Mozilla Exec: Firefox 4 Will Arrive in February

Re:Mozilla Exec: Firefox 4 Will Arrive in February by roxstar on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @09:00PM (#2098515)

I think I would be more likely to move back to firefox if they changed to a release cycle more like chromes where small features are added in pretty quickly through silent updates, rather than big changes over large amounts of time. Probably a little offtopic but I was looking forward to trying the new firefox as my main browser when it was supposed to release about now.

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Re:Mozilla Exec: Firefox 4 Will Arrive in February by melling on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @10:38PM (#2098754)

I have both Chrome and Firefox installed on my Mac. I take turns switching between them and Safari. I don't want the "there can be only one" browser limitation to ever happen again. They're all free, and they're trying to implement open standards. Let's spend a little time with each of them.

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Re:Mozilla Exec: Firefox 4 Will Arrive in February by roxstar on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @11:01PM (#2098805)

Thing is I like to customize some things and sometimes I do that by writing an extension and adding such and such so using other browsers at the same time becomes harder.

I use chrome now because it starts up fast and I have all the things I like, if firefox started up faster and had similar window freedom (last I checked linux wasn't as lucky as windows) I would switch back. The update thing was just a nitpick that if I could see changes happening over time rather than one huge update it would entice me back.

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Re:Mozilla Exec: Firefox 4 Will Arrive in February by Jach on Thursday January 13, 2011 @04:19AM (#2099304)

Totally agree on using multiple browsers. (Plus ever since Google started enforcing that "one gmail session open per browser" rule I've been forced to use both Firefox and Chrome when I want my personal and work emails open.) I think my time with Chrome also helps me look past Firefox's deficiencies, if only because I'm not constantly frustrated with them.

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Re:Mozilla Exec: Firefox 4 Will Arrive in February by gkanai on Thursday January 13, 2011 @12:14AM (#2098935)

That is the new release plan post-Firefox 4. (I work for Mozilla.)

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Re:Mozilla Exec: Firefox 4 Will Arrive in February by queensnake on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @10:00PM (#2098648)

There's always this:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...

You'll get daily updates - but it'll /nag/ you until you do :)

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Re:Mozilla Exec: Firefox 4 Will Arrive in February by mishmash on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @10:30PM (#2098728)

Agreed. Although the constantly running Google Updater makes a little paranoid, I love starting up Chrome and always having the latest stuff.

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Re:Mozilla Exec: Firefox 4 Will Arrive in February by cookiecaper on Thursday January 13, 2011 @12:16AM (#2098941)

This distribution method is the only way to ensure some kind of control over the web experience and stop the IE6's of the future, imo.

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