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Rhakios
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Well, I'm somewhat gobsmacked and amazed to find that I'm the first person posting about this, but Firefox 4 is now final and available for download. Distros like openSUSE11.4 should provide updates from the beta (haven't looked yet), and I'm sure there will be PPAs for *Ubuntus.
There's a tour of the new browser's features here.
Of course, Firefox is not just good for Linux, it's good for other OSes too, and I'll be updating my Mac very shortly.
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| The openSUSE branding which has also been applied to Inkscape is quite different from that in the Firefox tour. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:21 pm Post subject: Re: Firefox 4 |
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| Rhakios wrote: | | I'm sure there will be PPAs for *Ubuntus. |
No doubt.* It comes in the tin with Natty Narwhal/11.04 which I've been testing since last December. Posting from Natty Alpha/FF4 now. It took a little getting used to - Firefox 4 that is - but I like it now.
| Rhakios wrote: | | I'll be updating my Mac very shortly. |
I think you'll like it. I installed the RC on my Mac a few days ago. Now I can upgrade to the final release - thanks for the reminder.
* Edit: Just came across this on Ubuntuforums for those who want to add a PPA for Firefox 4 in Lucid or Maverick:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1712247 |
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Rhakios
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Just got it installed on my Mac, looks good. Now I'm thinking about my phone, some of the syncing features could be useful.
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I've not tried the linux version. I've had to install f4 on my wife's vista box and my sister's win7 setup in the last 3 days.
I'm not overly enamoured atm. That'll probably change. |
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Hi all...
I guess I gonna have to wait 2 years for Debian's Iceweasel to catch up... :(
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| Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 4:00 pm Post subject: Re: Firefox 4 |
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| Rhakios wrote: |
There's a tour of the new browser's features here.
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It's good to see they're not using Flash for the videos. 
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| I noticed that on ff4, the right-click Open with tab and open with window options are reversed from ff3.* |
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| heiowge wrote: | | I noticed that on ff4, the right-click Open with tab and open with window options are reversed from ff3.* |
Private browsing and now this. All ideas borrowed from Chrome 
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| Bazza wrote: | I guess I gonna have to wait 2 years for Debian's Iceweasel to catch up...  |
Yeah, and all that time your system ain't gonna crash once ...
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| Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2011 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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Firefox had private browsing long before the first Chrome release.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:45 am Post subject: |
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| nelz wrote: | | Firefox had private browsing long before the first Chrome release. |
Whoh, you're right! How did I miss that?
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| leke wrote: | | nelz wrote: | | Firefox had private browsing long before the first Chrome release. |
Whoh, you're right! How did I miss that? |
too much smoking on the Google pipe?
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