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Firefox 4

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D4Danger

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Firefox 4.0 for Windows
Firefox 4.0 for Linux (x86, x64)
Firefox 4.0 for Mac


Links

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_4


New UI (this can be changed if you don't like it)

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Under the Hood


  • WebM and HD Video
    As pioneers of HTML5 video standards, Firefox also supports the WebM format so you can watch open HD quality video.

  • Protecting Your Privacy
    Firefox puts your privacy first, fixing flaws in some web standards that allow bad guys to snoop around and expose your browser history.

  • New JS values
    Changes to the C++ representation of JavaScript values allow Firefox to execute heavy, numeric code more efficiently, resulting in cleaner graphics and a better browsing experience.

  • Multi-touch Support
    Firefox now integrates multi-touch support for Windows 7, enabling you to interact with your browser in a whole new way.

  • 3D on the Web
    WebGL brings 3D graphics to Firefox, opening the door for developers to create vivid games and new kinds of visualizations and experiences for the Web.

  • Audio API
    Firefox is changing the way media is integrated on the web: exposing the raw audio data housed within the <video> and <audio> elements in HTML5 makes it easy for developers to use JS to read and write audio data.

  • Retained layers
    Experience super fast scrolling on complex web pages. Simply awesome.

  • XPCOM
    Firefox starts up even faster thanks to XPCOM module improvements that pave the way to a better extensions framework.

  • Stylin’ Pages with CSS3
    Support for new CSS3 features like Transitions and Transformations makes it easy to add elegant animations to Web pages. Learn more

  • Fabulous Fonts
    Firefox 4’s OpenType font features gives designers and developers more control over a variety of font features—like kerning or ligatures—to create gorgeous websites.

  • Upgrading Forms
    Firefox integrated Form features like list attributes and HTML5 validation provide the tools to make annoying form implementation development a thing of the past.

  • HTML5 Support
    A new HTML5 parser and full support for web video, audio, drag & drop, and file handling means Firefox 4 is ready to run the best web apps of both today and tomorrow.

  • Web Console
    With this experimental analysis tool for modern sites, Firefox allows you to peek under the hood of dynamic web pages.

  • JetPack SDK (Making Add-on Development Easier)
    Add-ons can be installed without restarting the browser, and can be developed more easily using the new JetPack SDK and js-ctypes.

  • Full Hardware Acceleration
    Experience super-fast graphics acceleration with Direct2D and Direct3D on Windows, XRender on Linux and OpenGL on Mac, now enabled by default, on all supported hardware.

  • SVG as Images
    SVG files can now be used as images and backgrounds in Firefox, meaning that developers and designers can have stunning, performance-conscious websites with lighter, resolution-independent image files.

  • Compartments
    Firefox can now better manage JavaScript objects with Compartments, offering improved cache utilization and garbage collection mechanisms for better security, memory management and overall performance.

  • Crash Protection
    Firefox provides uninterrupted browsing for Windows, Linux, and now Mac when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins. If one of these commonly-used plugins crashes or freezes, it won’t affect the rest of Firefox. Instead, you can simply reload the page to restart the plugin and try again. Learn more about plugins.

  • HSTS
    Sites can now keep attackers from intercepting sensitive data while accessing the site by telling Firefox to automatically establish secure connections to their servers (https).
 
moojito

moojito

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I hope you can opt to not have it look like that. I want my bookmarks menu, and 'new tab' button right next to my address bar, dagnammit.
 
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HiResDes

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Keyser Soze said:
Fell out with Firefox this time last year, went to Chrome. I am not going back - well unless Chrome annoys in the future.
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When I figured out that Chrome has it's no-scripts like add-on I began using it more...Speed wise I think Chrome is slightly better, but aesthetically I think Firefox is much better.
 
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dimb

Bjergsen is the greatest midlane in the world
moojito said:
I hope you can opt to not have it look like that. I want my bookmarks menu, and 'new tab' button right next to my address bar, dagnammit.
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Ctrl+shift+b plus ctrl+t.

I honestly don't use bookmarks very often between the most visited button and the area where you can drag and drop stuff below the url bar.

And the new tab button is the plus sign, it's right there. Bookmarks is also on the very far right hand side. The look is much more streamlined than older versions of Firefox, and a lot of bloat has been removed from the interface.
 
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enzo_gt

tagged by Blackace
HiResDes said:
When I figured out that Chrome has it's no-scripts like add-on I began using it more...Speed wise I think Chrome is slightly better, but aesthetically I think Firefox is much better.
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Firefox had NoScript before Chrome.

Chrome only has speed and the UI going for me, I don't really like the FF4 look that much. In actual function I prefer FF anyday. But I digress.
 
