Thursday, May 5, 2011

Firefox 4 Web Browser

Firefox has taken one more step ahead in the 'war of browsers' with
the release of its latest version, i.e. Firefox 4.0. Firefox 4 final
version is now available for download for Windows, MAC and Linux
operating systems. In this article, we will find out what is the point
of view of "raw performance". Anyways, its much faster, more
consistent and resolutely turned towards the future with support for
HTML5, WebM multimedia format, 3D display and hardware acceleration
along with WebGL as powerful as that of Internet Explorer 9.

New GUI:

New visual rendering: more space for Web content!

Other browsers like Google Chrome, Opera, and Internet Explorer 9 are
as alike as two peas! Firefox 4 offers the trend and going in the
direction of travel by adopting a streamlined graphical interface by
default. The aim is simple, to maximize the navigation space. All the
bars like Menu Bar, Navigation Bar, personal bar, etc are still
accessible via a right click mouse on top of the window. Also note
that we can access the complete Menu Bar by just tapping Alt Key
anytime.

An orange button:

In Firefox 4, you will find a new button in Orange color named as
"Firefox" at the top left corner of the window. It actually integrates
all essential features of the browser (except Mac OS X where the
management is different). Its probably same as in Opera that appears
in red but here it is the original formatting as it is orange! All
this is in line with the new interface, rather than having multiple
bulky menus all brought together into one. It integrates opening a new
tab, incognito Start, Print Options, Full Screen, access to the
download manager, add-ons, history and bookmarks. When we start
private browsing, this orange button turns into purple color, which
creatively allows the user to better distinguish current browsing.

Accelerated Home and Restore Session:

With the new Firefox 4, this new home page "about: Home" has
everything. Suddenly, the cold start of the browser is always
instantaneous. As in the previous versions, if you close your browser
with all your open tabs, all same pages will appear the next time when
you open it. To recover your last open tabs, simply click on "Restore
previous session". Here's a clever way not to mobilize resources and
not to slow down the launch for small configurations. Of course the
classic boot options are still present like show my home page, show a
blank page, or View the latest windows and tabs.

Integrated tabs above the address bar:

Here it is little different from the previous Firefox versions. The
tab bar is now positioned above the address bar. The new tabs are
better integrated to allow more space navigation. If that does not
suits, you can change it to the previous version by simply unchecking
"Tabs on Top" from the Menu Bar.

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