Who's on Firefox 4.0?

Soapy Sam

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I've been trying Firefox 4 for a couple of days.
I like it.
The initial appearance is Chrome-like, but it looks a little friendlier once the menus are shown.
It's a good deal faster than 3.6, both on a Vista PC and a 6 year old XP laptop.

I know we have plenty of FF fans here. Comments?
 
A Firefox 4 is part of openSUSE 11.4 which I have installed. However, since quite a few of the add-ons that I use are not available (yet) for Firefox 4, I've had to revert to Firefox 3.6.15.
 
Still on Firefox 3.6.15. I depend on Firebug for getting work done. Until Firebug works on Firefox 4 I'm staying on 3.6.
 
Soapy Sam said:
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Long time user of Firefox. Downloaded and installed 4.0 RC two days ago, but reverted back to 3.6.15 when I found out the Aeon theme isn't supported in version 4.0.

I'm very particular about the color/appearance of the menu bar/tabs/address line, etc. and if I can't find one that is similar to Aeon, I fear I may have to switch to IE9 (gasp), or Chrome instead.

RayG
 
I am with FF 3.6.15. There is on feature or addon that I am missing real bad. It's the highlighter add-on that is not available for 3.6.15.

Any suggestion as I really like to highlight section of text when I read a web page.
 
Usually, I'm not a fan of betas or pre-release versions. I usually wait for the stable release.

That said, I got the 4.0 RC for Mac OS X. Seems to work quite a bit nicer as the 3.xx I still have around (their current stable release).

One of my current peeves with the browser is still there, though: After a few minutes after launching, FF becomes unresponsive for a minute or so. Routinely. No matter what I do. (I readily admit that it could be one of the very few plug-ins I use. It's not serious enough that I want to invest much work in hunting down the source, though.)
 
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The tabs at the top take a bit to get used to.

But overall I like it.
 
Policenaut said:
I like it. A nice upgrade and I like the new layout. Also Firebug does work (1.7).
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Firebug does indeed work. But up until one of the last betas there was still a bug in the Javascript debugger that made it a no-go for me.

But this is fixed in the final release and I'm now a happy Firefox 4 user :-)

Cmd-Shift-E (tab groups) seems like a nifty feature that I might begin using.
 
I updated, only reason I keep FF installed is so I can run Zotero. Just use it as some referencing software now, normal browsing in Chromium.
 
gnome said:
No, Who's on Opera.
What's on Firefox 4.0.
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I've been hooked on this since 3.Xish. Every once in awhile I'll download a competitor and find out I've been right all these years. I just wish the Mac version was as solid as Windows.
 
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