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D4Danger

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Leonsito said:
Do you have to uninstall 3.x ?
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no. It installed over the top for me and kept my profile.

do a backup if you're not sure though.

%appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
 
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Vagabundo

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The one reason I stopped using firefox -- and moved to chrome -- was the whole application freezing while I loaded websites in other tabs. Has this been fixed?
 
aparisi2274

aparisi2274

Member
I was testing out the Beta of Firefox 4 last week, and I had to go back to the stable 3.6. I was getting way to many issues opening pages and most of my add-on's were not working.
 
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alr1ght

bish gets all the credit :)
that bright orange tab at the top is ridiculous. I like that I can turn it off and go classic.
 
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dimb

Bjergsen is the greatest midlane in the world
The placement of the refresh button was bugging the shit out of me. Then I figured out you can move most things on the bar anywhere. Pretty neat.
 
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D4Danger

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Dance In My Blood said:
The placement of the refresh button is bugging the shit out of me.
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you can move it if you want. Right click the toolbar area and choose "Customize..." then drag the button off the address bar.

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Bernbaum

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Will give it a look but it's gonna take a lot to pry me away from Chrome. Chrome just makes too much sense, what with it's handy bar that works as both a URL thingy and a search thingy.
 
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dimb

Bjergsen is the greatest midlane in the world
D4Danger said:
you can move it if you want. Right click the toolbar area and choose "Customize..." then drag the button off the address bar.

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Yeah, just figured that out. Really impressed by being able to mess with the UI like that.
 
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FleaTheMagician

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I just upgraded, I was surprised at how fast the process was. It seems like they made more space for actual web browsing with less toolbar space/menus and whatnot. I like it. :)
 
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Leonsito

Member
D4Danger said:
no. It installed over the top for me and kept my profile.

do a backup if you're not sure though.

%appdata%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
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No problem, it kept everything fine.

GAF seems slightly different.
 
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FleaTheMagician

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Green Scar said:
Can I put the tabs below the address bar? Because that's how I like it.
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If you right click on the background near the address bar there is a toggle for "tabs on top". I thought I liked them better on the bottom too, but having them on top seems to make more sense and takes up less space.
 
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Casp0r

Banned
Full Hardware Acceleration
Experience super-fast graphics acceleration with Direct2D and Direct3D on Windows, XRender on Linux and OpenGL on Mac, now enabled by default, on all supported hardware.
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Is this that same thing Microsoft and AMD were showing off with Internet Explorer 9?
 
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Azar

Member
Bernbaum said:
Will give it a look but it's gonna take a lot to pry me away from Chrome. Chrome just makes too much sense, what with it's handy bar that works as both a URL thingy and a search thingy.
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Type in a search in both browsers and hit enter and they take you to a Google search results page. The functionality is very similar, the Awesomebar just puts a bit more priority on your history in its results.
 
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offshore

Member
Just downloaded it. Is anyone else finding the awesome bar all messed up? It's not giving me the same pages like in 3.6 when I type something in. Like in 3.6, I type in "ne" in the address bar to bring up GAF, in 4 I type in "ne" and get a load of random pages :/

Going back to 3.6.
 
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Sofo

Member
D4Danger said:
do you have it set in the options?

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Whoah thanks! Was that there on the prior version? I remember just getting the prompt when wanting to close with multiple tabs and just asking to save and quit. Thanks a bunch!
 
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hsin

Banned
offshore said:
Just downloaded it. Is anyone else finding the awesome bar all messed up? It's not giving me the same pages like in 3.6 when I type something in. Like in 3.6, I type in "ne" in the address bar to bring up GAF, in 4 I type in "ne" and get a load of random pages :/

Going back to 3.6.
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Unrelated question: where is your avatar from?
 
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Hot Coldman

Banned
FleaTheMagician said:
One thing I have noticed is that text looks little blurry, or less crisp, since upgrading.
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Yeah, kinda. I think the tabs being very square is something I'm not quite into. But I'll get used to it, because I'm sure it'll be faster in the long run.
 
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D4Danger

Unconfirmed Member
Casp0r said:
Is this that same thing Microsoft and AMD were showing off with Internet Explorer 9?
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yeah. It's really good as well. I'm getting much better results in Firefox than I do in Chrome for some reason.

You can go and play with the demos Microsoft made at: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

Microsoft's IE9 fish tank demo 60 FPS


Sofo said:
Whoah thanks! Was that there on the prior version? I remember just getting the prompt when wanting to close with multiple tabs and just asking to save and quit. Thanks a bunch!
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I'm not sure to be honest. I haven't used Firefox in a while but I remember it being a prompt like you said. I think they've gone for a Chrome-like approach this time.
 
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