Its stunning, much faster than any other browser Ive ever used and it has a much better interface than chrome/IE. Its still fully customizable and has plenty of other features like the add-ons menu is gorgeous. Definitely the best browser once again after a few years of downtime (in comparison to chrome).
It also doesn't steal your personal information or update in the background like chrome does either ;)
My Internet has been shit for the last few days, and I've had some issues when putting my laptop to "hibernation" and then restoring it. seems it will only work when i reset my comp after being in hibernation.... not really ideal for me, having to close and open my comp multiple times during a day. I like the design much better tho, and here's to hoping my problems are resolved soon.
I've switched to it from RockMelt which is a modified version of chrome with facebook and twitter integration and stuff. It had so many great ideas but was slower than molasses, a real system hog.
Trying Firefox 4 now, it's pretty snappy, though I haven't used FF in a while, been sticking to Safari and Chrome as of late.
UI is such shit though compared to other browsers... it just feels a bit dated. I don't like the look, it doesn't "Fit" with my mac. But that's a minor minor gripe, for the most part, I'm enjoying it. I'll probably play with it for another week.
I love it. I was about to go Chrome, but I decided to try out the Firefox 4 beta version(s). And now that it's out, I'm still rocking it. I like the speed increase and the new interface. Ultimately though, I think Chrome is gonna come out on top. I just want to delay that as long as possible.
Speed compares to chrome but I really have no incentive to switch from chrome back to firefox... I may have to check out the addons though, that's one of the main things I really like about it back in the day. (While I write this I have both browsers open, multitasking.)
I don't like the way when you type, say "Giant Bomb" on the location bar (awesome bar), you don't get sent directly to the website, but you get a Google search result.
Im really enjoying FF4, at first I didn't like how they copied Chrome with the tabs at the top.( I'm just used to tabs under the address bar). But i'ts growing on me.
The big main 'Firefox' button is nice and neat.
There is still a few issues but hopefully most of the remaining bugs are ironed out for the final release.
Well I've found a nice use for the app bar, we all have this problem, constant pages, the ones we never close.. giantbomb, youtube and N4G for me. When I have a lot of uncommon tabs open like the odd screened article and wikipedia my screen fills up, this quickly removes 3 or 4 large taps from the equation. Making tabs less cluttered. I also have google docs up their, I might just finish some work now.
Is there a way to make it so when in giantbomb when you click a link to another website it opens a new tab???
And I love that fact, Chrome (aka Malware that everyone likes for some reason) can go to hell for all I care.
Also I'm loving Firefox 4, was using 3.6 until today (I usually don't try beta software), so it took a little getting used to but now I got the hang of the new stuff, it still seem to be a bit of a memory hog though (207MB with 4 tabs open), but the start up speed and general browsing speed is greatly improved.
The only possible way I'll ever stop using Firefox is if Mozilla disappears, no one takes the helm and new html, css etc features stop being supported because of the lack of updates, then I'll switch to Opera and if opera meets the same fate it'll have to be *shivers* IE *shivers*, and if for some reason M$ goes bankrupt (fat chance) or just give's up IE I'll just stop browsing the internet.
" Is there a way to make it so when in giantbomb when you click a link to another website it opens a new tab??? "
Click in with the scroll wheel on a link and it'll open in a new tab. "
No scroll wheel, can't be bothered using cntrl.. to far away... "
well then no? Why bother asking if you already know how to do it, but are just to lazy to? "
Well, most sites when you click an external link take you away, giantbomb, is mostly localized so I don't click away too often, when I do, it's a sloght inconvience to click back hit control reload the web page. I was WONDERIGN if it was a setting, more than anything. Tested for example has both localized and other wbesites linked identically, while it makes the article look good, it doesn't half get annoying, navigating to or from a webpage. I think it's just the way I've always used the internet, my first week of giantbomb, lef me to losing so many thread, simply because I'd click a link get to a webpage read article and because of my nature close article... forgetting it's linked to giantbomb, so I'd have to get it all back up again, this is espacilly annoying after seach for threads. It happens less but I mustn't be the only one who clicks something cloese it down then wonders where giantbomb has gone.
I've been tinkering around with it all day but I still think that Chrome is the fastest and most efficient browser right now. It's a big step forward but Chrome still holds my top spot for browsers which now goes: Chrome > Safari&Firefox > Opera > IE9.
I really like the improvements though, the tab as an 'app' concept is really cool and the speed increase is quite noticeable. I still however hate restarting Firefox whenever I install new add-ons. I can see myself keeping Chrome as my default browser for quite some time still for both the speed and the simple fact that the updates are seamless and are good at keeping pace with security/performance issues.
Also, if anyone is using Chrome and wants a few extension/add-on suggestions here are a few of my favourites:
I liked 3.5 better, mainly because I had about a dozen bookmarks right under the URL bar, that were just the little icons, I miss that. I still like the downloadin' better than Chrome though, so I'll probably come back to Firefox whenever I'm downloading something.
" I liked 3.5 better, mainly because I had about a dozen bookmarks right under the URL bar, that were just the little icons, I miss that. I still like the downloadin' better than Chrome though, so I'll probably come back to Firefox whenever I'm downloading something. "
After i updated i was missing some stuff, but after a half hour of searching the options and customizing the toolbars everything is back. I'm sure those buttons are there because you can make it look exactly like the old FireFox.
" I liked 3.5 better, mainly because I had about a dozen bookmarks right under the URL bar, that were just the little icons, I miss that. I still like the downloadin' better than Chrome though, so I'll probably come back to Firefox whenever I'm downloading something. "
After i updated i was missing some stuff, but after a half hour of searching the options and customizing the toolbars everything is back. I'm sure those buttons are there because you can make it look exactly like the old FireFox. "
I could do that, but on Chrome, I can just hit G-Enter in the bar to bring me to Giantbomb, H-Enter to bring me to Hotmail, I've gotten so used to this, I think I'm just going to stick with it.
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