Firefox 4 is here

Re:Firefox 4 is here by DarkShikari on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @10:34AM (#2354518)

The new "menu in the upper left" seems to be rather badly designed. It's missing the "View" menu entirely, which makes it impossible for me to view non-ASCII/Unicode websites. It took me about 5 minutes of searching and frantically right-clicking to re-enable the old menu, which of course still had the View menu.

On a positive note, 4 is so much faster than 3.6 it isn't even funny. It's like going from a 286 running off of an 8-inch floppy to a Core 2 on an SSD.

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Re:Firefox 4 is here by mbrubeck on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @10:34AM (#2354520)

Character encoding options are now in the "Web Developer" sub-menu of the Firefox menu. (Weird, I know.)

UPDATE: This is different in localized builds - Japanese builds of Firefox should provide easier access to the encoding menu. In other locales, you can go to about:config and toggle "browser.menu.showCharacterEncoding" to see this.

You can also press Alt+V to quickly open the old View menu.

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Re:Firefox 4 is here by DarkShikari on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @10:37AM (#2354528)

This may confuse the few hundred million users whose languages don't use Roman letters and weren't told about this move...

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Re:Firefox 4 is here by hasenj on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @10:42AM (#2354560)

I'm a user of such a language (Arabic) and by now all websites I care about use utf8, so the character encoding is a problem from the past as far as I'm concerned.

I'd be really surprised if there are still sites that don't use utf8.

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Re:Firefox 4 is here by DarkShikari on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @10:46AM (#2354589)

Japan still uses Shift-JIS for practically everything, much to the chagrin of anyone else in the world looking to use their applications.

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Re:Firefox 4 is here by hasenj on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @11:07AM (#2354701)

I visit some Japanese websites from time to time (not that I can read or anything .. just clicking on links) and don't remember having many problems with weird characters.

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Re:Firefox 4 is here by yuhong on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @12:55PM (#2355203)

This is because this is required if the site uses a legacy character encoding AND it is declared incorrectly or not at all.

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Re:Firefox 4 is here by ootachi on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @11:12AM (#2354720)

IIRC in those locales the Character Encoding menu is under the main Firefox menu.

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Re:Firefox 4 is here by madelfio on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @11:20AM (#2354769)

Tap "Alt" and you get the normal menus (including "View"). Not very obvious, but easy once you know.

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Re:Firefox 4 is here by kellishaver on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @08:59PM (#2357388)

This doesn't seem to work in Ubuntu, at least not for me.

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Re:Firefox 4 is here by cycojesus on Wednesday March 23, 2011 @02:26AM (#2358308)

type Alt+v then.

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Re:Firefox 4 is here by EdiX on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @12:35PM (#2355118)

You should never need to change the default encoding. If you have to it means the web page you are viewing is broken.

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Re:Firefox 4 is here by Jencha on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @11:41AM (#2354877)

I may be missing something, but character encoding menu is right there when you click Firefox button. 9nth entry from the top for me.

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Re:Firefox 4 is here by matthewn on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @07:43PM (#2357126)

If you don't mind installing an extension, "Personal Menu" will let you add the View menu and its children to the upper-left menu.

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