Who's on Firefox 4.0?

Speedskater said:
But the big problem is that many add-ins and most themes are not yet available.
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I've been using FF4 for a few days now, and I solved the problem by increasing the add-ons 'MaxVersion' a little. Works well enough in all cases.
 
Wohooo! Using it since yesterday and I love it ...
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I also installed Opera - but I miss all FF features/themes/addons/younameit...
 
GeeMack said:
Right click on an empty space between the buttons to bring up a small menu. Click "Customize..." on that menu. Now you can drag those buttons back and forth on the navigation bar and put them wherever you like. Then click "Done".
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Ah, good. One of the things that was irritating me was that the Refresh button had been moved, and apparently I use the Refresh button more than I thought. Mind you I'm now not sure whether to put it back where it was or leave it in the new position to get used to it for the future... it does make more sense to me to have the back/forward/refresh buttons near each other though.
 
richardm said:
Ah, good. One of the things that was irritating me was that the Refresh button had been moved, and apparently I use the Refresh button more than I thought. Mind you I'm now not sure whether to put it back where it was or leave it in the new position to get used to it for the future... it does make more sense to me to have the back/forward/refresh buttons near each other though.
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Agree. The new position of the reload button irked me, so it's back next to the back/forward buttons. I also moved the home page button to that side.
 
lauwersw said:
I just found out that if you remove the Menu Bar, you get an orange Firefox button in the title bar of the window. If you click that button, you get the most useful stuff in a menu, but it takes up much less space inside the window now.
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That's pretty cool. I wasn't aware of it. Years ago the trend seemed to be adding more tool bars, menu bars, large icons, search bars, and who-knows-what across the top of the browser window. Everything was eating up more real estate and making the actual content space smaller and smaller. Fortunately that trend seems to be waning. Now we can get rid of more clutter and dedicate more of the browser window to what it should be doing, showing content.

On the same subject, I always used the status bar at the bottom of previous Firefoxes to see where I'd be going when I hovered over links. In FF4 those link destinations and page-loading notices just show up as little temporary message boxes where the status bar used to be. That's a good feature, too.
 
richardm said:
Ah, good. One of the things that was irritating me was that the Refresh button had been moved, and apparently I use the Refresh button more than I thought. Mind you I'm now not sure whether to put it back where it was or leave it in the new position to get used to it for the future... it does make more sense to me to have the back/forward/refresh buttons near each other though.
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I put the Refresh button back where I feel it should be. It seems kind of clunky to have it anywhere else. But I almost always just hit F5 to refresh pages anyway.


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AdMan said:
Agree. The new position of the reload button irked me, so it's back next to the back/forward buttons. I also moved the home page button to that side.
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Yep, I have mine set starting at the left edge as: | Back/Forward | Reload | Stop | Home |
 
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lauwersw said:
I just found out that if you remove the Menu Bar, you get an orange Firefox button in the title bar of the window. If you click that button, you get the most useful stuff in a menu, but it takes up much less space inside the window now.
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Surely it's the other way around? The default is to have the single Firefox menu button and you have to change the settings to get the old-style menus back. It's even advertised as one of the main changes on their site:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/
 
Cuddles said:
Surely it's the other way around? The default is to have the single Firefox menu button and you have to change the settings to get the old-style menus back. It's even advertised as one of the main changes on their site:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/
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It's weird--I've installed FF4 on two computers. On one I got the single Firefox button, and on the other one I got the full menu bar, prior to any customization. Not sure why the difference, or what the default actually is...
 
AdMan said:
It's weird--I've installed FF4 on two computers. On one I got the single Firefox button, and on the other one I got the full menu bar, prior to any customization. Not sure why the difference, or what the default actually is...
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I got the full menu too. Maybe it has to do with the settings being imported during the upgrade?

Anyway, I removed the main menu bar and the bookmarks bar and am so far loving the new fox.
 
AdMan said:
It's weird--I've installed FF4 on two computers. On one I got the single Firefox button, and on the other one I got the full menu bar, prior to any customization. Not sure why the difference, or what the default actually is...
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Yeah, the same happened to me when I installed it on a second computer. Menus on one, button on the other. Very strange.
 
Wowbagger said:
Installed it on Ubuntu 10.10.

It doesn't seem to have the "single menu" option: Only full menu bar.
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Hmmm, ....

When I tried it on my Ubuntu 10.10 installation, I could turn off the menu bar. It was reduced to a small "Firefox" entry just before the tabs. It was under "View":"Toolbars":"Menu".
 
PhantomWolf said:
Firefox, pfft... Try Avant.
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*looks for Mac version* "Based on Internet Explorer" Eeeeeek!

Why anyone would base anything on the train wreck that is Internet Explorer is beyond me. I'm a web developer and Internet Explorer is what my nightmares are made of. :bwall
 
Upgraded to 4 yesterday.

Very pleased.

Mucho faster on my long-in-the-tooth Thinkpad R51. I don't use many add-ons or plug-ins, and all of them survived the change. Seems to also be a major reduction in creeping resource capture (One of my major beefs with FF. I have had to keep re-booting or at least close down FF and run CCleaner at regular intervals just to get get system resources untangled from my browser. :mad:), although it is still a bit early to be certain.

Menu customization is a great plus ... if I can quit screwing around with my layout, that is. :p Maybe I'll get over the novelty of it soon, and settle on something long term.

Very, VERY happy with tab groups so far, a much needed addition to the core program. I can think of a couple of tweaks which would be helpful, but I guess that is always true.

In general I highly recommend the upgrade to anyone who is a FF user already, and suggest at least checking it out for anyone who isn't. It's worth a test drive.
 
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I've been playing around with FF4 on my home PC and can't find one of my all-time favorite features (it's probably there, I just can't locate it). On the earlier FF versions, next to the Back/Forward button there's a drop-down arrow that allows one to see past web pages, and scroll down to whichever one you want in your recent history.

I apparently use that feature a LOT (I had no idea), but notice its absence sorely in FF4. Anyone know where it is? (or even what it's called, so I can Google for it?)

ETA: Mozilla removed this feature in FF4. They instead allowed a right-click on either forward or backward button to bring up the history list (kind of inconvenient, bringing in a second button like that). Anyway, enough people dislike it that someone made an add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/backforedrop/
 
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