Firefox 4......So far, so good

[marmar]

I downloaded it last night, and I must say that so far, I'm very pleased.

Anyone have any bad experiences with it yet?

[Ernesto]

1. So far, so good! Me too...........nt

[SidDithers]

2. I'm still getting used to the placement of tabs...

they used to be right under my bookmarks bar, but now they're above the address bar. On more than one occasion, I've hit a bookmark instead of a window tab.

Sid

[Skidmore]

7. If you right click on the down arrow the right hand side of the tabs bar,

and uncheck the "tabs on top" option you can have the tabs available where they were before.

[cleanhippie]

13. Ahh, cool! That fixes my only complaint! Thanks.

[SidDithers]

16. Thanks for the help...

:thumbsup:

Sid

[Poll_Blind]

26. YES! Thank you hugely! I kept accidentally hitting the Back button instead of...

...the "Move Back Through Tabs" button.

PB

[DavidDvorkin]

34. Thanks for that tip

That was my only complaint, too, so far. I was looking for a place to change that placement and couldn't find it.

[blondeatlast]

53. Thank you! Much better. nt

[LWolf]

63. I can't find a down arrow anywhere. nt

[hlthe2b]

8. You can change it back...

Hit "View"
"Toobars"
uncheck "Tabs on Top"

[SidDithers]

17. Excellent :)...nt

Sid

[Aerows]

22. Mine are...

underneath the address bar no matter what, because of the way I have my interface set up. I run it on minimal, and I didn't even have my address bar when I first installed it - I had to turn on the navigation bar, and then my tabs were on the below it. I don't use any menu bars.

[blondeatlast]

52. Edit--thanks to Skidmore, no longer an issue! nt

[spin]

3. It's working fine for me. (n/t)

[Skidmore]

4. Yeah, I can't have my Norton 360 toolbar active in it.

Nertz.

[hlthe2b]

6. AVG's toolbar and other add-ons not yet updated for it ....

But, hopefully that will change soon. At least it doesn't seem to be bothered by my skype add-on any longer.

[hlthe2b]

40. Anyone else looking for AVG add-ons for security search & toolbar

Tech Support replied to my inquiry to state that they will be out in early April.

[Upton]

10. Same problem with my NIS 2011..

unfortunately, it looks like we may have to wait at least a month for the fix..

http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Internet-Security-Norton/Norton-compatibility-with-IE9-and-FF4/td-p/420020

[hlthe2b]

5. Yes... I did too.. and after weeks of lock-ups from vs. 3.6.x

I am thrilled that it seems to be much more stable. Unfortunately, some of my add-ons are not yet available, but hopefully they will update eventually.

[madokie]

9. Been using it with 11.04 alpha 3

no problems except some of my favorite addons aren't compatible yet but I'm sure they will be before long.

[cleanhippie]

11. Upgraded mine too, for my Mac. Only feature I do not like...

is that the tabs are now at the top of the address bar, and to switch tabs, I have to mouse up above the toolbars and address bar to click them. I preferred them below, was easier to navigate that way, IMO.

It IS much faster. The old version seemed to slow my Mac considerably.

[cleanhippie]

15. Nevermind, I just read above how to change the one feature I didn't like!

[in_cog_ni_to]

21. I don't know how Macs work, but on Windows you can right click on the + (new window tab)

and there's an option to click "Tabs on top" or "tabs on bottom"....The ONLY reason I know this is from a wonderful DUer who told me how to do it yesterday. :) I HATED them at the top of the page.

[Richard D]

12. Mine crashes several times a day

Just stops working and I get the report error box.
I might have to go back to Chrome.

[JDPriestly]

14. I really like it.

[alfredo]

18. I've given it a try. I like it.

I'm using Chrome today.

[flamin lib]

19. What about seamonkey? It's a mozilla product, what's the difference? nt

[Aerows]

24. Sort of like Ice Weasel on Linux

I think they are just packaged slightly different. Been a while since I used Ice Weasel though.

