Meet Firefox 4.0.1

[Phixion]

Disabling it in the Add-Ons Manager option menu will do the trick---->Feedback 1.0.3 by Mozilla Corporation

Nice one thanks, that thing was doing my head in!

[jshimmy3]

This beta has been horrible for me, it's much slower than Beta 4, I'm having (even more) trouble w/ flash content, and it won't remember my homepage! lol

[Darrian]

A minor issue, to be sure, but I'm playing around with personas and the "persona" is actually drawn starting 2 pixels above the window border. This is "normal" behavior (i.e. it occurs with or without my Stylish scripts running, so it's not any script causing it, though it may be related to using Clearscreen for my visual style instead of Aero). Does anybody have a script to reposition it lower?

[radwimp]

Seems good here although still flash issues (as usual) and tab animations are noticeably lagging which is new for me.

[+Thom Vee Subscriber²]

This beta has been horrible for me, it's much slower than Beta 4, I'm having (even more) trouble w/ flash content, and it won't remember my homepage! lol

Does clearing out the browser cache help?

[Udedenkz]

Some D3D + D2D bug fixes have landed which should allow better performance with both D2D and D3D.

Not yet in nightlies as of post.

This beta has been horrible for me, it's much slower than Beta 4, I'm having (even more) trouble w/ flash content, and it won't remember my homepage! lol

If I recall correctly, they frozen it before landing some quality performance fixes.

Edited September 8, 2010 by Udedenkz

[Xerxes]

Decided to give Firefox another go (been a long time Firefox user but switched to Chrome after about FF 3.5). It's not bad, it's definitely come along way since 3.5 although I have to admit the UI still feels really busy (I'm so used to Chrome's simple and minimalistic UI) but I can adjust. It feels heaps faster too, Chrome still feels faster overall on my PC but FF is definitely not far behind (Y). When FF 4.0 hits final there is a good chance I *might* switch back from Chrome :) we'll see how things progress.

[Blackhearted]

So i see the bug that i seen all the way back in beta 1 with the new UI is still here even in beta5. And that bug is that, randomly, and somewhat rarely, after(as far as i can tell atm) alt-tabbing out of a game or 3d app the title bar goes all wierd, the top right buttons(close, etc) disappear, and the tabs go all out of whack.

[mNiosu]

A minor issue, to be sure, but I'm playing around with personas and the "persona" is actually drawn starting 2 pixels above the window border. This is "normal" behavior (i.e. it occurs with or without my Stylish scripts running, so it's not any script causing it, though it may be related to using Clearscreen for my visual style instead of Aero). Does anybody have a script to reposition it lower?

If your scripts are disabled how come your tabs are on top? :)

Are you sure that the "#main-window {margin-top: -"xx"px !important;}" stylish script isn't the issue there?

[Darrian]

I didn't disable the scripts for the screenshot, I disabled them to verify that they weren't causing the problem before I went asking for help.

[escobar_]

Does clearing out the browser cache help?

No. I removed every single trace of Firefox from my computer, reinstalled it and it didn't help. I guess we'll just have to wait for Beta 6 to arrive.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Fonts look crazy in beta 5 for me making it pretty much unusable.

[BilliShere]

that new style of menu button landed in the latest hourly build 1283919660/ to be specific.

[Zickar]

Personally I love Firefox . I have used Chrome , IE , Firefox and shortly Opera and Flock as well as many others but Firefox remains my favorite despite how slow some people say it is compared to others ... Anyway back to tabs I think the most innovative so far has been IE9 with a snapshot I saw the other day where the URL Bar and the tabs were on the same line right next to each other and the search and location bar are all together .. IMO this makes more sense and is a more clever change rather than the "Lets move the tabs up" quick change for the sake of change .. I still don't see what tabs on top is useful for and Even though the screen shots from the IE9 might be fake but the approach is a clever one and maybe FF should pick it up

[JamesCherrill]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but why can't I get things stacked the way I want:

1 Firefox menu button/window title

2 Bookmarks toolbar

3 Tabs

4 Navigation toolbar

I get the logic for tabs on top, but the same logic says the bookmarks toolbar should be above the tabs. But when I try to put it there it gets appended to the menu bar, and, since I'm using the new menu button not the old bar, when I hide the menu bar my bookmarks toolbar disappears with it.

Can anyone help?

thanks

ps Why does the UK English spelling dictionary not have the word "Firefox"?

[Zickar]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but why can't I get things stacked the way I want:

1 Firefox menu button/window title

2 Bookmarks toolbar

3 Tabs

4 Navigation toolbar

I get the logic for tabs on top, but the same logic says the bookmarks toolbar should be above the tabs. But when I try to put it there it gets appended to the menu bar, and, since I'm using the new menu button not the old bar, when I hide the menu bar my bookmarks toolbar disappears with it.

Can anyone help?

thanks

ps Why does the UK English spelling dictionary not have the word "Firefox"?

Maybe its a bug ... In Minefield for example I still can't add a bookmark by dragging it into the bookmarks toolbar .. So maybe its a bug they'll fix before the official release

[Steven P. Administrators]

When will the Home Button as app tab land? (I'm using nightlies btw).

[M_A_D]

Beta 5 seems to have a problem with animated .gif-files. They all seem to restart after the first few frames, never playing completely.

Example:

[FiB3R]

What is bad exactly? If you're talking about the text on the tabs and toolbar, that is going to be fixed.

If you're talking about the text on the webpage, you should try the cleartype tuner.

That's mine on the right.

Glad to hear about the tabs, not sure why I should use the cleartype tuner, the rest of my apps look totally fine.

Both left and right are fuzzy, the middle one looks about right

Left is mine with hardware acceleration on , middle is mine with hardware acceleration off.

@ M_A_D .gif's working fine here.

[Steven P. Administrators]

Arrgh the page refreshing and showing just the leaderboard ad STILL isn't fixed in the nightlies :/

[M_A_D]

@ M_A_D .gif's working fine here.

Damn. Now i have to waste the afternoon trying to find a solution to the problem ;)

[Corris Veteran]

It has been freezing and have had to force quit the plug-in process nearly every other webpage, think I will go back to Beta 4 till it gets fixed.

[Steven P. Administrators]

Button improvements landed in the latest nightly, looks a lot better. (Y) I keep having to disable SoapyHamHocks stylish scripts :p

Changes are shown here:

[vajlent]

Will there be any tab progressbars?

[Steven P. Administrators]

Also noticed improvements to the site address, wonder what else I missed!