Meet Firefox 4.0.1

[Arkaic]

The firefox 4 final builds are on the FTP site now. I think I'm gonna wait though for it to be on mozillas official site.

all i see is a index.html file

[Guest mattburles]

Yeah they were there a minute ago.. They have been uploaded to the FTP site according to the 4.0 build notes. It says pushed to mirrors.

[Karl-Johan]

It's here! Firefox 4 Release

[bogas04]

For trunk/feature landing/up coming feature discussion , use Meet Firefox 5.0 thread now , this thread will be used for 4.x release discussion and bug reports

[The Dark Knight]

I installed the en-GB version from the FTP site, but it brings me to the RC landing page! :o

[ghostrider86]

Great news! :)

[jrolson]

Does anyone else feel like when clicking on the scroll bar and moving up & down, it's rubberband-ish?

Not liking FF4 so far...

[Grumpy Old Man]

I installed the en-GB version from the FTP site, but it brings me to the RC landing page! :o

They always release the US version first and then start with the others. I stopped bothering after the FF3 release and now I just wait for it to be released as an update. The RC2 seems to be working fine for me; I'm happy with that for a few days.

[vasa1]

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The RC2 seems to be working fine for me; I'm happy with that for a few days.

Ditto. I'll wait till it's 100% officially released since there's no difference between RC2 and the final.

[grayscale]

Isn't it that the only change in RC2 from RC1 are the 2 security related blockers? Somehow I notice better memory handling (it uses 350MB ram, I left it idle and it dropped to 175) or maybe I'm just hallucinating.

[mancode20]

I have noticed better memory management in RC2 also. I had 83 tabs open in different tab groups, and I didn't even have any slowdown when switching between them! I only have 2gb of ram. Wouldn't it slowdown at some point? Plus, I'm running like 50 extensions and other programs at the same time. I'm very impressed with Firefox 4. I love how you can customize it, but I'd just like a bit more. How come you can create new toolbars, but they never save? How come multi-row bookmark toolbars aren't in yet? They need to start adding some of the most useful Firefox extensions to Firefox. Extensions like TabGroups Manager and TabGroups Menu should be built into Firefox. Also, scrolling isn't quite there yet. Even using the great extension Yet Another Smooth Scrolling, I still can't get it as smooth and perfect as Opera and Chrome. It even feels jerky at times. If they could just add even more customization and add true smooth scrolling, it'd be perfect! I want to be able to create new toolbars for additional bookmarks and have it actually save in a future Firefox version. Hopefully that will happen someday.

[torrentthief]

RC2 IS the final version, i just compared the filesizes of the installers, they are the same.

[Navjot Singh]

Yup, compare the text of the asc file in RC2 and final folders. Both have same content.

[grayscale]

I have noticed better memory management in RC2 also. I had 83 tabs open in different tab groups, and I didn't even have any slowdown when switching between them! I only have 2gb of ram. Wouldn't it slowdown at some point? Plus, I'm running like 50 extensions and other programs at the same time. I'm very impressed with Firefox 4. I love how you can customize it, but I'd just like a bit more. How come you can create new toolbars, but they never save? How come multi-row bookmark toolbars aren't in yet? They need to start adding some of the most useful Firefox extensions to Firefox. Extensions like TabGroups Manager and TabGroups Menu should be built into Firefox. Also, scrolling isn't quite there yet. Even using the great extension Yet Another Smooth Scrolling, I still can't get it as smooth and perfect as Opera and Chrome. It even feels jerky at times. If they could just add even more customization and add true smooth scrolling, it'd be perfect! I want to be able to create new toolbars for additional bookmarks and have it actually save in a future Firefox version. Hopefully that will happen someday.

I don't think so. I'm fine with those staying as addons. It is useful but no use for an average user I think. I'm fine with giving the users a choice to add, and not put everything on the browser. I agree with mouse scrolling though.

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

If you want super smooth scrolling then install Yet Another Smooth Scrolling extension and use my settings:

[mancode20]

If you want super smooth scrolling then install Yet Another Smooth Scrolling extension and use my settings:

I'm using it with your settings, and it doesn't feel that smooth to me. Def not anything like Opera or Chrome when you use the Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller Extension. Why can't I get my Firefox to scroll like Chrome does with that extension? It's so smooth and perfect!!

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

Maybe check your mouse wheel settings in Windows. mine is as smooth as Chrome.

I do not use mouse acceleration and have wheel scroll value set to 3 in Windows.

Logitech MX Performance BTW.

Also same on my Work desktop using a wired Logitech optical mouse.

Scroll slow and it scrolls smoothly and slow, scroll fast and it ramps up scrolling speed, still smooth.

[mancode20]

Maybe check your mouse wheel settings in Windows. mine is as smooth as Chrome.

I do not use mouse acceleration and have wheel scroll value set to 3 in Windows.

Logitech MX Performance BTW.

Also same on my Work desktop using a wired Logitech optical mouse.

Scroll slow and it scrolls smoothly and slow, scroll fast and it ramps up scrolling speed, still smooth.

My mouse wheel setting is the same as yours. I'm using an old Microsoft Intellimouse Optical. You think updating drivers for it would change things? I think I'm just using the old driver that's built into Windows. When I use the Yet Another Smooth Scrolling Extension and set it to Green or Red, it scrolls pretty smoothly. Just not as nice as Opera and Chrome.

[grayscale]

If you want super smooth scrolling then install Yet Another Smooth Scrolling extension and use my settings:

Nice, the only reason I haven't tried it is because I can't find the perfect settings. This works for me now.

[DeadEndAccount]

Just tried it then running on Mac OS X - and it sucks, really sucks. I mean, come on, where is this hardware acceleration that they've been promising? take a load of this pretty basic IE9 test called 'Fish Tank" which Safari 5.1 on Lion and Opera 11 have no problems accelerating - yet Firefox fails miserably at it:

Where is the OpenGL layers goodness that they promised? another situation of Mac OS X being ignores as per-usual?

[Azies]

Yeah I did the above test in Windows on Firefox 4 and got 60 FPS easy...

[trag3dy]

Yeah I did the above test in Windows on Firefox 4 and got 60 FPS easy...

Same, I had 60fps all the way to 500 fish, 1000 made it go to 29 or so.

[bogas04]

Just tried it then running on Mac OS X - and it sucks, really sucks. I mean, come on, where is this hardware acceleration that they've been promising? take a load of this pretty basic IE9 test called 'Fish Tank" which Safari 5.1 on Lion and Opera 11 have no problems accelerating - yet Firefox fails miserably at it:

Where is the OpenGL layers goodness that they promised? another situation of Mac OS X being ignores as per-usual?

idk about mac , but have u enabled it ?

[+longgonebn Subscriber²]

Have been a die hard fan of Firefox since its beginning but stopped at 3.6 when I had system issues and lost all settings and extensions. Been using Chrome since.

Installed RC1 and been enjoying it, not as smooth as chrome with resources and the usual, but that isn't why I use Firefox, I love to customize.

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

lolMacs :p

:laugh: