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Un petit mois passe et voici que Mozilla nous présente une nouvelle bêta (la 4ème) de la prochaine version de leur navigateur fétiche... Firefox.
Ce qu'on peut retenir des changements opérés pendant ce mois vont être assez flagrant pour les utilisateurs de Windows, mais un peu moins pour les utilisateurs Linux/MacOS.
En effet le thème de Windows se précise notamment avec l'amélioration de l'intégration dans XP ou Vista, il faudra noter que le thème n'est toujours pas définitif contrairement aux version Mac et Linux qui, eux, peuvent déjà savourer leur thème Proto et Tango.
Une autre nouveauté assez impressionnante, c'est l'amélioration du moteur Javascript. Avec l'intégration de PGO, la vitesse d"exécution des scripts s'améliore de plus de 50% ! Devenant aussi rapide que Safari

Pour le reste des changements, voici le changelog :
Releases Notes
 
Easier to Use

* [Improved in Beta 4!] New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files, and you can see and search on the name of the website where a file came from. Your active downloads and time remaining are always shown in the status bar as your files download.
* [Improved in Beta 4!] Full page zoom: from the View menu and via keyboard shortcuts, the new zooming feature lets you zoom in and out of entire pages, scaling the layout, text and images, or optionally only the text size. Your settings will be remembered whenever you return to the site.
* [Improved in Beta 4!] Integration with Vista: Firefox now has Vista-specific icons, and uses native user interface widgets in the browser and in web forms.
* [Improved in Beta 4!] Integration with the Mac: the new Firefox theme makes toolbars, icons, and other user interface elements look like a native OS X application. Firefox also uses OS X widgets and spell-checker in web forms and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates. A combined back and forward control make it even easier to move between web pages.
* [Improved in Beta 4!] Integration with Linux: Firefox's default icons, buttons, and menu styles now use the native GTK theme.

More Personal

* [Improved in Beta 4!] Location bar & auto-complete: type in all or part of the title, tag or address of a page to see a list of matches from your history and bookmarks; a new display makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page you're looking for. Results are returned according to their frecency (a combination of frequency and recency of visits to that page) ensuring that you're seeing the most relevant matches. An adaptive learning algorithm further tunes the results to your patterns!

Improved Performance

* [Improved in Beta 4!] Speed: improvements to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimizations have resulted in significant improvements in performance. Compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run twice as fast in Firefox 3 Beta 4, and the popular SunSpider test from Apple shows improvements over previous releases.
* [Improved in Beta 4!] Memory usage: Several new technologies work together to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 Beta 4 over a web browsing session. Memory cycles are broken and collected by an automated cycle collector, a new memory allocator reduces fragmentation, hundreds of leaks have been fixed, and caching strategies have been tuned.

Release Notes complète
Pour pouvoir tester la bêta, veuillez faire une sauvegarde de vos marque-pages avant de l'installer, une migration sera faite vers un fichier SQLite. Avec ceci, il est impératif de ne pas repasser aux anciennes versions de Firefox 3 car la structure du SQLite lié à Places diffère
Les extensions utilisant l'ancien gestionnaire de mots de passe (celui de Firefox 3 Alpha 4 et antérieurs) ne seront plus compatibles avec cette version.
Toutes les extensions utilisant un serveur de mise à jour non sécurisé seront désactivées !
Tab Mix Plus (v 0.3.6 incluse) n'est également plus compatible avec cette version, une mise à jour est disponible sur le forum de l'auteur (dernière version du 2 Mars).

Firefox 3 Bêta 4 EST incompatible avec Windows 95/98/ME et les MacOS X inférieurs à la version 10.4.

Télécharger Firefox 3 Bêta 4 pour Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/WS2008 en Français
Télécharger Firefox 3 Bêta 4 pour MacOS 10.4 et plus en Français
Télécharger Firefox 3 Bêta 4 pour Unix/Linux en Français

N'oubliez pas de vous créer un nouveau profil si vous n'avez pas encore testé une bêta de Firefox 3 (commande firefox -p sur Windows, firefox -ProfileManager sur Linux (et peut-être aussi MacOS X)).

