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Via Microsiervos

They released a new beta Firefox, it has more than 900 corrections with respect to beta 3 and a big improvement in the processing of javascript and compliance standards.

Among the outstanding features is its new navigation bar "smarter location bar" that by writing a part of the URL, title tag or a web search our bookmarks and shows an ordered list of pages (of a mixture of frequency of visits and most recently visited pages) that allows us to quickly reach the site we wanted to see. It also has an adaptive algorithm that "learns" of our decisions and reordering that list is arranging it to our tastes as we use it.

It also has an improved download manager, zoom the entire page (including all images and layout) and improved memory management.

Two other key improvements are the javascript processing and compliance with the standards which we can assess through the acid test 3 (the acid test 2 and it is 100%). After the jump you can see the graphs showing the improvements.

As I try it? Just need to run this line from a console

$ wget -P ~ ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.0b4/linux-i686/es-AR/firefox-3.0b4.tar.bz2 && tar xjf ~/firefox-3.0b4.tar.bz2 -C ~

to execute what we do with

$ ~/firefox/firefox

And my plugins? For those who like me do they need to continue using their FF plugins can force you to let us install them as follows:

in a new browser tab type about:config

Right-click anywhere and add a boolean input and add a new entry extensions.checkCompatibility with value false

and a second input extensions.checkUpdateSecurity also with value false

Updated:

In particular for the plugin FireBug is convenient to use the beta version also firebug-1.1.0b12.xpi

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