Meet Firefox 4.0.1

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Does anyone know how Firefox 4.0 downloads section is going to look? I've seen a few mockups where it has like a popup by bookmarks area, but wasn't sure if it was going to have it's own tab as well like how Chrome does it. Haven't seen much info for it.

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Can the tabs bar be moved to the bottom like in this screenshot?

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I was using Maxthon v1.46 untill a few weeks ago, but now that someone has made drag and drop text and links for firefox and a scrollable bookmarks menu as well as some other nice add-ons firefox has finally become useful for me.

I think tabs mix plus is what is putting the tabs at the bottom

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Beta 2 definitely loads pages faster than 1 for me. Anyone know if d2d is worth enabling yet? or it it still buggy as hell?

EDIT: stylish 1.0.10 stopped working for me (was working fine in beta 1) is there a version that works in beta 2???

D2D is a bit quicker than the previous beta but it still delays the initial launch of the browser by a good 10-15 seconds. I wish I knew what it was doing.

D2D is significantly slower than in Beta 1.

Wait for Beta 3 or 4... it probably will be fixed by then.

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Yeah in both the latest trunk and beta 2 enabling directwrite massively rapes firefox's startup time. But its at least usable now once firefox is started. Previously enabling it would make firefox's gui unusably laggy.

My main gripe with directwrite is the fonts look pretty atrocious...

Is it just me or is the font rendering different on Windows 7? Seems a lot thinner...

Sounds like you have directwrite enabled.

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Udedenkz

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Yeah in both the latest trunk and beta 2 enabling directwrite massively rapes firefox's startup time. But its at least usable now once firefox is started. Previously enabling it would make firefox's gui unusably laggy.

My main gripe with directwrite is the fonts look pretty atrocious...

Sounds like you have directwrite enabled.

Firefox is significantly slower with DirectWrite enabled.

How the font is rendered looks just fine to me though.

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V23

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What happened to aero on the navigation bar and bookmarks bar in Beta 2? It's gone :(

There's a stylish script that does this but I can't find the link it's called 'Transparent finder and buttons background' and is made by someone else.

On a separate matter, is it possible to do the following:

- Make google.com into an app tab

- When I do a google search from the app tab I would like it to open the results in a new tab and also clear the search box in the app tab so that I can reuse the app tab with ease

Thanks

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Firefox is significantly slower with DirectWrite enabled.

How the font is rendered looks just fine to me though.

Seemed the same if not faster for me in beta 2 and the latest trunk. Beta 1 and previous though it was as you described. VERY slow. For me the font rendering is horribad. Very thin fon ts that are hard to read. Steam uses directwrite also and the fonts look different but not nearly as bad as in firefox.

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Seemed the same if not faster for me in beta 2 and the latest trunk. Beta 1 and previous though it was as you described. VERY slow. For me the font rendering is horribad. Very thin fon ts that are hard to read. Steam uses directwrite also and the fonts look different but not nearly as bad as in firefox.

Beta 2 has new rendering code which speed up loading times and scrolling significantly, this is what you are experiencing.

EDIT: There have been many jury-rig fixes for D2D/DW recently (to get rid of vertical lines, to make D2D compatible with the new rendering code) which slow things down significantly.

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Really not a fan of the tab on top theme on OS X. Though I like the idea, I really wish the could be modified via Stylish to be placed into the title bar space like I'm seeing in the Windows screenies in this and the customization thread. It seriously looks like a less refined version of the GrApple Crisp theme, but I am hopeful that it'll get the same capabilities as the Windows version, or it simply gets more refinement.

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EDIT: There have been many jury-rig fixes for D2D/DW recently (to get rid of vertical lines, to make D2D compatible with the new rendering code) which slow things down significantly.

Yeah, they're running into a whole bunch of Direct2D limitations, and are having to work around them.

To implement some Porter-Duff compositing operations they're going to be using Direct3D, for example.

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