[davepdx]

62. Seamonkey is more than a browser

Seamonkey includes an email and newsgroup client as well as the browser, an "all-in-one" package, if you will.

[in_cog_ni_to]

20. At first my Roboform didn't work, I just updated to Roboform 7

and all is well. I had to find the refresh/stop button. Did that, but I'm not thrilled with where they're placed it on the browser and that's probably because I'm use to them being on the left. I also don't like where the Homescreen icon is on the right, so I'll probably just use my keyboard shortcut or "most visited" icon to go to my homepage. I also put my tabs back down where they were...didn't like them at the top. The browser works GREAT though! I like it. I haven't used IE for YEARS and miraculously, all my computer problems stopped. I also stopped using the extremely invasive Norton antivirus software....and haven't had computer glitches since.

Firefox ROCKS!

[Aerows]

23. So far, so good

It seems to have increased the real estate for me, and seems to adapt to my 1920x1200 resolution "better". Much better than 3.6. I've been using Chrome because 3.6 got so flaky.

I like it :).

[City of Mills]

25. ...so what?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/7/7f/20090808231139!Megadeth-SoFar.jpg

Sorry, couldn't help myself :evilgrin:

[Aerows]

28. I LoL'd :D

It was unexpected and for whatever reason made me crack up :D

[trumad]

27. I love the screen capture feature.

[madfloridian]

29. How do I find that? Haven't noticed it yet.

Yes, I like 4 since I moved the Home icon back to the left. Drove me nuts on the right.

[in_cog_ni_to]

30. PLEASE tell me how to move the Home page icon. I HATE it on the right.

Thank you. :hi:

[in_cog_ni_to]

33. Never mind. I figured it out on my own. n/t

[Aerows]

35. right click on the toolbar

and go to customize. You can then change the positions of things.

Mine looks like this:

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[in_cog_ni_to]

43. Thanks. n/t

[madfloridian]

38. Right click the tool bar and pick customize...then drag it.

Someone posted that tip in another post...it works. It was driving me crazy as well.

[ileus]

39. That's helped a lot....

[in_cog_ni_to]

44. Thanks! n/t

[cordelia]

31. Like it so far. nt

[Geoffrey_Lebowski]

32. Other than web page text being a little blurry

Which I fixed by disabling the hardware acceleration ... it's working fine for me so far.

[DainBramaged]

36. .......

:eyes:

[The Backlash Cometh]

37. What's with the utah.edu?

I just caught it on the sly as it was downloading.

[Aerows]

42. It's a mirror

They use multiple sources for downloads, like many open source projects.

[ScreamingMeemie]

41. I am a guide at ChaCha and it does not work with the ChaCha guide

toolbar. I had to go back to "old" Firefox.

[dkofos]

45. Downloaded this morning to the daughters windoz box

No complaints so far.

Actually seems faster than the previous version.

[Ratty]

46. I hate all things new and different

But I'm struggling to just give it a try for awhile and trust the designers. There are addons that will make it look and act like Firefox 3 in various ways but I'm holding off on those. Well, except for one but I had that installed on Firefox 3 too to give it a classic look: Old Address Bar because I simply hate how the address bar suggestion drop down takes up 2 lines for each entry: url + page title and prefer to have it display just the url only. Web designers are clueless about one thing and it drives me crazy: They assume an http url is gobbledygook to an average user and without the associated page title it's absolutely meaningless. I run into this insane bias in other areas of my profession as well. The http url is not only perfectly understandable but also provides valuable context in a compact way where a page title or breadcrumbs simply cannot. I'm not saying every link should display as a url obviously, but where space is a premium and concision matters then raw urls can be useful. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss hmmm, oh my! I simply have no idea where that terrible url thingy will take me!

[intaglio]

47. As a long time Opera user

It's OK, much better than Ie and Safari, about the same as Chrome.

[madokie]

48. Not me

I've been using it since it was in beta 7. I'm a ubuntu junkie and have been using ubuntu 11.04 since the third of December of last year, alpha 1 through 3 and firefox 4 was the browser they use. Even in beta I never had any problems with it.