Non recommandé ! Pour désactiver le contrôle des mises à jour sécurisées, il faut créer dans about:config une nouvelle valeur booléenne de nom "extensions.checkUpdateSecurity" et lui attribuer la valeur "false" pour la désactiver et "true" pour la réactiver.
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4 commentaires pour “Mozilla Firefox 3 Bêta 4”

  1. streets a dit (le 11-03-2008 à 14:50)
    Voici la liste des navigateurs comparé avec l'acid test 3 donc des tests en %.
    Apparament c'est très complet, il ne manque plus que Mozilla Firefox 3 Bêta 4.

    http://www.anomalousanomaly.com/2008/03/06/acid-3/

    acid test 3 http://acid3.acidtests.org/
  2. streets a dit (le 02-04-2008 à 19:59)
    Firefox 3 beta 5 est disponible

    Changelog Firefox 3beta 5
     

    More Secure
    • One-click site info: Click the site favicon in the location bar to see who owns the site and to check if your connection is protected from eavesdropping. Identity verification is prominently displayed and easier to understand. When a site uses Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates, the site favicon button will turn green and show the name of the company you're connected to. (Try it here!)
    • Malware Protection: malware protection warns users when they arrive at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other malware. (Try it here!)
    • New Web Forgery Protection page: the content of pages suspected as web forgeries is no longer shown. (Try it here!)
    • New SSL error pages: clearer and stricter error pages are used when Firefox encounters an invalid SSL certificate. (Try it here!)
    • Add-ons and Plugin version check: Firefox now automatically checks add-on and plugin versions and will disable older, insecure versions.
    • Secure add-on updates: to improve add-on update security, add-ons that provide updates in an insecure manner will be disabled.
    • Anti-virus integration: Firefox will inform anti-virus software when downloading executables.
    • Vista Parental Controls: Firefox now respects the Vista system-wide parental control setting for disabling file downloads.
    • Effective top-level domain (eTLD) service better restricts cookies and other restricted content to a single domain.
    • Better protection against cross-site JSON data leaks.
    Easier to Use
    • Easier password management: an information bar replaces the old password dialog so you can now save passwords after a successful login.
    • Simplified add-on installation: the add-ons whitelist has been removed making it possible to install extensions from third-party sites in fewer clicks.
    • New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files, and you can see and search on the name of the website where a file came from. Your active downloads and time remaining are always shown in the status bar as your files download.
    • Resumable downloading: users can now resume downloads after restarting the browser or resetting your network connection.
    • Full page zoom: from the View menu and via keyboard shortcuts, the new zooming feature lets you zoom in and out of entire pages, scaling the layout, text and images, or optionally only the text size. Your settings will be remembered whenever you return to the site.
    • Podcasts and Videocasts can be associated with your media playback tools.
    • Tab scrolling and quickmenu: tabs are easier to locate with the new tab scrolling and tab quickmenu.
    • Save what you were doing: Firefox will prompt users to save tabs on exit.
    • Optimized Open in Tabs behavior: opening a folder of bookmarks in tabs now appends the new tabs rather than overwriting.
    • Location and Search bar size can now be customized with a simple resizer item.
    • Text selection improvements: multiple text selections can be made with Ctrl/Cmd; double-click drag selects in "word-by-word" mode; triple-clicking selects a paragraph.
    • Find toolbar: the Find toolbar now opens with the current selection.
    • Plugin management: users can disable individual plugins in the Add-on Manager.
    • [Improved in Beta 5!] Integration with Windows: Firefox now has improved Windows icons, and uses native user interface widgets in the browser and in web forms.
    • [Improved in Beta 5!] Integration with the Mac: the new Firefox theme makes toolbars, icons, and other user interface elements look like a native OS X application. Firefox also uses OS X widgets and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates. A combined back and forward control make it even easier to move between web pages.
    • [Improved in Beta 5!] Integration with Linux: Firefox's default icons, buttons, and menu styles now use the native GTK theme.
    More Personal
    • Star button: quickly add bookmarks from the location bar with a single click; a second click lets you file and tag them.
    • Tags: associate keywords with your bookmarks to sort them by topic.
    • Location bar & auto-complete: type in all or part of the title, tag or address of a page to see a list of matches from your history and bookmarks; a new display makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page you're looking for. Results are returned according to their frecency (a combination of frequency and recency of visits to that page) ensuring that you're seeing the most relevant matches. An adaptive learning algorithm further tunes the results to your patterns!
    • Smart Bookmarks Folder: quickly access your recently bookmarked and tagged pages, as well as your more frequently visited pages with the new smart bookmarks folder on your bookmark toolbar.
    • [Improved in Beta 5!] Places Organizer: view, organize and search through all of your bookmarks, tags, and browsing history with multiple views and smart folders to store your frequent searches. Create and restore full backups whenever you want.
    • Web-based protocol handlers: web applications, such as your favorite webmail provider, can now be used instead of desktop applications for handling mailto: links from other sites. Similar support is available for other protocols (Web applications will have to first enable this by registering as handlers with Firefox).
    • Download & Install Add-ons: the Add-ons Manager (Tools > Add-ons) can now be used to download and install a Firefox customization from the thousands of Add-ons available from our community add-ons website. When you first open the Add-ons Manager, a list of recommended Add-ons is shown.
    • Easy to use Download Actions: a new Applications preferences pane provides a better UI for configuring handlers for various file types and protocol schemes.
    Improved Platform for Developers
    • New graphics and font handling: new graphics and text rendering architectures in Gecko 1.9 provides rendering improvements in CSS, SVG as well as improved display of fonts with ligatures and complex scripts.
    • Color management: (set gfx.color_management.enabled on in about:config and restart the browser to enable.) Firefox can now adjust images with embedded color profiles.
    • Offline support: enables web applications to provide offline functionality (website authors must add support for offline browsing to their site for this feature to be available to users).
    • A more complete overview of Firefox 3 for developers is available for website and add-on developers.
    Improved Performance
    • [Improved in Beta 5!] Speed: improvements to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimizations have resulted in continued improvements in performance. Compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run twice as fast in Firefox 3 Beta 5, and the popular SunSpider test from Apple shows improvements over previous releases.
    • Memory usage: Several new technologies work together to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 over a web browsing session. Memory cycles are broken and collected by an automated cycle collector, a new memory allocator reduces fragmentation, hundreds of leaks have been fixed, and caching strategies have been tuned.
    • Reliability: A user's bookmarks, history, cookies, and preferences are now stored in a transactionally secure database format which will prevent data loss even if their system crashes.
    Release notes


