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Re: Firefox 4 is here

#321
Aw... i just wish they didnt swap "new tab" and "new window" in the right-click on link menu. I understand the decision, but im so used to the previous setup that I get owned every time :/

Apart from that, im really happy with this new version!

Re: Firefox 4 is here

#322
Here's a mirror, just in case there are others for whom the main download site is estimating nine hrs to go. (Mac OS X version)

  http://www.macupdate.com/download/10700/Firefox%204.0.dmg

Re: Firefox 4 is here

#323

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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…

> 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. Not too long ago, "Google fires employee for snooping on users" - http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/16/business/la-fi-googl...

One in thousands. Like I said: people make mistakes. It doesn't bother me that we're dealing with human beings who aren't perfect; better this than the big brother corporation with an agenda.

Re: Firefox 4 is here

#324
post #215

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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…

In Google's case, I find young, smart, cool people just like me who I trust not to be dicks What is this? has any thought gone behind this? I'm not your peer: I'm stupid, uncool and very, VERY old. That's why I decided to teach you fuckers a lesson and put on my fake cop uniform. With a few fake emails & and a phone call, I convinced Bobby, the head of security at data center #34 in Dallas to give me your life's reco…

I was talking specifically about trusting Google's motivations, not the concept of security itself. You're twisting the issue; of course it's possible that Google's security will be broken somehow. But that's the case with anything, anywhere, anytime. So there's not much point (IMO) in basing decisions around that possibility.

Re: Firefox 4 is here

#326

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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."

Dude, I know natural language can be ambiguous, but I left no room for ambiguity.

So to summarize -- (1) misread what I said, (2) assumed I'm an idiot who can't find Chrome's History panel and (3) replied with "works on my machine" just to prove me wrong.

If you like Chrome, great, personally I love both browsers; but the issue here is that you should stay as far away as possible from real customers.

Re: Firefox 4 is here

#327
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You want to talk to the SRWare Iron team.

Why would you trust the "SRWare Iron team", whoever they are, at all? And why would you trust them more than you would trust Google?

I didn't say anything about trust.

It was merely a suggestion to look at Iron or talk to the developers as they promote their product as an alternative to Chrome along the lines of privacy. You'd think they'd be in a good position to point out the differences.

Re: Firefox 4 is here

#328
post #38

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,…

>Disclaimer: I've been using Opera 11 as my primary browser before I decided to give FF 4.0 a try The top menu left button in FF now looks exactly like Opera's menu button. Of course, now all browsers look basically the same with almost all UI chrome gone.

Actually it looks quite like Opera in a lot of ways. Even the shading on the buttons on the toolbar. (Windows only, in Linux looks dramatically different.)

Re: Firefox 4 is here

#330
I am surprised that they got rid of the padlock icon. I had to Google before I realized that they now use a colored section with the site name in the address bar to show a secure connection. Not very obvious when you first start using it.

I wonder if this change is going to be disruptive for users who are trained to look for a padlock icon.

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