Options -> Advanced -> General -> Use hardware acceleration when available.

This doesn't work at all.

Worked, thanks.

So how is performance? I'm only using chrome for the performance which was shocking in firefox.

it's pretty impressive, doesn't like the ql plugin yet though.

Really? QL works perfectly here

And it's a very solid browser overall.

what do you mean? if it says it's incompatible you can override that with

about:config -> New Boolean -> extensions.checkCompatibility.4.0 -> False

nice, thanks. yes, i was talking about that.

actually, i take that back. it does not work for me, tries to install the plugin whenever i visit quakelive.com :(

i had to do this: http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...post114755

no qldp or new alt server browser working anymore though, on a related note it also broke torbutton: even the alpha which kind of works gives an insane amount of javascript related errors, sigh :C

it's good enough, still not faster than Chrome. Firefox has other strengths though (expanded functionality through an impressive collection of extensions, crossplatform, easy to migrate to other computers)

Is anyone else massively upset about the fact that you have to right-click a tab to close it?
Makes me want to kill a fox.

? You just click the little cross? Seems the same to me, I just installed it.

? I don't have that since one of the betas. Gonna try and re-install.

still not there.

Have you tried changing the value for browser.tabs.closeButtons in about:config?

<3 <3 <3 <3

why don't they post that in the support Forums ..

No idea. I found it on some shady looking site way back when the same thing was annoying me to no end.

because it's an obscure legacy setting, meant to add backward compatibility from firefox 1.5 for "single close buttons," which I love and still use. of course, I rarely use the close button anyway. that's what ctrl-w or ctrl-f4 is for.

Middle click bro

lol, never knew that one, was always clicking the small cross, ta!

Nice, did a fresh install and changed the profile. Now I got the x back, but the shit performs slower than before.

Thanks for the tip!

Yeah, installed it, was working on my website, noticed performance problems, reverted back to chrome.

again.. TabMixPlus or Tab Utilities
Mouse -> Mouse Clicking -> Double Click (or whatever mouse action you prefer) -> Close Tab

if you want the fullest control over Firefox.. use one of those extensions.

what's the difference between the two?

Alt Server Browser doesn't work for me, everything else seems fine

Edit: The thread, http://www.quakelive.com/forum/showthread.php...t%29/page5

thanks! works now.

The font problem is ... horrific.
All the fonts are off and nothing works ... I have been trying every suggestion I have found via Google for the past 3 hours and the font rendering issue cannot be resolved.

Switching to Chrome or some other browser

Installed Chrome and uninstalled it 10 minutes later, just like 2,5 half years ago. Funny how they have not managed to fix a critical error during that time.
That's first class software development for you!

There's IE9, I hear they finally support css3

The font looked like trash on my firefox 4.0 as well.

about:config and setting gfx.direct2d.disabled to true solved the problem for me.

Having been tweeking FF4 for the past few hours and reading alot of review I would have to say that Firefox 4 might be the worst browser release/update I have ever come across.

Sure ... many earlier versions of which ever browsers might have been bugged as well, but FF4 has a direct impact on the default user, to someone who doesn't tweak the shit out of every little piece of software they come across.

1. The whole font fiasko
2. Complete removal of the status bar

... many other things.

It seems that they searched the browser landscape, found majority of the bugs from all other web broswers and then compiled them into this release of Firefox 4.


Redesigning the visual side and not fixing the internal problems or even adding features which hinder the usability of the product is not progress!

while i have my own share of problems...

1) i have no idea what you guys are talking about, is this a windows issue?
2) the status bar is not completely removed, ctrl+/ to get the add-ons back, the "status" part fades in with mouseovers?

2. Complete removal of the status bar

This is entirely a good thing.

You're completely overreacting.
Go back to spyware Chrome if you like it that much (Chromium and SRWare Iron are fine though)
I hate how Chrome is a "simple" browser that doesn't let you configure shit. You can't even have a bookmark panel on the side for christ sake, which is ridiculous with widescreen monitors since there's a ton of unused screen space.

Anyway :
1) Fonts look normal on my rig, even with hardware acceleration ON. They don't look "normal" (though nothing serious) at work but disabling hardware acceleration fixes it just fine.

2) Removal of the status bar is a great thing

The few addons I use such as adblock plus and QL work perfectly on FF4 out of the box (didn't even have to reinstall QL, just installed FF4 > played QL)

Go back to Chrome???

If you'd read up a little you would notice, that I specifically said I have never used Chrome, because it sucks and supports the same bugs it did years ago.

yeah I missed that post sorry lol

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/ here's the status bar again :D

"Redesigning the visual side and not fixing the internal problems or even adding features which hinder the usability of the product is not progress!"
like i said before, Firefox is more of a framework. shape it as you wish.. if you want out of the box functionality there's Chrome or Opera.

This was suggested on lifehacker.com:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addo...ing-tuner/

Didn't try it though, disabling hardware acceleration + restart fixed it for me.

Netscape Navigator > FF4

I noticed some small differences here and there in the font rendering with Fx 4, but none were as terrible as what I've seen on ESR. The post headlines look like they're in Arial Black.

Can't be unseen. :o(