Firefox 4 - Your download counts!

[aidanjt]

still a pig with memory, too.

[The_Wheelhouse]

Damn, not too happy with a few of the changes, or rather, not happy with the lack of choice. If you change the position of the address bar, give me the OPTION to put it back the way it was.

Just right click and deselect the tabs on top button

Also I'm hating the integrated refresh/ top button. The animation when opening a new tab is starting to bug me and finally when you type into the address bar it used to go to the first link, but now only goes to a google page.

[MadduckUK]

Damn, not too happy with a few of the changes, or rather, not happy with the lack of choice. If you change the position of the address bar, give me the OPTION to put it back the way it was.

view - toolbars - customize - then drag it where you want it.

Not liking the Tabs above the Address bar

view - toolbars - uncheck "tabs on top"

edit: and apparently that 2.35m DL's of IE was a bit rubbish

[sammyc]

Not liking the Tabs above the Address bar

I also googled for how to fix this, as it instantly offput me visually & in practical terms, others have been complaining about it for (at least) 4 months apparently http://support.mozilla.com/ak/questi...#answer-116619

Have re-jigged 1 or 2 more things about the layout but I still hate the way bookmarks work & I still prefer IE's toolbars on the whole.

[watercooled]

What they've done is made it look like Chrome. IMO there was nothing wrong with the interface they just needed to work under the bonnet i.e. less memory, quicker, etc. It looks like it's wiped the floor with I.E's download count. I downloaded FF4 but I think I'll stick with 3.6 for the time being, until the wrinkles get ironed out.

[roachcoach]

Got two, one at work and one at home.

A bit odd. Really not sure I see the point in the tab grouping but hey ho, I guess some folks wanted it for...you know...something.

[Grey M@a]

What they've done is made it look like Chrome. IMO there was nothing wrong with the interface they just needed to work under the bonnet i.e. less memory, quicker, etc. It looks like it's wiped the floor with I.E's download count. I downloaded FF4 but I think I'll stick with 3.6 for the time being, until the wrinkles get ironed out.

Could have something to do with Google funding at least 80% of mozillas income

[Queelis]

Got it this morning, absolutely love it - so much faster page loading!

I like the integrated "Firefox" button (as in Opera, and, possibly, Chrome - I've no idea, used it for 5 minutes months (years?) ago, didn't like it, never tried again) - didn't need the menu bar anyway.

The integrated tabs at the top were annoying (I keep my "Windowshade mode" Winamp there), but I've changed the tabs to vertical ones at the left anyway (as with Tab Kit, but it doesn't support FF4, so had to change to Vertical Tabs + Tab Scrolling).

Very happy with it

[roachcoach]

Right, after accidentally opening the nth link in a new window rather than new tab because they removed "open" from the right click options, thereby moving the order of the commands on the said menu...I can declare....NOT AMUSED.

Changing context sensitive menu command locations is heresy you bastards. Be like me swapping the brakes and accelerator in your car as a "feature".


Edit and the shortcut for tab groupings is ctrl+shift+e, yet the one to nuke the entire app is crtl+shift+w....BAD MAPPING.

/old man rant.

[watercooled]

Click the scroll wheel on a link to open in new tab.

[MadduckUK]

didn't need the menu bar anyway.

even if you did, it's only a ALT away, much better being hidden especially on "space is a premium" netbooks

[roachcoach]

Click the scroll wheel on a link to open in new tab.

This, whilst unnatural, I did not know

[TheAnimus]

I want my download to count towards the first day record so i havent downloaded the leaked version. We gotta beat the ~2.35million downloads IE received.

Erm why?

Its a web browser not a religion.

Who cares who has the most number of downloads in a day, all it shows is how childish the Firefox fans are with no work to do, and how vast the microsoft make it a recommended update is.

[watercooled]

I don't really see what being childish or not having work to do has to do with wanting to download FF? Besides, most people who download it won't even know about the counter, I didn't before I read about it here.
It's not like it was going to lose anyway, being multi-platform and considering a vast portion of I.E's users only use it because it's the default/because they think it's 'the Internet' and will only get the next version through Windows Update, if at all.

[TheAnimus]

The bit I quoted explains it nicely.

Plus are people really choosing FF4 (with added memory leaks) over chrome/opera?

[finlay666]

Plus are people really choosing FF4 (with added memory leaks) over chrome/opera?

Installed FF4, ran FF4, uninstalled FF4

It's horrible, it's like Chrome without the minimalism