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I Wear Pants

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Mar 22, 2011 1:11 PM
Now that Firefox 4 is out of beta and ready for mass consumption how many of you have gotten it? I've been using it for months and really like it.

/cool story
Mar 22, 2011 1:11pm
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Mar 22, 2011 1:46 PM
I Wear Pants;720830 wrote:Now that Firefox 4 is out of beta and ready for mass consumption how many of you have gotten it? I've been using it for months and really like it.

/cool story

I'm going to download it when I get home. I held off on the betas this time since the entire road to Firefox 4 was a gigantic clusterfuck.
Mar 22, 2011 1:46pm
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Mar 22, 2011 2:06 PM
It took longer than I would have liked but non of the betas were bad imo. They said they're going to have Firefox 5 be a lot sooner of a release to FF4 than 4 was to 3 which is nice.
Mar 22, 2011 2:06pm
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Mar 23, 2011 9:39 AM
I just downloaded it and at the moment I'm not terribly pleased. Does anyone know if there's a way to move the tab bar back down below the bookmarks bar where it used to be? It's just too far to get to your tabs at the top. It makes more sense to me to have the bookmarks at the top and the tabs at the bottom. Honestly I don't know why they would change that anyway. It doesn't actually save any room.
Mar 23, 2011 9:39am
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Mar 23, 2011 11:04 AM
Right click somewhere at the top then uncheck where it says "Tabs on Top".
Mar 23, 2011 11:04am
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Mar 23, 2011 11:49 AM
bleed_orange_and_black;721708 wrote:Right click somewhere at the top then uncheck where it says "Tabs on Top".

Thank you so much!
Mar 23, 2011 11:49am
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Mar 23, 2011 5:34 PM
Yeah if there's something you don't like about Firefox visually you can change it which is nice.

For instance if you don't like the orange button just right click up top and select "menu bar" to bring back the old style menus.
Mar 23, 2011 5:34pm
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chicago510

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Mar 23, 2011 6:01 PM
I like that I could just sync my bookmarks and history and passwords with my firefox mobile on android. Neato.
Mar 23, 2011 6:01pm
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Mar 23, 2011 6:47 PM
I downloaded it at work today and used it for a bit. Nice and fast. I would put it at a tie with Chrome right now until I get to use it more.

Funny how FF and IE now resemble Chrome.
Mar 23, 2011 6:47pm
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Mar 23, 2011 9:25 PM
i have no reason to switch from chrome, other than the fact that Google will eventually become skynet.

anyone care to explain the major differences with firefox 4?
Mar 23, 2011 9:25pm
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Mar 23, 2011 9:39 PM
WebFire;722211 wrote:I downloaded it at work today and used it for a bit. Nice and fast. I would put it at a tie with Chrome right now until I get to use it more.

Funny how FF and IE now resemble Chrome.

I noticed this. They all look and feel like Chrome, but I like the improvements both made. Even IE isn't too hideous
Mar 23, 2011 9:39pm
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Mar 23, 2011 9:43 PM
They all borrow ideas from each other. And most of them took good ideas from Opera and made them better. Opera is the innovator in the browser market who can never gain any marketshare.
Mar 23, 2011 9:43pm
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Mar 23, 2011 10:00 PM
I'm quite pleased with it now that I got the old menu back and moved the tabs back where I wanted them. Now if I could get the refresh button moved over by the Forward/Back buttons again, it's be perfect.
Mar 23, 2011 10:00pm
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Mar 23, 2011 10:12 PM
krambman;722345 wrote:I'm quite pleased with it now that I got the old menu back and moved the tabs back where I wanted them. Now if I could get the refresh button moved over by the Forward/Back buttons again, it's be perfect.

You can move the refresh button.
Firefox 4 moved the reload button inside the address bar, which saves space, but may throw some of you off. If you prefer it where it was, next to the back and forward buttonsm you may not realise you can move it just like a regular toolbar button. If you head into Options > Toolbar Layout, it becomes a regular reload and stop button that you can move around as normal. If you move it away from the rightmost edge of the address bar, it will act like a normal button again.
Mar 23, 2011 10:12pm
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Mar 23, 2011 10:13 PM
krambman;722345 wrote:I'm quite pleased with it now that I got the old menu back and moved the tabs back where I wanted them. Now if I could get the refresh button moved over by the Forward/Back buttons again, it's be perfect.

Just curious....why?
Mar 23, 2011 10:13pm
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Mar 23, 2011 10:25 PM
Some people don't like change. :)
Mar 23, 2011 10:25pm
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Mar 23, 2011 10:39 PM
WebFire;722377 wrote:Some people don't like change. :)

Actually I'm not typically one of those people. I like innovation and improvement. When Facebook changes things up I usually like it. I'm never one of the people complaining about it. Same thing when Windows Vista and Word 2007 were released. Even though most of the changes were drastic I didn't mind.
wildcats20;722364 wrote:Just curious....why?

It doesn't seem as intuitive to me. Having those buttons grouped together just makes more sense. The only time my cursor is ever in that area of the screen is when I'm using one of my search engines. When I'm doing something with a webpage (entering a web address, going back, or refreshing the page) then my cursor is on that part of the window. Just makes sense to me to have those buttons together.
Mar 23, 2011 10:39pm
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Mar 23, 2011 10:41 PM
krambman;722389 wrote:It doesn't seem as intuitive to me. Having those buttons grouped together just makes more sense. The only time my cursor is ever in that area of the screen is when I'm using one of my search engines. When I'm doing something with a webpage (entering a web address, going back, or refreshing the page) then my cursor is on that part of the window. Just makes sense to me to have those buttons together.

Gotcha, just was curious.

I usually use the keyboard more than I use the mouse, so it doesn't bother me. CTRL+R works fine for me lol
Mar 23, 2011 10:41pm
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Mar 23, 2011 10:44 PM
krambman;722389 wrote: It doesn't seem as intuitive to me. Having those buttons grouped together just makes more sense. The only time my cursor is ever in that area of the screen is when I'm using one of my search engines. When I'm doing something with a webpage (entering a web address, going back, or refreshing the page) then my cursor is on that part of the window. Just makes sense to me to have those buttons together.
I think the idea with that was to save pixels. However I much prefer the unified stop/reload button as well. Which is why I put it back over there. You should too if it's your preference.
Mar 23, 2011 10:44pm
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Mar 24, 2011 2:11 AM
wildcats20;722391 wrote: so it doesn't bother me. CTRL+R works fine for me lol


I'm an F5 sorta guy.
Mar 24, 2011 2:11am
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Mar 24, 2011 10:47 PM
Anyone else having issues with PDF's?

I get an error when it tries to open PDF's in the browser (It's Adobe Reader X)
Mar 24, 2011 10:47pm
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Mar 25, 2011 1:29 AM
I haven't had any problems, try reinstalling the plugin for it.
Mar 25, 2011 1:29am
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Mar 25, 2011 11:05 PM
Mar 25, 2011 11:05pm
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Apr 5, 2011 1:55 PM
Does anyone else think that pages take longer to load in FF4 than they did in FF3? When I had 3 pages seemed to load almost instantly. Now when I'm running FF4 it seems like every page I open takes a second or two to load, and some pages (like this website for instance) take a couple of second to load fully. Has anyone else noticed this, or is it just me?
Apr 5, 2011 1:55pm