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Re:Firefox 4 RC now available by cookiecaper on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @07:26PM (#2307330)
I'd used Chrome exclusively for almost two years before the Fx4 beta cycle, and now I'm back on Fx full-time. I don't have time to get into the details, but Fx 4 is really a large improvement over 3.6.x.
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Re:Firefox 4 RC now available by alexqgb on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @08:50PM (#2307591)
Ditto. And I stuck with Chrome until Xmarks started giving me grief. Upgraded to the FF beta about three months ago, and really liked the improvement over 3.6. Even when the Xmarks / Chrome thing sorted itself out, I found that wasn't reason enough to go back. I've also started using a privacy plug-in called Cocoon (also in beta) that I'm really pleased with. Currently, it's FF only.

One other thing. It's small, and non technical, but I find I really like the very compact implementation of the pin tab feature. The way FF adds subtle indicators when the content on a pinned page updates is especially nice.

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Re:Firefox 4 RC now available by adbge on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @11:14PM (#2308010)
> The way FF adds subtle indicators when the content on a pinned page updates is especially nice.

I'm on Chrome 10.0.648.127 and it does a periodic glow when pinned content has been updated. It's a little too subtle for my tastes, really.

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