The initial mock-ups of what Firefox 4.0 might look like are extremely promising. I love the fact they are trying to reduce the height of the bookmark/toolbar/address bar area as this is my one main gripe about using Firefox on my netbook.
Mozilla has just announced the launch date for the long awaited upgrade to Firefox 3 and it will officially be released on Tuesday 17th June 2008. There is also an attempt to set an official world record.
After stumbling across the new downloads section on the Microsoft website, I followed what seemed to be an interesting section called Microsoft Videos Beta.
The preview of the new embedded media player using Silverlight was visually very impressive on the landing page.
However, clicking through to a.n.other video then took an age to start running the video I had chosen. A minute or so later my display driver crashed but my wonderful laptop recovered it and back came my screen, and then I noticed that my CPU was getting absolutely hammered. Obviously to make this a fair test I did this test in IE7. So close down IE7 and as soon as it shut down, my system returns to normal speed.
Beta it may be, but I’m not impressed by this new offering from Microsoft. Traditional Microsoft bloatware based on a technology which I hope never takes off.
The long awaited first release candidate of Firefox 3 is out and available from Mozilla now.
I will be reviewing this and shouting about this in the very near future.
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