Messed Around With Firefox 4.0 Beta For A Bit

I was updating some of the applications on my USB thumbdrive tonight, and decided to throw the Firefox 4.0 beta on there and screw around with it a bit.

The new interface has the tabs on top by default. (You can get this functionality in the current 3.x versions of Firefox with an extension or Stylish script.) I'm not sure how if I'd use it like that since I'm so used to tabs being just above the actual content in the browser. I do like how they finally combined the stop and reload buttons into one toolbar button. I've been using an extension to do that for years now.

It looks a little better if you hide the menu bar (the one with File, Edit, View, etc), and it gives you a compact replacement if you do that. Of course lots of options are missing in the compact menu, so you may or may not want to disable it.

I did wonder what would happen to the Bookmarks menu if I hid the menu bar, luckily what happens is it adds a menu to the bookmarks toolbar with your bookmarks.

I would've strongly considered just making the leap to 4.0 if it weren't for the fact that pretty much none of the extensions I use are compatible with it. In the case of Greasemonkey, if you make Firefox ignore compatibility and install it, it seems to load the Greasemonkey homepage in a zillion tabs. So I'll probably wait for a release candidate of Firefox 4, and for more extensions to become compatible before I even think about replacing Firefox 3.x