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PCs & Mobiles Forum - Anyone else using Firefox 4? (warning: contains geekery) - Page 1
posted by alfie noakes on Wednesday, 25th August 2010, 11:14
Elite
They've just updated FF4 beta to include 'Panorama' (formerly known as Tab Candy). This is a really brilliant way of handling multiple open tabs. If you're like me and tend to have 20 or 30 tabs open at a time, this is what you've been looking for.
Also has excellent syncing option that'll work between Firefox on different computers and iPhones
Yes, I'm excited about a browser...
posted by admars on Wednesday, 25th August 2010, 12:45
Elite
I've been using ff4 for a while at work, not had any problems. it's weird having tabs above navigation bar, but not noticed anything else different
(you can move tabs to traditional place but I haven't bothered)
I'll update it now to get panorma, although I don't usually have that many tabs open.
posted by Rob Shepherd on Wednesday, 25th August 2010, 13:06
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I love the idea of tab candy, having seen a video about it, I just tend to avoid betas. 
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posted by alfie noakes on Wednesday, 25th August 2010, 13:20
Elite
The look isn't terribly revolutionary - they've made it closer to Chrome and supposedly faster.
I was using a specific build called Minefield that had Tab Candy and admittedly it was pretty flakey.
In the youtube vid the developer talks about 'info guilt' which is a really brilliant phrase that sums up how people tend to use the internet. I'm always saving tabs between sessions to keep info to read later, or bookmarking/noting stuff that I really don't want to bookmark or save to a separate thing (evernote, google reader, etc.)
Looking forward to seeing how Panorama develops because there are some great ideas in there.
Only downside at the moment is that most of my add-ons still aren't supported.
Elite
GarethWillaims always shouts at me for having too many windows / tabs open I must get this.
