Firefox 4 released

rgt247 · Mar 22, 2011, 16:55:04

Firefox 4 is out.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/

The number of downloads can been seen here. http://glow.mozilla.org/

Rik · Mar 22, 2011, 17:42:03

Any bad reports yet?

rgt247 · Mar 22, 2011, 17:48:12

A few of my add-ons do not work. They will be updated soon. Seems ok so far, only used it for a few hours.

Rik · Mar 22, 2011, 17:49:53

Thanks.

Niall · Mar 22, 2011, 17:55:30

Google opt out doesn't work. I'm stunned, no really. Okay, I'm lying.

Okay, just installed. This looks like a very old version of Opera I tried once, many years ago. How strange.

Rik · Mar 22, 2011, 17:59:27

In what way, Niall?

Niall · Mar 22, 2011, 18:18:23

Just the layout. An old version of Opera (hmm, or am I thinking of Netscape?) it has the tab at the top, all squared off with a smaller bar at the top. I haven't had a play about with it yet, but I do like the orange tab at the top containing everything. That's nice and neat

Rik · Mar 22, 2011, 18:25:36

I shall have to dabble.

Niall · Mar 22, 2011, 18:28:16

Yes, my descriptive powers are not the best today. I went to the gym for the first time in 4 months last night, and physio today. I'm slightly off my face on painkillers

Rik · Mar 22, 2011, 18:30:58

That's OK, I'm out of it on diazepam.

Simon · Mar 22, 2011, 18:50:25

Bloody hell - call the drugs squad!

Rik · Mar 22, 2011, 18:51:00

Call them what?

Simon · Mar 22, 2011, 18:52:45

What you like, as long as they have some!

Rik · Mar 22, 2011, 18:53:48

No need for them to bring anything, I have it all here.

Gary · Mar 22, 2011, 19:10:05

If you have OCD you will end up putting your buttons all over firefox up down left or right

and still not be happy, you can have them all on the left hand side as in 3.6 but it is less cluttered with them on the right, the do not track feature is pretty pointless as I don't think websites support it, I just use the easy privacy sub with adblock plus which works fine with FF 4

drummer · Mar 23, 2011, 00:13:06

The status bar has vanished and is now only available via another flipping add-on!

The philosopher Charlie Brown sums up my opinion on this version of Firefox:

zappaDPJ · Mar 23, 2011, 03:12:33

Aaugh indeed. I might learn to like this version or I could completely hate it. The URL that pops up in the left hand corner every time I mouse over a link is really horribly distracting on dark content and I nearly had a hissy fit when Firebug came up as incompatible (something I use for hours most days). Luckily I was offered an upgrade.

The one stop shop menu seems like a good idea as does the built in spill chucker which seems to work with all the web based editors I've tried so far. I'll reserve judgement for now I think.

Gary · Mar 23, 2011, 07:25:09

Getting used to it, adblock plus needs updating as it has an issues with where it wants to put its icon

having FF run in 64 bit is nice but comes with a few mime bugs but I'm sure a point release will sort some of these out, the spell checker is much improved and I'm seting in now after getting used to the home button on the right hand side, I just want to remove the bookmarks button in the tool bar as in OS X I already have that above Firefox anyway, early days but a improvement in many ways and so much faster at rendering, although it still uses a chunk of ram. Pinning tabs is a nice touch say leaving your webmail of whatever pinned and it changes colour when its updated is a neat idea.

Justina was a bit confused though as she naturally wants to go to the left for the home button, but it is less cluttered the way its laid out by default.

zappaDPJ · Mar 23, 2011, 14:40:14

The first thing I did was move the home button and bookmark list. I don't think I'd ever have got used to the default placement. Definitely an improvement in my book as well, I think I'm going to like this version quite a lot.

vitriol · Mar 23, 2011, 17:52:01

I'm liking it so far, the speed at which pages render is really good.

Rik · Mar 23, 2011, 17:54:06

Quote from: zappaDPJ on Mar 23, 2011, 14:40:14
The first thing I did was move the home button and bookmark list. I don't think I'd ever have got used to the default placement. Definitely an improvement in my book as well, I think I'm going to like this version quite a lot.

Does it go in as an upgrade, Zap, or do you need to import all your settings from v3?

Glenn · Mar 23, 2011, 17:55:12

I installed it at work, it seems to overwrite V3 and take it's settings

.Griff. · Mar 23, 2011, 18:06:16

It imported all my settings, addons, and bookmarks from 3.6 Rik.

zappaDPJ · Mar 23, 2011, 18:08:00

I installed from a downloaded file Rik (full install I would think) and it was the same for me as it was from Glenn. The executable overwrote my current installation, kept all my settings and offered to update outdated plugins

Rik · Mar 23, 2011, 18:30:13

Thanks, guys.