Do NOT Use Firefox 4! (revealing videos)

by Brent Jacoby

Posted: 14 years ago 49 replies

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If you are anything like me, you were pissed when you upgraded to Firefox 4.

You thought, "WTF.... is this Google Chrome?" "I hate the tabs up top, where is the title bar, why did they move my home and bookmark button, where did the status bar and all my internet marketing tools go, and why is this freaking orange button staring at me!?!?"

I thought those exact same things. I set out on a mission to get my Firefox back! Maybe some of you are happy with how your Firefox looks after upgrading to Firefox 4.. maybe some of you aren't. These videos are for the people who aren't.

Don't get me wrong.. I love Firefox 4. It seems much faster. But I wasn't happy with the look or some of the functionality.

So... Do NOT use Firefox 4.... until you make it exactly how you want!

I recorded a few step by step videos on how you can customize your Firefox 4 to be exactly how you want it.. or to just get back what you miss.

Check it out... I'll show you how to move the tabs back to where they used to be, how to get the title bar showing page titles again, how to get your status bar back with your internet marketing tools, how to move around the home and bookmark buttons, and much more.

I now feel like I am writing a WSO sales page...lol.

If you have not upgraded to Firefox 4 yet, you really should.

Please check out the videos.. they are worth it.

Oh yea.. you may hear a few parts of the video sound like it cuts out.. that's because when I listened back to the video.. I annoyed myself with some breathing in the mic, so I spent an hour editing that out so I wouldn't annoy anyone else!

I recommend you watch the videos in full screen and HD. You can do that by clicking play on the video then clicking the video so it pops open in youtube. Select 720p and open it up in full screen.

YouTube - How To Customize Firefox 4 Part 1

YouTube - How To Customize Firefox 4 Part 2

#fire fox #fire fox 4 #firefox #firefox 3 #firefox 4 #revealing #videos

Nick Lotter

14 years ago

Phew! Thanks man, I thought you were going to give us some real bad horror story lol. Yeah I was also irritated by the internet marketing tools going missing (and some aren't compatible with Firefox 4 yet). Thanks for taking the time to make the videos and share them with us.

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edd666666 14 years ago

Yes, I went to 4, hated it, promptly deleted it and went right back to my old version within minutes. I see you did a lot of great work there, but what is the point, the old version is fine, why go through all this work, they will realize that 4 is a bomb and come out with 4.1 or something. My advice is to wait it out, but really thanks for all the work, Ed
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Chris@AlertPay

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Nick Lotter

Hi Nick,
For the purposes of staying on topic, yay! that this is not a horror story. Just started using FF4 and I'm a big fan so far.
In terms of the PM that you sent me, (I'm unable to reply because I need 50 posts to PM you... ?!?!?) We just started the Online Community Support team and I'm not there yet.
The short answer to your question is Yes to banking in South Africa. If you like you can PM me your email addie & I can send you more info.

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Brent Jacoby

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Nick Lotter

Ha. Sorry for the scare, Nick. At least it got you to open the thread right?

It's no problem at all and I hope you found some value in them!

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scrofford 14 years ago

I quit using Fire Fox a long time ago...I liked it except it was too slow. I use another browser now that is a lot like Google chrome. Anyway good luck.
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Bruce NewMedia 14 years ago

I appreciate this very much. I upgraded and initially, thought, "what a mistake!" ...but I did figure a few of these fixes out, but not all, so thanks Brent!
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MichaelDyson 14 years ago

I liked firefox 4.0 a lot more then previous versions(seems a lot cleaner, not so much clutter). Just missed my SEO tools. Thanks
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Sweely99 14 years ago

Luckily, we who use MAC OS X as our OS don't get that orange button at the top left... along with a lot of other stuff. But thanks anyways!
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paulie888 14 years ago

I didn't quite like the way FF4 looked like initially, but I customized it with the Chrome-like theme and it has transformed into almost an identical twin!

All kidding aside, I like Firefox a lot because of the many indispensable plug-ins and add-ons that you can install. Chrome can't touch Firefox in this regard, and I find that Firefox 4 is vastly faster than FF 3.XX, and also consumes far less memory than Chrome as well.

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spearce000 14 years ago

I'd been thinking about upgrading to Firefox 4, but was put off by all the negative things I've been hearing about it. Thanks for this very useful post.
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JamesGw 14 years ago

This looks useful. I dislike the way Firefox 4 is set up. I don't see why they need to "fix" something that was fine (perfect) already. It's silly.
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- Brent Jacoby 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by JamesGw
  
  This looks useful. I dislike the way Firefox 4 is set up. I don't see why they need to "fix" something that was fine (perfect) already. It's silly.
  
  I agree with you 100% James. I have no clue why they wanted Firefox to look more like chrome. Check out the vids and I think you will be happy with what I show you.
  
