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kharma45

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Deadstar said:
One thing I really like about the new browser is that you can click the middle mouse button on a link to open it in a new tab. I'm not sure if previous versions of Firefox did this but I just started using it.
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Pretty sure that's been there ever since tabbed browsing appeared :p
 
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Deadstar

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Hah wow.....I never knew something so beautiful existed. Regardless though, I'd like to map that function to my thumb mouse button. Is there a config file somewhere that contains this data?

Edit: I've been right clicking and "open new tabbing" for years. :(
 
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dude

dude
Deadstar said:
Hah wow.....I never knew something so beautiful existed. Regardless though, I'd like to map that function to my thumb mouse button. Is there a config file somewhere that contains this data?
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You... Right clicked, "open in new tab" this whole time?
You poor soul.

It's nice, but still not good enough to make me switch over from Chrome.
 
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Darkatomz

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Tried it out last night. After a few hours with it, here's what I found that I don't like.

-No more titles at the top of the window. Sure, it took up space, but I'm not sure getting rid of it was the answer.
-F6 doesn't highlight the address bar anymore for whatever reason. I don't like Ctrl+L since I hit Ctrl+K sometimes by accident, which highlights the search bar.
-Text is slightly blurry due to hardware acceleration.
-There is NO ask for tab-saving upon closing the browser. I found a line change in about:config that fixed this, but what the hell?? WHY would you disable that by default?

Other than that, I can live with the changes. Any suggestions to fix this stuff?
 
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firehawk12

Subete no aware
Hrm. For the tab groups, I kind of wish they stole the Opera grouping system. Having to go to a whole new screen just to manage/switch tab groups seems really inefficient.
 
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Souldriver

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firehawk12 said:
Hrm. For the tab groups, I kind of wish they stole the Opera grouping system. Having to go to a whole new screen just to manage/switch tab groups seems really inefficient.
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Yeah, you would expect that the little dot-button that gives you the menu with the "tab groups" and your opened tabs, would also have your tab groups listed. Seems like such an obvious thing.
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
UnblessedSoul said:
Is there a way to add the arrow for the recent page history drop-down menu next the navigation arrows ? they removed it for some reason
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Right clicking on it works, too.
 
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Yeef

Member
Darkatomz said:
Tried it out last night. After a few hours with it, here's what I found that I don't like.

-No more titles at the top of the window. Sure, it took up space, but I'm not sure getting rid of it was the answer.
-F6 doesn't highlight the address bar anymore for whatever reason. I don't like Ctrl+L since I hit Ctrl+K sometimes by accident, which highlights the search bar.
-Text is slightly blurry due to hardware acceleration.
-There is NO ask for tab-saving upon closing the browser. I found a line change in about:config that fixed this, but what the hell?? WHY would you disable that by default?

Other than that, I can live with the changes. Any suggestions to fix this stuff?
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I have titles on the title bar. If you have tabs on top enabled it probable hides them. If you don't want tabs on top just right click in the tab bar and disable it.

F6 highlights the address bar just fine for me. That might be a side effect of an extension or setting.

There are a bunch of different solutions to the blurry text thing on the first few pages of this thread. I never had any issues so I didn't really pay attention to them.

If you did an update it should've carried over your preferences from Firefox 3. Otherwise, you can change how it handles startup by going to options > general and setting it to save tabs and windows from last time.

Tab groups are nice and were the one big feature from Opera I wanted a lot. You can cycle between groups by pressing ctrl+` or show all groups by pressing ctrl+shift+e.

So far the only issue I've had is with the faviconize tab extension. For some reason if you have it set to hide the close button on compressed tabs when you close the tab it'll leave a gap on the tab bar where the tab had been. De-faviconizing the gap or not hiding the close button fixes it, but hopefully they'll update it soon and fix the bug.
 
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Toby

Member
I don't seem to be able to use my touchpad scrolling after updating. It just stops working after opening the application and selecting a different tab. Anyone heard of this?
 
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firehawk12

Subete no aware
Yeef said:
Tab groups are nice and were the one big feature from Opera I wanted a lot. You can cycle between groups by pressing ctrl+` or show all groups by pressing ctrl+shift+e.
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Hrm, neat shortcut, but still seems to be a layer of abstraction that seems unnecessary.

Souldriver said:
Yeah, you would expect that the little dot-button that gives you the menu with the "tab groups" and your opened tabs, would also have your tab groups listed. Seems like such an obvious thing.
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Oh man, yeah, that would help tremendously. Maybe in 4.1. :lol
 
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Road

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Darkatomz said:
Tried it out last night. After a few hours with it, here's what I found that I don't like.

-No more titles at the top of the window. Sure, it took up space, but I'm not sure getting rid of it was the answer.
-F6 doesn't highlight the address bar anymore for whatever reason. I don't like Ctrl+L since I hit Ctrl+K sometimes by accident, which highlights the search bar.
-Text is slightly blurry due to hardware acceleration.
-There is NO ask for tab-saving upon closing the browser. I found a line change in about:config that fixed this, but what the hell?? WHY would you disable that by default?

