Get FireFox 4 now....

marvins_dad · 22 Mar 2011, 16:26

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.

Goonster · 22 Mar 2011, 23:18

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.

jamalito · 22 Mar 2011, 23:31

I used fire fox to 7 years
I do not change form 7 years

ledisnomad · 23 Mar 2011, 14:08

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.

derei · 23 Mar 2011, 16:43

@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

Khai · 23 Mar 2011, 17:51

given up on this version for now..
the Fuzzy Fonts is an eye killer.

TIG · 23 Mar 2011, 18:24

@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...

TIG · 23 Mar 2011, 18:37

@khai said:

ok that worked thanks...

but killed the persona... daaaamn lol

I have yet to find a persona I like without the fuzz...

Khai · 23 Mar 2011, 18:38

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.

Rich O Brien · 23 Mar 2011, 18:44

@khai said:

given up on this version for now..
the Fuzzy Fonts is an eye killer.

Any relation to Happy Days Fonz?

boofredlay · 23 Mar 2011, 18:45

MX3 is a nice one TIG, thanks.

Rich O Brien · 23 Mar 2011, 20:07

@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?

Khai · 23 Mar 2011, 21:27

yup. I did the even easier fix.

use Firefox 3 or Chrome - which has hardware acceleration but no issues with simple font rendering.

Gaieus · 24 Mar 2011, 03:59

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.

Bob James · 25 Mar 2011, 07:48

@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.

Alan Fraser · 15 Apr 2011, 14:57

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.

pbacot · 15 Apr 2011, 15:02

Alan,

You can customize the toolbar to get the reload back. I found it screwy, but eventually got something similar to previous. My search seems to be working fine.

Peter

derei · 15 Apr 2011, 18:25

I just installed FF4 - nice appearance, but a little disappointed in loading time. I guess I was too used with Chrome. Other bad side is a lot of "not responding" ... if cpu is a little busy, FF gets unresponsive.
I'll stick to Chrome for a while