Firefox 4 is out

posted on March 22nd, 2011, 11:05 pm

DO NOT INSTALL IT.

It is buggy as all get out.

Wait for a patch.

posted on March 22nd, 2011, 11:40 pm

lol thanks for the heads up

FYI how is it buggy?

posted on March 22nd, 2011, 11:51 pm

Huh, I've only heard good things about it. I run Chrome though, but my system did install the new FF for me. Maybe Ill give it a whirl.

posted on March 23rd, 2011, 1:24 am

Well, to be honest i'm running FF4 right now and I havn't yet had any problems

posted on March 23rd, 2011, 1:35 am

look more like Opera now 

posted on March 23rd, 2011, 2:06 am

look more like Opera now 

i agree i tried the beta version a few weeks ago and the opera look is a turn off...

posted on March 23rd, 2011, 5:21 am

I like the new look (not as much as I like Opera's ), but I miss the little Firefox icon.

posted on March 23rd, 2011, 6:05 am

lol thanks for the heads up

FYI how is it buggy?

Apparently for some reason I cant even VIEW my installed addons.

Some people have no problem, some people have it worse than me (in my case, even nuking addons with safe mode doesnt help and addons stay).

Massive, and retarded, changes, such as the status bar at the bottom being gone. So now you cannot mouseover a link and see what it actually links to unless you know to install an addon that returns that functionality.


Its like microsoft took over.

posted on March 23rd, 2011, 7:09 am

Hey, I know I don't got a ton of cred around here, cuz all I do is watch what people post, but I've been running the beta 4 of Firefox since it was at beta version 6....which was quite a while ago. Just to show that, for some people, it works fine, I have NO issues with the addon viewer. The status bar IS gone, but whenever I mouse over a link, a small notification at the bottom of the page pops up, letting me know where it'll take me.

It still runs WAY better than IE, though I have yet to thoroughly test IE 9 (Oddly enough, I've heard that it actually runs quite well).

I would actually recommend that people download it.

posted on March 23rd, 2011, 8:01 am

I have heard fro my friends that it has a bit of a bug, but I have realty seen the problem yet. They told me that it hangs up and crashes when used in multiple tabs or sites. I don’t know if it is true but still I would like to try using it.

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posted on March 23rd, 2011, 10:01 am

Last edited by Anonymous on March 23rd, 2011, 10:03 am, edited 1 time in total.

Apparently for some reason I cant even VIEW my installed addons.

Some people have no problem, some people have it worse than me (in my case, even nuking addons with safe mode doesnt help and addons stay).

Massive, and retarded, changes, such as the status bar at the bottom being gone. So now you cannot mouseover a link and see what it actually links to unless you know to install an addon that returns that functionality.

dont call things massive and retarded if u havnt even bothered figuring out how firefox 4 works yet.

as aux ab alto said, hovering over a link will show the url at the bottom.

also there is a bar called the addon bar. right click the title bar and select addon bar, now you can put addon icons like noscript down there like before.

i cant replicate your addon manager bug, works fine for me, ive been using since early betas as well.

all the browsers look similar now really, its part of a general move to more screen space for browsing, and better performance. personally i prefer it, gets the job done and leaves me more space for browsing.

a new feature of firefox 4 that i think people will like is that ability to resize text areas (like the forum's white box for entering text to post) without the need for an addon. the bottom right corner has a little triangular thing to drag resize it. works well in the vertical dimension on fleetops.net, but not well horizontally.

like aux ab alto, i recommend getting ff4, its great. ie has made massive improvements, ie9 for once is not years behind ff, its months behind. the main advantage of ff is the fact that security problems get fixed really fast for ff, while ie still takes a long time for patches. the second most important advantage for me is addons.

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also funnily, firefox 4 has been out for less time than ie9 but has already been downloaded twice as much as ie9

posted on March 23rd, 2011, 2:40 pm

FF4:Tab groups 

posted on March 23rd, 2011, 3:50 pm

FF4:Tab groups 

personally i prefer tab mix plus and multi row, but tab groups does look nice, and im sure some people get more use out of it.

posted on March 23rd, 2011, 5:50 pm

@Tok'ra: I use all-in-one sidebar to manage addons (it works well at this, also good for history), which last I checked was incompatible.

posted on March 23rd, 2011, 8:00 pm

i use tabplus mix aswell still seams to work fine although the Webmail notifier addon dsnt seam to work ah well sure it'll be updated soon