WOW! .... my review for firefox 4

first but not least i'm on a mac os x 10.6.7 latest and greatest system so i doubt is my comp.
first of all never in my life i've seen firefox crashing 4 times in a row until now, i had to use safari to post this. incredible! with just 3 tabs open the first 3 times and only one open the 4th
anyways:
• at least for my usually visited sites when opening them they load really slow sometimes compared to the last version(3.6.15), and when it finds images on those sites it gets slower and even more slower when it finds animated .gifs (scrolling gets really really choppy while loading images and javascript code)
• i dislike that it doesn't have the drop down arrow on the back/forward button to select what state of the history you wish to go back to. now you have to right click the button. i'm sorry but that's not user friendly mozilla, not even for me that i started using firefox almost 3 years ago (really i have to tell my mom to right click it mozilla, really?)
• i'll have to get use to a lot of stuff but this is kinda idk since you developers should continue a pattern through out all version. now all of the sudden i have to remember to choose the first option when right-clicking to open links in a new tab instead how it use to be that first option was a new window and second was a new tab
• now i have to look at the tab while loading a site "just like chrome" yes "chrome" to see the progress? why eliminating the progress bar? sorry but that wasn't a right move at least for me
at least for now, after only 24 hours of testing is what i can come up with, going back to 3.6.15 until you can fire a new firefox...

^ That is an old version which is missing an important security update, related to security certificates that were stolen and need to be "neutralized".
3.6.16 is available here: 
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html

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