Firefox 4.0 available to download. Official Release tomorrow

Viper² · 23 Mar 2011 at 20:07

Tabs are completely broken for me.

Closing blank tabs results in this...

And closing other tabs sometimes makes them unresponsive but still appearing. :confused:

edit: Meh, might've been the theme I was using.

mrk · 23 Mar 2011 at 20:14

Session Saver is good, just do a search on addons site from mozilla

qqg3 said:
On Firefox 4, its nice, some tweaks I hate.

Also, some of my favourite addons from my 3.x version haven't made the leap to 'next gen' yet.

The most annoying and inconvienient of these being Delicious...

About:config and create a new boolean entry called

Code:

extensions.checkCompatibility.4.0

And set its value to false. Install your old extensions as most should work just fine

analog · 23 Mar 2011 at 20:14

EDIT: Beat by Khaaan.

gropingmantis said:
Is there a decent add on for saving a session, a la opera? A quick search for "save session" revealed only garbage.

Not used opera in a long time but you can have it remember the tabs you had open when you close the program, but I think tab groups (ctrl+shift+E) is closer to what you're looking for.

gropingmantis · 23 Mar 2011 at 20:21

OH. MY. GOD. ctrl+shift+E. Why did no one tell me about this earlier.

darael · 23 Mar 2011 at 20:21

Looked too minimal when I first installed it. Some re-arranging, and I prefer it - I just hate that little tab on the bottom left that pops up when it's loading a webpage. :mad:

TheVoice · 23 Mar 2011 at 20:22

gropingmantis said:
OH. MY. GOD. ctrl+shift+E. Why did no one tell me about this earlier.

I have no idea what it is but it looks cool.

ThundyCat · 23 Mar 2011 at 20:29

darael said:
Looked too minimal when I first installed it. Some re-arranging, and I prefer it - I just hate that little tab on the bottom left that pops up when it's loading a webpage.

This will sort it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/?src=api

mrk · 23 Mar 2011 at 20:33

Amazing isn't it

Don't like something? No problem! Simply mod it

darael · 23 Mar 2011 at 20:34

ThundyCat said:
This will sort it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/?src=api

I use Extended Statusbar, but I still get a tab popping up when I hover over links or when a page is downloading.

Participant · 23 Mar 2011 at 20:39

FF is crap. I don't like the angle between the tabs and the address bar. Also there is one pixel too many between the back and forward arrow[/Khaaan!]

mrk · 23 Mar 2011 at 20:43

See, now that's false information!

*dons flamethrower*

weyland yutani · 23 Mar 2011 at 20:59

Is 4.0 for Windows 7 only? I was prompted to download 3.6 something earlier but Im still on XP

qqg3 · 23 Mar 2011 at 21:12

This bugs me, right clicking a link, the top option used to be "open in new window", now they've switched that with "open in new tab".

I keep opening new windows by accident, a tiny thing, but I'll need to readapt my automatic mouse movements toward the top option now.

mrk · 23 Mar 2011 at 21:54

Why are you right clicking? Just middle click links and they open in new tabs anyway.

marc2003 · 23 Mar 2011 at 22:02

weyland yutani said:
Is 4.0 for Windows 7 only? I was prompted to download 3.6 something earlier but Im still on XP

random fact: firefox 4 supports windows 2000.

so you won't have problems installing it on XP. just download it yourself.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/

V_R · 23 Mar 2011 at 22:06

weyland yutani said:
Is 4.0 for Windows 7 only? I was prompted to download 3.6 something earlier but Im still on XP

Got that too on someone else's laptop, upgraded to 3.6.16 then upgraded to 4

Anyone know if you can have the drop down bookmarks button on the left of the address bar and the bookmarks toolbar showing at the same time?

I can have one or the other but not both it seems..... :/

adencool · 23 Mar 2011 at 22:14

worked well for me, but logmein is not currently supported, so had to uninstall

darael · 23 Mar 2011 at 22:23

Anybody elses graphic card fans started spinning higher since installing FF4, while doing normal (OcUK, Google) browsing? I suppose GPU acceleration is enabled somewhere?

Randomface74 · 23 Mar 2011 at 22:24

qqg3 said:
This bugs me, right clicking a link, the top option used to be "open in new window", now they've switched that with "open in new tab".

I keep opening new windows by accident, a tiny thing, but I'll need to readapt my automatic mouse movements toward the top option now.

+1

gropingmantis · 23 Mar 2011 at 22:28

qqg3 said:
This bugs me, right clicking a link, the top option used to be "open in new window", now they've switched that with "open in new tab".

I keep opening new windows by accident, a tiny thing, but I'll need to readapt my automatic mouse movements toward the top option now.

Middle click?