Firefox 4 B4 Now Online, Brings Tab 'Panorama'
Tab Candy becomes Firefox Panorama.
It was supposed to be out a little earlier, but the fourth beta of Firefox 4.0 is now out and it brings with it a couple new features that Mozilla hopes to set it apart from the other browsers on the market right now.
One feature already discussed before is Tab Candy, which is now renamed Firefox Panorama. For those of us with more tabs open at a time than can fit on the width of our browser windows (I currently have over 150 tabs open, though it's due time to clean up), a zoomed-out 'panoramic' view of all tabs can be far easier to manage and group than just the regular line up of tabs.
Check out the video below for more:
Another feature weaved into the new Firefox 4 beta is Sync, which is very handy for accessing bookmarks, history, Awesome Bar, passwords, form-fill data and open tabs accessible across multiple computers and mobile devices.
Ready to give the beta a spin? Click here.
If you're running Windows, be sure to check out how to enable hardware acceleration.
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Looks like Firefox might be getting 2nd chance from me. I'm loving Chrome (although I see many others are not), but there are things I miss about Firefox. And...... download.
Yawn
150 tabs is a bit ridiculous...that can't be productive.
Thunbs Up Firefox
I've never left Firefox (if only because Chrome on my OS has been made available only a short while ago), however I must say I'm pleasantly surprised by the performances Firefox 4 beta 4 for Linux 64-bit (the Mozilla build) brought over my distro's default 3.6.8 build.
The interesting thing though, is that on Linux, the 3.6.8 "software rendering" goes as fast as 4.0's hardware-accelerated rendering on many IE9 demoes (psychedelic browsing, for example, goes well above 1000 rotations on Firefox 3.6.8 for Linux - but it actually depends on hardware drivers, on Intel crap I get more than 1000 on a 600x600 window, if I go over 700 it falls under 1).
Panorama is mightily interesting, but I'm not so sure about Sync - although if it really is secure, I'll probably use it heavily: between work, home, netbook and various VMs, it sure would be useful.
FF Rulez! pawn IE > noobs
Re:mitch074
I don't think Firefox 4 is hardware-accelerated on Linux (yet). It's only on Windows that it can use Direct2D, the standard they're using for acceleration. On Win7, hardware acceleration works great!
Nice. Well Firefox has done very well for me and 4.0 looks like it will do even more, but I will wait till it's final release.
omg. all u guys talk about firefox and chrome. Why don't to try Opera? is not cool?? It's amazing! Actually I use Opera 70% of the time, 25% chrome and 5% IE (just when i'don't want to have "compatibility problems)..
Try it and enjoy the speed (and the future like Opera unite that allow u to share everything u got on ur HD!
150 tabs and excited about a browser update......., get out much???
This reminds me of Bumptop Desktop I thought google bought it tho.
omg. all u guys talk about firefox and chrome. Why don't to try Opera? is not cool?? It's amazing! Actually I use Opera 70% of the time, 25% chrome and 5% IE (just when i'don't want to have "compatibility problems)..Try it and enjoy the speed (and the future like Opera unite that allow u to share everything u got on ur HD!
Tried opera...slower than chrome, less functional than FF. No point using it.
just waiting for final release, waiting for my addons to work in firefox4
omg. all u guys talk about firefox and chrome. Why don't to try Opera? is not cool?? It's amazing! Actually I use Opera 70% of the time, 25% chrome and 5% IE (just when i'don't want to have "compatibility problems)..Try it and enjoy the speed (and the future like Opera unite that allow u to share everything u got on ur HD!
No addons = 0 customization
I like my browser as i want
d2d still causes a hang time on browser startup... plus it still had problems with displaying flash content, notably while scrolling with the mouse. sad thing I'm now addicted to adblock plus
lol Panorama i said it once and I'll say it again, congratulations firefox you went in a circle you made tabs for windows now you made windows for tabs for windows.
Panorama is still a bit too buggy to be a regular part of my browser use, but sync is pretty great.
I like the name "tab candy" better. It rolls off the tongue with elegance.
^^^ Tab Candy sounds too much like LSD. (Which coincidentally rolls off the tongue as well)
Does anyone know how to disable the Aero glass effect at the top? it looks so ugly
What can you possibly be doing with 150 Marcus? Hotmail, TH, Fantasy Hockey League, Weather, Penny Arcade and 145 YouPorn tabs?
^^^ On Windows 7? Right click desktop -> personalize -> window color - >uncheck "enable transparency"
... i am starting to hate ff3.6 (current). it fkn uses too much memory after browsing a bit (like tomH) and that plugin container eating more side by side. i hate ff and ie. i think i will have to jump on Google bus. as i have seen on other pc's. its damn fast.
"Another feature weaved into the new Firefox 4 beta is Sync, which is very handy for accessing bookmarks, history, Awesome Bar, passwords, form-fill data and open tabs accessible across multiple computers and mobile devices."
If they can do this securely (and for free) it would be HUGE. I will be staying tuned to see what comes of that. Oh, and please make a javascript engine that works 1:1 like IE for crying out loud. Tom's Hardware can't use a forum ticker thanks to the FF devs having their heads up their butts.
So in simpler terms, they officially put their less productive version of the "FoxTab" add-on into the release.
http://www.foxtab.com/
Yep. Gotta love Firefox.
... i am starting to hate ff3.6 (current). it fkn uses too much memory after browsing a bit (like tomH) and that plugin container eating more side by side. i hate ff and ie. i think i will have to jump on Google bus. as i have seen on other pc's. its damn fast.
Have you tried troubleshooting it in any way? there must be something wrong, mine never goes over 150 Mb Ram even with 10 tabs with flash. and I have about 10 add-ons.
150 tabs is a bit ridiculous...that can't be productive.
Option anxiety much?
Lol, I usually keep tabs open for a while. There are just times that I want to finish something later, but don't want to commit it to long term memory (bookmarks). Not to mention, when I look something up in great detail, I frequently fill the entire tab bar.
I think it's a great feature, but obviously, not for everyone.
They also enabled GPU acceleration via about:config. On my setup (nVidia 9600GT) it has some issues.
What can you possibly be doing with 150 Marcus? Hotmail, TH, Fantasy Hockey League, Weather, Penny Arcade and 145 YouPorn tabs?
All of the above, plus lot and lots of news.
Wait, no Hotmail.
150 tabs is a bit ridiculous...that can't be productive.
I'm guessing about 130 of those are collegehumor tabs. It's so hard not to keep middle clicking on the related pictures!
Opera is much better, faster, and secure and already had many of these features.