[News] Firefox 4.0 released

[redbeacon]

4 to the floor for the new Firefox 4

 

Slick new browser for Win, Mac, & Linux; very fast with 6x the horsepower; and notions to IE9 "we're still compatible with Windows XP!"

 

http://s2.kimag.es/share/63996551.jpg

 

Notable features:

- It's 6 times faster than previous versions of Firefox (after people have complained that it was slower than other competing Internet browsers)

- Interface is cleaner; messy buttons are tucked away neatly

- Pin-a-tab; Have Firefox remember your website (i.e. tab), even when you close FF

- Group your tabs together.

 

Other under-the-hood features:

- 3D web graphics, powered by your computer's graphics abilities (FF works faster on interactive websites)

- Faster JavaScript engine

- HTML5 support

- Protection from plugins crash - Just like Google Chrome, one tab crashing doesn't affect Firefox; the rest runs as per normal.

 

Links:

 

http://www.eprivex.com/2011/03/23/the-features-of-firefox-4/

 

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/03/22/mozilla-launches-firefox-4-and-delivers-a-fast-sleek-and-customizable-browsing-experience-to-more-than-400-million-users-worldwide-2/

[crazydj]

I got cheated by Firefox 4. Its slower and more bulky than Firefox 3. Much more laggier. When i right click, the first thing on the menu is "Open in new tab". On the old one, it was "Open in new window". Because of habit, i always accidentally open stuff in a new window. How do i revert this so that it will be like the old one?

 

Oh, one more thing. It looks like a cheap pirated version of Opera. I'm not dissing it or anything, but i have been a loyal user of firefox since day one and liked how light it was. Now, its just as bad as the other internet browsers.

[tupac74]

Yup ... agreed ... I hate the idea of them relocating the new tab function and open in new tab drop down ... Overall slow and not as user friendly ...

[luffy21]

it seems fine for me but i still prefer chrome XD

[crazydj]

Chrome feels idiot proof to me. I feel powerless. If i had to choose, it would be in this order.

 

Firefox->Opera->IE->Chrome

[stsoh]

Type “about:config” (without quotes) in the address bar and proceed by pressing the I’ll be careful, I promise button. Now in the filter field type in the following values one by one and set its value accordingly. For eg, type network.http.pipelining, you will see the corresponding value appearing below, double clicking it will set the value to true or false and if its some thing which has a value to be set, a popup window appears where you could enter the value for the field.

 

 

browser.sessionstore.max_concurrent_tabs = 0

content.notify.backoffcount = 5

content.notify.ontimer = true

dom.ipc.plugins.enabled = false

javascript.options.jit.chrome = true

javascript.options.jit.content = true

network.dns.disableIPv6 = true

network.http.max-connections = 96

network.http.max-connections-per-server = 32

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 8

network.http.pipelining = true

network.http.pipelining.ssl = true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests = 12

network.http.proxy.pipelining = true

plugin.expose_full_path = true

 

 

 

If any of the above value doesn’t appear, then follow the steps below.

 

For a setting with true or false value. For eg, if you don’t see the value being displayed below while typing content.notify.backoffcount on the filter field just right click on an empty space and select Boolean from New. Type content.notify.ontimer in the box and set its value to true.

 

creating custom tweaks value in firefox Useful Tweaks & Ways To Speed Up Firefox 4

 

The same is applicable if you are setting a integer value, except that you need to select Integer from the right click menu.

[stsoh]

By tweaking your browser cache settings from within about:config, you could see a ‘bit of a speed boost when it comes to using Firefox on a daily basis. You see, when images are loaded by default, they can be cached so they don’t need to be redisplayed or looked for again. What we will be editing today will control the maximum amount of memory used for caching images.

 

Here are the steps you need to take to optimize Firefox in this way:

 

Type about:config into the address bar

Type browser.cache into the Filter field

Set browser.cache.disk.enable to false (double click it)

Set browser.cache.memory.enable to true (double click it)

Right click > New > Integer; type browser.cache.memory.capacity; press OK

Type in 100000 (this is equivalent to 100 megabytes). A value of -1 will tell Firefox to dynamically determine the cache size depending on how much RAM you have. Press OK, next.

Close all Firefox tabs and windows, and then restart the browser

[seller13]

still prefer the 3.x firefox and the icon. seems so much changes.

[stsoh]

above tweaks can be apply to ff 3.x too.