Very disappointing but better a little late than very buggy. If any Moz Foundation folks linger around HN, my disappointment comes from how excited I am for FF 4 to arrive!)
This makes sense -- I'm still on Beta 6 despite the bugginess, but it definitely is buggy. I keep trying to customize the button layout (like adding a history button, or moving the new tab button) and it mysteriously reverts parts of the layout to default when I change it, but not every time, and not every button. Odd. Also, Windows Live Mail is nearly unuseable.<p>The main reason I'm sticking with it for now is Panorama. Bound the hotkey for that to one of my extra mouse buttons (mine has ~9). As far as I'm concerned there's no other way to do tabs/grouping anymore.<p>The big thing I wish they'd do is lazy load the tab groups that weren't active the last time it got closed. I have about 10 tabs open now at all times, and it doesn't make sense to try to load them all at once. Panorama could basically merge tabs/bookmarks/history all in one and revolutionize the UI, but for now it's still awesome but kind of slow.<p>edit: I just turned on HW acceleration (windows only sorry), and the performance boost is pretty amazing.
I think this is a good thing. I tried Beta 6 just a few hours a go and it is full of issues that stopped me getting back to a workable state (using Firefox Sync). Reverted to 3 and all is good again. They still have some kinks to iron out I guess.
Is it just me or is Firefox's quality actually degrading ? I have been using Firefox since 1.0 and it was a really welcome change compared to IE. But now compared to Chrome<p>* Its load times are ridiculously high compared to Chrome<p>* Sometimes when my netflix window freezes up, it takes down the whole browser with it (though I know its running in a separate process)<p>* Opening downthemall's manager window makes for whole browser unresponsive for a few seconds<p>* Detaching a tab reloads it (unlike chrome or ie9)<p>The only reason I still use firefox is because of firebug and downthemall.
I understand FF 4 beta 6 is crashing like mad on me :(<p>I've had to use chrome for most of my browsing because 3 is too slow now that I've tried 4 but every time my laptop goes to sleep and also randomly throughout the day it crashes.<p>I'm a pretty heavy user though I keep 30 - 40+ tabs open on the regular
In the meanwhile Google Chrome is gaining more and more usage share... isn't that the way IE dominated the market? Netscape delayed the versions because they were creating a super Netscape Browser/Navigator?
Seeing as they have yet to make any improvements to the Linux interface, I'm willing to go right on with my current assumption. Chrome is the place to be.