[lpbk2713]

49. Over 18 Million D/L's thus far.

I installed it this morning. Some of the add-ons I like won't work with 4.0 yet but maybe in time.

[Gin]

50. why do names such as Google Analytic appear on the

top right of the page? Can I stop that?

[lpbk2713]

51. I don't know about FF 4.0 yet

But with earlier versions NoScript took care of that.


Ed: Another thought, you might have Ghostery installed. More here ... https://addons.mozilla.org/af/firefox/addon/ghostery/">{Click}

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

59. NoScript works a-OK with FF 4.

Had it installed on 3.x, upgraded and it stayed there, still working. Look:

[lpbk2713]

60. OK, thx.

:thumbsup:

[Gin]

64. thats what it was...(Ghostery)....thanks

[ecstatic]

54. Afraid to try it

FF used to be lightweight, fast, wonderful... then it became just as bloated and freezy as IE. I still use it now, but without my favorite two plug ins (which doesn't solve the bugginess but makes it at least bearable).

[blondeatlast]

55. I've been doing bing and kayak flight searches and it seems to be hanging up on those.

Had a couple of other hangups as well--but otherwise I very much like just as I did with FF3.

[Electric Monk]

58. Why use bing at all? It's just a google ripoff.

http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/126266/20110324/google-microsoft-bing-search-war-great-search-engine-war-tarsorrhaphy-copy-results-bing-sting.htm

Google's infamous 'Bing sting' in which it nailed rival Microsoft’s Bing search engine and the ensuing high-voltage war of words hogged the tech world limelight in February this year.

The bare-knuckle fight between the search giants was a spectacle worth watching and it ended with accusations and counter accusations. Now, the details of how the sting operation was planned and executed by Google's search team have emerged. Fastcompany.com published a lengthy article last week that details how the Great Search War of 2011 unfolded.

Here is snapshot of how it happened:

At the heart of the tussle was Google's argument that Microsoft was copying Google's web-search results. A top Google executive revealed last week how his team went about collecting what he said was incriminating evidence for Microsoft's trespasses.

more

hiybbprqag ftw

[blondeatlast]

66. Only reason is that I like bing's fare predictor, which Kayak doesn't have.

Since my vacay dates are very flexible, it's a nice tool. Otherwise I love Kayak and of course, Google.

[ohheckyeah]

56. Very few of my addons work with Firefox 4.

I have to have some of them for online work so I'll have to wait until the update the addons as well.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

57. I had a helluva time getting FF4 to even work until I disabled the add-ons.

However, tinkering and massive doses of profanity got it working at last.

Can't see much improvement in the new version. And, the itsy-bitsy refresh button is a right pain in the ass.

[ohheckyeah]

61. I'm using it on my

laptop right now but most of my addons aren't updating. Why didn't Mozilla foresee and do something about addons before upgrading? I'll keep 3.6.16 on my desktop which is what I use most of the time and wait for more addons to become compatible. Having it on my laptop will let me know when the most important addons have updates.

[davepdx]

65. Mozilla doesn't write the code for the addons.

The extension (addon) authors know all about the new versions as there are nightly builds and release candidates available to them (or anyone) to use so that they can make their extension compatible. It is up to the extension authors to update their software, not Mozilla.

[ohheckyeah]

67. True.

I forgot about that.

[davepdx]

69. I also don't blame the extension authors for

waiting until there is a final release before updating their extension(s). Last minute changes by Mozilla's Firefox code can cause them significant work as it may be a moving target depending on the extension. I expect that most of the extensions that aren't compatible now will be updated fairly quickly now that the release is final. But sometimes all the extension authors have to do is edit a line or two in their configuration files.

[ohheckyeah]

71. I hope they will be updated

soon. I totally forgot that they are done by independents instead of Mozilla

[walldude]

68. I grabbed the BETA about a month ago...

My machine locked up every time I tried to start it. Had to go back to 3.6

[malaise]

70. Nice indeed

:D

[robcon]

72. 1 crash so far with foxfire 4... downloaded yesterday.

Not much a of sample, though.