Firefox 4 B4 Now Online, Brings Tab 'Panorama'

[Marcus Yam]

Tab Candy becomes Firefox Panorama.

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[soo-nah-mee]

Looks like Firefox might be getting 2nd chance from me. I'm loving Chrome (although I see many others are not), but there are things I miss about Firefox. And...... download.

 

[TunaSoda]

Yawn

 

[Guest]

150 tabs is a bit ridiculous...that can't be productive.

 

[saran008]

Thunbs Up Firefox

 

[mitch074]

I've never left Firefox (if only because Chrome on my OS has been made available only a short while ago), however I must say I'm pleasantly surprised by the performances Firefox 4 beta 4 for Linux 64-bit (the Mozilla build) brought over my distro's default 3.6.8 build.

The interesting thing though, is that on Linux, the 3.6.8 "software rendering" goes as fast as 4.0's hardware-accelerated rendering on many IE9 demoes (psychedelic browsing, for example, goes well above 1000 rotations on Firefox 3.6.8 for Linux - but it actually depends on hardware drivers, on Intel crap I get more than 1000 on a 600x600 window, if I go over 700 it falls under 1).

Panorama is mightily interesting, but I'm not so sure about Sync - although if it really is secure, I'll probably use it heavily: between work, home, netbook and various VMs, it sure would be useful.

 

[bunz_of_steel]

FF Rulez! pawn IE > noobs

 

[Bolbi]

Re:mitch074
I don't think Firefox 4 is hardware-accelerated on Linux (yet). It's only on Windows that it can use Direct2D, the standard they're using for acceleration. On Win7, hardware acceleration works great!

 

[Parrdacc]

Nice. Well Firefox has done very well for me and 4.0 looks like it will do even more, but I will wait till it's final release.

 

[enrico84]

omg. all u guys talk about firefox and chrome. Why don't to try Opera? is not cool?? It's amazing! Actually I use Opera 70% of the time, 25% chrome and 5% IE (just when i'don't want to have "compatibility problems)..
Try it and enjoy the speed (and the future like Opera unite that allow u to share everything u got on ur HD!

 

[warezme]

150 tabs and excited about a browser update......., get out much???

 

[The_King]

This reminds me of Bumptop Desktop I thought google bought it tho.

 

[matt314]

[citation][nom]enrico84[/nom]omg. all u guys talk about firefox and chrome. Why don't to try Opera? is not cool?? It's amazing! Actually I use Opera 70% of the time, 25% chrome and 5% IE (just when i'don't want to have "compatibility problems)..Try it and enjoy the speed (and the future like Opera unite that allow u to share everything u got on ur HD![/citation]

Tried opera...slower than chrome, less functional than FF. No point using it.

 

[amster]

just waiting for final release, waiting for my addons to work in firefox4

 

[amster]

[citation][nom]enrico84[/nom]omg. all u guys talk about firefox and chrome. Why don't to try Opera? is not cool?? It's amazing! Actually I use Opera 70% of the time, 25% chrome and 5% IE (just when i'don't want to have "compatibility problems)..Try it and enjoy the speed (and the future like Opera unite that allow u to share everything u got on ur HD![/citation]


No addons = 0 customization

I like my browser as i want

 

[mouettus]

d2d still causes a hang time on browser startup... plus it still had problems with displaying flash content, notably while scrolling with the mouse. sad thing I'm now addicted to adblock plus

 

[IzzyCraft]

lol Panorama i said it once and I'll say it again, congratulations firefox you went in a circle you made tabs for windows now you made windows for tabs for windows.

 

[MooseMuffin]

Panorama is still a bit too buggy to be a regular part of my browser use, but sync is pretty great.

 

[MountainFlip]

I like the name "tab candy" better. It rolls off the tongue with elegance.

 

[soo-nah-mee]

^^^ Tab Candy sounds too much like LSD. (Which coincidentally rolls off the tongue as well)

 

[makotech222]

Does anyone know how to disable the Aero glass effect at the top? it looks so ugly

 

[zak_mckraken]

What can you possibly be doing with 150 Marcus? Hotmail, TH, Fantasy Hockey League, Weather, Penny Arcade and 145 YouPorn tabs?

 

[soo-nah-mee]

^^^ On Windows 7? Right click desktop -> personalize -> window color - >uncheck "enable transparency"

 

[Fetal]

... i am starting to hate ff3.6 (current). it fkn uses too much memory after browsing a bit (like tomH) and that plugin container eating more side by side. i hate ff and ie. i think i will have to jump on Google bus. as i have seen on other pc's. its damn fast.

 

[joebob2000]

"Another feature weaved into the new Firefox 4 beta is Sync, which is very handy for accessing bookmarks, history, Awesome Bar, passwords, form-fill data and open tabs accessible across multiple computers and mobile devices."

If they can do this securely (and for free) it would be HUGE. I will be staying tuned to see what comes of that. Oh, and please make a javascript engine that works 1:1 like IE for crying out loud. Tom's Hardware can't use a forum ticker thanks to the FF devs having their heads up their butts.