Get FireFox 4 now....
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Thanks for the heads-up.
But to my shame I admit that I´ve downgraded to previous version for the same reasons Gaieus mentioned. -
@unknownuser said:
Here's a good article by the guys at lifehacker...
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Watch the 'Tabs, Tabs, Tabs' video
Ooh - now I can make a group for Sketchucation, Twilight and Thea! Nice tip.
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Hey Antoine,
You're keeping quiet these days. Must be to do with turning four-o
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Lifehacker -
@unknownuser said:
One of the biggest complaints people make about Firefox is, luckily, one of the biggest improvements in Firefox 4: its speed.
which should then continue:
@unknownuser said:
Until you load a new design Gawker site, then the speed gain is negated by our site design. (If it indeed loads for you at all.)
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@unknownuser said:
Hey Antoine,
You're keeping quiet these days. Must be to do with turning four-o
LOL - yeah you right!;) I've been swamped with work and organizing a New Beetle show in Roswell, NM for this summer...so not much time to enjoy the forums and extra stuff.
Had a couple days where I wasn't swamped and it has been nice checking out the forums again.
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I tried out FF RC2 recently and was disappointed to find some of my fave extensions were not compatible, but I guess they will be updated in time.
In the end though I completely uninstalled it - something I thought I would never do as I was a confirmed FF addict. What put me off was not the new UI or anything but simply that in a direct comparison with Chrome to load the same website, one I visit quite often, it was unbelievably slow . Chrome had the site rendered in no time at all yet FF took ages. I know this was still just RC2 but it was near enough the finished version. I have been looking forward to FF4 for a while but have been disappointed with it`s performance. So Chrome it is for now. -
I used fire fox to 7 years
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I installed it last night. Similar problems with incompatible add-ons, but so what. Opened it up... nothing, no internet connection. IE connected, Chrome connected, but not FF4! I tried rebooting. Nothing. I tried a suggestion I found online about proxy settings. Nothing.
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@ledisnomad said:
Opened it up... nothing, no internet connection.
Well, maybe this is why FF4 is so fast!! Because it doesn't need internet connection
everything you want is on localhost 
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given up on this version for now..
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@khai said:
given up on this version for now..
the Fuzzy Fonts is an eye killer.Get another theme - I use MX3 2.6.7... No fuzz...
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@khai said:
ok that worked thanks...
but killed the persona... daaaamn lol
I have yet to find a persona I like without the fuzz...
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ok that worked thanks...
but killed the persona... daaaamn lol
edit - nope. restarted it without persona's...and the font's fuzzy again. sigh back to FF3.
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@khai said:
given up on this version for now..
the Fuzzy Fonts is an eye killer.Any relation to Happy Days Fonz?
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MX3 is a nice one TIG, thanks.
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@unknownuser said:
The easiest way to fix blurry fonts in Firefox 4 is to install the Anti-Aliasing Tuner add-on. From there, you should just be able to turn on ClearType rendering for all fonts and fix the problrem.
Have you tried this?
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yup. I did the even easier fix.
use Firefox 3 or Chrome - which has hardware acceleration but no issues with simple font rendering.
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No matter how I am trying to adjust the UI to my neeess, every time I restart FF 4 it reverts back to its default.
I am not going to spend 20 minutes every time to get my usual buttons and toolbars to their needed place.
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@marvins_dad said:
Ooh - now I can make a group for Sketchucation, Twilight and Thea! Nice tip.
Speed Dial plugin does grouping on steroids.
I've been a FireFox user "forever", but my initial impression of 4.0 is: it's confusing
UPDATE
It's not confusing: I was confused. FF4 in everyday use now and looking forward to the grouping capabilities. -
I don't like the new version. The newer, sleeker look seems to be simply a case of ditching most of the menu items and icons. Whatever happened to one-click Reload? And my search box has stopped working...at least the suggestions have...I have to type out the complete search term every time, even if it pops up as a suggestion, because clicking on the pop-ups does nothing at all. This is all very basic stuff which is totally screwed up. I may be switching to Chrome.
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