing things into dates) and the fact shutting off autocorrect takes half a dozen clicks and has to be done for each style/format compared to the 2 it took in '00 and '03 and was global for the entire document. I also dislike the overly anti-aliased graphs of Excel that make me feel like I need new glasses but this isn't a ribbon issue.

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]otus[/nom]Minefield is the name of the development (trunk) version of Firefox, so it will always be (pre-)alpha. As for 3.6, the first alpha was in August and pre-alpha development has been ongoing since around the first few betas of 3.5/3.1 early this year. That's not two years by any stretch - even Firefox 3.0 is much less than two years old.I agree that 64-bit support for Windows would be cool, but luckily it has been there for some time on Linux.[/citation]
Wasn't the x64 version a long while back given the dev name of "Minefield" also? Not just the dev trunk?

 

[Pyroflea]

How are they coping Chrome? Technically Chrome copied Firefox, as did IE and pretty much every other browser out there. Optimizing it and making it faster is not copying, simply a good move business wise.

 

[Guest]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.....................

 

[rags_20]

I really like the way Firefox currently lets you organize bookmarks. I can sacrifice a few millimeters of browsing space for that.