Firefox 4

[Steven]

Pleased to see that Firefox4 finally entered RC status.
After 14 betas (some of which I tried with various succes), I'm happy to see the RC1 is doing in great job in rendering F1technical

Anybody else trying it out?

[manchild]

I've tried last beta before RC which is almost identical to RC. Didn't uninstall 3.6.15 but hoped that it will install 4.0 as a new browser which it did, but not completely.

Anyway, I'm not sure why, perhaps because of that, it was terribly slow, much slower than IE6, so I've uninstalled it.

Unfortunately, some of it somehow remained to affect 3.6.15 so I had to uninstall it too, and install 3.6.15 again, get addons, plugins, bookmarks, options.

I'm sticking to 3.6.15 until 4 gets global confirmation that it is really flawlessly operational.

Compared to Opera 11 on same machine, it was at least 4 times slower.

Complete disappointment.


Now it's Ciro's time with "I've been telling you that Opera rules years ago but you wouldn't listen..."

[Steven]

Well I had this problem when going from FF 2 to 3.
It's well known that when installing a new major FF release, you should use a new user profile. By default firefox will try to upgrade your existing profile, but for some reason that shows crappy performance.

Anyway, I'm happy, works like a charm.

[manchild]

By default firefox will try to upgrade your existing profile, but for some reason that shows crappy performance.

Yes, but this time it didn't upgrade exiting version but installed another Firefox as separate browser in separate folder by it's own suggestion.

I use many addons and settings that I can't save and add to new version if I uninstall previous. That works only with bookmarks (as much as I know).

[Morteza]

I have been using Firefox 4 since the release of RC versions. It works perfectly, and I am so pleased with it. All my add-ons work on it except for FEBE. I have uninstalled 3.6.15 but have customized my UI to somehow resemble 3.6. I also have Google Chrome and Opera installed on my system. Although Firefox is slower than both Chrome and Opera, it is my primary browser at the moment and I am absolutely happy with it.

Here's Firefox 4 UI with my favorite customizations:


A really good feature in Firefox 4 is that it recognizes links in text form. You can select an address, and Firefox 4 recognizes it. Like this :

[imightbewrong]

I have used FF4 pretty much through the whole beta program. I also had problems with it being slow, but it is easily solvable. Just delete your old profile and start from scratch, did a world of good for me!

Since you probably don't wanna loose your bookmarks and history and such, you can simply install FF4, enable firefox sync, perform a manual sync (to ensure that it really is synced up) and then remove the profile. Then just start fresh, enter your sync account settings and re-sync and you are back up and working in no time!

Sure, you have to re-install the extensions, but trust me. It was worth it.

[manchild]

After uninstalling 3.6.15 and installing 4 RC2 it works perfectly.

I only hate the shape of back button. I'd like it perfect circle, not oval.

[imightbewrong]

After uninstalling 3.6.15 and installing 4 RC2 it works perfectly.

I only hate the shape of back button. I'd like it perfect circle, not oval.

I always change them to the smaller alternatives, then they are square. I want as little space as possible taken up by toolbars and such.

[Morteza]

Firefox 4 stable version has been released today

[manchild]

I've found Firefox 3 theme for Firefox 4. Back to good old colorful buttons. Perfect!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... r-firefox/

[Morteza]

I've found Firefox 3 theme for Firefox 4. Back to good old colorful buttons. Perfect!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... r-firefox/

Wow! That is just amazing. Thanks a lot for the link mate =D>

[manchild]

You'll only have to manually position the buttons and set location of tabs.

Right click on one of the bar fields > uncheck Tabs on top > check Menu bar > than click on Customize and drag home and refresh buttons to left, back to old positions (they are located at the right side of addresbar in FF4 by default).

[imightbewrong]

One thing about FF4. The animated GIF performance is horrendous! When I idle in the F1T forums, firefox uses 30-40% of my cpu power, just to animate all the gifs (unread post, etc indicators). They really have to sort that out!

In the meantime, would it be possible to get a skin option that does away with the animated GIFs?

[manchild]

What is you CPU power? I haven't noticed any problems with animated gifs.

[imightbewrong]

What is you CPU power? I haven't noticed any problems with animated gifs.

It's quite handy, its not a CPU issue. It is a know bug, see:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595671