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Firefox 4 is a great success considering the difficulties, delays and stumbles between the 3.5 and the 4 release. I used Minefield (and now Nightly) all throug
by blntechie 15y ago
Firefox 4 is a great success considering the difficulties, delays and stumbles between the 3.5 and the 4 release.
I used Minefield (and now Nightly) all through the FF4 development and really considered at one point the project has become victim of scope creep. Was worried about my favorite browser getting pushed into secondary choice for many by Chrome, but the entire Firefox team pulled back and did deliver an awesome release.
- sliverstorm 15y agoSeriously, I'm impressed by the recovery. I tried FF4 about halfway through their test releases, and I found it unusably bad (and I use a lot of beta and alpha software). Now it's my favorite again. Great job, FF team!
- pstack 15y agoFirefox 4 has kept me using Firefox, despite Chrome. The biggest feature missing from Chrome is the whole Panorama tab interface. I'm a heavy browser user and as soon as I used the beta, I couldn't move back to 3.6. I tend to have several groups open (Work, Personal, Shopping, Entertainment, News, Misc., Coding) with many pages open in each one. I think I currently have six groups and 42 tabs/pages. Chrome is missing this and it doesn't have an alternative that suffices, for me. If they had an exact replica of the Vertical Tab Tree that Firefox has had for awhile via extension, I might cope. So, I'm sticking with Firefox, for now. What concerns me is what will come with the new release methodology. Both in the frequent releases and the direction they're going with all this "social" stuff and "web app" stuff that we have seen for the pending FF 5.0. Really nervous about that. (Disclaimer: I was a Netscape engineer in the late 90s, so I have a certain bias for Mozilla-based browsers. I'm still open to alternatives if they are compelling enough, though!).