Mozilla To Release Firefox 4 Next Month 266
Neil writes "Damon Sicore, Senior Director of Platform Engineering at Mozilla, has announced that the company is almost ready to ship Firefox 4. On its mailing list, Mozilla has revealed it has around 160 hard blockers to fix, before proceeding to Release Candidate stage. Both the RC and the final version would arrive in February, according to Sicore. Mozilla was originally planning on having Firefox 4 out by the end of last year, but it had to delay the release till 2011. Last month, Firefox 4 Beta 8 was released for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux 32-bit/64-bit, with support for 57 languages. Mozilla's roadmap says it still wants to release a Beta 9, a Beta 10, and at least one Release Candidate build before the final version."
Re:how (Score:5, Informative)
You'll have to get addons for both. They want to phase out the status bar, and they figured not providing that functionality was for the best. The titlebar is part of an ongoing WONTFIX, because they think Tabs on Top deserves more love. Thankfully, tired of people's complaints, they whipped together this addon that does the trick: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/221514/ [mozilla.org] (Vista+)
Re:Missing menu bar? (Score:4, Informative)
By default on Windows, it's replaced by the Firefox Menu. Just right-click anywhere on the UI (besides the page) and turn the menu bar back on. You can also do this from the preferences menu inside the Firefox Menu itself.
Re:how (Score:4, Informative)
That's a show stopper for me.
Same here for quite a while - fortunately Status-4-Evar plugin [mozilla.org] showed up to remedy that particular ill.
Re:Status of the status bar (Score:5, Informative)
Chrome lacks a status bar only when the status bar would be empty. As soon as there is something to put in it, it appears.
Mouse-over a link, and it shows you the target. Click a link, and it tells you what the progress is, until it's finished. Then the status bar disappears again.
Re:I sure hope... (Score:4, Informative)
I was forced to use 2.0 on certain machines until a few months ago, and frankly it can't handle the modern Internet.
Re:No Status Bar = FAIL (Score:4, Informative)
Not really a fail. What they've done is split the functionality of the existing status bar in two. One part displays the URL you hover over; that has been moved to the URL bar instead. The other part is the add-on icons, and that's been moved to a distinct add-on toolbar, which can be shown or hidden easily as the user prefers. Each and every user will not be installing a status bar extension, because each and every user doesn't want or need a dedicated status bar. IMHO they've implemented the needed functionality in a better way.
The whole point of FF is it will look like and behave like whatever you want it to, more or less. Changing the way it works by default doesn't change that.
Re:This didn't release yet? (Score:4, Informative)
FireFox was created to be the "lighweight" version of Mozilla, a browser which had a built-in email, IRC and News client.
But in ANY case, if your apps are taking 15 seconds to load, you need to buy an SSD STAT!! Disk IO on mechanical disks is pitiful. I can't imagine having to go back to waiting on apps to start.