Firefox 4 at a glance

Installed Firefox 4 last night and spent a bit of time playing with it. By no means is this an in-depth review .. but a first glance from a power-user. Wikipedia reports it was released on March 22, 2011. URL: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/fx/

first glance review:

• Options/Preference bar: "borrowed" from Opera
• tabs and tab grouping: nothing revolutionary. Pretty much the expected tabs, tab grouping, pinning, moving ... all the stuff you already see in Chrome
• Search-bar: same as chrome
• URL text-box searching: always good to have, especially for chrome users who are accustomed to using it
• Add-Interface:definitely an improvement and receives my best improvement. Grouping all of the add-ons with interfaces in one location that is easy to find and review is a benefit. It's great to see your debugging, messages and feeds nicely grouped together
• navigation buttons: I like, click and hold to see both forward and backward

With my humble assessment set aside, the browser is very fast and much more lightweight than the old clunker used to be. I actually stopped using Firefox (for Chrome) originally because it took so long to start. No longer the case. Click - start - surf ...


So far, for the time being, I am moving back to Firefox to get a little strong review of it's new features/capabilities.