The menu bar is hidden by default, but if you hit the Alt key, it’ll show up temporarily-or you can just use one of the shortcut keys directly. You can mouse over the tab, and Aero Peek will show a full-size preview of it. …which will show every tab as a separate window when you mouse over the taskbar icon. If you head into the Options panel, you can select the “Show tab previews in the Windows taskbar” option… They are now baked directly into Firefox instead of requiring an add-on. If you’ve ever used Google Chrome, you’re familiar with the application tabs, which only show you an icon. It’s from here that you can get to things like the Add-ons, Options, and everything else. If you’ve ever used Opera, you’ll see that Firefox now has the exact same style of menu, up in the upper left. Click the screenshot for a larger view.Īll I did was hide the Opera status bar (somebody please call Opera and tell them the status bar is dead), and remove a button or two. Yeah, we’re being a little hard on Firefox here-but it really does look like the Opera web browser. There’s a ton of other features, but you can always download and check it out.įirefox Shows Up Late to the Party, Wearing the Same Opera Clothes You’ll probably find that add-on compatibility isn’t as good, and even if you hacked Firefox to use the old add-ons, many of them won’t work well. Which break many of the add-ons out there. You can now browse the add-ons through a very nice add-ons panel, built right in. Looks like everybody is implementing this now, since Microsoft put it into IE9, and it makes Firefox much, much faster. The new Firefox interface is a huge improvement, but it does borrow some elements heavily from the Opera browser, especially the menu in the upper left. There’s a ton of new stuff in Firefox 4, especially behind the scenes.

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