Firefox 4 B4 Now Online, Brings Tab 'Panorama'

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[citation][nom]Fetal[/nom]... 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.[/citation]
Have you tried troubleshooting it in any way? there must be something wrong, mine never goes over 150 Mb Ram even with 10 tabs with flash. and I have about 10 add-ons.
 
[citation][nom]superbobrot[/nom]150 tabs is a bit ridiculous...that can't be productive.[/citation]

Option anxiety much?
Lol, I usually keep tabs open for a while. There are just times that I want to finish something later, but don't want to commit it to long term memory (bookmarks). Not to mention, when I look something up in great detail, I frequently fill the entire tab bar.

I think it's a great feature, but obviously, not for everyone.
 
[citation][nom]zak_mckraken[/nom]What can you possibly be doing with 150 Marcus? Hotmail, TH, Fantasy Hockey League, Weather, Penny Arcade and 145 YouPorn tabs?[/citation]
All of the above, plus lot and lots of news.

Wait, no Hotmail.
 
[citation][nom]superbobrot[/nom]150 tabs is a bit ridiculous...that can't be productive.[/citation]
I'm guessing about 130 of those are collegehumor tabs. It's so hard not to keep middle clicking on the related pictures!
 
Ok, so they stole, I mean borrowed (like every other company I guess), the Sync feature from Opera Link and the new tab system from Safari...

Yep...
 
[citation][nom]Marcus Yam[/nom]All of the above, plus lot and lots of news.Wait, no Hotmail.[/citation]
By the time you read them, they won't be news anymore. They'll be archives!
 
[citation][nom]matt314[/nom]Tried opera...slower than chrome, less functional than FF. No point using it.[/citation]

Same. I don't get the Opera hype. It really doesn't work with most websites I go to, and it loads slower for me.
 
This beta 4 is amazing, i like the new tab thing and the fact that you can choose either to have them at the top or at the bottom.
I also love this new feature when you choose not to display the menu bar and you save some horizontal space on the screen and a little orange rectangular shows up at the top, when you can access the menu bar and everything, this is fantastic, i was hoping for a thing like that for years.
I also like the sync feature a lot, cause i used to save my bookmarks in a file on my computer, in case of reinstalling windows or some problem or something and now i don't have to do it anymore, which is great.
 
[citation][nom]makaveli316[/nom]This beta 4 is amazing, i like the new tab thing and the fact that you can choose either to have them at the top or at the bottom.I also love this new feature when you choose not to display the menu bar and you save some horizontal space on the screen and a little orange rectangular shows up at the top, when you can access the menu bar and everything, this is fantastic, i was hoping for a thing like that for years.I also like the sync feature a lot, cause i used to save my bookmarks in a file on my computer, in case of reinstalling windows or some problem or something and now i don't have to do it anymore, which is great.[/citation]
maybe if you didn't have a crap computer or go to shitty websites
 
150 tabs in one window is stupid. Just as stupid as 150 windows with 1 tab each....

We have both people, use both. If you have 10 tabs open for a news thing, 10 tabs open for work, etc, these should be in 2 different windows not 20 tabs in 1 window. Things are much easier if you organize this way. Its also much easier to just close the window and all its related tabs with 1 click when you are done with 1 specific topic.

Each new 'topic' i always open in a new window. If i want to open up another url related to that top its opened in a new tab. Very easy to do. You'll also probably find that you no longer need to keep 150 tabs open because you dont have to hunt through them trying to find out the crap you dont need anymore.
 
@Bolbi: as I said, I got the same results on Firefox 3.6.8 on Linux than on a Direct2D-enabled Firefox 4 build on Windows.

Why?

Because ever since Firefox 3.0, all rendering is done through the Cairo library, which has several backends available, among which:
- win32 (legacy Win9x/WinNT5.x),
- xlib (X11 library),
- RENDER (an extension to xlib),
- Quartz (the Mac graphics layer).
Well, it so happens that on Nvidia hardware, the RENDER extension is as fast as Direct2D on very fast blittings like those found on the "Psychedelic browsing" test.

Which is fun. Is all.
 
@qu3becker: the Sync feature was previously available as an extension.
@lashton: state your 'memory bug'. Because, I've tested all daily build since 3.7a1, and I've never had RAM ballooning problems.

Except in IE.
 
i like firefox, it is colorfull, customizable, simple, clean, easy, efficient. in my opinion is the best ever made browser at time to surf on the web.... by now i see great ideas for it 4.0...
 
[citation][nom]matt314[/nom]Tried opera...slower than chrome, less functional than FF. No point using it.[/citation]
For the average end user, Opera is approx. 7x faster than chrome. Chrome tends to micro-freeze at odd moments, such as when you click on a text box.
As for being less functional than FF, again, the only addons I really miss are WOT and Bartab. Aside from those, most users can do without the extra addons. Opera has plenty of functionality in and of itself.
 
Panorama aka TabCandy SUCKS BALLS. Talk about a complicated way to solve a simple problem! Just let us label individual windows and show the labels on the Win7 Taskbar previews!
 
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