Firefox 4.0 is here people

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robzo100 on 22 March 2011

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Aren't all the latest browsers fast? lol

I found out about chrome about a year ago and haven't switched back to anything else. I love it, but with browser competition getting so close I'm convinced that it's not a good use of time to experiment with others just to find out they may or be only a little better or worse than what I've got already.

Am I alone on this?

No. I'm sticking with FF for the same reasoning. Plus, FF has better add-ons and my work won't allow Chrome due to security issues, which to me means I won't use it at home either.

Exactly, as long as you have good faith in the team behind your browser then there is no reason why the next release won't incorporate the current improvements on the market. And with so many releases within the year, there is a good chance that when a "game-breaker" of a feature arrives on one platform, that you will see a similar (usually better) feature incorporated in your browser within the next month or two.

Google and FireFox are two dev teams that I have good faith. The only reason I stick with Chrome now is because I simply am on it right now.

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zexen_lowe on 23 March 2011

Fiddling with it a bit more, I think it's easily the best browser I've ever tried and a massive improvement to the already excellent FF3, it's definitely faster and more stable, and tab pinning and tab groups are something I definitely see myself using soon. And the new add-on manager is simply awesome and very easy to navigate (unlike the older one)

I think this review details pretty well all the changes, it's a good read since it showed me all the new things FF4 can do and that aren't that evident immediately

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2011/03/ars-reviews-firefox-4.ars

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radiantshadow92 on 23 March 2011

When you type something on the adress bar does it bring you to google? If it does ill switch once they bring out the 64 bit version

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zexen_lowe on 23 March 2011

radiantshadow92 said:

When you type something on the adress bar does it bring you to google? If it does ill switch once they bring out the 64 bit version

I've just tried and yes, it brings you to google. Now that I think of it, it kinda bothers me 'cause before I used to type nba and it'd redirect me automatically to nba.com and now it does a google search of nba....I need to find a fix for that, I prolly should tweak the about:config

EDIT: Nevermind, I found out, indeed you gotta tweak the about:config thingy, seems like Mozilla was concerned about it being an invasion of privacy and they removed it by default, if anyone wants that back here is a tutorial telling you how to

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/790755#answer-145178

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radiantshadow92 on 23 March 2011

zexen_lowe said:

radiantshadow92 said:

When you type something on the adress bar does it bring you to google? If it does ill switch once they bring out the 64 bit version

I've just tried and yes, it brings you to google. Now that I think of it, it kinda bothers me 'cause before I used to type nba and it'd redirect me automatically to nba.com and now it does a google search of nba....I need to find a fix for that, I prolly should tweak the about:config

EDIT: Nevermind, I found out, indeed you gotta tweak the about:config thingy, seems like Mozilla was concerned about it being an invasion of privacy and they removed it by default, if anyone wants that back here is a tutorial telling you how to

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/790755#answer-145178

it seems to work on my 64 bit so yeah im trying it now. so far, i like it....but idk im so used to chrome lol