Ready for Iceweasel 4?
Tomorrow Firefox 4 will be unleashed on an unsuspecting public, and the web will be even more awesome. Here's my take on upgrading to the Debian equivalent, Iceweasel.
- All-in-One Gestures, which I used for the scrollwheel on tabs behavior, wasn’t updated. I opted for Tab Wheel Scroll, which doesn’t have all the extra features I never used. The author’s description even leads with, “do one thing and do it well,” so I probably should have switched to it earlier.
- Firebug needed updating; no big deal.
- CS Lite‘s author has apparently stopped updating, which is a shame. For now I’m using Cookie Monster, which is very similar to CS Lite, but I liked the former’s icon. The latter also currently doesn’t allow repositioning its statusbar button.
- As mentioned, Cookie Monster won’t let you move its button.
- Same goes for Greasemonkey.
- Firebug puts one there, too, but it also allows you to have a regular toolbar button.
- The site identity is munged.
- I saw an advertisement stick on the screen regardless of which tab I viewed; it persisted after closing the tab that contained it, and even after I restarted the browser. Lame.
- The browser is faster
- It’s prettier even if I’m still in a half-state waiting to turn on all the goodies (no bottom bar; using the one-button menu; the flawless rendering it should have).
- Panorama will make workflows easier to manage.
- It lays the groundwork for the best that’s yet to come.