Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by jlongster » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 11:11 PM UTC

Firefox 4 RC now available
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Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 11:38 PM UTC

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Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by tshtf » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 11:50 PM UTC

Serious question here... I now use Chrome, my parents use Chrome, and almost everyone I know has converted. Most HN users seem to use it too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2105954.

Is there anything compelling in Firefox 4 to get excited about?

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by taylorbuley » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 11:54 PM UTC

tshtf wrote: post #3

Serious question here... I now use Chrome, my parents use Chrome, and almost everyone I know has converted. Most HN users seem to use it too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2105954 . Is there anything compelling in Firefox 4 to get excited about?

I'm loving working with IndexedDB. For some reason haven't been able to get my Chrome nightly to play nice with my site but it runs like a charm in FF4. For one, FF uses less vendor prefixes for IndexedDB. I'm not sure if that's my issue but it seems to make FF easier to work with given that when learning IndexedDB there are precious few resources out there aside from the spec.

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by Alex3917 » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 11:56 PM UTC

tshtf wrote: post #3

Serious question here... I now use Chrome, my parents use Chrome, and almost everyone I know has converted. Most HN users seem to use it too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2105954 . Is there anything compelling in Firefox 4 to get excited about?

It's actually about as fast as Chrome now. Too little too late in my opinion, but at least it's fast enough that it won't actively piss me off when I need a second browser open for some reason.

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by robryan » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 11:57 PM UTC

tshtf wrote: post #3

Serious question here... I now use Chrome, my parents use Chrome, and almost everyone I know has converted. Most HN users seem to use it too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2105954 . Is there anything compelling in Firefox 4 to get excited about?

Well, I guess you could look at it the other way, with firefox 4 being released is there much in chrome that provides a significant advantage to the end user? Sure Chrome has iterated faster and as a result the current Chrome is a lot better than FF3.6, is this the case with 4 now though?

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by anedisi » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 11:59 PM UTC

tshtf wrote: post #3

Serious question here... I now use Chrome, my parents use Chrome, and almost everyone I know has converted. Most HN users seem to use it too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2105954 . Is there anything compelling in Firefox 4 to get excited about?

well there is one thing. its faster. I like the new look its more wide screen friendly.

basically because of adblock plus and firebug i did newer jump on chrome bandwagon and i really like the firebox 4.

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by ootachi » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 12:00 AM UTC

tshtf wrote: post #3

Serious question here... I now use Chrome, my parents use Chrome, and almost everyone I know has converted. Most HN users seem to use it too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2105954 . Is there anything compelling in Firefox 4 to get excited about?

Graphics acceleration via OpenGL on Mac or Direct2D on Windows is a big one. Chrome doesn't have either in stable builds.

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by Raphael » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 12:03 AM UTC

tshtf wrote: post #3

Serious question here... I now use Chrome, my parents use Chrome, and almost everyone I know has converted. Most HN users seem to use it too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2105954 . Is there anything compelling in Firefox 4 to get excited about?

Firefox has a more customizable interface. You can hide or move any button or bar.

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by AndreSegers » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 12:05 AM UTC

I admire Firefox for what it's accomplished, but Chrome has stolen my heart. I had to use Firefox today actually to test something, and discovered a Bing bar that I'm pretty sure I didn't consent to, taking up valuable real-estate.