Meet Firefox 4.0.1

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ShMaunder

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Today's nightly is much better than yesterdays. Yesterday on 3+ different occasions, the browser became unresponsive (well it had crashed) - think it had something to do with flash as well.

I don't like the page loading bar - its black with a grey'ish tint moving across. I guess that its not normally black?

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Brandon H Supervisor

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mine is black too O.o dunno why, the blue looks a lot better

it has to do with your windows theme

it's only blue if your on the default Aero theme, any 3rd party windows theme will cause it to be grey, just like it causes the toolbar to be white instead of the light blue

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mNiosu

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Sweet.I like the Fission-like, windows-style progress bar v1.03 .It looks great.

That's mine. Glad you like it! :D

Anyway, any news about changes to that stupid add-on bar? If they don't make an auto-hide or style it in any way I don't understand why they changed it in the first place. This new one is worse that the old status bar ...

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JoHideo

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The addon authors are always slow at updating their addons, which is a shame since you see some core issues don't get noticed until the last beta or so.

Yeah, but it's especially bad this time around. I'm usually on board for all betas of Firefox, even alphas if stable enough. I was using until beta 3 or 4, but just got tired of it and switched back to 3.6. I really did like the new version, but stuff like Greasemonkey needs to work well in my opinion before I switch full time.

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mNiosu

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Yeah they should make the addon-bar to auto hide or something because a lot of addons don't have toolbar icons to drag them somewhere else.

And even if they do why keep an ugly button and waste space for something you don't use very often? They must do something about it or maybe the 'autohide statusbar' develeper will be kind enough to make a 'add-ons bar' version ...

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dmb219

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Yeah, but it's especially bad this time around. I'm usually on board for all betas of Firefox, even alphas if stable enough. I was using until beta 3 or 4, but just got tired of it and switched back to 3.6. I really did like the new version, but stuff like Greasemonkey needs to work well in my opinion before I switch full time.

Yeah, I agree, as cool as this update is, it's hard to use it full time. Still a lot of issues, some with the browser, many with add-ons too I'm sure. I only use 2 extensions, both of which work and I still have a lot of snags for a program past it's 6th beta. It'll be fine tuned soon I'm sure.

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ViZioN

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Yeah, I agree, as cool as this update is, it's hard to use it full time. Still a lot of issues, some with the browser, many with add-ons too I'm sure. I only use 2 extensions, both of which work and I still have a lot of snags for a program past it's 6th beta. It'll be fine tuned soon I'm sure.

Can I ask what snags you're having? I've been using 4.0 since the first beta and I've noticed little wrong with it.

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dmb219

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Can I ask what snags you're having? I've been using 4.0 since the first beta and I've noticed little wrong with it.

An occasional flash problem here, a few sites that won't load or seem to be offline (but accessible with another browser), trouble adding/editing Google Calander appointments. Bugs that I realize will be fixed, and I'm not complaining, only making an observation.

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iwod

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Just want to report on Nighties, most of the annoying rendering bugs in pre beta 6 are fixed. And things are faster then all previous beta. It is not Chrome fast, but noticeable, and smoother experience.

Firefox 4 Beta 1 - 2 makes me feel Firefox 3.6 were slow. And Beta 3 - 6 didn't make much difference.

Beta 7 feels like a version 4.5 to me.

Although there are things i dont like about the UI, but from the latest nighties i am finally confidence to say Firefox 4 will be a good release. And it will certainly beings me back from Chrome / Opera.

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mNiosu

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Anyway, any news about changes to that stupid add-on bar? If they don't make an auto-hide or style it in any way I don't understand why they changed it in the first place. This new one is worse that the old status bar ...

Found this two codes to solve the issue: LINK or LINK

Choose the one you like better!

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