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Re: Firefox 4 is here

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Post by gulbrandr »

lordlarm wrote: post #37

Am I the only one that does not understand why Firefox still has a 'Google search' field at the left? Why not use Chrome's approach and merge the two of them - at least give me the possibility to hide it. (And I am aware of the possibility so search in other sites than google, but I 'never' want to do that.)

> Why not use Chrome's approach and merge the two of them

I've been asking myself this question many, many times. You can hide the search field: right-click on the toolbar > customize > drag/drop the search inside the window > done.

Re: Firefox 4 is here

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Post by harph »

cryptoz wrote: post #21

I'm a web dev and need to keep 3.x around. Can I easily install these two side-by-side or is that going to cause trouble for me? I'd love to use FF4 as my main browser at work (well, in competition with Chrome anyway) but I can't risk messing up 3.

I have Pale Moon (http://www.palemoon.org) installed for this reason - it is completely separate from the standard Firefox.

Re: Firefox 4 is here

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Post by makecheck »

dlokshin wrote: post #3

Will Firefox 3.x auto update to 4?

It updated to 4 for me (on Mac), although it goes in sequential order; e.g. if there's any 3.x you didn't get it seems to update that first, then on relaunch another update-check gets version 4.

Re: Firefox 4 is here

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Post by narag »

lordlarm wrote: post #37

Am I the only one that does not understand why Firefox still has a 'Google search' field at the left? Why not use Chrome's approach and merge the two of them - at least give me the possibility to hide it. (And I am aware of the possibility so search in other sites than google, but I 'never' want to do that.)

You're not the only one. I use Seamonkey instead because this and other similar annoyances.

Re: Firefox 4 is here

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Post by retube »

makecheck wrote: post #47
[deleted] wrote: post #40

[deleted]

Are you sure it "started" your current version, or did you have an old window open somewhere? By default, Firefox sends a new-window message to any running Firefox instead of spawning a new one. Try killing all existing Firefox windows (e.g. "killall firefox" or "pkill firefox") and run it again.

Aha, genius yes that was it. I thought I had closed everything but obviously not. Cheers.

Re: Firefox 4 is here

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Post by hasenj »

d0m wrote: post #2

Lets say I'm a chrome user (and loving it), is Firefox4 worth a try? What are the main differences from the last version?

* Real ad blocking (more generally: real extensions).

Other points (not so major for most):

* Audio api (allows you to synthesize audio)

* Better language support (Chrome on Linux has tons of issues with non-latin languages)

Re: Firefox 4 is here

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Post by DarkShikari »

hasenj wrote: post #49
DarkShikari wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This may confuse the few hundred million users whose languages don't use Roman letters and weren't told about this move...

I'm a user of such a language (Arabic) and by now all websites I care about use utf8, so the character encoding is a problem from the past as far as I'm concerned. I'd be really surprised if there are still sites that don't use utf8.

Japan still uses Shift-JIS for practically everything, much to the chagrin of anyone else in the world looking to use their applications.

Re: Firefox 4 is here

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Post by darklajid »

eftpotrm wrote: post #35
Dobbs wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Tab Candy ( http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/tabcandy/ ) feature is pretty cool. The big thing about Firefox is the Addons: FireBug, NoScript, Adblock Plus, and Pentadactyl (was known as Vimperator) all add up to a fantastic experience. With Firefox 4 I get the fantastic experience with something much closer to Chrome's speed and tab usability. I don't know if I would say Firefox 4 is quite there yet but it is muc…

I'm curious; in what way do you prefer Chrome's tab handling? For me it's one of the worst things about Chrome; this window currently has ten tabs open and that's at the _very_ low end for me. With Firefox I can see what I've got open no matter how many I've got because of the pop-down list and the scrolling bar, while Chrome just mashes the list into invisibility.

Also - Tree Style Tab [1] is a must have for me (on 3.x for now, just checking if I'll upgrade now or wait for some of my plugins to migrate first)

1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

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