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Firefox 4 Beta out now with modified user interface

It’s heeeere! The much awaited Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta (or rather Beta 2 to be exact). With its ‘all new’ layout. That’s quite similar to Chrome but still needs work. Feature-wise little has changed since the Firefox 3.7alpha5 release. And there are still plenty of gap areas. That in the Beta can’t be addressed through add-ons because of changes in the Firefox 3.7alpha5 add-on structure. Even Nightly Tester Tools, every tester’s jailbreak app, doesn’t work.

Right now there’s just the one add-on that does work: Mozilla Sync (aka Weave, Dec 9, 2009).

Several previewers have been complaining that Firefox 4 Beta starts More >

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Microsoft Windows 7 Beta (Build 7000)

Feb 26th

Posted by Administrator in E-Musings

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Windows 7 is proof-positive that Microsoft (eventually?) manages to get its operating system ducks in a row! Unfortunately the run up to perfection means users must suffer the various feature delivery mis-steps that seem governed by marketing needs to release at least one software version every year.

As a user of both Linux and Windows systems I can personally testify that Linux too rarely gets it right the first time for any version. This quarter I have been trying to work with Ubuntu 8.10 and its 9.04 Beta versions. Unfortunately both feature a buggy network manager applet that loses all custom More >

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