Other than that, I can live with the changes. Any suggestions to fix this stuff?
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Try Alt+D to highlight the url bar.
 
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Crisis

Banned
So I downloaded this and I really like it. I wish there were some way to use Chrome and Firefox at the same time. Because they're both good.
 
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Korey

Member
Yeef said:
Tab groups are nice and were the one big feature from Opera I wanted a lot. You can cycle between groups by pressing ctrl+` or show all groups by pressing ctrl+shift+e.

So far the only issue I've had is with the faviconize tab extension. For some reason if you have it set to hide the close button on compressed tabs when you close the tab it'll leave a gap on the tab bar where the tab had been. De-faviconizing the gap or not hiding the close button fixes it, but hopefully they'll update it soon and fix the bug.
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I find Firefox 4's tab groups to be lackluster. I wish they implemented Opera 11's tab stacking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hqSGGk1YTI&hd=1...seems like a much better implementation of a similar idea.
 
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MrBig

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Toby said:
I don't seem to be able to use my touchpad scrolling after updating. It just stops working after opening the application and selecting a different tab. Anyone heard of this?
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Must be a problem with your driver. Synaptic two finger scrolling has no problems.
 
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Van Owen

Banned
Just noticed an annoying bug. When I hover over a link in Win7, when the status bar pops up it messes with the aero reflection on the left and right sides of the window.
 
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Absol

Member
Tree Style Tab has that tab stack-esque style for a long time now.

I actually prefer the way Tree Style Tab handles/controls my tab. One of the add-ons that I can't live without if I use the other browsers.
 
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AndyD

aka andydumi
Van Owen said:
Just noticed an annoying bug. When I hover over a link in Win7, when the status bar pops up it messes with the aero reflection on the left and right sides of the window.
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I am not having that issue.
 
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LQX

Member
Are the add-ons like smart bookmark working yet? Don't want to download if it breaks my add-ons.
 
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Vic

Please help me with my bad english
Absol said:
Tree Style Tab has that tab stack-esque style for a long time now.

I actually prefer the way Tree Style Tab handles/controls my tab. One of the add-ons that I can't live without if I use the other browsers.
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Tree Style Tab is quite buggy with Fx4, so I'm using Vertical Tabs atm.
 
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AndyD

aka andydumi
LQX said:
Are the add-ons like smart bookmark working yet? Don't want to download if it breaks my add-ons.
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You can look under the extensions search to see if any one in particular is 4.0 compatible.
 
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CrookedRain

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For anyone complaining about blurry text, change "gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled" to true and try the following:

CrookedRain said:
Have you tried adjusting the ClearType settings? In Windows 7, type "clear" in the start menu and you should see "Adjust ClearType text".
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You probably have to restart the browser after for any of this to take effect.
 
LiquidMetal14

LiquidMetal14

hide your water-based mammals
I use chrome and will keep this around as an alt. I actually had it this way with my last PC but enjoy chrome so much that I never bothered to install until FF4 came.
 
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JustHadToJoin

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I could really use some help here


i'm not computer savvy or anything like that. Can someone tell me how to downgrade back to the latest fire fox? This one doesnt work with one of my plugins.
 
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Yeef

Member
JustHadToJoin said:
I could really use some help here


i'm not computer savvy or anything like that. Can someone tell me how to downgrade back to the latest fire fox? This one doesnt work with one of my plugins.
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Try the Nightly Tester Tools extension first. It gives you the option to skip Firefox's compatibility check and enable incompatible extensions. Most of the time they work fine with new versions but just haven't been verified.
 
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NYR

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rogue_pigeon said:
Has anyone done any performance comparisons of this new release versus Chrome and Safari on OS X?

I DEMAND CHARTS AND GRAPHS!
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Yep, waiting for this before I update my Mac...
 
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GhostRidah

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Angelus Errare said:
What are your address bar addons? Specifically the gold arrow, and what does it do?
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Sorry for the late reply, Its omnibar for the address bar and that gold arrow is "read it later" it allows me to mark a page to read for later in a addon, its pretty good but you can basically do it yourself by bookmarking everything.
 
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Deleted member 10571

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dammit, if I use the mouse, I'll ALWAYS end up in the upper left when I want to refresh the page, every single goddamn time.
 
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Road

Member
tycoonheart said:
Even after disabling hardware acceleration, the text is extremely blurry. Looks perfectly fine in Chrome. WTF is going on?
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Have you restarted the browser?

It is pointless to compare the DirectWrite text rendering with Chrome's. They just are different.
 
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Youta Mottenai

Member
JustHadToJoin said:
I could really use some help here


i'm not computer savvy or anything like that. Can someone tell me how to downgrade back to the latest fire fox? This one doesnt work with one of my plugins.
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Just download the older version (3.6.15) from here and install it.

I did this because Windows System Recovery failed me, FF would not start at all even after Windows saying the recovery was successful, and it is working fine (didn't lose anything).

But, just in case, backup your profile/bookmarks.
 
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