6 responses to “Firefox 4 Beta 2 lookin’ good”

1. 

   Jerry July 31st, 2010 at 23:34

   I download the FF4B2 and got this JavaScript Application error.

   Screenshot of dialog box:
   http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/2470/ff4b2.jpg

   What does this mean?

2. 

   EP August 4th, 2010 at 03:49

   although Firefox 4 Beta 3 will be coming out soon, either by the end of this week or sometime next week.

   as always, I don’t recommend Firefox 4 beta 2 for normal end users as there are still some bugs to be worked out.

   @Jerry: could be a problem with FF4b2’s new extensions/addons feature. I suggest you go back to using the official Firefox 3.6.x series and wait for the final release of Firefox 4 to come out sometime near the end of this year.

3. 

   EP August 5th, 2010 at 10:32

   Just in: Firefox 4 Beta 2 will NOT work under Windows 2000, although Beta 1 did run under it.

   See the following bug reports on FF4b2 “breaking” Win2k support:
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577486
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582700

   However, the upcoming Firefox 4 Beta 3 should work under Win2k. Though realize that Mozilla will at some point will abandon Win2000 support in a future version of Firefox.

4. 

   Tristan August 8th, 2010 at 07:09

   I don’t like the idea of silent updates! And I’m sure many who visit this site won’t either.

   See:
   http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180272/Mozilla_plans_to_silently_update_Firefox

5. 

   EP August 11th, 2010 at 05:20

   @Tristan: Like with woody advocating to turn of Windows Automatic Updates, I suggest you do the same for Firefox; disable Firefox’s ability to automatically check for and install updates, then you won’t see Firefox silently updating itself anymore.

6. 

   EP August 12th, 2010 at 22:20

   Firefox 4.0 Beta 3 now posted here. Beta 3 should now work under Windows 2000 for sure as beta 2 didn’t work under it.