Posted on 03/23/2011 2:48:16 PM PDT by OldDeckHand
Microsoft may have seen fit to boast about the 2.35 million downloads its new Internet Explorer 9 browser received in its first 24 hours, but Mozilla's Firefox 4 has since essentially blown such figures out of the water.
In fact, not only did Firefox 4 claim a million downloads in its first three hours and almost 7 million in its first day--surpassing by far Internet Explorer 9--but by Wednesday, the day after its official release, it had already claimed almost 2 percent of the worldwide Internet browser market, according to research firm StatCounter.
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My son fixed the problem last night. I have no idea what he did, but it's fine now - FYI.
The box for posting is much larger (about 99% of your screen width) and there are buttons for the most commonly used HTML tags. If you post images or links or just like nicely formatted posts then it is definitely worth downloading.
d000d! This is seriously AWESOME! If just for the added editing space, not to mention any buttons! Why isn't this broadly advertised here somehow?
Thank you so very much!
Some of my extensions didn’t upgrade but everything else turned out fine for my switch.
Using it on my Mac right now, pretty sweet. Even less incentive to move to Safari.
Ditto. Chrome is better than I thought it would be.
If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.Indeed. Beautiful sound; beautiful music.
Thx.
Not sure what happened with your install. But because of your post, I tested the upgrade on my work laptop (which is getting replaced next week anyway). It had add-ons and plug-ins as well as a few bookmarks.
After the upgrade, all bookmarks are still there, all add-ons are still there, although a few were not compatible, but were still listed with a note that they will upgrade when there is a compatible version.
So far, all seems to be working fine with 4.0.
Firefox has a larger core of dedicated (fanatic?) users, but a smaller group of users overall. So of course it would outstrip IE on first-day downloads. But given time they’ll be exceeded again, because there’s just plain more people using IE.
Thats good to hear. Despite my rant I am a Firefox fan. I like it and the add-ons and stuff it has to offer.
Once it gets more “broken-in” I may try 4.0 again. But I’m still P.O’ed about he bkmrks and things I lost in my attempt at the upgrade.
I’m using the 64-bit and 32-bit versions on different computers. Both seem to be working ok. I wish Mozilla released official 64-bit versions for Linux. It’s a pain to have to go hunt it down.
I going to guess you have seen the light of doing BACKUPS.
Lots of ways to accomplish that. For example, I export Firefox bookmarks, and email them to myself. Also sync them. Also the ordinary home directory backups (which will include the add-on configurations). Also image backups to memory sticks.
I am now in a wait and see (more research)before going to 4 from 3.6.15. I don’t want to go thru what Tainan did.
What OS are you two using?
I never have FF lock up and I’ll let it run for weeks, if not occasionally months without restarting it. It uses a lot of ram, but that’s primarily because of the way pages are cached. There are some config (about:config) changes you can make to affect how that operates. Maybe it’s because I’m running Linux that it is so much more stable.
Upgraded on my home computer and was surprised when many of my addons were disabled?I’m Going to wait on to upgrade my office PC until the FF4 addon set becomes more robust.
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
If you go to "View" / "Toolbars" / "Customize..." you should be able to drag the buttons to a position you prefer. I still can't get some buttons to display when selecting "small icons" without text, but you should be able to reposition them.
By the way, the hardware acceleration for Firefox 4.0 under Windows XP is not really that great, due to the limitations of the Windows XP memory management and display driver design. However, under Windows Vista and Windows 7, the hardware acceleration does work very effectively with the more modern memory management and better display drivers of the more modern Windows versions, making it just about as fast as Google Chrome 10.0.648.204 (the current version) in many operations.
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