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The startup time of Chrome is hard to beat - I'll stick with Chrome for now.
Just how often do you start your browser?
Lets say I'm a chrome user (and loving it), is Firefox4 worth a try? What are the main differences from the last version?
Different (Chrome-inspired) UI; faster (rendering speed) compared to previous versions and some techy-things like hardware acceleration. They also have synchronisation built-in now. I'm also a Chrome user but I'd quite like to switch back if they've sorted out the chronic lag issues I've always had. Update: In ff4 now, looks and feels great, if a little sluggish with page scrolling. I don't know, Chrome just feels sl…
I would say it is a carbon-copy of Opera, but that's just me: http://imgur.com/IzVxJ
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This is usually a graphics driver problem. Try updating your drivers or disable hardware acceleration in the Firefox preferences (under Advanced: General: Browsing).
Disabling hardware acceleration worked for me. I'm on Windows 7, and now, with it disabled, it looks like Cleartype is working as it should. With hardware acceleration enabled, it looks like Cleartype isn't working, but Firefox doing its own anti-aliasing, and doing a worse job of it. Does that sound reasonable?
Otherwise, confess first impressions are less happy. Moving the tab bar has left it stranded adjacent to neither the edge of the window nor the page which makes it less easy to quickly grab sight of for me, and I seem to have lost the shortcut for the search box which I actually _used_ - if this replicated the old suite's behaviour of location bar searching outside the history I'd mind less, but it doesn't. Having to grab the pointer every time I want to search instead of Ctrl-E doesn't seem a win to me :-(
And to mark the occasion FF4 RC2 just crashed on me twice in a row. Are there any crashing issues fixed in the production release compared to RC2? Also, the IE-style reload button (at the right end of the address field) is too small and awkwardly positioned. I never realized how often it is actually used.
RC2 is bit-for-bit identical to the final release - we did not make any changes after RC2. You can right-click the reload button and choose "Customize" and drag it to a different location if you want. (It will become a full-sized button.) You can actually rearrange/remove/add any of the toolbar items this way.
FF3 had a problem with gradually slowing down to a crawl. Clicking on the link would take few seconds to register, switching between tabs or from another app to FF would also cause FF to appear frozen for several seconds, etc.
Submitted a ticket regarding this, got multiple follow-up comments from other users, but never from a dev. I realize you have a volume to deal with, but on my end it looks like noone cares.
FF4 still has a milder version of the problem, but in a sub-second range. It now crashes though, so not sure what's worse.
Also, unrelated to the above, for some reason Alt-PrtSc does not work, it's FF4 on XP. It is supposed to make a screenshot of a focused window and put it on a clipboard, and it worked with FF3... which is weird, because it's Windows' native function, not Firefox's.
Lets say I'm a chrome user (and loving it), is Firefox4 worth a try? What are the main differences from the last version?
* Faster startup, more responsive, faster JavaScript with the new Jaegermonkey JIT. * New, less cluttered UI. * Built-in sync of bookmarks/tabs/history/passwords, fully encrypted on the client (unlike Chrome's sync which encrypts passwords only). * Sync your bookmarks, tabs, history, passwords, and form data to Firefox for Android! See also this thread for answers from various members of the Firefox team: http://www.…
And the menu the Firefox button in the top left brings up is simply horrible.
It's like someone said "I like the fact that the Windows Start button looks and acts differently to every other menu or dialog anywhere, but wouldn't it be good if it looked a bit more like a menu to make it more confusing and was generally a bit uglier and more amateurish".
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.)
If you want to turn this behavior on in Firefox, you can do so with a simple add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/omnibar/
but it's off by default because of the MASSIVE privacy implications.
More importantly: Is FireBug available yet for FireFox 4?
Hopefully we won't have to wait long for Firefox 5 cause Chrome is not sitting still :)