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by **Rhakios** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:55 pm

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.

by **johnhudson** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:04 pm

The openSUSE branding which has also been applied to Inkscape is quite different from that in the Firefox tour.

by **RedWillow** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:21 pm

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

by **Rhakios** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:00 pm

Just got it installed on my Mac, looks good. Now I'm thinking about my phone, some of the syncing features could be useful.

by **LeeNukes** » Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:05 pm

I tried firefox on my Android phone. Too slow starting up etc.

by **heiowge** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 7:54 am

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.

by **Bazza** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 3:09 pm

Hi all...

I guess I gonna have to wait 2 years for Debian's Iceweasel to catch up... :(

by **leke** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 3:00 pm

Rhakios wrote:There's a tour of the new browser's features here.

It's good to see they're not using Flash for the videos.

by **heiowge** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 4:08 pm

I noticed that on ff4, the right-click Open with tab and open with window options are reversed from ff3.*

by **leke** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 6:08 pm

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

by **guy** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:29 pm

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 ... :wink:

by **nelz** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 9:08 pm

Firefox had private browsing long before the first Chrome release.

by **leke** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:45 am

nelz wrote:Firefox had private browsing long before the first Chrome release.

Whoh, you're right! How did I miss that?

by **LeeNukes** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 7:13 pm

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? :wink:

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