Firefox 4 RC now available • Hacker News Board

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by gurraman » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 12:06 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?

Pentadactyl (http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/index).

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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

Alex3917 wrote: post #5

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.

Yeah, for a while now I have used firefox in kind of I need a quick environment free of cache and cookies to test if what I'm seeing is right.

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by melling » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 12:10 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?

FF4 is fast and feature rich. Try out Chrome and FF4 on this site:

https://demos.mozilla.org/en-US/

There doesn't have to be only one browser, right? We want a few great implementations of the open standards.

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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

AndreSegers wrote: post #10

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.

Whatever that bar is, it's not Mozilla official. Some other software on your computer put it there.

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by AndreSegers » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 12:13 AM UTC

ootachi wrote: post #14

AndreSegers wrote: post #10

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.

Whatever that bar is, it's not Mozilla official. Some other software on your computer put it there.

That very well may be, but my point was basically that it's not something I have to worry about in Chrome either.

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by jlongster » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 12:21 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?

There's a lot to be excited about. Chrome is a respected contender, but it is far from perfect, not everyone uses it, and I'm not sure why Chrome users think it's some divine creation. It's good to have more than one awesome browser.

In addition to all kinds of new HTML5 support, there's hardware acceleration, awesome SVG support, robust Audio API, and Panorama (press cmd+shift+e).

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by kunjaan » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 12:24 AM UTC

How long after the release candidates do they usually releases the final product? Does anyone know the history of their release periods?

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by cookiecaper » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 12:26 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?

I'd used Chrome exclusively for almost two years before the Fx4 beta cycle, and now I'm back on Fx full-time. I don't have time to get into the details, but Fx 4 is really a large improvement over 3.6.x.

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by GHFigs » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 12:29 AM UTC

ootachi wrote: post #14

AndreSegers wrote: post #10

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.

Whatever that bar is, it's not Mozilla official. Some other software on your computer put it there.

Some other software on your computer put it there.

Why does Firefox allow this?

Re: Firefox 4 RC now available

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Post by sid0 » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 12:32 AM UTC

GHFigs wrote: post #19

ootachi wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whatever that bar is, it's not Mozilla official. Some other software on your computer put it there.

Some other software on your computer put it there. Why does Firefox allow this?

It's not a question of Firefox allowing this -- if you run any program on your computer it'll have access to your data (and hence to your Firefox profile), and one of the principles behind Firefox is extensibility.