{"id":24703,"date":"2011-01-16T12:12:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T12:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/01\/16\/firefox-4-beta-9-bodes-well\/"},"modified":"2011-01-16T12:12:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T12:12:57","slug":"firefox-4-beta-9-bodes-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/16\/firefox-4-beta-9-bodes-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 4 Beta 9 bodes well sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del><strong>Firefox Four is nearing readiness for your use.<\/strong>  There are a massive 661 bug fixes, a number people are very excited about, but you&#8217;ve got to ask:  How do you get that many unfixed bugs to begin with???  One of the features I&#8217;m looking forward is tabs in the title bar. I&#8217;m tired of giving up vertical screen real estate to the title bar, a few tool bars, a menu bar, a tab bar, and then within the web site, a banner add, a fancy decorative banner I don&#8217;t need to see, etc. etc.  When I look at my own blog on my lap top, I have to scroll down to see the title of the post!  Tabs in the otherwise useless title bar will be nice start.<\/p>\n<p>It is said by <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.internetnews.com\/skerner\/2011\/01\/firefox-4-beta-9-now-out-fixin.html\">those who have tested it<\/a> that Firefox 4 will start up very quickly and run very snappily.   <\/del><\/p>\n<p>Unless you use Linux.  Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/11\/01\/16\/0657240\/Why-Linux-Loses-Out-On-Hardware-Acceleration-In-Firefox?from=headlines\">this<\/a> and links therein.    Blaming the victim.  There is nothing wrong with X in Linux.  It&#8217;s the oldest most stable GUI&#8217;s in use.  Linux desktop effects and bells and whistles are copied by other OS&#8217;s.  This is Firefox not caring about Linux or the Open Source community.  Time to switch browsers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox Four is nearing readiness for your use. There are a massive 661 bug fixes, a number people are very excited about, but you&#8217;ve got to ask: How do you get that many unfixed bugs to begin with??? One of the features I&#8217;m looking forward is tabs in the title bar. I&#8217;m tired of giving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/16\/firefox-4-beta-9-bodes-well\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firefox 4 Beta 9 bodes well sucks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6qr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}