{"id":14342,"date":"2011-01-15T00:45:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T23:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=14342"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:06:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:06:04","slug":"latest-firefox-4-beta-version-released-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/latest-firefox-4-beta-version-released-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Firefox 4 Beta version released today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14344\" title=\"Mozilla Firefox\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/01\/firefoxlogo-12950417801.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"126\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/mozilla.org\"><strong>Mozilla<\/strong><\/a> has just released <strong>Firefox 4 Beta 9<\/strong>, the latest version of their popular<strong> web browser for <a href=\"http:\/\/firefox4.en.softonic.com\/\">Windows<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/firefox4.en.softonic.com\/mac\">Mac<\/a> computers.<\/strong> With the final version of Firefox 4 currently targeted for a  late February release, this newest update of Firefox 4 mostly just  includes basic tweaks and bug fixes.<\/p>\n<p>Users should see <strong>improved browser start-up and <\/strong><strong>bookmarking speed,<\/strong> since Mozilla has overhauled the bookmarks and history code. Similarly,  the efficiency of complex animations has been improved by <strong>enabling per-compartment garbage collection<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This new version of Firefox 4 Beta also boasts an interface that includes <strong>redesigned browsing buttons<\/strong> and <strong>tabs relocated to the top of the address bar<\/strong>. In addition, <strong>Windows Vista<\/strong> and <strong>Windows 7<\/strong> users can look forward to a <strong>single-button menu<\/strong> on the top left corner of their browser that makes toolbar commands even more accessible.<\/p>\n<p>Before the final version of Firefox 4 is made available, there is  expected to be one more beta version released, as well as a few release  candidates. Interestingly enough, it&#8217;s possible users might see a final  build of <a href=\"http:\/\/internet-explorer-9.en.softonic.com\/\"><strong>Internet Explorer 9<\/strong><\/a> around the same time. In that case, February just might turn out to be the month a truly epic battle of the browsers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has just released Firefox 4 Beta 9, the latest version of their popular web browser for Windows and Mac computers. With the final version of Firefox 4 currently targeted for a late February release, this newest update of Firefox 4 mostly just includes basic tweaks and bug fixes. Users should see improved browser start-up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/latest-firefox-4-beta-version-released-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Latest Firefox 4 Beta version released today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-14342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334493,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342\/revisions\/334493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14342"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=14342"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=14342"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=14342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}