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What is Twitter?Shortly after the launch of Internet Explorer 9, the rival Mozilla Firefox has also been updated. Firefox 4 has a bunch of improvements, better website loading times, a more pleasant user experience and safer browsing sessions.
The first thing you'll see is the totally revamped interface. Tabs are now on top of the address bar and the old menu bar has been replaced by a bright orange single button – though only in Windows 7 and Windows Vista. With buttons and menus so reduced now, Firefox 4 devotes more screen space to websites – something netbook users will be particularly happy about.
Thanks to the new Tab Candy visual feature you’ll never lose track of a tab again. Just press Ctrl- Shift-E and all the currently opened tasks will be displayed as thumbnails, so you can locate any website in a few seconds. This feature has also a built-in search field which comes in especially handy if you have way too many tabs opened at the same time.
Bookmarks in Firefox 4 are dead easy to create. All it takes to create a new bookmark in your collection is clicking the little star besides the website URL.
Another important feature in Firefox 4 is the new Sync tool, with which you can seamlessly sync data (bookmarks, passwords, personal settings and browsing history) across different installations of Firefox on different computers. This functionality used to be a Firefox add-on and has now been built-in with the browser. Your information is stored in Firefox’s Sync servers, from where you can download and sync it on any computer.
As with every major new version, Firefox 4 also includes a bunch of improvements and changes under the hood. One of the most outstanding ones is using a separate process for each tab, which means that a frozen tab won’t kill the whole browser – just close the problematic website, and keep on browsing at your leisure.
Besides, support for HTML5 and the increasingly popular WebM format for Google Videos makes online media far more enjoyable in Firefox 4. Video playback is much more fluid and provides a better user experience, as you can already test in YouTube and the Mozilla Demos website.
I've already got Firefox 4 and thought that this article might be interesting and informative, as it was touted as an "in-depth look at the new version of Mozilla's browser." To say I was disappointed is an understatement. In no way was the article in-depth as it only touched on some of the improvements.
I downloaded it about 3 days ago. So far - so good. My only 'complaint' to date is that when hitting the Search History, I used to click on a previous choice and it would appear in the browser and the page would open. This no longer happens, the current search stays in the browser box/window and I have to re-type the search demand to get to the previous choice. Otherwise, - I'm still 'learning'!!
Colin.
@Colin Double clicking in search history works for me.
Slow to me like Hell! Start takes forever. Good trie to steal Google Chrome!!! My favor addons (I used for many years)doesn't work anymore. Way to go Mozilla. You created the same available browser we can find now all over. When you use something for years, you do not expect to get something to learn to use again. NEW DOESN'T MEAN BETTER! (My God! I have to stuck with Internet Explorer?)
am a user is stardoll.com and i always play on firfox 4... its has been 19 days and my suite and anything is opening... i get in touch with them by coustomer service and they said i need to dowload the old version because it works better, firfox 2!!! is it good or not and are they lieing??