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Firefox 4 will lose support for some extensions at first due to new engine, when should your average person upgrade? |
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Urm, never? FF is OK I suppose, but it's clearly an also-ran in browser competitions. OTOH, perhaps I ought not to even answer a question about when the "average" user should upgrade anything, since I usually run betas (and even alphas) of many of my main apps (especially browsers) on one of my main machines, and almost always have the latest "nightly" of my fav browser on others. |
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I'd say give it about a week. Firefox developers will have already gotten a beta for Firefox 4, so their apps will probably have been ported already. The only problem would be the bit of instability that goes into the release. I'd say give it a week so that the Mozilla people can wait for bug reports to trickle in and be squashed. If you're not concerned with stability - like me - go ahead and upgrade immediately. |
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firefox 4 still has many problems that are not considered bugs. The changes to the UI breaks many extensions, (many of which are no longer being maintained by their developers, when mozilla pushed the update out and many people run into these problems, their user share will drop and they will fix it. in the meantime try the beta and see if your extensions still work. |
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Don't, just use Chrome. It's the best, IMO. Use the dev build, ftw. |
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For now I like my Chrome browser. It seems less bogged down than Firefox. I will definitely give it a look at when it finally comes out but I like Google Chrome as my browser of choice. |
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For people who are not heavy on Add-ons now is a great time. |
also wanted to add that unlike older versions of firefox from the 1.x days to the 3.6 days, firefox 4 is truly incompatible with many extensions.
I still have firefox extensions that were created back in the 1.x and 2.x days that were never updated since those days and still work perfectly with the latest firefox 3.6
firefox 4 breaks those extensions, (many extensions are no longer being updated so with firefox 4 users who rely on older extensions will never get them to work with firefox 4.