    Télécharger Firefox pour Windows en français (2000/XP...)
    Télecharger Firefox pour MacOS en français (10.4 minimun)
    Télécharger Firefox pour Linux en français
  3. 1for-matik a dit (le 02-04-2008 à 21:59)
    Ah ben voilà, pour une fois que j'arrive trop tard

    Par contre tu aurais pu penser à en faire une tite news
  4. 1for-matik a dit (le 06-05-2008 à 14:16)
    Etant donné que que la RC1 a quelques semaines de retard car il reste encore une bonne 15aine de bugs à corriger, je vous mets au courant de l'état actuels des choses.

    Comme on pourrait le deviner par la mention RC1, les développeurs finalisent le plus possible ce qui reste à finaliser.
    Les thèmes sur les différentes plateforme sont presque prêts (prise en charge du statut d'inactivité de la fenêtre de Firefox sur Leopard etc etc...) Mais le plus gros boulot qui a été à faire, c'est faire ressembler Firefox Vista à son environnement. Et ben c'est chose faite depuis cette nuit :

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    Firefox 3 Bêta 5 à gauche, une hourly de cette nuit à droite

    Sinon entre la bêta 5 et la RC1, un gros bug concernant le plug-in flash avait fait son apparition, mais il est aujourd'hui corrigé (en fait ça fait 2 semaines qu'il est corrigé) et tout qui reste à faire c'est de corriger les mini-bug au démarrage du navigateur

    D'ailleurs, si vous voulez consulter le statut de la RC1, c'est par ici.

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