# How's Firefox 4? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 8, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-firefox-4/581212 "2011-05-08T23:52:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-firefox-4/581212/41 "2011-05-12T12:28:48Z")
[This add-on](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/backforedrop/) will let the arrow show history the way it used to. ---
**Author:** ![Laalune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/977dab/32.png) [@Laalune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laalune)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-firefox-4/581212/42 "2011-05-13T11:43:25Z")
It’s crashing on me once every few minutes, unexpectedly, and no matter what site I’m on. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-firefox-4/581212/43 "2011-05-13T12:34:12Z")
I tried v4 when it first got released, but went back after some of my extensions and a few other weird things were getting on my nerves (something was causing visited links on the SDMB to not change colour). So I’m going to stick with 3.6 for a while longer, until versions 5 and even 6 come out, because being an early adopter would just frustrate me. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-firefox-4/581212/44 "2011-05-13T12:35:08Z")
All in all, I’m satisfied with FF 4, but I was hoping that it finally had a decent memory management, but unfortunately it’s still a resource hog if you’re working with lots of tabs like I use to do. The UI changes are ok, and it’s no big deal to tweak it to your preferred style. As for blurry fonts: I had the same problem first, [but this tweak worked for me](http://www.snaphow.com/fix-firefox-4-font-problem-in-smoothing-blurry-rendering-in-ff-4-beta/). ETA: Had no problems with NoScript and AdBlock, as well as with all my other add-ons. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-firefox-4/581212/45 "2011-05-13T12:54:42Z")
This is just a silly thing, and it might just be me being stupid, but the right-click on a link options have changed. The top option used to be “in a new window” and the second “in a new tab”. This is now reversed, and my muscle memory (really, just done it so often without looking) leads me to open new windows all the time. A minor bugbear, for sure. Otherwise, it is noticeably faster than Firefox 3.x ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-firefox-4/581212/46 "2011-05-13T13:16:22Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > This is just a silly thing, and it might just be me being stupid, but the right-click on a link options have changed. The top option used to be “in a new window” and the second “in a new tab”. This is now reversed, and my muscle memory (really, just done it so often without looking) leads me to open new windows all the time. A minor bugbear, for sure. Otherwise, it is noticeably faster than Firefox 3.x A tip: Clicking with the mouse wheel also opens the link in a new tab. ---
**Author:** ![Bartman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bartman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bartman)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-firefox-4/581212/47 "2011-05-15T00:42:57Z")
I updated it both on my home and work PCs. At home I had to spend an hour or more to get it to work in any acceptable fashion. Load times for web pages were horrific under the default install: 60+ seconds for [google.com](http://google.com), 500-600 seconds for [straightdope.com](http://straightdope.com). At work I never could get it working for more than 10-15 minutes at a time without crashes. And on that PC, I finally went and downgraded it back to 3.6. Stylistically, I don’t like the layout changes. The default settings (hardware acceleration for one) seem to pretty poor for many (if not most) users. Add that to the technical problems I encountered on both of the PCs I tried it on, and I wouldn’t recommend it at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-firefox-4/581212/48 "2011-05-15T01:59:02Z")
No “organise bookmarks” option in the Bookmarks menu. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hows-firefox-4/581212.md?page=2)