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Firefox 4 Released!
A great number of readers have written in to tell us that Mozilla has officially announced the final, official, Firefox 4.0. Congrats to all the developers who have code in the build. If you want some neat eye candy, you can watch a sweet visualization showing where the downloaders are.
Right click on the blank gray space next to the tabs and uncheck the "Tabs on Top" property. That will put the tabs back below the location bar, where they belong.
Did you know subscribers can see articles in the future?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Went to Chrome... Not looking back without a good reason...
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Are you using Windows XP? I find that FF4 is slower than FF3.6 on my work computer (winXP) but faster on my home computer (vista). The new version renders using Direct2D on Vista and Win7, but uses software rendering on anything older. I'm sure you lose a lot in that mode of operation.
"Here Lies Philip J. Fry, named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit"
Here's my FF4 upgrade plan:
If I decide to roll back:
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Have you tried creating a new bool in Firefox's "about:config" ? - Navigate to the following page: about:config - Tell Firefox you'll be careful - Right click in empty white-space and select New -> Boolean from the context menu - Enter the following for the new value: extensions.checkCompatibility.4.0 - Set it to False - Restart Firefox... All of my extensions have worked no prob using this work-around. Until the add-on devs update their wares, this should suffice...
To answer my own question: yes, there is..
Cheers,
Ian
Try Anti-Aliasing Tuner.
Seriously, more and more apps are enabling users to be absolute slobs with their data and try to "help." Those of us who already organized our data get these unhelpful, resource hogging "features" that we can't disable.
I hear you on "can't be disabled", but "resource hogging"? Come on. In these days of TBs of HD space and GBs of RAM, do you honestly think that the improved location bar is gonna have any noticeable effect on your browsing? Please.
My bookmarks/files/etc are perfectly organized already! I don't need Firefox/iTunes/etc reorganizing my stuff for me, or helping me to find it!
It's great that you organize things so neatly, but most people don't. Firefox caters to the 99.99% first and foremost, not the 0.01%.
What's more, the improved location bar is for more than automatic bookmark organization. I use both Firefox and Opera, and I always find it extremely irritating when I'm trying to find an article or website I looked at in the past again and can't easily do so because I viewed it in Opera and only remember the title or perhaps part of the URL, not the domain name.
Maybe this doesn't happen often for you, but it happens quite often for me. Suppose that in three months, I'd want to go back to this story. In Firefox, I can just type in "slashdot firefox 4 release", and the right article will pop up instantly (along with "Firefox 4 RC1 Released", "Firefox 4 the Last Big Release From Mozilla", "Firefox 4 Beta 12 Released Fixes Over 650 Bugs" and others).
In Opera? I'd be at a loss: I'd have to use Slashdot's search function, or an external site like Google. Not so bad, perhaps, but still inconvenient, and it DOES break down for sites that a) have a sucky or non-existent search and b) aren't indexed by Google. This happens quite often for web forums of all kinds, BTW, especially those that require you to sign up before you can view (most) boards.
TL;DR - yes, it should be configurable, but it's also useful. And it's been part of Firefox since 3.0, so if you still think it's going away, dream on (or alternatively fork Firefox).