Firefox 4

Bob_Harris

Firefox 4 beta has been out a few days:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/

Cue Chrome fan-boys flocking back, LOL.

RoadKillTs

I've been using it over the weekend don't think there will be many flocking back. I won't be anyways.

TouchingVirus

You can tell it's a beta - crashed 3 times in 10 minutes with a fresh profile while browsing the Mozilla Test Pilot website

Bob_Harris

No crashes for me. I think I'll use it in place of 3.6.

Owen

No crashes here either. The only thing I don't like is when I've boards open in one tab, I ctrl-t a new tab, go to type in boards.ie again, and it switches me back to the open tab. Anyone found a way around that?

TouchingVirus

When you press CTRL+F to open the old skool menu, if you click Tools, instead of hover on it, does the menu disappear for you guys? It does for me, majorly annoying

Overheal

It will have to do what 2 and 3 did before it: be a super lean browsing machine that will slowly bloat over the course of the next year.

sign me up!! :pac:

Dunder Mifflin

Im still having the same problem as 3.5 - it doesn't stay logged in to any sites. It remembers my password but doesn't log in automatically, despite being selected to. Happens everywhere I log in, Gmail, Boards etc.

Works fine in Chrome. I think I read somewhere before that it was something to do with Windows 7 and Firefox..

Anyway I was hoping it'd be fixed because I rather Firefox to Chrome.. o well

mike65

Opera rules, or it would if slightly more sites were truely Opera friendly.

TouchingVirus

Dunder Mifflin wrote: »

Im still having the same problem as 3.5 - it doesn't stay logged in to any sites. It remembers my password but doesn't log in automatically, despite being selected to. Happens everywhere I log in, Gmail, Boards etc.

Works fine in Chrome. I think I read somewhere before that it was something to do with Windows 7 and Firefox..

Anyway I was hoping it'd be fixed because I rather Firefox to Chrome.. o well

One reason for this is that Firefox 4 will use the same profile as Firefox 3.5. Obviously a setting has been changed along the way to make it behave like this. Start a new profile. Google how to do it

lil_lisa

Hey, could anyone tell me what the rendering is like on Firefox 4? I'm assuming it's the same as 3.5?

Scuid Mhór

still need to figure out what browser i'm going to replace internet explorer with on my laptop. leaning towards chrome, but i might give this firefox beta a shot if everyone's raving about it.

Bob_Harris

Firefox 4 beta 3 is out but a few addons do no work with it yet.

Adblock being the main one. I never realized there was so much annoying moving crap on screen when you can see the ads.

Black Swan

3.6 running grand, so what's the incentive to become an early adopter of 4.0 beta?

TiGeR KiNgS

Its faster.

Iv tried all the main browsers and I find FF 4 the fastest.

Also, I am using adblock with ff beta 3 right now

Black Swan

TiGeR KiNgS wrote: »

Its faster.

Iv tried all the main browsers and I find FF 4 the fastest.

Is is stable running on Windows 7?

Bob_Harris

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Is is stable running on Windows 7?

Yes, pretty much flawless for me.

The more people that use it the more user trends reports the developers get (if you decide to submit the report) and the better Firefox will get.

Black Swan

Bob_Harris wrote: »

The more people that use it the more user trends reports the developers get (if you decide to submit the report) and the better Firefox will get.

Oops! Well I would not be much help to them, because I normally turn off the reporting functions on all my apps. This occurs whenever I run a vulnerability scan with KIS2010 and implement their recommended settings.

Bob_Harris

TiGeR KiNgS wrote: »

Also, I am using adblock with ff beta 3 right now

How?

Scuid Mhór

Giant Squid wrote: »

still need to figure out what browser i'm going to replace internet explorer with on my laptop. leaning towards chrome, but i might give this firefox beta a shot if everyone's raving about it.

'kay so i got it. it's okay. nothing revolutionary.

Black Swan

Giant Squid wrote: »

still need to figure out what browser i'm going to replace internet explorer with on my laptop. leaning towards chrome, but i might give this firefox beta a shot if everyone's raving about it.

I have both FF3.6 and Chrome 5.0 on my rig and they work fine. IE8 is only useful for updating MS, otherwise I would avoid it.

Plebs

No AdBlock plus is annoying.

HTML5 WebSockets are cool Doing some stuff with them at the moment. I still think there's a bit of mis-match across the main different browsers implementations of the new HTML5 standard. These will be ironed out over the coming months though.

Giant Squid

Giant Squid wrote: »

'kay so i got it. it's okay. nothing revolutionary.

What did you expect?! Running the beta on win 7 here, it does the job as fast as i need it too so i am happy.

Plebs

Giant Squid wrote: »

'kay so i got it. it's okay. nothing revolutionary.

Lots of stuff going on under the hood. Firefox has to ditch its "Frankenstein" reputation. Lots of re-engineering of the Javascript engine as well as full integration of the new HTML5 standards.

Bob_Harris

Adblock has been updated to support beta 3.

Thank the lord, no more ads.

Does anybody know when Firefox 4 will be released? I don't like using the betas because none of my addons work with it. Also is it true there will be a 64bit version?

VenomIreland

I don't think anyone knows a release date yet, want it badly because Panorama (that awesome tab-grouping) is amazing but I can't use FF without all my addons (especially Greasemonkey).