Yeah, yesterday Mozilla released Firefox 4...
After downloading, everything (the whole installing process) was the same, no new and unknown things (and it felt the same too!!).
When I met the new interface, I started liking it (and it felt a bit different, I must admit!). So, instead of exploring the browser "old school", which means exploring and finding the new features step by step while using the browser, I decided to see the video the guys from Mozilla made about FX4. (If you still haven't watched it, here it is.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFbY34a2voI
So, after seeing the video, I went on exploring the new features.
First, the brand-new-centralized-firefox-menu. Same old features, a bit polished up. The web developer menu, nothing exceptional, web console, error console and encoding menu. So, I said like "well,its okay I guess,lets personalize it". Finding a persona was easy. But then I remembered, the "pin as an app" thingy. So I started pinning the sites I follow daily like Wired, Engadget, Mashable, the TutsPlus network, gmail etc etc. After installing firebug (tEh must have web-dev addon for firefox) I restarted the browser. The start up was a bit slow, loading all those pages I pinned as apps took like 30 seconds (and the memory usage "jumped" to like 300mb of ram) but in my opinion it was worth it, plus, 300mb of ram for a pumped-up browser that suites all your needs when having couple of gigabytes RAM isn't that much. Having all the pages you want (and need) fully loaded at your disposal anytime you want is nice.
So, when everything (that I could think of at the moment) was in place, I went on the install a couple of add-on's I use. And then I remembered...
What about HTML5 and CSS3? So I opened up the page that I'm currently working on, popped-up firebug and removed all those lines of code starting with "-moz-" and changed a couple of things here and there. And guess what - there it was. Fully capable HTML5 and CSS3 browser without any bugs (I still haven't noticed any, if you have seen some, just out of curiosity, let me know).
So after a couple of hours using the new Firefox, it started feeling like home. I don't know, maybe I'll switch back to Chrome when the new version goes public, but until than, FFX4 is here.
p.s. Yeah, I know this post looked like I get paid from Mozilla to write it, but I really like Firefox 4 ...atleast until I find a bug that will piss me off... :)
