Firefox 4.0 Beta

Anyone using it yet?
What do you think of it?

Didn't know it was out, but thanks to you

Installed and running. Seems quicker than previous versions and I like the extra web real estate.

Running on OSX on my Air for the last few days - seems faster but that may be because non of my plugins work for it yet

Matt

In reply to a post by uno:

Running on OSX on my Air for the last few days - seems faster but that may be because non of my plugins work for it yet

Matt

What plugins do you use? as most of mine work.

Weave - Works
Search Status - No
Nagios Checker - No
Download Statusbar - No
Netcraft Bar - No
WebDev - No
Firebug - No
British English Dictionary - No
Flashblock - No

Matt

Are you using 4.0b1?

I agree, seems quicker.

Shame ReloadEvery does not work

I don't like that you cannot close the current window with either the left hand double click thingy or the right hand close box.

Yes, I believe I am. Should that matter?
Matt

Have you tried this add on?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/15003/

Very good add-on, thanks for that.

I use to use the nightly tester but not supported in FF4.

Sounds like exactly the kind of issue that the developers would like to have reported to them using their beta test issue reporting procedure.

i tried it, none of my plug-ins would work and it is still slow at starting up. They have lost the plot on the last couple of updates and I don't think they have got it back with 4.0, I know it is a beta, but it still must be pretty much there.

If I have to get used to a new look browser then I may as well change browsers. i did try Iron, which is a chrome clone, but it kept playing up, so I now gone for the new flock, which is also a chrome clone.

I had to reinstall Windows a few days back, hard drive started playing up, decided not to put firefox back on.

Agree with some of the plug ins not working, and it appears only themes designed for 4 will work on 4, but apart from that, I am still finding it blisteringly fast.

What about Adblock plus? This is the only one i'm really bothered about...

That works for me.

In reply to a post by NaNook:

Agree with some of the plug ins not working, and it appears only themes designed for 4 will work on 4, but apart from that, I am still finding it blisteringly fast.

Just reinstalled it, it is no faster than chrome or my chrome clone.

Still takes ages to start up and 99% of my plug-ins don't work.
the problem is if Mozilla keeps changing the browser so that very few plug-ins work every time they do a major update, then these people who produce plug-ins and going to get fed up and produce for another browser.

i will have a play and see what it is like, but taking so long to start up is annoying. At least they got rid of the annoying bug where each tab in Firefox would give you a tab on the taskbar.

All my add ons work.

Have you tried this?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/15003/

Overrides the settings, and you select if they work or not.

I am unable to measure how fast mine starts up.

Start up time not a problem for me.
I leave mine in Sleep Mode most of the time.
When I do a fresh start, FF loads automatically.

In reply to a post by DavidFinbarr:

All my add ons work.

Have you tried this?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/15003/

Overrides the settings, and you select if they work or not.

Tried it before on the last beta, it did not work then. I just tried it on this beta, made no difference, oh well back to flock

In reply to a post by NaNook:

I am unable to measure how fast mine starts up.

That slow that you get fed up LOL

Firefox have been getting slower and slower, I thought the updates are suppose to make it faster.

Shame really as i liked firefox.

Well it is certainly getting faster and faster for me.

In reply to a post by DavidFinbarr:

I use to use the nightly tester but not supported in FF4.

yes it is

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; en-US; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100718 Minefield/4.0b2pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

In reply to a post by Taras:

In reply to a post by DavidFinbarr:

I use to use the nightly tester but not supported in FF4.

yes it is

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; en-US; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100718 Minefield/4.0b2pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Link?

In reply to a post by NaNook:

Well it is certainly getting faster and faster for me.

Oh well, I still think they lost the plot, since they changed it so much, I thought I may as well try something else and to be honest I am starting to prefer it to Firefox.

Flock starts up much faster than Firefox, the web pages load lighting fast compared to firefox. the only problem is finding plug-ins that will do what I want, and I think I have that sorted now.


Mozilla have lost a long time user.