Get FireFox 4 now....

marvins_dad

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

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

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

ledisnomad

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

@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

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

TIG

@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

@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

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

@khai said:

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

Any relation to Happy Days Fonz?

boofredlay

MX3 is a nice one TIG, thanks.

Rich O Brien

@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

yup. I did the even easier fix.

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

Gaieus

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

@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

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

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

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