Firefox 4 is here

Post by bilban » Tue, Mar 22, 2011, 5:38 PM UTC

dstein wrote: post #182

cryptoz wrote: post #104

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> It might now actually be going on, but it's hard for me to trust that it's not. Run Chromium. It's fully open source. You can see for yourself that nothing scary is being sent to Google. The same can't be said for Chrome since the source is closed, but there's basically zero difference between the two. The icon is a bit less colorful I guess.

Has anyone actually done any research into exactly what data is sent to Google when you use Chrome? Not that it really matters anymore, FF4 is faster than Chrome in my experiments so don't think I'll be using Chrome at all anymore.

Post by niels_olson » Tue, Mar 22, 2011, 5:40 PM UTC

mbrubeck wrote: post #162

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this should be shipped on be default. edit: "this" appears to be as yet undefined. Unless ... can someone point me to whatever "maximize" is? edit: FF4 does not behave as you describe on my WinXP box at work.

Press the little button in the titlebar that makes any window fill the screen. Note that tabs will appear in the titlebar when maximized on Windows only, for Firefox 4, and only if you have the menu bar hidden. (It's hidden by default in Windows Vista and 7.) Tabs in the titlebar are planned for Mac and Linux too, but weren't ready for this release.

Post by mahmud » Tue, Mar 22, 2011, 5:41 PM UTC

primigenus wrote: post #138

rufugee wrote: post #73

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I don't know about you, but using Chrome has always given me this unsettling feeling that somewhere in Google's server farm, a machine is collecting everything I do and linking it to my other activity (gmail, gdocs, etc). It might now actually be going on, but it's hard for me to trust that it's not. I just don't like giving a behemoth like Google access to my complete internet history, even though the most harmful t…

I love giving everything I do to Google. It makes my daily life so much easier. Whenever I think about big corps and how I potentially may not trust them, I look around for people who actually work there. In Google's case, I find young, smart, cool people just like me who I trust not to be dicks and do things with my stuff I wouldn't want them to. They may mess up sometimes (I would), but I feel like I can trust them…

Post by jim_h » Tue, Mar 22, 2011, 5:51 PM UTC

Post by JustinSeriously » Tue, Mar 22, 2011, 6:00 PM UTC

jim_h wrote: post #217

I hope the addons also get updated for FF4. I upgraded to FF4, but I miss having the CS Lite addon. 'CS Lite' lets me manage cookie permissions for current site without having to go into the preference and go through the long process. Very useful since I usually block cookies and only turn on when needed. The reviews for CS Monster doesn't seem as good.