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Meh. One of the smoothest features of Chrome (that won a lot of adherents) was how you could close lots of tabs quickly without moving the mouse (i.e. the tabs only re-size after you move the mouse away). Same for opening tabs. How did FF4 not copy this? It looks just like Chrome only crappier.
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Why do you say that Firefox 4 is not as vertical-space efficient as Chrome? Right click on your tabs, and select 'Tabs on top'. Right click on the Menu bar and uncheck 'Menu bar'. Done--looks like Chrome!
No, it doesn't look like Chrome. There's still a title bar that Chrome hides in the maximized mode.
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> No you CANNOT. Well, with elaborate replies like that ... I'm not sure whether I should bother, but: http://i.imgur.com/rxFgd.png > Greasemonkey Chrome plugins can do a lot more than Greasemonkey. Why do you think Jetpack exists?
Well, with elaborate replies like that ... Perhaps you should bother reading what I wrote first, instead of doing screenshots to prove me wrong? Take a look at the phrase you yourself quoted ... you can't search your history and delete items in the search results Do I really need to elaborate more on it?
1) Search my history 2) Delete items in the search results
As shown in that screenshot.
EDIT: Since I can't reply to him (yet?), thank you mbrubeck for replying and explaining the comment instead of just typing "YOU CANNOT."
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Well, with elaborate replies like that ... Perhaps you should bother reading what I wrote first, instead of doing screenshots to prove me wrong? Take a look at the phrase you yourself quoted ... you can't search your history and delete items in the search results Do I really need to elaborate more on it?
I can, 1) Search my history 2) Delete items in the search results As shown in that screenshot. EDIT: Since I can't reply to him (yet?), thank you mbrubeck for replying and explaining the comment instead of just typing "YOU CANNOT."
Text rendering in Windows is significantly worse - sometimes it's blotchy (random characters seem to have more weight than others) - particularly here on HN, and inter-character spacing is inconsistent; at others, the anti-aliasing looks overdone, and text looks blurry and over-smoothed. I had Firefox 3 configured such that the main menu, URL box, navigation buttons etc. were all on the same toolbar - the menu bar. I…
I assume it is due to the Direct Draw, but I don't see the same issue in IE9 w/ hardware acceleration enabled.
I started using Firefox again the day I heard about the 4.0 Release Candidate, and thought I could give it a another try after it failed to convince me the few times I tried to use it in the past. I was pleasently surprised. The browser's way faster; launching it doesn't take that much time; the UI is way more responsive; and all the add-ons I've been using in the past are compatible with 4.0 (Web Developer, Firebug,…
Seems like all my previous addons that were used to improve firefox UI have been incorporated into 4.0. Very glad that Vimperator works, the main reason I use firefox. I wouldn't have upgraded if it did not.
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I was answering the question from above "what are the differences from the current version?" As for the differences from Chrome, those are mostly the same as they've always been: Deeper extensibility, more customization points, and made by a non-profit organization dedicated to openness.
Most customization points is the big win for me. I REALLY like to alter my browsers to fit my preferred layout and FF has done quite well at maintaining that capability for me. I get into Chrome and I find myself constantly going "Oh, there's no option for that... Oh, there's no option for that... Oh, there's no option for that... " to the point I close it in frustration yet again.
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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.
> but there's basically zero difference between the two Chrome sports integrated Flash, integrated PDF, and more codec support (though it recently dropped H264 entirely)