Firefox 4 Has Landed

[Gnomre]

i left firefox 4 open overnight with the download window open and one tab, my bank's website, after making the layout not suck. there's something wrong with you if you actually like the latest trend of cramming all the menus into one button over a menu bar but that's beside the point

it was using over 700 MB of RAM with one tab open for around a day, what a piece of shit

[SinbadEV]

i left firefox 4 open overnight with the download window open and one tab, my bank's website, after making the layout not suck. there's something wrong with you if you actually like the latest trend of cramming all the menus into one button over a menu bar but that's beside the point

it was using over 700 MB of RAM with one tab open for around a day, what a piece of shit

If you are using Vista or 7 I was under the impression that applications would "reserve" a peek amount of RAM as long as it was not being used by other applications... perhaps Firefox needed all that ram for something briefly and so windows kept it in reserve because nothing else was asking for it.

Not saying FF is perfect or whatever...

[Masure]

Why support chrome?
a commercial company product instead of the free open source firefox?
Ill have Firefox any day not to mention it has no real disadvantages.

Chrome is open source...

http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/google ... oogle.html

[Forboding Angel]

So is Firefox. What's your point?

[Gota]

Chrome is a product of one of the industry giants as another tool to help their advertisement efforts.

If firefox was at a big disadvantage versus chrome I might understand moving to Chrome but its not the case at all, so there is absolutely no reason to help Google take over another slice of the Tech market...

[Regret]

Chrome is open source...

http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/google ... oogle.html

No.

Google Chrome is closed source.

Chromium is open source.

[Petah]

Chrome is a product of one of the industry giants as another tool to help their advertisement efforts.

If firefox was at a big disadvantage versus chrome I might understand moving to Chrome but its not the case at all, so there is absolutely no reason to help Google take over another slice of the Tech market...

Except for the fact Chrome is waaaaaaay faster

[Jazcash]

Chrome is a product of one of the industry giants as another tool to help their advertisement efforts.

If firefox was at a big disadvantage versus chrome I might understand moving to Chrome but its not the case at all, so there is absolutely no reason to help Google take over another slice of the Tech market...

Except for the fact Chrome is waaaaaaay faster

Basically the primary reason why I switched to Chrome in the first place. You install 20 extensions in Chrome and it's the same speed as it was. You install 20 addons in Firefox and the thing slows to a grinding halt.

[SinbadEV]

Except for the fact Chrome is waaaaaaay faster

Basically the primary reason why I switched to Chrome in the first place. You install 20 extensions in Chrome and it's the same speed as it was. You install 20 addons in Firefox and the thing slows to a grinding halt.

I'm going to withhold judgment compared to Chrome for the time being but it does seem like FF4 is speedier then FF3... though certain things are slower (google maps satellite view for example) I'm attributing that to teething issues... we'll see in a month or so.

[AF]

Chrome does use html and JS for its extensions, but it has APIs that mere greasemonkey scripts have no access to. That and a lot of things that require extensions in firefox are already in Chromes core as it is.


And don't underestimate the power of the webkit web inspector, especially the Chromium fork. It may look tame at first glance but it is an incredibly powerful tool if you know how to use it.

[smoth]

Anyone else getting freezes/crashes on flash sites?

[SinbadEV]

Anyone else getting freezes/crashes on flash sites?

nope... examples?

I did get a crash when I was customizing my toolbars and enabling and disabling them a bunch... was able to duplicate on my mom's computer as well.

also: favourite new feature is the "pin as app tab" thing... sites like gmail and facebook and twitter that change the title of the page when a new message comes in when pinned as apps turn blue to indicate this... and they take up barely any room because only the site icon is displayed.

ALSO:

I've noticed that FF4 feels speedier then chrome on Ubuntu Linux... need to test to be sure.

[hasehase]

How do I import bookmarks from mozilla firefox to the yahoo bookmarks? When I have my firefox browser open and I click on import, the only option that is there is to import from Explorer. I don't get it.
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[Panda]

Anyone else getting freezes/crashes on flash sites?

I sometimes get freezes on flash sites.

[SinbadEV]

Anyone else getting freezes/crashes on flash sites?

I sometimes get freezes on flash sites.

Now that I've been using it for a while I've noticed this too... just have to close the problem tab to resolve it, but annoying...

It's also taking an AWFUL long time to start first time after a reboot... though I'm suspicious that Macafee is causing this by doing something like scanning add-ons (including disabled ones) on startup.

Once I get it loaded up I've been very happy with it... though on slower computers I've switched to chrome as it seems to do better in that environment.

[Pxtl]

I have a virus-scanner on my work-PC that scans all downloaded files. When the scanner kicks-in, Firefox competely freezes.

In general, the whole things till feels horribly single-threaded.

[Forboding Angel]

How do I import bookmarks from mozilla firefox to the yahoo bookmarks? When I have my firefox browser open and I click on import, the only option that is there is to import from Explorer. I don't get it.

Yahoo is a website. Firefox is an application on your computer. Huge difference.

Also, don't necro threads.

[AF]

Firefox regularly freezes for me regardless of what Im doing, little changed from 3.6 -> 4

It's why i abandoned Firefox for Chrome, chrome has only done it when I've been clicking on flash applets. Damned Adobe products