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If anyone decides to change the release channel, you can do it now by modifying 'app.update.channel' in about:config to nightly, aurora, beta...

Update: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/940799

Comment · 15 years ago

I don't think creating a new language just to compile the source to Javascript is a good move, especially when Javascript is being under heavily supervised & supported by a huge web development community. If Javascript isn't that expressive or weird, fine, why don't we just fix it or find another replacement? I find myself is comfortable to work on a language that's close to the platform than fancy languages that try to hide/fix trivial problems and take away other good aspects of the language. There are enough languages to learn already and CoffeeScript is probably fade away once these[1] kind[2] of stuffs[3] become stronger.

[1] http://www.ecmascript.org/

[2] http://www.mascaraengine.com/

[3] http://code.google.com/p/traceur-compiler/

Comment · 15 years ago

The Firefox Mobile (Android) scores a necessary point (235+9 bonus) to be the leader.

Comment · 15 years ago

I think a user content generated community where huge number of people participate needs an explicit feedback system. We all want to learn from the good sources and filter out what aren't worthy and we need a way to distinguish them. If you think the point rating system isn't good, it doesn't necessarily mean we don't need it.

Here is my suggestion: How about we use the absolute points to rank a comment in a different scale, such as if a comment collects enough a number of point, it will be ranked as 1 star, then 2 stars... and so on. In this way of rating, we not only get what we want but also not to follow "group thinking" as someone said in this thread.

Comment · 16 years ago

I'm using 4.0 "full-time" and it's the nightly build :). The only thing you need is Compatibility Reporter extension. It's here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/15003

Comment · 16 years ago

I'm very happy with the result. However, on some javascript intensive webpages, such as https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/home, it hangs the whole Firefox for a little while. Hopefully with a long timeline to the release, no such issues remained.

Comment · 16 years ago

I'm also using Minefield 4.0b8pre as my primary browser and always look for new "nightly" update with hoping it solves the annoying bug: location bar doesn't synchronize with the displaying page/tab. Other than that, FF 4 has a very nice looking UI and it's fast.

Comment · 16 years ago

Ha, if you are thinking that way, I would suggest VB.NET or C# instead. Why? I remember the first time I was creating an MFC project using Project Wizard, I felt like I'm a fool looking at a bunch of auto-generated text & having no clue what it is about. And once again, I was in the same situation when I was using VS.NET to generate code for my first ASP.NET web app. But I still completed that webapp without even knowing what code is for. Does that make VB.NET/C# community more stupid than Java? Does that mean C#/VB.NET should be the ugly & stupid thing other than Java? So, you should better have another way to explain that.

Comment · 16 years ago

I hate to say this and I know I will be downvoted by "hackers" but I really don't understand why people (who know limited or nothing about Java & blindly follow the norm) always pick the word "ugly", "stupid" for Java? What superior of PHP to Java when with Java I can program from a stand-alone app to webapp, from client side to server side, from desktop to mobile app?... If you are a coder, you must pick a language & a standard lib to be master, and I would say that picking a language that only sticks to a very specific application platform (web-only, desktop-only...) is a very bad choice. I started from C/C++ and moved to Java and I feel very comfortable to use/study Python, C#, Scala & Ruby.. but PHP, get off, never & never ever!

One last thing (to convince more PHP people to downvote me) is, if you are spending most of your time on PHP or a web-only-language, you will never see the beauty of asynchronous I/O, socket programming, threading, hooking...

Update: When I mentioned "web-only-language", I was thinking of people who use & only use Ruby with RoR for web apps. I don't know how many developers who can't distinguish between Ruby & RoR but I guess it's not a small number. And of course, what I said is toward to those who aren't willing to learn new things. They always think about web & only web.

Comment · 16 years ago

Your app icon still can beat up gluegadget's ;-). Anyway, thanks both for your works!

Comment · 16 years ago

It can be explained by the fact that Opera isn't the main rivals of Firefox in the browser market.

Edit: http://arewefastyet.com/faq.html

  The team's explanation: Right now, the performance tests
  are run on a Mac, which means no IE. Also the tests rely on
  a "shell" JS engine that runs in a command line. It doesn't
  test browsers. We'll change that, eventually.

Comment · 16 years ago

   Nice, but I prefer C# there as well where you use the var keyword, like this:

     var tickets = new ArrayList<Ticket<ThingYouLove>>();

Actually, JDK7 is better in this case because it helps developer to "program to an interface".

Comment · 16 years ago

Is McAfee really worthier than Sun? If IBM took a deal with Sun at that high, the Sun would have moved around the earth and Oracle doesn't stand a chance to slur the OS community!