Mozilla Firefox 5.0 Beta 1

Mozilla Firefox 5.0 Beta 1
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/5.0b1-candidates/build1/

 

so wait what is the difference between this and aurora? i asume aurora is more of a "dev" channel with nightly updates correct?

 

Correct, just look at the version numbers.

 

According to their forums 'aurora to beta merge isn't until mid-May'
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2183129

 

Exactly. This so-called beta is just a dry-run to check the system.

 

I won't bother. No reason to break addon compatibility for something that offers nothing new.

 

This is not a real beta.
The update package is a snapshot of Aurora branded as Beta for testing.
The first Beta of Firefox 5 is scheduled for May 17.

Read:
https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2011/05/04/aurora-channel-switcher-testing/

-and-
https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2011/05/04/beta-channel-switcher-testing/

 

Is there a 64-bit version of Firefox 5 for Windows? (I know there's a fairly stable 64-bit alpha release of Firefox 4 aka Minefield so I was expecting Firefox 5 to be fully squared away in that regard)

 

No there isn't.

Nightly 6.0 (formerly Minefield) has x64 builds.

[edit]
The significant changes happen in Nightly anyways...it's fairly stable to run.

 

i can't understand mozilla released firefox v4 some moths ago , and instead imporved it , it's working on a v5 ?

 

http://www.ghacks.net/2011/04/07/mo...cifics-updated-firefox-5-and-6-release-dates/

 

I checked briefly this 5 beta 1 and found something new. When printing text web pages to PDF with hardware acceleration enabled, this version creates small, text PDF and not big, graphical, non-searchable PDF as before with v. 4.

This is important for me, as I frequently print to PDF to save documents, transaction vouchers, etc.