Can we Ship? Firefox 4 hard blockers down to 8

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19 points·danboarder··10 comments

Down to 8, from 18 yesterday. I expect Firefox 4 will be released soon. (after very usable betas for about a year now)

Personally I cannot get used to the Firefox 4 interface, I will be with 3.6.x for a long time.

The removal of the status bar was also a full-stop for me, though this plugin is promising https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-4-ui-...

If I'm reading that test right, it's Apple who cannot ship and not Firefox.

I like the status bar as well. Also, it is annoying that you have to have folder icons display on the bookmarks toolbars. I like to see all my bookmark grouping but unless I make my FF super large, I cannot.

For those downvoting me, take a close look at the v8bench score, which is inverted.

Chrome is smoking Firefox. It's more than twice as fast.

Try it yourself:

http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/benchmarks/v6/run.html

Interesting that the text changes font after loading. What weird thing are they using for that?

Edit: OK, just font-face. It's too bad it has to be such a jarring transition when it loads though... Arial is nothing like Marker.

It seems to have gone up to 10.

And down to 8 again.

YES 0 today

... and back up to 1 on March 6, very close! I'm running the nightlies and find recent builds to be very stable.

and now the status is YES, 0 hard blockers, 0 bugs... let's hope it's true :)

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