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Mozilla Firefox 5 fixes bugs, meets rapid release schedule
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article published on 23 June, 2011
Mozilla hit June 21 target for the release of Firefox 5.
Compared to past upgrades to the Mozilla Firefox web browser, the release of version 5 was much more muted. Mozilla said that it made over 1,000 improvements to the web browser, although most are just minor bug fixes and tweaks. The user interface is virtually the same as Firefox 4.
Among the biggest changes in Firefox 5 are ... [ read the full article ]
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23. June 2011 @ 10:53 |
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firefox has always been my preferred web browser. hope they keep updating it.
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23. June 2011 @ 12:18 |
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Er.....name version number<patch number. You do not need FF 100 due to patching....morons.....
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23. June 2011 @ 13:25 |
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Originally posted by ZippyDSM:
Er.....name version number<patch number. You do not need FF 100 due to patching....morons.....
I tend to agree. Just send a patch out. But 1000 'fixes'!!! That conjures up another five letter word that begins with "F" and it certainly doesn't bring fix to my mind.
Yet I still prefer Firefox well above & beyond the other browsers.
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23. June 2011 @ 15:00 |
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Yeah I used chrome briefly when I could no longer tolerate the memory leak bug. It was fixed for me in 4 though so now I'm back with FF.
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23. June 2011 @ 18:29 |
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To me, so far FF5 seems like a nice improvement over FF4. Seems like they streamlined a few subtle things that give the browser an overall snappier feel. IMO, this is more like what FF4 'should have been'. I like that they took a hint from Chrome and now when you close a tab on a full tab bar, the remaining tabs defer resizing until the mouse leaves the tab bar - makes it easier to rapidly close several tabs that are next to each other.
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23. June 2011 @ 19:43 |
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Originally posted by nonoitall:
To me, so far FF5 seems like a nice improvement over FF4. Seems like they streamlined a few subtle things that give the browser an overall snappier feel. IMO, this is more like what FF4 'should have been'. I like that they took a hint from Chrome and now when you close a tab on a full tab bar, the remaining tabs defer resizing until the mouse leaves the tab bar - makes it easier to rapidly close several tabs that are next to each other.
Ya but it still takes 500MB of ramm to open 5 pages at once >>
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23. June 2011 @ 19:48 |
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I have 25 tabs open at the moment and FF is using ~460MB. Actually at this point, I think FF is one of the lighter browsers RAM-wise, when compared with other current browsers.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 23. June 2011 @ 19:49
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24. June 2011 @ 15:13 |
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Google toolbar is not compatible with ff5 which is a shame
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24. June 2011 @ 20:15 |
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And neither is Russell's computer... $@&*%*... 1st in what appears to be several proposed random crashes to come. No updates, no new software, no new drives, just a random trip to the can and "hello, crash reporter".
There's one for FireFox 6.
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25. June 2011 @ 16:08 |
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funny you should mention that russell.my computer acted like that with firefox 4 so i downgraded to 3.6.thought id give 5 a try and so far so good.
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25. June 2011 @ 16:16 |
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I could be squalling just because I have an old computer running XP. Most of the software is plain geared up for Vista & 7. These problems don't seem to be prevalent on my 7 machine at all. Which I suppose I should have mentioned that in my last statement. Had I done this kind of omission in a documentary in the military I would have been executed, so I'll be a bit more cautious next time.
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25. June 2011 @ 18:30 |
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hear ya.celeron d 2.8 ghz with 1 gig ram.win xp pro.the problems with ff 4 started right away and its been almost a week with 5 and no probs.
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25. June 2011 @ 19:21 |
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What ever happened to good old Netscape lol
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25. June 2011 @ 19:29 |
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Originally posted by smiler123:
What ever happened to good old Netscape lol
AOL I believe.
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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