Firefox 4

[Lenny]

When you guys say FF4 is "faster", in what way? Loading pages? Opening tabs? Starting up?

[no2guncntrl]

I don't know about faster, but I like the small corner window that
allows me to set zoom. With the old FF I couldn't get it to not scrunch
up the text with the pics. With FF4 I can adjust very simply. I need
that as I can't see a hoot anymore.

It falls under View, zoom, no squint.

[mmettin]

I don't know about faster, but I like the small corner window that
allows me to set zoom. With the old FF I couldn't get it to not scrunch
up the text with the pics. With FF4 I can adjust very simply. I need
that as I can't see a hoot anymore.

It falls under View, zoom, no squint.

Ctrl + mousewheel up doesn't work ?

[no2guncntrl]

^ I'm not that smart..Yea it does, but using no squint saves the pages.
I don't know if the wheel would..

[Brandito]

ff4 still has some major memory leaks it seems, catch it using 1.5gb of ram regularly.

then it does the whole stutter thing until you restart it.

i'd switch to chrome full time but their lack of a bookmarks side bar is a huge oversight for me. it's something so simple and utilitarian that i cannot begin to understand why they refuse to add one.

[bk94si]

When you guys say FF4 is "faster", in what way? Loading pages? Opening tabs? Starting up?

I think it loads pages faster but it's hard to tell for sure. My ISP has very inconsistent speeds.

[Hardware]

When you guys say FF4 is "faster", in what way? Loading pages? Opening tabs? Starting up?

I've found its more responsive. FF 3 had this tendency to freeze for 5 seconds or so every now and then. I don't see any of that in FF 4. Tabs open and close faster and its bit more stable as well.

Its also smarter. If you restore a previous session pages in tabs only load if you switch to them.

[Invictus]

Ive been using ff4. I was and am still a fan of chrome. But the new firefox seems much quicker then the old versions.

Now if i could only figure out why any version adobe flash after 10 will cause a bsod on cetian websites but not others like youtube.

[3dfxrain]

Text looks unclearish for me, looks black and white patchy text. Should be full black.

[no2guncntrl]

From Mozilla regarding FF 4

http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/2011...ppbGxhYWltc3Q-
EXCERPT.

The slowdown can be significant, particularly if you're running several add-ons at a time. According to Mozilla, each add-on adds about 10 percent to Firefox's startup time. The company's performance data shows that installing 10 add-ons will double the amount of time it takes the browser to launch.

In an era where speed is king--performance is the most appealing attribute of the latest versions of Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer -- the move to address speed-killing add-ons is critical. Mozilla's new Firefox 4 browser promises faster graphics rendering, page loads, and startup times. Faster add-ons will help the new version succeed, too.

So what's Mozilla doing about slow extensions? First, it's running automated performance tests on the top 100 add-ons and posting the results. The worst offenders, which currently include the FoxLingo Translator/Dictionary and Firebug, a developer's tool, will be publicly shamed. Users will know which add-ons to avoid.

Mozilla is asking developers of slow add-ons to improve the speed of their software. In addition, its add-on gallery will show warnings of programs that slow Firefox's startup time by 25 percent or more. A future version of Firefox will display these warnings in the browser's Add-Ons Manager too.

Third-party software is notorious for installing performance-killing browser toolbars and other add-ons without your permission. To prevent that, an upcoming version of Firefox will not allow the installation of third-party add-ons in the browser without your consent.

"We expect this to have a huge impact on Firefox performance, as well as giving users back the control they should have over their add-ons," Scott writes.

[nuke]

I just installed FF4, using it now, as someone who has always used (and hold your laughter please) IE, I rather like FF4.