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Moneyerr 14 years ago

Thanks for sharing. I appreciate this very much. This is very useful post.
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- Steven Dybka 14 years ago
  
  I think the new 4.0 looks more like a google chrome copy,I actually downloaded back to the previous version because I noticed that with 4.0 some of the marketing plugins I use don't work with 4.0 so I'll stick with the older version for a while.
  
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O0o0O 14 years ago

The SEO toolbar seems like it will be a great addon to the FireFox browser. Thanks for the share
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Sebastian Oudot

14 years ago

I tried Firefox 4.0 few days ago but couldn't make it work properly.

I don't know why but every time I opened more than three or four sub pages, Firefox shut down.

I thought it was a Firefox problem but maybe I have some virus on my computer.

With all these nice videos on how you can customize your Firefox 4, I think I will reconsider using it.

Thanks Brent for this great tutorial.

Sebastian

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Brent Jacoby

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Sebastian Oudot

I don't think you have a virus problem. Try updating your drivers.. and I think that would fix the problem. I was having the same problem as you and once I updated my drivers it fixed it.

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kindsvater 14 years ago

Thanks. I absolutely hate Firefox 4 and after seeing it on 1 computer have not upgraded any others.
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- Brent Jacoby 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by kindsvater
  
  Thanks. I absolutely hate Firefox 4 and after seeing it on 1 computer have not upgraded any others.
  
  You are welcome. If you follow along with the videos, I think you will be pretty happy with how you can make Firefox 4 look.
  
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Raydal

14 years ago

I tired out the Beta version and didn't like the rearrangement
of the buttons either so I quickly switched back.

Version 3 is getting slower with each update but it's the best
I've found so far.

-Ray Edwards

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Brent Jacoby

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Raydal

If you follow along with my vids you will be able to move the buttons where you want. I didn't like the rearrangement of my buttons either... so I changed it.

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anthony2 14 years ago

thanks for the videos my friend...it was very helpful.
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HeySal 14 years ago

My niece upgraded to 4 and I was over here trying to get on my talk marketing chat and for two days was told the server was down. Come to find out - FF just won't put me through to it. I've tried everything to change that. Chrome gets me there just fine. I think I'll wait until they get things figured out before I ever upgrade my FF. I'm not a tech and don't have time to mess with figuring out what they did.
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theIMgeek

14 years ago

You thought, "WTF.... is this Google Chrome?" "I hate the tabs up top, where is the title bar, why did they move my home and bookmark button, where did the status bar and all my internet marketing tools go, and why is this freaking orange button staring at me!?!?"

Quite the opposite! I had actually been using a set of three plugins with Firefox 3 that moved the tabs up top, took away the title bar, and gave you an orange button in the corner. So to see all that as a core part of Firefox 4 made me happy!

I want to look at websites, not browser bars.

-Ryan

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DireStraits

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Brent Jacoby

If you are anything like me, you were pissed when you upgraded to Firefox 4.

Having recently switched back to using FireFox (version 4) as my default browser, I share your disappointment at some of the layout changes. However, they're easily dealt with, as you outline in your videos/links.

I'm just not entirely certain how this justifies the thread title "Do NOT use FireFox 4", however, when the post is about how to customise FireFox 4 so that you can continue using it as before. Thread bait, much?

:confused: :p

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Brent Jacoby

14 years ago

Originally Posted by DireStraits

Haha.. well I originally had this at the beginning of my post:

Do NOT use Firefox 4... until you customize it!

So my thread title kinda led into that.. but then when I reread my thread I didn't like it starting with that, so I removed it.

I'll add it back in there somewhere so it's not so confusing.

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Sebastian Oudot

14 years ago

I don't think you have a virus problem. Try updating your drivers.. and I think that would fix the problem. I was having the same problem as you and once I updated my drivers it fixed it.

I think all my drivers are updated. My Windows 7 updates on a regular basis.

The thing is these annoying ads I have on almost every internet pages. These ads are either coming from the top of the page or are replacing my actual internet page.

Actually even my 3.6.16 Firefox crashes sometimes but with Firefox 4.0, it's completely impossible to have a regular internet session.

I tried a lot of different anti-virus (Panda, Avast, Avira) and anti-spyware (Spybot, Ccleaner, Malwarebyte) but nothing changed :confused:.

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Brent Jacoby

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Sebastian Oudot

I am pretty sure the windows 7 updates do not update your drivers. It also sounds like you have some adware. You should try out Advanced System Care and ESET Smart Security.

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ScottM2 14 years ago

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Bruce NewMedia 14 years ago

Brent, I just wanted to ask a question related to the FF 4...have you found it to be any faster? I ask, because I haven't seen any improvement.
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- Brent Jacoby 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by brucerby
  
  Brent, I just wanted to ask a question related to the FF 4...have you found it to be any faster? I ask, because I haven't seen any improvement.
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  Hey Bruce. Yes, I have found it to be much faster and much less of a resource hog.
  
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Sebastian Oudot 14 years ago

I am pretty sure the windows 7 updates do not update your drivers. It also sounds like you have some adware. You should try out Advanced System Care and ESET Smart Security.

Thanks Brent, I will try these softwares.

About the drivers, can you be a little bit more specific? Which ones are you talking about?
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- Brent Jacoby 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Sebastian Oudot
  
  Thanks Brent, I will try these softwares.
  
  About the drivers, can you be a little bit more specific? Which ones are you talking about?
  
  Specifically it would be your graphics driver. If you use Driver Genius it will find it and up date it for you, or you can do it on your own. Find out what graphics card you have, find what your driver date is, then search on the internet for your graphics card and see if there is a more recent driver available.
  
  Here is some stuff from firefox telling you to update your graphics drivers:
  
  Upgrade your graphics drivers! « Benoit Jacob
  
  Mozilla urges users to update graphics drivers for Firefox 4 - Computerworld
  
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Karan Goel 14 years ago

Great videos Brent.

But I think Mozilla made FF4 only for the Mac. It sucks on my WIndows..
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esk 14 years ago

i immediately switched to firefox 4 after its release. I really love it. Top notch looking extreme speed and very good fuctionality. No better browser avaiable right now.
I'm a satisfied mozilla customer since 4 years
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Mohammad Afaq 14 years ago

Firefox who?

I abandoned firefox a long time ago because of it being so unstable but I guess I will go back and give it a shot now.

EDIT: You know what, I like the new interface.

It is much cleaner and also helps you look at more of the website on the screen rather than the menu bars.

EDIT: Also, firefox 4 looks alot more than Opera rather than Chrome.
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- Karan Goel 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Mohammad Afaq
  
  It is much cleaner and also helps you look at more of the website on the screen rather than the menu bars.
  
  Thanks God. I'm not alone..
  
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- DireStraits 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Mohammad Afaq
  
  EDIT: Also, firefox 4 looks alot more than Opera rather than Chrome.
  
  Quite right. When I first tried it out (whilst it was still in beta), the first thing I thought was "wow - it looks like Opera!" ... probably to do with the orange FireFox button in the top left (Opera has an identical one, but red, of course).
  
  I don't really know what all the fuss is about, in relation to a lot of people's comments. Yes, the interface is slightly different, but there are themes to customise it, you can drag elements about in the desired position, and you can even remove the orange FireFox button with a simple plugin.
  
  The only thing I don't much like about it is the fact that fonts/padding/margins look funny on some sites. Actually, I've only noticed it so far on the WarriorForum - everything is more "spaced out" then in version 3.x, IE, etc.
  
  Getting used to it though. It's still a better browser than Chrome, I think, which kind of feels too "Mac-ish" (dare I say baby-ish/toy-ish).
  
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- Brent Jacoby 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Mohammad Afaq
  
  EDIT: Also, firefox 4 looks alot more than Opera rather than Chrome.
  
  Hmm, I never use Opera so that's why to me it looks like Chrome.
  
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Dave90210

14 years ago

Use Chrome problem solved, Firefox is waaaaaaaay to slow anyway

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Alex Lin

14 years ago

My PC uses Windows 7 64bits. After upgrading to Firefox 4. It seem to be slower down and the worst is most of the Social Bookmarking plugins aren't supported. I find it hard to use the new firefox browser. Most the things I set to automated have gone. Does anyone know how I can downgrade to previous version? We should send our comments to firefox support and let them know about this.

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Brent Jacoby

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Alex Lin

You can downgrade to 3.6 here:

Mozilla Firefox 3.6

I will note what they say though:

"Firefox 3.6.x will be maintained with security and stability updates for a short amount of time. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 4."

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Affili8ing 14 years ago

I'm still satying with the old version
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simonbuzz Banned 14 years ago

Well I am safe cause I didn't update the new version...
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Dital 14 years ago

I recently upgraded to Firefox 4 and was baffled at first with its look.

Thanks to all for the info on this thread.
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CheapTrafficDude 14 years ago

LOL Wow

I been told a lot that 4.0 was awful, been using 3.5 for at least 3 years now and never updated no matter how many times I'm prompted with a box saying: "Urgent Update". or Your computer may at risk... Guess the updates actually make it at risk

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ExploringInfinity 14 years ago

firefox 4 sucks. It slows my mac down horribly.

I completely switched over to Chrome now, I was forced to.

Firefox now sucks. It takes like 3 minutes to load! what the hell is that about?
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blueberries 14 years ago

WoW, This sounds a lot like when Vista come out. Everybody hated it. I'll wait till the firefox team fixes the bugs.
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- R. Hershel Wright 14 years ago
  
  Thanks for the videos. I was not happy at first with FF 4. It is much faster on both my desktop and laptop.
  
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