Anyone else opening pages on new windows all the time through the right-click menu?

I know it's in the best place now, but until I get used to it, it's going to be hell...

Menu Editor 1.2.7 Add-on lets you organize the menu back to the way it should be.

Thanks for the tip, but I actually want to get used to it.
But now that you mention menu editing, can that or any other add-on put the recently closed tabs list back on a more accessible place?

Just updated to FF4...and took about 20 seconds to get it looking like my FF3. Put my tabs bar back where it belongs and re-enabled my menu bar and......done. Only thing different are the Reload,Back and Forward buttons, and AdBlock Plus is still working so im completely cool with whatever they did.

Here's mine.

I liked Firefox 3's layout and I don't care how many pixels of space I save without a status bar, I want mine back. Echofon and the downloads status live there, and I do a lot of downloading and tweeting about downloading stuff. I do like how Firefox 4 didn't just forget that Personas are still a thing that people use. Took me a while to figure out how to get the I'm Feeling Lucky thing when you type a word into the address bar. Kind of stupid how Firefox got rid of so many things people were used to.

Yeah and they seemed to be really happy about taking out the status bar. I mean come on, why would I want the new status bar - which is neither intuitive nor helpful - to be placed inside what I'm viewing? That's just being retrogressive, not progressive. Well, on the brighter side, they endorse Status-4-evar.

Other than that, I am growing fond of the layout. It's pretty slick, and yeah Firefox does seem less clunky and bloated, though it remains to be seen how long this will last :O

To be honest I'm ok with the new interface, considering that I'd already tweaked FF 3.x to look almost exactly like this even before they announced the new design; I want as much space possible for my content, and the lack of menus and toolbars (which I never use anyway) is offset by mouse gestures and keyboard shortcuts.

Now, if you're on Windows 7 or Windows Vista SP2 you can speed up Firefox 4 some more by enabling Direct2D and DirectWrite hardware acceleration which will use the GPU for things like native text rendering and the rest.

To do this just go to about:config
Type render in the filter box
Look for gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled - right click and select toggle to turn it to true
Look for mozilla.widget.render-mode - double click and set it to 6

If you don't have mozilla.widget.render-mode just right-click on empty space and select "New -> Integer" and set its name to mozilla.widget.render-mode.

f you want to disable the hardware acceleration, set "gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled" to false and "mozilla.widget.render-mode" to 0.

This is how FF 3.x used to look for me, so FF4 isn't really that big a change.

Opera has a built-in noscript of sorts. I usually browse with javascript globally turned off, but permitted for selected sites. The downside is that this only works on a per-site basis, not per-script, as noscript does.

The ribbon is awesome, and calling it "change for the sake of change" is completely and utterly wrong. The previous Office interface was a nightmare.

I see a lot of the "they changed it, now it sucks" syndrome going in this thread. Personally, I see knee-jerk switches to older layouts as an insult to GUI developers. Of course it's your choice. You could, for example, upon seeing the Win7 taskbar, change it back to the way it used to be. But if you tried to actually use its new iteration for two weeks, you'd never do that, because it actually is a lot better.

Your opinion, I respect that. Use the ribbon every day, that is a tired old debate.

There is no "syndrome" going on this thread just folks saying what they think about the new version. If you don't agree, I respect that as well but as a FF fanboy my opinion is not invalid because it's not "positive".

I do use it more or less every day. It's okay people don't like it, but to me, it was very, very obvious that the previous Office UI, which was basically the 97 version mushrooming up into something extremely unwieldy, had to go. But I'm stopping there, not to derail this thread more.

Which has been out for some 24 hours (beta users excluded). Which means the damning reaction is far too hasty, hence the syndrome.

Never said that. I think it's invalid because most people (and I don't mean you personally -- you might have been using the beta for months for all I know) haven't given the new UI a proper chance at this point in time.

And I do not really care what people think about Firefox in particular. I switched from that browser a long time ago and do not see a reason to go back.

I see the Firefox guys are bragging how they have so many downloads. Downloads which would have been less than IE9's launch day if they hadn't pushed the update automatically.

You know I'm a Microsoft fan so please don't start this.

First of all, from what I know Firefox 4 hasn't been offered as a auto-update except from the release candidate; this means that people who upgraded were either running the RC or downloaded the latest version off of Mozilla's website.

Second of all, you neglect to take into account the fact that IE 9 only works on Vista and Windows 7 and there are still a lot of PCs out there running XP, as well as a smaller number (compared to overall PC numbers) of Mac OS and Linux users. This means that even if Microsoft pushed IE9 through WU it still wouldn't have got the numbers Firefox did.

Now, both browsers are great and I'm glad to see that IE9 is successful, both from an engineering and user standpoint, as this will mean that all browsers will now evolve even faster than before with competition being tighter. But the truth is that overall Firefox still has more users than IE9 does.

Nope, the RC is/was the final build so you didn't download anything, they just took the RC name out of the files.