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RE: Firefox 4 beta 5 lands
CobraA1 8th Sep 2010
Looks much better on my netbook, which had a strange bug that put the Firefox button on its own line.

Hardware acceleration works decently. Not as fast as the IE9 tech preview, but far faster than everything else I've tried.

There do seem to be some first time start bugs, though. Had to restart it a couple times for it to work properly.

There also seem to be some strange bugs that come and go.

I've pretty much decided that I'm going back to Firefox now. I was on Google Chrome for a while, but it just doesn't have some of the addons Firefox has, including NoScript, which I consider very important to browser security. And Firefox still has the edge on customization.

And I'm also loving the new Panorama (previously known as tab candy). It's a great feature. It goes a long way towards being able to manage a large number of tabs.

Although interestingly enough, it's kinda reminiscent of Windows 3. Which isn't really a bad thing - I actually liked Windows 3. It was a great OS.
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