Rapid Fire: Firefox 9 Beta is Already Out for Download

[nikorr]

Faster JavaScript and HTML5 update, I would try it : )

 

[RogueKitsune]

[citation][nom]Anonymous[/nom]And when they release x64 people will complain a lot of addons aren't working[/citation]

As a person who is using the 64-bit build of Firefox 11 alpha 1, All of my add-ons worked perfectly fine once i overrode the compatibility checking

 

[captaincharisma]

[citation][nom]trialsking[/nom]I am skipping 9 and waiting for 10 which should be out later tonight[/citation]

i'll wait for firefox 20. that should arrive in the next 3-4 months. if not at least it should be a nightly build by then lol

 

[captaincharisma]

[citation][nom]jn77[/nom]Exactly, where is the 64 bit version..... might have to wait for it when I build my first 128bit pc. :-([/citation]

you want 64-bit? download the nightly build

 

[livebriand]

In case you guys think it's unstable, let me tell you: with all the versions of FF I've used, 1.5 to 8, I've never had an issue. On my current i5 machine, 8GB RAM, geforce 550ti, and win 7 64-bit SP1, I haven't had an issue, and I recall going all the way back to 3.6. Ditto for my AMD E350 netbook with 4GB RAM and win 7 64-bit SP1. Ditto for my 3.2GHz Pentium 4 XP SP3 machine with 1GB RAM. I really don't know what's causing your problems. I just had to disable addon compatibility checking and it's all fine.

 

[therabiddeer]

The only reason I look at these FF articles anymore is to see that chick again

 

[userngalan]

any bugs found?

 

[yasir siddiqui]

Great.
I like firfox. i used since 2004 and there is firfox 1.0 or 2.0 😉

 

[danwat1234]

I hope Firefox 9's rendering engine can use more than 1 CPU core. FF8 doesn't.

 

[belardo]

You know... you could simply google the ff girl and save the photo to your desktop.

- Okay, so the real reason mozilla retarded marketing team of crack whore monkeys are doing major revisions numbers is so they can send out a press release and get websites to state "A whole new firefox has been released" every month - because it means there are articles about them?!

Gee, Tom sometimes does announcements when Opera does a .xx release. There are more changes to Opera from 11.50 to 11.52 then there is of ff4.0 to 4.5 (er I mean 9).

 

[Benihana]

Can't wait for the 64 bit version of Firefox so that it can use more than 2.1GB of RAM.

 

[kristy2848]

I like this news ..Its good to know about it..

 

[gio2vanni86]

Desperation to try and stay hip and alive in the web browsing market. Thats all i see,

 

[XadRav]

[citation][nom]mitch074[/nom]Considering that Mozilla keeps 4 release branches (Stable: 8, security and stability bugs only; 9: beta, major bugs; 10, alphas, stabilizing features; and 11, nightlies, development) going all the time, claiming that by using version 9 you're on the edge is stupid.[/citation]


Umm, not so much. IME...

8 (Stable) is very stable, it is very unlikely you will run into problems.
9 (Beta) is also very stable, still unlikely you will run into any problems at all, but you shouldn't be surprised if you do.
10 (Aurora, Alpha) Stable-ish, you will probably run into a few problems, can be used for everyday browsing, but expect to be interrupted by bugs a few times a day.
11 (Nightly) generally unstable, hit or miss how many bugs you'll run into.

I almost always use the beta as my main browser; so far I have not run into any problems at all. Aurora and nightly get too annoying to use as your main browser with how many bugs it still has, not that their intended to be your main browser anyway...

 

[eddieroolz]

Welcome to the world, Firefox 4.0.0.0.3.1.