Firefox 4

[Jonny69]

I see there's an IE9 thread running. I also see there's a Firefox 4 release. Has anyone tried it? :)

It's my browser of choice, but I've found FF 3.6 incredibly slow and it crashes all the time on my home machine. On my work laptop it has a habit of freezing for about 10 seconds the first time you open it and I've never been able to find the cause.

[Desmo]

I use FF4 at home and much prefer it. Found it very fast and I like the way they've condensed the menu down to give you a bit more real estate to play with.

[Burble]

I'm using it on Windows and OS X machines and find it loads better than 3.6 was.

[Knipples]

Wheres the option to update mine from 3.6?

[Lozza]

Wheres the option to update mine from 3.6?

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/

[Knipples]

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/

Ta was having a blonde moment, and looking for update rather than just going to the website and it would do that for me. :o

[Jonny69]

Hmmm. So they've moved the tab bar to the top and the home button over to the far right. So now when I browse using the mousepad on this laptop I have to scroll all over the place, which I didn't have to do before :/

Does nobody ever try these systems out?

[Lozza]

Hmmm. So they've moved the tab bar to the top and the home button over to the far right. So now when I browse using the mousepad on this laptop I have to scroll all over the place, which I didn't have to do before :/

Change it then!

Right click on the menu bar and select customise then drag your home button to the left.

And just above customise you will see tabs on top, remove the tick to put them where they usually are;)

[Jonny69]

Ooo :)

What about the right click menu? The 'open in new tab' is now on the second line instead of the top.

[Burble]

What about the right click menu? The 'open in new tab' is now on the second line instead of the top.

Are you sure about that? It's the other way around for me. 'Open link in new tab' is first followed by 'open link in new window'

[Lozza]

Are you sure about that? It's the other way around for me. 'Open link in new tab' is first followed by 'open link in new window'

Same for me

[Jonny69]

Sorry, wrong way round!

I re-ordered the menu with menuedit.

Talk about change for the sake of change :(

[Dymetrie]

Have been enjoying FF4 on my main PC and laptop, seems nice and quick and the new layout of the window gives more visible space for the websites.

Only issue is that FFsync seems to be a bit off, but all my stuff is syncing properly across all three devices (iPhone is the third device, in case anyone thought I'd forgotten how to count :D).

[Knipples]

Ok wheres the "save tabs" when you have to close the window down. It used to remember the ones I had open. :(

[Burble]

This worked for me:

Type about:config into the address bar and press enter. Click the button that says 'I'll be careful, I promise!' and you'll get into the config editor.

In the filter box near the top enter browser.showquitwarning and you should see that the option is disabled. Right click it and select toggle.

Job done.

[Knipples]

Yay it does thankyou. :)

[Will]

Anybody know how to fix the fonts? They're all displayed a little blurry - whereas the previous version everything was pin-sharp.

[Jonny69]

Mine is the same as before. Has it put it into that really annoying font you get on Linux and Macs?

[Will]

Not sure, but it's lost it's sharp edges... I'll have to hav a play with it.

[Briggykins]

Mine was the same actually. I've sort of gotten used to it now, but it definitely looked different before FF4. If there is a method of changing it back I'd be interested.

[Jonny69]

Did you 'upgrade' or uninstall and do a fresh install?

[Briggykins]

Can't remember but I usually just upgrade over the top so I assume that's what I did this time.

[Jhadur]

Anybody know how to fix the fonts? They're all displayed a little blurry - whereas the previous version everything was pin-sharp.

Did you get anywhere with this young Will? I've just gone the upgrade route and agree that the fonts all look a bit fuzzy.

[Will]

I just kept changing all the fonts in FF and doing the sans serif settings until it looked better... still not perfect, but I wonder if it's just because I've got used to it?