Firefox 4 ?

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Wed May 4 00:36:21 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 15:09 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> On 05/03/2011 02:54 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > Actually, after being bugged when I opened firefox-3.6-17 to download
> > firefox4 , I did it. I got access to a video to show how it worked. But
> > the video showed a version of firefox4 that was different than  the one
> > I downloaded. For example it had a tab labeled firefox in the upper left
> > corner and a star on the right side. The version downloaded did not.
> > So I suspect we won't see all the functionality that should be there.
> 
> The Firefox team decided to keep the UI consistent to the OS, instead of 
> consistent to itself. In other words, Linux flavor of Firefox doesn't 
> look exactly like same version on Windows.
> The video simply shows the lowest common denominator, which is Windows.
> 
> 

I accept that that but doing that makes it harder for Linux users to see
how the new features work. What is even stranger the look (and possibily
of functionality) seems the same as firefox-3.6-17.
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