All you alternative browser fans out there that like dinking around with
betas will be thrilled to know
Firefox 3 Beta 4 is now out. This new beta brings Firefox 3 one step closer
to release, and it introduces some additional polish and bug fixes over previous
beta releases. For instance, Mozilla has made some extra changes to the
browser's look and feel in order to better integrate it with the native user
interfaces of Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X, and Linux desktops. The new
beta also includes some performance improvements, which should make the browser
"much faster" in web apps like GMail and reduce the amount of memory used over
long browsing sessions. Other changes include a new location bar algorithm based
on "site visit recency and frequency," JavaScript 1.8 improvements, and support
for offline data storage in web apps. You can read more about the new beta in
the official
release notes, and the beta itself can be grabbed from
this page for Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux in 40 different languages So, grab
it if you want it!
Ed.note: I can confirm Firefox 3 beta 4 is much faster than IE7. FINALLY!
