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Mozilla bolting Tab Candy on to Firefox 4 today

by Lee Mathews on August 12, 2010 at 03:00 PM

Aza Raskin's Tab Candy is one of the slickest additions to Firefox we've seen in quite some time -- you may remember Erez stating that it's going to revolutionize tabbed browsing. Mozilla's certainly excited about the project, and they had previously announced that it would be added to the Firefox 4 code at some point in the future.

Today's the day, according to a tweet from Mozilla's Mike Beltzner: Tab Candy is becoming part of mozilla-central and should be making its debut in one of the upcoming FF4 beta releases.

If you'd like to play with the new builds early (as always, these are for intrepid testers only), you'll find them in the latest-mozilla-central directory on Mozilla's server.

Tags: 4, browser, browsing, firefox, raskin, tab candy, TabCandy, tabs

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ChrisSskAug 12th 2010 4:22PM

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Firefox Sync is also merging to mozilla-central today

Mozilla QA is having a test day tomorrow to test them both

http://quality.mozilla.org/events/2010/08/11/testday-mozmill-firefox-sync-and-tab-candy-friday-august-13th/

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kojo87Aug 12th 2010 4:37PM

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anyone else having troubles updating 4b2 to 4b3? the update keeps failing and now 4b2 keeps randomly closing on me.

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dougAug 12th 2010 5:30PM

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Just get the installer and use it that way, It's how I did it.

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kojo87Aug 12th 2010 6:31PM

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of course right after i posted that i tried it again and it worked. go figure. shame that adblock doesn't work with 4b3 though...

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KualaBeeAug 12th 2010 9:18PM

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It works with a little tweak. This is from the adblock plus forum

YourProfilePath\extensions\{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}\modules\ContentPolicy.jsm
in line 395
under

// nsIChannelEventSink interface implementation

add this

asyncOnChannelRedirect: function(oldChan, newChan, flags, redirectCallback) {
this.onChannelRedirect(oldChan, newChan, flags);
redirectCallback.onRedirectVerifyCallback(0);
},

so it looks like

// nsIChannelEventSink interface implementation
//
asyncOnChannelRedirect: function(oldChan, newChan, flags, redirectCallback) {
this.onChannelRedirect(oldChan, newChan, flags);
redirectCallback.onRedirectVerifyCallback(0);
},
onChannelRedirect: function(oldChannel, newChannel, flags)
{