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Posted May 26, 2011
It does save tabs; it's just a lot more subtle. Instead of asking if you want to save tabs it does it automatically. Then, next time you run firefox, on about:home (the default home page) there is a "restore old session" button. Press that and your old tabs come back.
Posted May 26, 2011
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Barefoot_Monkey: It does save tabs; it's just a lot more subtle. Instead of asking if you want to save tabs it does it automatically. Then, next time you run firefox, on about:home (the default home page) there is a "restore old session" button. Press that and your old tabs come back.
it's a candidate for "the most embarrasing browser button in history". Especially when wives start restoring old sessions lol :D
Posted May 26, 2011
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RangerSolo: Still using version 3 of FF. I'm not sure if upgrading to 4 is worth it and now I hear 7?
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Coelocanth: I'd stick with 3. Upgraded to 4 on one of my machines and I don't particularly like it, although once I get used to it, I'll probably have a better opinion. Couple things that annoyed me:

FF3, when you right click a link and the option menu pops up, Open In New Tab is the second one from the top, with Open In New Window as the top option. In FF4, it's reversed. Due to muscle memory, I'm constantly opening crap in new windows when I want it in a tab. Drives me nuts.

As well, be warned that if you 'upgrade' to FF4 the default is to not keep your tabs when you shut down the browser. I'm prone to opening a ton of tabs and saving them for next time I fire up the machine. When I installed FF4, that wasn't the default behavior, and out of instinct I just shut the browser down and clicked on the Shut Down button when it warned me I was closing multiple tabs. Of course, since it doesn't default to saving them, I lost my dozen or so tabs I had opened. I was a grumpy panda.
Agreed with everything there...bloody thing used to offer a dialog when you closed : save and reload next time, close, cancel. [option box to remember always the choice you make].
Not a sight of it. Every menu's been rejiggered. Slightly. Just enough to fuck you over royally, if you're not playing'tention.

Don't particularly like the replacement for status bar - looks fugly, and half-arsed.
It's definitely still a memory hog over Failfox3.
It's still a hell of a lot slower than other browsers.
If I didn't need a few scripts for online games, I wouldn't be using it at all >.<
Posted May 26, 2011
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Barefoot_Monkey: It does save tabs; it's just a lot more subtle. Instead of asking if you want to save tabs it does it automatically. Then, next time you run firefox, on about:home (the default home page) there is a "restore old session" button. Press that and your old tabs come back.
Yeah, you can set it to always show your windows and tabs from last time when you start it up as well. It's in Tools->Options. But it's not on by default when you first install FF4. That's what annoyed me the most, as it ended up nuking my tabs (not knowing it wasn't on by default, I shut down the browser and just clicked the dialog box to shut down on instinct. When I fired it back up, of course, they were gone. By the time I figured out what had happened and how to fix it, it was too late. I'd closed it and opened it a couple times by then).
Posted May 26, 2011
you can always just bookmark the pages you're interested in (and keep the ones you use regularly on the bookmarks toolbar), rather than keeping 100 tabs open all the time.
FF4 is a big improvement from FF3 in a lot of areas. It's faster, has fewer memory leak issues, has a better java script engine, has higher compatibility with various web formats (html5, css3, etc), and one of the most important ones - supports hardware acceleration. It has other nice features like tab grouping.
I've been using FF for several years now (along with other browsers), and FF4 since last year when it was in beta, and I can say that 4 is much better than 3.
Still, it's not the best one out there (the fastest one is Chrome), however if you consider the huge amount of add-ons, it's definitely the most versatile.
Posted May 26, 2011
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Barefoot_Monkey: It does save tabs; it's just a lot more subtle. Instead of asking if you want to save tabs it does it automatically. Then, next time you run firefox, on about:home (the default home page) there is a "restore old session" button. Press that and your old tabs come back.
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dr.zli: it's a candidate for "the most embarrasing browser button in history". Especially when wives start restoring old sessions lol :D
I don't think that applies to sessions done incognito.
Posted May 26, 2011
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Arteveld: Trying to competie with Opera 11.11 i guess.;)
With Opera 11.5....that is the developement snapshot, and not the stable 11.11
Posted May 26, 2011
From what i heard, as every minor change in chrome they upgrade the number there are people that think chrome is superior than firefox because the number is higher. Firefox team will upgrade their number now the same way to get more people using firefox.

I upgraded my nightly, i prefer firefox than other browsers. I like Opera too, but Using Opera I'm a bug magnet.
Posted May 26, 2011
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Wolfpig: With Opera 11.5....that is the developement snapshot, and not the stable 11.11
True.;)
Though, paraphrasing, haven't seen a stable Opera build since the 9.x days. ;)
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