Martin Kou's Blog: How To Get 64-bit Firefox 4b7 For Mac

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Firefox 4 is based on the Gecko 2.0 Web platform. This release features JavaScript execution speeds up to six times faster than the previous version, new capabilities for Web Developers and Add-on Developers such as hardware accelerated graphics and HTML5 technologies, and a completely revised user interface. Please read below for more detailed information about what's new in this version of the release, as well as the known issues.

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Martin Kou's Blog How To Get 64-bit Firefox 4b7 For Mac

You can remove Firefox 4 with the Add/Remove Programs utility on Windows, by moving the Firefox application to the Trash on Mac OS X, or by deleting the containing folder on Linux. By default, removing Firefox 4 won’t remove your bookmarks, web browsing history, extensions or other add-ons. This data is stored in your profile folder, which can be found by going to the Help menu and selecting Troubleshooting Information. The button next to the Profile Directory line in Application Basics will open your profile directory in your system's file explorer. Please note that if you keep your profile, any version of Firefox that you install after removing Firefox 4 will continue to use the bookmarks, web browsing history, add-ons, and other data from this profile folder. This list covers some of the known problems with Firefox 4 which will be resolved in future versions: All Systems. Users will experience many incompatibilities with bookmarks and history if they downgrade to any Firefox 4 beta before beta 8.

Users can still downgrade back to Firefox 3.6 (see and ). Users using with their mobile device will need to update to the latest. For some users, scrolling in the main GMail window will be slower than usual (see ). If you try to start Firefox using a locked profile, it will crash (see ) Microsoft Windows.

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Some users of Adobe Reader X have experienced instability when viewing PDF documents in the browser. Uninstalling and reinstalling Adobe Reader X has been determined to resolve the issue (see ). If you customize your toolbars to include the Location Bar or Search Bar in the Menu Bar, and then toggle the state of the Menu Bar between shown and hidden, Firefox will crash (see ) Mac OS X. This version of the beta will not work on Macintosh hardware with Power PC CPUs (see ).

Firefox on Mac OS X running in 64-bit mode does not recognize that Java supports certain MIME types. Running Firefox in 32-bit mode has been found to help (see ) Linux and Unix. The video control buttons may not work when viewing QuickTime videos with libtotem (see ).

Users compiling from source might need a newer gcc and libstdc as the build requirements have changed (see ). Poorly designed or incompatible extensions can cause problems with your browser, including make it crash, slow down page display, etc. If you encounter strange problems relating to parts of the browser no longer working, the browser not starting, windows with strange or distorted appearance, degraded performance, etc, you may be suffering from Extension or Theme trouble. Restart the browser in Safe Mode. On Windows, start using the 'Safe Mode' shortcut created in your Start menu or by running firefox.exe -safe-mode.

On Linux, start with./firefox -safe-mode and on Mac OS X, run: cd /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/./firefox-bin -safe-mode When started in Safe Mode all extensions are disabled and the Default theme is used. Disable the Extension/Theme that is causing trouble and then start normally. Alternative to easygps suitable for mac os. If you uninstall an extension that is installed with your user profile (i.e. You installed it from a Web page) and then wish to install it for all user profiles using the -install-global-extension command line flag, you must restart the browser once to cleanse the profile extensions datasource of traces of that extension before installing with the switch. If you do not do this you may end up with a jammed entry in the Extensions list and will be unable to install the extension globally. If you encounter strange problems relating to bookmarks, downloads, window placement, toolbars, history, or other settings, it is recommended that you try creating a new profile and attempting to reproduce the problem before filing bugs. Create a new profile by running Firefox with the -P command line argument, choose the 'Manage Profiles' button and then choose 'Create Profile.'

Migrate your settings files (Bookmarks, Saved Passwords, etc) over one by one, checking each time to see if the problems resurface. If you do find a particular profile data file is causing a problem, file a bug and attach the file. What can I do to help? We need help from developers and the testing community to provide as much feedback as possible to make Firefox even better. Please pick your at any time!. Where can I get extensions and themes (add-ons)? And can be downloaded from.

Who makes Firefox 4? Lots of people. See Help-About Mozilla Firefox, and click the 'global community' for a list of some of the people who have contributed to Firefox 4. Where’s the Firefox 4 source code? A tarball of the Firefox 4 source code is available for. The latest development code can be obtained through.

Firefox-specific source is in mozilla-central's 'browser', 'toolkit', and 'chrome' directories. Please follow the. Where is the mail client? Firefox 4 works with whatever mail client is the default on your system.

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