Firefox 4 — More Than a Great Browser

March 22nd, 2011

Firefox 4 is here! If you’re not using Firefox 4, go grab it and see how exciting the web can be.

Firefox is a great browser. Fast, sleek, and full of features that make the online life better — App Tabs, Panorama, Sync, Do Not Track, HTML 5 features, and more — all focused on respecting individuals.

Firefox is also much, much more than a great browser. Firefox is a big part of how we build a web that is fun, powerful, trustworthy, and fundamentally about empowering individuals to shape our own lives. Firefox is created by a non-profit community precisely to build these values into the fabric of the Internet. Firefox marries public benefit, non-profit goals with great product and technical advances.

Firefox is also a community; a community dedicated to building the web the way it should be. A community ensuring that technical excellence serves individual empowerment and public benefit.

Firefox represents a state of mind; a state of mind that asserts that people matter, that individuals can make a difference, that we can create as well as consume, that we can build a part of the Internet that belongs to all of us.

And of course, Firefox brings open source, cutting-edge technology and great user features to hundreds of millions of people in over 80 languages, based on openness, transparency, and empowering local communities. Check it out and get involved!

Categories: Mozilla

21 comments for “Firefox 4 — More Than a Great Browser”

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Ramesh Kumar Sahu said on March 22nd, 2011 at 9:16 am:

Finally the awesome web browser is here..we waited for it since long time…:)
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Dan Glazman said on March 22nd, 2011 at 6:47 pm:

Firefox 4 is slow, and has a dumbed-down GUI (no status bar).

I’m sure the Mozilla propaganda machine will pimp FF4 endlessly, but I’m betting Firefox market share will continue to crumble under the Chrome onslaught.

It will be interesting to watch the so-called non-profit Mozilla organization tailspin when their corporate masters at Google pull the plug on the $50 million annual revenue kickback this year.
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business man said on March 26th, 2011 at 5:13 am:

Incredible speeeed! Number 4 is the best one yet. I wonder how much Chrome had an influence on Firefox’s designers? I see a lot of similarities between the two browsers. I have also found out Firefox 4 does not work with some of my applications and PHP based CMS I operate. This is a shame especially because everything worked well wth version 3.6.
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Raphael said on March 28th, 2011 at 11:08 am:

Awesome job on FF4! I am the creator of an FF addon that’s hosted on the addons.mozilla.org site, and it was awesome being able to take advantage of all the new CSS3 and HTML5 goodies in FF4. I’ve used FF since version 1 and I’ve loved watching it take back the ground lost to ie. Keep up the great work! Thank you!!
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Charles Hand said on April 8th, 2011 at 3:58 am:

After all these years, I have no choice but to abandon Firefox. I’ll still use it as a host for Firebug, but for browsing it’s useless to me. For quite some time I’ve been trying to ignore the fact that IE is faster than Firefox. But Firefox 4 has become so slow, they’ve finally pushed me away. I’ve got 10 pages loaded up in IE while FF hasn’t put up a GUI, nor even acknowledged it is running.

Here’s the thing, people who write slow software should at least know how to write slow software. You launch Firefox 4 and nothing happens. Nothing whatsoever. Did I miss the icon? Did I not double-click? Is anything happening? Hello??? Slow software needs to make some sort of acknowledgement that it is at least running, doing something, while it is doing its slow thing.
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Matt said on April 10th, 2011 at 3:32 am:

Firefox 4 isn’t bad, it is a million times better than 3.6. Its just a pity its slower than ie9, chrome and opera at javascript tests and they had to steal the ui from Opera. I think firefox 5 may be a great browser but for now I would grade 4 a solid B
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carrie said on April 12th, 2011 at 3:37 am:

i think firefox 4 is not very bad,,have some improve..
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carrie said on April 12th, 2011 at 3:38 am:

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Darmadi said on April 13th, 2011 at 12:30 am:

Dear Ms Mitchell Baker..
have you read this?
http://www.google.co.id/search?hl=id&client=firefox-a&hs=QIv&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=firefox+4+suck&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=

please comment or response somethin’ bout this..

i think there is no significant change in performance compared to previous one..

thank you..
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Ales said on April 19th, 2011 at 11:59 am:

For me browser no.1. The primary goals for this version included improvements in performance, standards support, and user interface.
Thank you for good post.
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Metallurgical coal said on April 25th, 2011 at 6:03 pm:

I think that Firefox Browser is better than I have used!
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lucille helman said on May 18th, 2011 at 12:02 pm:

I was emailed by Firefox to install version 4.0 which I did. Now it doesn’t have a scroll feature on many widnows or screens on right side and along bottom. Also there is no Home or Back or Forward buttons. I c an’t delete any hsitory, it jumps to some other tab. Frustrating inthe most negative sense, I feel that I am a captive as the volunteer correctors did not respond to my question as to how to uninstall it on the one dy it was allowed to be posted. Then it disappeared. I am in my 80’s and don’t know any technical stuff, I just push keys. So I wnt out of 4.0 and back to 3.6 which I was happy with. Someone help me please!!
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Lin said on June 3rd, 2011 at 1:14 am:

A Google search on “Hate firefox 4″ brings ” about 41,000,000 results”. Mozilla should be embarrassed.

I downgraded to 3.6.17 until I can check out other browsers.
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Joy said on June 21st, 2011 at 7:28 pm:

I downloaded the 4.0 version because it kept pestering me to do so & I do not like it at all! I have to take an extra 2 or 3 steps to get to my bookmarks and now cannot open more than one window at a time–what is the point of having Windows 7??? When I click onto a new bookmark, the other ones close! I cannot refer to anything back and forth like I used to, which I need to do for my work, and is causing a decrease in my work productivity, which I must add, is hitting my pocketbook. I thought it was supposed to be PROgression, not DIgression. And there’s no way mentioned as to changing back to the 3.6 version which I was very happy with. Can you please allow me to go back to the 3.6 version so I can get my work done more efficiently. The way the economy is now, I need all the help I can get, as we all do, not hindrances.