Right click on the tabs bar and mark Menu Bar.

Very cool!


Edit: Nice, scrolling on these forums is a lot more smooth now. Within topics anyway. Or maybe that's just some kind of setting I had wrong that has been reset now.

Its like a zip.

Which distribution are you using? It may take time to filter into the repos, but you should be able to update it with one of the following (or similar) console commands:

Debian based (e.g. Ubuntu):
sudo apt update firefox

Red Hat based (e.g. Fedora):
su -c 'yum update firefox'

Arch linux (think this is right, not 100% certain):
su -c 'pacman -Syu firefox'

EDIT: Actually, for Fedora, follow [url=http://digitizor.com/2010/08/27/install-firefox-4-fedora/]this[/ur] guide. For other distros, try forums or an advanced Google search of pages from within the past 24 hours.

Surely you mean "Tabs on Top"?

Hmmm...IDK who the winner is between this and Chrome 10. Browser Speed isn't that much of an issue for me because of my less-than-ideal connection (3G wireless broadband that fluctuates in signal quality constantly), so it really just comes down to which one feels better. I think FF 4 is winning at this point, and as long as I don't run into any really nagging issues, it could become my primary.

Seems good to me. I just customized it to make it as similar to how I had it set up in Firefox 3 as possible. Thank god I can put my tabs on the bottom though. That and having a merged reload and stop button were really the only things that worried me, but they're both optional. The only add-on that wasn't compatible was ScreenGrab, but I'll worry about that later.

I do have two problems I hope someone can help with. My bookmarks toolbar isn't showing my bookmarks anymore for some reason (it's just a blank area), and there's no longer a permanent status bar at the bottom of the screen. The fact that there's no status bar separating the browser from the task bar is kind of annoying to me, and I'm hoping there's a way to add one.

I'm enjoying Opera 11 quite a bit. I'll most likely only use FF 4 as a backup for contrary websites that don't play nice with Opera (which are getting fewer as the years go by).

I don't.


I'm using an outdated version of eeebuntu that refuses to update. I'm also terrified of updating firefox lest flashplayer stops working. Took me hours to get that.

Aye, I do the same (though I've yet to update my Firefox to FF4, I only installed it at work to check for any breaks with extensions we use and/or important websites before deploying it office-wide)

I wish, though, that Google would stop artificially holding back Opera. Every new feature Google's added to their services work flawelessly in Opera, but they don't have them enabled for Opera (so you gotta change your user agent string to get them)


Tarballs are distro-agnostic, so you'll find them for most Linux software. Firefox doesn't do binary packages, instead just a tarball. Since you're using a *buntu, your best bet is to look for a Firefox 4 PPA, there's always a few Mozilla PPAs out there


Edit: https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/firefox-stable (assuming your *buntu is at least not so outdated as to be based on 9.10 or earlier)

Edit2: Honestly, it sounds like you need to get rid of that distro and get something more modern on there.

Thank god you told me that, my sanity is now returning.

So I've enable HTML5 for Youtube, which I'm happy about (flash uses waaay more processing power, amongst other things), but one small annoyance is that Flashblock used to prevent videos loading automatically, which I miss. Its not a big thing, but it was kinda nice to be able to open a bunch of stuff in tabs and not have to pause each of them. Is there an easy way to achieve a similar result with HTML5 videos?

My internet was shut off the exact day it was released. I was excited, but it'll be a while 'cause I'm just using the phone until the cable is canceled.

Right click up somewhere on the banner -> select "addon bar". That's the best I've got. Firefox shows URLs that you mouse over in a totally different bar that appears on the bottom left of the screen (a whole bar doesn't just pop up, though, its really smooth and compact). That acts as the new status bar, and it only appears when needed (when reloading a page, when loading a page, mousing over a bar, etc). It disappears as soon as there's nothing left for it to show.

Well the add-on bar will be fine then, thanks.

Edit: And I managed to solve the problem with the bookmarks toolbar, so I don't need help with that anymore.

Now that I've used it for a few hours, here are my first impressions:

• The default interface looks surprisingly good.
  
• The default interface looks surprisingly similar to Operas interface (Like DEFRON already pointed out)
  
• That's not a bad thing ^
  
• It's a lot faster. The browser itself is still a bit slow for my taste but the rendering speed is excellent.
  
• CTRL+SHIFT+E is pretty.
  
• I hate that CTRL+E doesn't work the same way it does in Chrome, I use that a lot

Also, ABOUT TIME they added http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5459839/Photos/Untitled.jpg



I didn't like it



:meh:

I'm pretty tech savvy but compiling my browser each time a major update is released is not something I want to do.



Irrelevant. No one uses those things anyway <_<



In that case good job Mozilla. I just installed all of my favourite addons on Firefox 4 without any problems.

I love it. Much better than the last version imo.


http://oi55.tinypic.com/27zx4qg.jpg

If the addon bar isn't satisfactory, check out the https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/ extension (restores the status bar, working well for me).

Yeah, I want to put Ubuntu on here but can't do it for a while. At least it's better than Xandros.

I actually don't mind it so much, but the developer made it so the wireless is disabled by default. That means every time I turn on the computer I have to go into the BIOS and enable it.

No.. I mean Menu Bar, it just changes it back to the old style instead of that new menu and the bookmarks on the right side of the browser.

The idea of the new interface is to give more screen space to the browser. The menu bar was fairly redundant and only used occasionally. You can either use the https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/personal-menu/ addon that allows customisation of the drop down from the orange Firefox button, or you can simply hit Alt that puts the menu next to the Firefox button - Alt again gets rid of it.

The nice thing about Fx4 is you can make it look how you want it to.

Hehe, I know, and I've set it up exactly like how I want it to be

I'm loving it, it's fast, and killing of the menu bar for more space was great.

So... http://glow.mozilla.org/. Europe sure is on fire, no wonder it's the most popular browser here...

I love how you can scale it all the way to city level downloads. 300 downloads of firefox in my city.

At the moment there have been 13470 downloads in the city I'm currently in apparently.