Chrome Stable 6, Firefox 4 Features Axed
Some things do not seem to be right. While Google does not seem to have problems increasing the stable releases of its Chrome browser in a four month turn, Mozilla decided to cut features from the upcoming Firefox 4 release to meet the end of the year release deadline for that version.
But first things first. Download Squad's Lee Mathews was the first to report that the stable version of Google Chrome made the jump to version 6. That's a milestone for the browser that just turned two today as well.
Chrome stable users now have access to new features such as browser data syncing or autofill next to better content settings for plugins and scripting languages.
The release is a security release as well, fixing more than a dozen different security vulnerabilities in the browser of which seven received a severity rating of high.
Chrome users are asked to upgrade their web browser as soon as possible to protect the browser from possible exploits.
It does not look that rosy for the upcoming Firefox 4 version that is currently in development.
According to Softpedia information the developers decided to remove features from the release to meet the deadline.
The first feature that was axed was the new account manager which was introduced back in April 2010. But the removal of the account manager may not be the only casualty to meet the deadline. At risk are silent updates on Windows, the Inspector and Web Console.
Feature freeze of Firefox 4 was initially planed for Firefox 4 Beta 5 but has since then been postponed to September 10th.
Firefox 4 will still offer several improvements over Firefox 3. It is however disappointing that at least one feature but likely more have been removed from the browser's release version.
What's your take on this browser development? Let us know in the comments.
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.