I like FF 4 a lot. The only reason I used Chrome was speed, otherwise I found it 'alien'. FF is now noticeably faster rendering pages. You can also make tweaks in about:config to increase fetch speeds http://forums.opensuse.org/forums/english/get-technical-help-here/applicatio... Yes, some extensions are not yet FF4 compatible, but you can force that. The critical ones for me are All-in-one-Sidebar (access to Bookmarks, History, page info, etc. from a hiding side panel), Tab Mix Plus, NoScript and FEBE, and they all are compatible. For KDE users, I recommend Oxygen KDE (Firefox Theme) 3.0 from http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Oxygen+KDE+%28Firefox+Theme%29?content=... It makes FF look like a native KDE app. Panorama (tab grouping) is nifty. Fonts also seem to be 'sharper' in FF4, though I'm getting an occasional artefact where the tab title is sometimes bolded, either all of the text or just some of it. Changing default fonts etc. doesn't cure it. I thought it was caused by Tab Mix Plus (you can bold the text of the focussed tab), but disabling it makes no difference. On 27/03/11 13:00, Jim Flanagan wrote:
On 3/26/11 4:21 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 03/25/2011 07:56 AM, Jim Flanasgan wrote:
In any case I'm liking FF4. It seems faster to me. And I like the 2 buttons for hidden menu and hidden bookmarks. I do have the menu hidden with easy access thru that button, but haven't changed to the hidden bookmarks as I will have to re-think how I handle things such as my current bookmarks toolbar. But a quick reorganization will fix that too.
Wolfgang, Felix, Thomas, Jim, Et. Al....
Thanks you all for the great comments. I went ahead and upgraded, swapped the button around so they make sense to me:
| < > | BM Home [__address__ add dropdwn reload] [__search__] APB noScript Dld
I have the menu hidden (hide menubar extension) and what I do like the real estate that provides (FF3 did the same thing with the extension)
What I'm curious about is what do you mean by "hidden menu and hidden bookmarks"? Is that a new feature or though an extension? Would the hidden bookmarks give more real estate that what I current have:
[24k screenshot of tabs and address on ff4] http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/suse/bugs/114/firefox/ff4-button-layout.jpg
From the looks of it you have the menu hidden (with the Firefox button at top left to get to those functions), and the older style Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar hidden as well. You can easily turn that on and off by the very top menu item that appears on clicking the bookmarks button at top right. Looks like you have everything minimized, but I can't see the bottom info bar, they now call it the add on bar.
I'm liking the changes a lot. Still have to reorg my bookmarks...
Jim F
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