Anyone tried Firefox 4 Beta?

3dcandy · 28 Jan 2011 at 12:57

I thought the custom buttons were only designed to go on the top bar!?!?!?!

Delvis · 28 Jan 2011 at 14:46

3dcandy said:
I thought the custom buttons were only designed to go on the top bar!?!?!?!

Dunno, you can drag them to the bottom...but then it minimises...so whats the point of it being there if you cant use it?

3dcandy · 28 Jan 2011 at 21:59

I think it's designed for addons to use, it's called the addons bar...thus I think it's only meant to be accessed via the extensions system

Delvis · 29 Jan 2011 at 10:21

3dcandy said:
I think it's designed for addons to use, it's called the addons bar...thus I think it's only meant to be accessed via the extensions system

So what does it do? When i drag the status bar meter thing to the top, it just sticks it right under the address bar, half way across etc =/

3dcandy · 29 Jan 2011 at 21:15

On mine it currently has icons for adblock plus and firebug....dunno I've not actually messed with it that much, but it's in the addons chrome docs....

Longbow · 6 Feb 2011 at 13:32

I'm finding that 4.0b10 is crashing a lot! Never had a problem with the previous beta releases.

3dcandy · 6 Feb 2011 at 14:20

I've not noticed any crashing problems...disable all your addons and try again? I have heard that even mild overclocks on graphics card can cause problems..

opethdisciple · 7 Feb 2011 at 17:36

I have fallen in love with Firefox over the years, but I do think that Mozilla suffer from to many promises and not enough end results.

Check this: http://www.techspot.com/news/42297-mozilla-plans-to-release-firefox-40-50-60-and-70-in-2011.html

Not only is Firefox 4 about 3 months late, and still 2 beta's and a couple of RC's away, but they are already promising us to delever 4 major verson in 2011!!

:rolleyes:

Lets see.

Nexus18 · 8 Feb 2011 at 00:21

I have gone back to chrome, just prefer the minimal UI, the way the add ons work on chrome, faster overall as well, although I think firefox renders the web pages quicker.

One thing, which I did love about FF 4 was the hardware acceleration thing or whatever it was, it was so smooth scrolling down web pages, especially the "high res screenshot thread" compared to chrome, hopefully chrome will get that part done as good as what mozilla has.

Didn't care too much about the grouping tabs things, although I can see how it would be very useful for some people, also its nice to see that they have got the pin tab feature as well.

knowledge123 · 8 Feb 2011 at 15:11

Beta 11 is out

https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/4.0b11/releasenotes/

Windows
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-4.0b11&os=win&lang=en-GB

Mac
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-4.0b11&os=osx&lang=en-GB

Linux
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-4.0b11&os=linux&lang=en-GB

Mattus · 8 Feb 2011 at 18:38

Nexus18 said:
I have gone back to chrome, just prefer the minimal UI

If you set it to use small icons, Firefox 4 actually has slightly more content space than Chrome does. I was quite impressed by that.

Nexus18 · 8 Feb 2011 at 19:55

Yeah I know that, there is a a wee bit more of actual web space compared to chrome, although I don't know if it was just me, but it wasn't a great difference in the size of the buttons between small and normal. Also I prefer the actual layout of chrome at the minute, but once twenty ten supports FF 4, then I will give it another go, twenty ten looks much better than chrome UI and the default FF4 IMO, really don't like that orange button either.

Also wish google would let you customize the actual buttons i.e. remove the back and forward as I don't need them, I use my 2 side buttons on my Mx518 for that.

dante6491 · 9 Feb 2011 at 15:43

I wonder if they have fixed the issue where it causes my UAC to hang for ages, Windows Media centre to take an decade to go to full screen, and a century for Task Manager to pop up.

Murray · 10 Feb 2011 at 15:15

i dont like that one the latest beta the little thing that pops up in the little left hand corner telling you what it is loading.

mrk · 10 Feb 2011 at 15:37

It's supposed to do that and it's a good thing/ Same as Chrome.

Murray · 10 Feb 2011 at 16:29

its annoying lol.

cub123 · 11 Feb 2011 at 09:28

Didn't realise this was out!
I will give it a try.
As firefox 3 seems broken on mine.

mrk · 11 Feb 2011 at 09:30

If something appears broken then a new profile almost always fixes the problem in all release versions of FF.

Add -profilemanager to the FF shortcut's target ending to create a new profile.

Longbow · 11 Mar 2011 at 22:37

Firefox 4.0 RC1 has been released.

mrk · 11 Mar 2011 at 22:46

It has been out for about a week now, just not made public until yesterday

One welcome change though is I found I can now add pinned items whereas in 3.6.x I could not as it would only show locally opened pages instead of online ones: