Firefox 4 Review

There is a list of recently closed tabs under Firefox->History.

It is obvious that you'll find all closed sites under History, but I was referring to accessing a list of recently closed tabs from the tab's context menu directly, just like in IE9; or at least having this information when opening a new tab, like in Chrome.

Hope they'll fix the "hardware acceleration" fonts problem.

You can find recently closed tabs under the History menu. What is really missing is a toolbar item for this functionality. A few add-ons do provide this, however.

I don't think it's a bad thing that you can't toggle the navigation bar via a hot key. That is something that few people would want and would be best left for an add-on.

Are you sure that the rating for Pricing/Value is 4 out of 5? O Rly? :D

I think Firefox took a step backwards. Yes it has a new look and is faster but it offers nothing innovative and some of it's new features there are better third-party add-ons for like Firefox Sync. Xmarks is better. Also Firefox has gotten a lot of bugs back from the days of Firefox 2.0 such as freezing up and memory spikes. To me Firefox 4.0 is a step back not a step forward.

My mozilla 4.0 on mint 9 64 bit gives 274.9ms /- 1.3% for sunspider

Firefox 4 Review:

The new release of FireFox is a piece of crap. Nothing more. The functionality of the browser is decreased and all the new features are useless. I will never update my version of 2.0.0.20 unless Mozilla returns to the GUI of this.

Rating:

GUI: -10 of 10, Features: 5 of 10 Ease of use: -5 of 10, Price/Value: 5 of 10, Overall rating: 0 of 10

Seriously? what OS and What System are you using?

Try this, open up say Fox News in ie9, firefox4, Opera, and Chrome. Take particular note of spacing, and if say a bulleted links meant to be right of a photo somehow appear below it. I think you may find Chrome is spot on. No matter how resized, once again spot on, as in best in rendering a page. Chrome is simply leaner and sleeker than Firefox. I have used Firefox for years, but will move on now to Chrome 10, which seems just right in every way.

In the default Firefox Page, a button appears to open recenetly closed tabs from previous session.

The firefox 4 RC version were having memory leaks. I prefer 3.6 versions till they fix it

the best is Maxthon

Try Chrome10 get extensions: Ad Block and Switch to New Tab ... and the theme Matte Chrome and you are good to enjoy the hottest browser out today -- Awesome!

But you DO have a recently closed tabs menu. FF orange button --> history --> recently closed tabs.

Shortcut: ALT S

Tab Mix Plus plugin also adds the menu on the tab right click menu

Having this exact functionality available in the tab's right click (for easier access) menu is what I meant.

Assistance from extensions is not taken into consideration during our reviews, only the default functionality of the software.

hahaha Pricing/Value 4/5 ????????it's free.

It is pricing/value, so the application's value to the user also has to be taken into consideration as well. That is, a software being free but poorly fulfilling its purpose will not be awarded with a 5 out of 5 rating in this category.

Are y serious about "poorly fulfilling its purpose" :-(

Why did they remove the X (stop loading the page) button? It use to be next to the (reload the page) button. I'm sticking with 3.6.15 until they do.

Just customize firefox and add the missing buttons

It is one of the best browser up to date....

Runs slower the previous version. Do not see performance as a reason to upgrade. I am leaving the rest of my machines at the old version.

I downloaded the 4.0 yesterday and for me it was a mistake. It has alot of features I can use, but now my browser is not compatible with the system requirements for my on-line college classes. I am looking for a link-I have checked everywhere for the 3.5. Now I have to use IE for school and do not really get use all the goodies in 4.0. Any suggestions?

Fire Fox totally Sucks, Can't find anything. lost my password manager, again!!! not messing with it anymore,Have to unload and reload Fire Fox every time it farts. going back to Internet Explorer.

Why would some people don't appreciate innovation...Firefox is good and it gives a good browsing experience to its new GUI...

Firefox 4 is buggy, it went crashed on my laptop after more than 4 or 5 tabs.

Mozilla Firefox is definitely my favorite!! Good job!

Mozilla 4.0 have new good features,speed,user interface,but many extensions i used long it
doesn't work in mozilla.It should awaiting for.
But it's not too good yet :(

My PC System Specs:

AMD Athlon 64 1.80 GHz (265 cache, 754 Socket Model)
1 gb Memory (DDR)
40 Gb Hard disk
OS: Windows 7

and

Intel Pentium 4 2.5 GHz (478 Socket)
1 Gb Memory DDR
40 40 = 80 gb Hard Disk
OS: Windows XP Home

Works fine. :D

FF4 works fine. It is just that Chrome10 works better, looks better, has more window viewing area, and renders pages better. Try it - open up say Fox News on both -- zoom the page, from zero to 144% zoom all views look correct. The bulleted items (links) in small fonts stay within the proper alignment. I used to use Firefox exclusively, with only testing with other browser. The browser I would recommend, of the Mozilla clan, is SeaMonkey, which presently does render sites well. You can move the address bar, and eliminate some bars and the status bar, get a nice persona skin, and have something modern looking in SeaMonkey, which is what they need to do. I trimmed it down and have a better looking SeaMonkey than FF4 and it seems quicker too. That said, Chrome10 is still besting the Monkey, so I am using Chrome10 with Matte Chrome Theme, and it looks and runs awesome.

-Update- On a scale of 1 to 5, I now rate FF4 ad 5 and will be using it....

Changing the rating up to 5 from 4. Apparently I was wrong about the page rendering. I had the NoSquint add-on set to change both font and whole page to say 120% which is wrong. Reset it to font (text) to 100% then ZOOM both Text and Page to ___% which for me most pages at 145% look fine and it works just fine. I was getting an improper text alignment and tried the Disable NoSquint and tested the page rendering and it sill looked off. Well, it likely had recalled the settings in Firefox, so my re-test was in error. Sorry Firefox Mozilla team, as I dead wrong, and the FF4 is rendering correctly set as from when downloaded, or using NoSquint set the way I just described above.

All said and done, I think the new Chrome10 is still going to be tough competition for Firefox. I have several add-ons making FF4 as good, if not a better choice, but many people never tweak a browser, so Chrome may be a better pick for them. I altered the toolbar setup and now after using just a row for bookmarks and one for tabs, have something as compact as Chrome -- will other people do this? Once tweaked, with wonderful add-ons, I am not 100% happy with Firefox 4.

After using 4 for 2 hours I knew I had made a big mistake. Froze up time and time again. Couldn't get back to home. Had to restart several times.

Took almost 12 hours to get 4 off the computer and put 3.6.16 back on. Now 3.6.16 doesn't work as good as it did.

Firefox 4 is to Mozilla what Vista is to Microsoft.

Huh, There is problem in fonts.... :(

Yeah Firefox 4 is awesome...not!!! I downloaded it and when I went to use it, every bloody time, within 5 min. it would crash and have me send a crash report. So I removed it. There is a bug in their program and they need to fix it before I use it again. Right now, I want my 3.1.16 back and back now!!!!!

Maybe it is one of your add-ons. I have used the Beta and Final without having it crash. My system has 4GB of RAM and Intel Quad from a year or so ago - forget the exact specs, but certainly middle road. With Win7, and FF4 no crashing problems so far.

--UPDATE-- was using only Chrome due to rendering issues... but resolved those now.... here is how...
Got FF4 more to my liking now. Unchecked the hardware acceleration, set the add-on No Squint to Zoom Page and Text with text then set at 100%, Standard Font Verdana 16pt Fixed width Font Calibri 16pt with Encoding = Western ISO-8859-1. > Still think they will have a rough road ahead, as Chrome10 is pretty darn sharp. Without many add-ons, I would say Chrome is a 5 and Firefox tweaked well, now would say is a good 5 -- needs it add-ons. FF4 does in fact have better add-ons, so in a way is besting Chrome for those wanting to take the time to tweak the browser.

Be WARNED. If you like sipping into old comfortable shoes, then stick with 3.6. If you want to have a radical change and waste time trying work with a new interface layout, then by all means upgrade to 4.0.

FDM is not working with firefox 4

i love firefox ...too fast and kicks chrome real good

te encanta FF4 porque ha imitado a chrome,porque ha reconocido sus falencias y ha visto las maravillas de su competidor.Ha tenido un hijoCROME.

Go to hell...chrome is the best

This is the worst version of Firefox ever. It just sucks!
Page faults, hangs, ugly, program not responding. Need I say more. Did they even try to QA it?

How the heck did they rate FF4 so high? They couldn't have tested it more than a few minutes, because that's how long it runs before it crashes.

hectic day :(((((((((((((

I had Firefox 3.6 and consider it to be the best ever browser. I just tried 4.0 and find the team has completely ruined what used to be the worlds greatest browser. It slows my 10.0 broadband to 3.75 and is terribly slow. The "new" header bar now hides most items and the Keyscrambler tool won't work with this version. Sorry guys, this is a giant leap backward for mankind. Warning to all, don't upgrade to 4.0.

Internet Explorer 9 rules!!! It is much better!

I went back to version 3.6 It is really easy to go back. The new version was faster but was plain ugly and half my extensions did not work. Therefor it was not nearly as much fun or functional as previous versions. I am not going to upgrade unless they fix Firefox 4.

I got a pop up while at Yahoo's home page offering the upgrade to Firefox 4.0. I installed it only to find it was a Yahoo centered version of Firefox. Jeez, it was a cluttered mess.

It took me a while to figure out how to get rid of that and install a clean, non-Yahoo version of Firefox 4.0. Then I found that 4.0 dropped a couple of my favorite features, the main one being the ability to close Firefox while saving my open tabs - to open them automatically again the next time I open Firefox.

I finally figured out how to reinstall the older version from my program files and went back.

I agree with those who say that version 4.0 is a step backwards - at least for my own needs.

I finally got rid of my beloved Firefox v4 -- I tried, and have been a Firefox fan for many years. It just is a PIG, and slows down my fast PC, and runs in the background and won't open... on and on. The add-ons I use do not work. It was my default browser. As of today, that is Chrome. I am a web developer, and love the add-ons that USED TO make my job easy. Firefox v 4 is NOT ready for prime time. It is TERRIBLE, and it finally drove me over the edge. I will use Chrome and MSIE v8 (which I need to test against anyway).
GET IT RIGHT, I miss v 3.6 and will load that when I find that version.

I downloaded Firefox 4.0 last night. Big mistake. This thing is a beast, and not in a good way. It's slow. If anybody tells you any different, they're either lying, smoking crack, doing lsd, live in an alternate universe, or they are irrational FireFox fans, or they work for FireFox.
If you want a cheap knockoff of Chrome combined with the molasses like speed of IE, then by all means get Firefox.

I am done with 4. It hangs, crashes, and won't close unless I force it. I never like the changes to the UI. Back to 3.6 indefinitely.

Minimalist UI? This trend is possibly the worst part of contemporary software. Ever since drop down menus were discarded it has been downhill all the way. I reinstalled 3.6. My opinion is keep away from 4.

In terms of useability and layout, they have gone backwards in version 4. In a misguided effort to become more light weight and streamlined they removed multiple functions that I rely upon constantly. I was forced to use addons and extensions to tweak version 4 back to how, In my mind, it should be. And it's still not 100%. they should NEVER force users to adopt a particular workflow. It should always be completely flexible.

I found Firefox 4 to be an enormous step backwards for Mozilla. In the first deployment at our enterprise, perfectly fine HTML that worked fine with FF3.6 was suddenly unable to render, meaning that the error-catching routines of FF3 were nowhere to be found with FF4. Add to that the truly poor user interface and it's clear that our enterprise will either switch to Google Chrome or revert back to MSIE before using the nonsensical FF4 branch. Sad, but true.

I do not like Firefox 4 in any way. Thank God I was able to find version 3.65 online and dump version 4.

it crashes some times on my laptop.I have 2GHz core 2 duo processor.I also have updated firefox 4 to 4.01.But it gives me same problem.What should I do?

4 sucks big time, reverted to 3

IT IS SO DIFFICULT TO SAVE PERMANENTLY (I SAID PERMANENTLY) THE TABS???
HAVE YOU TESTED YOUR F*****G NEW FEATURE???
HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT IF I SPEND TIME TO SET MY PERMA TABS THEN I OPEN A NEW FIREFOX WINDOW I LOSE THEM ALL???

GARBAGE!!! Going back to 3.6.
Firefox 4 sucks big time.

FF4 is terrible (being polite here). It's that bloated it needs 512 RAM and 200mB drive space for starters. What about any updates how much RAM will they gobble?

WebGL needs to be disabled as it's a serious flaw! See the Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/11/chrome_firefox_security_threat/ this applies to Chrome, Safari and Opera that uses WEbGL.

Why does it eat so much RAM no other browser I can think of does nor does earlier FF builds.

There ARE plenty folks either leaving FF4 or switching to earlier builds. FF really needs to get their act together.

I just want a configurable browser that works, so does many other people I guess.

FF4 is over hyped pure and simple and causes problems for many.

Well, it's mid-August, and I can categorically say that you were wrong about FF4. FF4 sucks because its crashing problems FAR outweigh its benefits. When you can't open Firebug in FF4 and open a couple of pages with large tables and some DHTML without it hanging for several seconds upon leaving the page (or completely locking up and having to be rebooted), it's totally unusable.

The same version of Firebug works perfectly fine with 3.6.19, BTW. No hanging, etc.

Firefox 4 = Netscape 4... The beginning of the end for Firefox.

you are aware the current ff version is 6.0 right?

worse browser ever sits and spins and is the slowest it's ever been I regret installing it

I just see a lot of bugs in Firefox v12.0, from mutilated web pages to plug-ins that appear as blank, black boxes.