Mozilla Reveals Firefox 4 Plans

Barence writes "Mozilla has given a breakdown of its plans for Firefox 4. Perhaps the most striking change to Firefox 4 is the user interface, which takes a great deal of inspiration from Google Chrome. 'Something UI designers have known for a long time is that the simpler an interface looks, the faster it will seem,' said director of Firefox Mike Beltzner during the presentation. Also mooted was the ability to give applications such as Gmail and Twitter their own permanent tabs for easy access, and the introduction of a 'switch to tab' button, allowing power users running hundreds of tabs to quickly find the one they want. Beltzner said Mozilla was also looking at replicating Chrome's tactic of silently updating the browser in the background, removing the annoying wait when Firefox first loads up."

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Re:Sounds like speed holes

[datapharmer]

Thank you! I wish I had mod points. I am about to jump ship for chrome or safari. The only thing holding me back is the great plugins firefox offers (chrome is catching up) and the fact that chrome's UI is awful. If firefox goes the chrome route I know what I'll be using... (hint: it isn't firefox). I love firefox in general but as of late it has gotten worse every version. It has serious memory leaks and slowly grinds to a halt until I have to force quit it. The only other program I have on my mac that shows this same behavior is Microsoft Word, and now that Open office is catching up in the native mac app department I am making the transition there as well (I have always loved OO on windows and linux, but the mac version was crap in every way imaginable until recently).