StarMars Online » Firefox http://www.starmarsonline.com My World on the Wide Web Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:32:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 I love Firefox 4! http://www.starmarsonline.com/2011/03/firefox-4/ http://www.starmarsonline.com/2011/03/firefox-4/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:14:36 +0000 StarMars http://www.starmarsonline.com/?p=1468 I just upgraded to Firefox 4 and I’m loving it.

Firefox 4 logo

 

Release date: March 22, 2011.
Codename: Tumucumaque, after a national park in Brazil

I had seen the beta version of Firefox 4 before but I don’t really like installing beta versions of programs so I didn’t bother trying it.

The most noticeable change is the sleek and minimalist design. Some elements were integrated into others to reclaim precious browsing space. It gives me the impression that my monitor has gotten larger. These changes are not enabled by default though. I had to experiment with the settings a little to achieve the Firefox 4 feel that I want (right click and check/uncheck things ).

The address bar is renamed the “Awesome Bar” to let us know how awesome it is.

I have yet to test the Panorama feature but I already know that I can use it well. Sometimes, I have 20+ open tabs and I have to use other browsers so I could separate different parts of my online activities so having a sort of grouped tabs could really help. This feature is not new to Firefox 4 though; Opera already has it in the last few releases.

On to performance. Firefox 4 is still a memory hog consuming 92 MB of RAM at start-up with one tab. That includes 17 extensions btw, so I think it’s still a good number. FX4 loads much, much faster now taking only about 5 seconds 40 seconds to open as opposed to 1 minute in the previous version. Overall, Mozilla says Firefox 4 is 6x faster than 3.xx.

With all these new features, Firefox 4 could win back the default browser position.

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Firefox 3.5.5 is the fastest version of the popular browser as announced in their campaign. No surprises there as the latest version should always be the best. What caught my attention are the 2 videos submitted to them in support to “spread the word”.

The world’s fastest clapper Kent French.*

 

The world’s fastest Cup Stacker Steven Purugganan.

 

*A quick search revealed that the new world’s fastest clapper is Brandon Musser.
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