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    Personally - i find it sad, seeing so many of you are so lazy or don't know how to customize a browser - Firefox being one of the most modular browsers available, if not the best from this point of view.

    I mean, seriously?! That's a problem, a reason to complain.. you don't like the "default" layout of a highly customizable browser... ?!

    Sad, sad and lame...

    You guys should know that with Firefox 4+ they didn't changed just the default layout - they also added a list of improvements...

    Firefox 4:

    Firefox 4 is based on the Gecko 2.0 Web platform. This release features JavaScript execution speeds up to six times faster than the previous version, new capabilities for Web Developers and Add-on Developers such as hardware accelerated graphics and HTML5 technologies, and a completely revised user interface. Please read below for more detailed information about what's new in this version of the release, as well as the known issues.

    Firefox 4 is available in over 80 languages
    Uses JägerMonkey, a new, faster JavaScript engine that is up to six times faster than Firefox 3.6
    Support for the Do Not Track ("DNT") header that allows users to opt-out of behavioural advertising
    Firefox Sync is included by default, allowing you to securely synchronize between multiple computers and mobile devices
    Certain graphics rendering operations are now hardware-accelerated using Direct3D 9 on Windows XP, Direct3D 10 on Windows Vista and 7, and OpenGL on Mac OS (OpenGL on Linux will be supported in the future)
    Direct2D Hardware Acceleration is now on by default for Windows 7 users
    WebGL is enabled on all platforms that have a capable graphics card with updated drivers
    Native support for the HD HTML5 WebM video format, hardware accelerated where available
    Firefox button has a new look for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users
    Tabs are now on top by default on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
    You can search for and switch to already open tabs in the Smart Location Bar
    The stop and reload buttons have been merged into a single button on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
    The Bookmarks Toolbar has been replaced with a Bookmarks Button by default (you can switch it back if you'd like)
    Crash protection for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins
    You can turn any tab into an "App Tab" by right-clicking on it and selecting "Make into App Tab" from the context menu
    The default homepage design has been refreshed
    Overhaul of the bookmarks and history code, enabling faster bookmarking and startup performance
    Per-compartment garbage collection is now enabled, reducing work done during complex animations
    Additional polish for the Firefox Add-ons Manager
    Improved web typography using OpenType with support for ligatures, kerning and font variants
    Web developers can animate content using CSS Transitions
    Responsiveness and scrolling improvements from the new retained layers layout system
    HTML5 Forms API makes web based forms easier to implement and validate
    Support for the new proposed Audio Data API
    Support for HSTS security protocol allowing sites to insist that they only be loaded over SSL
    A new feature called Panorama gives users a visual overview of all open tabs, allowing them to be sorted and grouped
    An experimental API is included to provide more efficient Javascript animations
    Firefox now supports the HTML5 video "buffered" property
    Changes to how XPCOM components are registered in order to help startup time and process separation
    New Addons Manager and extension management API (UI will be changed before final release)
    Significant API improvements are available for JS-ctypes, a foreign function interface for extensions
    CSS Transitions are partially supported
    Core Animation rendering model for plugins on Mac OS X. Plugins which also support this rendering model can now draw faster and more efficiently
    Web developers can update the URL field without reloading the page using HTML History APIs
    More responsive page rendering using lazy frame construction
    Link history lookup is done asynchronously to provide better responsiveness during pageload
    CSS :visited selectors have been changed to block websites from being able to check a user's browsing history
    New HTML5 parser
    Support for more HTML5 form controls
    Web authors can now get touch events from Firefox users on Windows 7 machines
    A new way of representing values in JavaScript that allows Firefox to execute heavy, numeric code (used for things like graphics and animations) more efficiently
    Firefox 5:

    The latest version of Firefox has the following changes:

    Added support for CSS animations
    The Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability
    Tuned HTTP idle connection logic for increased performance
    Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance
    Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas
    Improved spell checking for some locales
    Improved desktop environment integration for Linux users
    WebGL content can no longer load cross-domain textures
    Background tabs have setTimeout and setInterval clamped to 1000ms to improve performance
    Fixed several stability issues
    Fixed several security issues

    Please see the complete list of changes in this version. You may also be interested in the list of changes in the previous version.
    So yeh, stick to FF3 cause you're to lazy or maybe just recently switched from IE to FF and don't know this one can be customized... :P
    Last edited by XSAlliN; 06-21-2011 at 03:46 PM.

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