[Update] Mozilla Foundation releases Firefox 4 - Page 11

joglynne · 26-03-2011, 13:17

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Originally Posted by raging bull

On my wifes laptop running Vista, the toolbar that contains icons for open new tab/open new window/displaybookmarks etc is missing.
Tried all sorts to get it to show, but I am still running XP and not to familiar with Vista.

Maybe this will help. Try Alt key + V. This should give you a drop down View menu and you can reselect the Menu Bar.

Yay, that still works in ubuntu as well.

raging bull · 26-03-2011, 20:51

Just right clicked to bring up menu then used customise to put icons onto existing tool bar.

tweetiepooh · 28-03-2011, 17:44

Works fine for me in Windows but in Linux (OpenSuse 11.3 and 11.4) some parts of Facebook (Flash) flicker and distort something rotten. This is not the case in 11.3 and 3.6 on same PC. I've upped Windows 7 to FF 4 and IE 9, OpenSUSE 11.4 comes with FF4, downgraded OpenSUSE 11.3 to FF 3.6.

Most addons I need have versions that do work, some need to get from author site rather than Mozilla.

Blackened · 28-03-2011, 18:21

I installed FF4 alongside FF3 just in case I didn't like it, but once I installed the "Status-4-Evar" extension it was all fine and dandy (the progress indicator on the address bar is too thin and a bit too self indulgent for the browser I think).
I'm giving the menu bar replacement drop down a go though.

joglynne · 29-03-2011, 13:20

Overall I am happy with the New Firefox, Having to go back to FF3.6 when I swapped over to ubuntu last week, after having used all the FF4 betas and FF4 rc1, brought it home to me how good FF4 was and I was relieved when I received the automatic upgrade.

I must admit I was dubious about loosing my Menu Bar but I find the drop down way of accessing my menu items is quite good to use and the extra space it frees up is worth having.

One of the things with FF4 that has irritated me was the new look of the Add-ons, it seemed to be so spread out and, even with my font size reduced, I had to scroll to get to my add-ons. OK I know I'm lazy but I do like to have what I am working on all showing on the screen at the same time.

Having a bit of rummage around the net I came across a report on the Slim Add-on Manager on the ghacks site. In use it certainly makes the lists a lot more compact.

Cobbydaler · 29-03-2011, 21:48

Now available for Android:

https://market.android.com/details?i...=search_result

First impressions are it's a bit slow. Has sync & adblock plus however...

SnoopZ · 29-03-2011, 23:01

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Originally Posted by joglynne

Overall I am happy with the New Firefox, Having to go back to FF3.6 when I swapped over to ubuntu last week, after having used all the FF4 betas and FF4 rc1, brought it home to me how good FF4 was and I was relieved when I received the automatic upgrade.

I must admit I was dubious about loosing my Menu Bar but I find the drop down way of accessing my menu items is quite good to use and the extra space it frees up is worth having.

One of the things with FF4 that has irritated me was the new look of the Add-ons, it seemed to be so spread out and, even with my font size reduced, I had to scroll to get to my add-ons. OK I know I'm lazy but I do like to have what I am working on all showing on the screen at the same time.

Having a bit of rummage around the net I came across a report on the Slim Add-on Manager on the ghacks site. In use it certainly makes the lists a lot more compact.

Press the left ALT key to get the menu up if you need it.

After using FF4 since beta 1 i have now gone over to Chrome full time as i started to hate how it looked and it seemed bloated and a bit slower. Also had a flickery tab issue on my main PC which no one seems to know why over at Bugzilla.

Cobbydaler · 29-03-2011, 23:14

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Originally Posted by SnoopZ

Press the left ALT key to get the menu up if you need it.

After using FF4 since beta 1 i have now gone over to Chrome full time as i started to hate how it looked and it seemed bloated and a bit slower. Also had a flickery tab issue on my main PC which no one seems to know why over at Bugzilla.

How do you live without the extensions? Chrome has almost none...

SnoopZ · 29-03-2011, 23:21

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Originally Posted by Cobbydaler

How do you live without the extensions? Chrome has almost none...

Chrome has lots of extensions now, obviously not as many as Firefox but since it now has ABP i am now converted.

I did have an issue with the new tab page privacy but that is sorted by using Incognito mode on the rare occasion i don't want others knowing where i have been.

Welshchris · 30-03-2011, 00:15

I think i have found another bug if people also wanna try... Where in firefox 3.x if u have multiple tabs open u click to close and it will ask are u sure u wanna close all these tabs etc and u click yes they close and next time u reopen its just the one tab.

In firefox 4 even tho u have chosen to close them all they reopen when u restart and also even if u have the one page open when u close instead of it reopening on homepage it starts on last page u were on instead.

**Chris** · 30-03-2011, 08:18

Firefox 3 has an option to do that as well, you probably just had it switched off.

Blackened · 30-03-2011, 11:09

After being confused why FF4 was *still* checking add-on compatibility when I set the checkbox in Options (and the add-on manager) to specifically not do so - I went Googling about and found this interesting article.

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Starting in Firefox 4, the Add-ons Manager will display additional information about each add-on you have installed, including screenshots, description, ratings, downloads, Contributions, and other metadata.
In order to keep this information updated, Firefox will ask the Mozilla Add-ons gallery for information about the add-ons you have installed once a day. This involves sending the identifiers of each add-on you have installed to Mozilla, as well as information on how long it last took Firefox to start up.

The article goes on to explain how to opt out of this by using about:config

joglynne · 30-03-2011, 11:12

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Originally Posted by SnoopZ

Press the left ALT key to get the menu up if you need it.

After using FF4 since beta 1 i have now gone over to Chrome full time as i started to hate how it looked and it seemed bloated and a bit slower. Also had a flickery tab issue on my main PC which no one seems to know why over at Bugzilla.

Left ALT doesn't bring up the menu for me but I am happy with the firefox button on the tab line. The only thing it doesn't give me access to, or at least I can't see it, is the Edit Preferences but ALT E gets me that so no great loss.

I have been trying out Chrome as well but I just can't seem to settle with it but I think I will persevere with it on my other PC and with no FF on there maybe the lack of choice will force my brain to accept it.

Peter_ · 30-03-2011, 11:16

The are to many addons that I currently use in Firefox 3 for me to consider going over to Firefox 4 as I am just so used to them being there and them just doing what I expect them to do.

I have tried all the different ways to get them to work with Firefox 4 with no joy as most say not compatible and are greyed out so until they update or sort it out I will stay with Firefox 3.

Welshchris · 30-03-2011, 11:48

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Originally Posted by Chris

Firefox 3 has an option to do that as well, you probably just had it switched off.

with firefox 3 if u chose to close all tabs they would close and when u restart would only get the one tab with home page this is not so in 4, all the tabs reopen and i am yet to find an option to stop this.