Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Firefox 4

Firefox 4 is out, and it's got a lot going for it, including a more minimalistic interface, synchronization, and a serious speed increase. Here is what you have to look forward to in Firefox 4. Firefox is now far more pixel friendly browser. It has moved the tabs to the top of the window, which saves a ton of space though you can put them back on the bottom (if you prefer). 



It's even saved a bit of horizontal space in the toolbar, moving the reload and stop buttons into your address bar and making it one small condensed button. It might throw you off a bit at first, but it's really nice to have that clean toolbar. New notebook owners will be happy with the new Firefox 4. Mozilla knows you love tabbed browsing, and it shows in Firefox 4. Some of the biggest feature improvements have to do with how you manage your tabs, not the least of which is the great Tab Panorama organization window. It's basically a little window that shows a visual layout of your open tabs and lets you organize them by task. You can even open only one group at a time, so Firefox saves your other groups but doesn't clutter your tab bar with them.
I love how Chrome Sync works so seamlessly. Firefox has now introduced a Sync component of it's own. this is a pretty nice feature for the preference syncing alone. Now, when you get a new computer or do a reinstall, you don't have to setup Firefox the way you like it—all your preferences will be immediately synced there. Although, I am certainly going to stick with Lastpass for my password management tool. Firefox has made some significant improvements to theres that may sway some newcomers or for those that dare to try it out.

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