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Mozilla Firefox 4.0 (Beta 4)  Change Log

  • Firefox 4 Beta 4 is available in 39 languages.
  • Firefox Sync is now included by default.
  • A new feature gives users a visual overview of all open tabs, allowing them to be sorted and grouped.
  • An experimental API is included to provide more efficient Javascript animations.
  • Firefox now supports the HTML5 video "buffered" property.
  • See the complete changelist from the previous beta.

As well as these features from previous Firefox 4 Betas:

  • Tabs are now on top by default on Windows and OSX - Linux will be changing when the theme has been modified to support the change.
  • You can turn any tab into an "App Tab" by right-clicking on it and selecting "Make into App Tab" from the context menu.
  • Web developers can animate content using CSS Transitions.
  • Responsiveness and scrolling improvements from the new retained layers layout system.
  • JavaScript speed improvements due to engine optimizations.
  • Changes to how XPCOM components are registered in order to help startup time and process separation.
  • You can search for and switch to already open tabs in the Smart Location Bar.
  • New Addons Manager and extension management API (UI will be changed before final release).
  • Significant API improvements are available for JS-ctypes, a foreign function interface for extensions.
  • The stop and reload buttons have been merged into a single button on Windows, Mac and Linux.
  • The Bookmarks Toolbar has been replaced with a Bookmarks Button by default (you can switch it back if you'd like).
  • Crash protection for Windows, Linux, and Mac when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins.
  • CSS Transitions are partially supported.
  • Full WebGL support is included but disabled by default at this time.
  • Core Animation rendering model for plugins on Mac OS X. Plugins which also support this rendering model can now draw faster and more efficiently.
  • Native support for the HD HTML5 WebM video format.
  • An experimental Direct2D rendering backend is available on Windows, turned off by default.
  • Web developers can use Websockets for a low complexity, low latency, bidirectional communications API.
  • Web developers can update the URL field without reloading the page using HTML History APIs.
  • More responsive page rendering using lazy frame construction.
  • Link history lookup is done asynchronously to provide better responsiveness during pageload.
  • CSS :visited selectors have been changed to block websites from being able to check a user's browsing history.
  • New HTML5 parser.
  • Support for more HTML5 form controls.
  • Web authors can now get touch events from Firefox users on Windows 7 machines.
  • A new way of representing values in JavaScript that allows Firefox to execute heavy, numeric code (used for things like graphics and animations) more efficiently.

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