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Mozilla Releases Firefox 3.5

Speedy2 said:
He he
I actually like the + button very much. I even had a skin for FF3 that enabled it.

The good thing about it: if you have many tabs open, it is still very easy to open a new tab. Without it, you will have a hard time double clicking that tiny empty space next to the tabs.

I know there are other way to open a new tab, but this is my favourite way.
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I suppose if you're clicking to open a new tab it's useful. I assigned rotate clockwise to open a new tab via MultiClutch, so I use this or cmd+T.
 
goodwilldrums said:
Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Another reason why FF gets the nudge over Safari.
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Just install Gilms, it adds all the FF features you could ever want in Safari. As many search engines as you want, thumbnail previews in Google, easy tab switching etc.
 
It's good. But not a keeper on my Mac. Sorry to say Mozilla.
IMHO Firefox 3.5 would have competed well (and probably won me over) in the day of Safari 3.x but Safari 4 renders my websites faster, images look richer and RSS is handled better.

Speedy2 said:
Firefox is stable as a rock.
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Firefox has only ever been as stable as the last least stable add-on you have installed.
 
macJC50640 said:
Yeah Chrome is fast. Really fast. I use that when I go on my PC *gasp* (yes, I use a PC sometimes) :p
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Yes, I'm using it now, and it's very very fast...only windows browser I use anymore (on my under-powered work laptop that can't run FF without practically catching on fire.) It's very simple and clean, few options, and I like that.

Looking forward to the Mac version, though I really like Safari (w/ click to flash.)
 
Firefox is still slow and annoying to use and scrolling is not smooth. Safari 4 is still my main browser. I only use FF for when some flash videos don't load on Safari.
 
SolRayz said:
Have they smoothed out the scrolling on 3.5? I like Firefox but the ultra smooth scrolling in Safari keeps me from switching.
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hehee, i used safari for the exact same reason... but after some time, i really missed the features firefox has to offer and safari is lacking (e.g. intelligent "search-in-navigation-bar" (best feature ever ;) ).... now im back at FF, and honestly, i think the scrolling has become a little smoother! at least smooth enough to come back to my beloved firefox :)
 
Jayomat said:
and honestly, i think the scrolling has become a little smoother! at least smooth enough to come back to my beloved firefox :)
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It does seem a little better, but I'll have to try it on G5 w/Geforce 6800 or x1900. It is my benchmark.
 
not good enough for me to switch

FireFox used to be good on the Mac. Then came 3.0.

In 3.0, right clicking was broken on google maps, a site I use frequently.

I was hoping they fixed it in 3.5. They didn't.

So I tried to report it using report broken sites. But that feature is broken.

Classic.
 
safari 4.0 STILL does a horrible job at rendering GIFs. i browse a lot of message boards with animated GIFs that frequently lock up safari and/or crash it. 3.5 feels pretty nice, i might permanently switch from safari.
 
pdpardue said:
i'm not quite sure I understand your question. on the same monitor my aperture, photoshop, and safari colors looks the same. the same photo viewed in any of those application, or any other like preview or even quick look all have the same rendering, firefox does not.
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First I forgot to say nice photo! I'm a designer first and photographer a distant second. :D

What I mean is the type of monitor (lcd) panel you have. On a regular sRGB monitor it displays only around 76% of the color spectrum so safari 4 looks better than FF for color management. I now have a 'wide gamut' lcd that displays 98% of the color spectrum which is great for design and photography but horrible for anything using sRGB like the web.

Because of this colors look blown out and hyper-saturated and skin tones look pretty bad in general. After looking at pages (like espn, adobe flash site) that use lots of reds Safari looks crayola compared to FF. This is because unless the images on a page say "use sRGB" it doesn't know what to do with them so it just displays them as default, no color management.

Anyway before I got the NEC I loved Safari but now I cannot stand the over-saturated look.
 
I've tried Safari, but I like Firefox much better. I like that it's highly customizable, and I haven't found a better browser at managing all of my bookmarks. Some of you have complained about scrolling in Firefox, but I find scrolling very smooth and precise. I'm glad we have choices.
 
Nobody noticed this?

Right. Safari scores a perfect 100/100 on the Acid 3 test... but it can't display the SunSpider benchmark page properly. Well well (sorry David).
 

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mnb said:
In 3.0, right clicking was broken on google maps, a site I use frequently.

I was hoping they fixed it in 3.5. They didn't.
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care to elaborate?

Master Chief said:
Right. Safari scores a perfect 100/100 on the Acid 3 test... but it can't display the SunSpider benchmark page properly. Well well (sorry David).
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Acid 3 is a missed opportunity, i know some people don't agree, but I really hope Ian made the test in house, rather than leak out everything through the process and gave browser vendors chances to take short path.

Mr. Hickson did mention that he will develop acid 4 in secret tho. Glad he learned.
 
Jayomat said:
it IS better ;)
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Yeah, I agree now that I just tried smooth scroll on G5. However, it still hitches when there are Flash (or something?) in the visible area. It works well enough page-at-a-time, but still not quite right when you use the mouse wheel.
 
I'm using Firefox 3.5 right now and except for having to update the EasyGestures plug-in to Version 4.3, everything seems to work quite well and fast. I especially like the faster rendering of many web pages. :)
 
All those complaining that Firefox is ugly... you do know that you can skin it don't you? You're not stuck with one look like Safari.

I liked Safari but its tabs support is shocking. Things keep opening in new windows when I don't want them to. I'll have a look at this glims thing maybe it will help. Does anyone know of a download accelerator for Safari that is free? If a site insists on allowing me only 30kbs for a 30MB download I would like to be able to speed that up with more connections. Very handy sometimes in FF. Is there an addon for Safari that will show the URL of a link in the tooltip? Not having the status bar showing by default in Safari is just asking for phishing scams. Of course I can turn on the status bar, but I don't really have a very big screen.

All those saying FF is slow, use Appcleaner to remove all the settings before installing 3.5. This helped me on my iBook.
 
FF3.5 is running ok for me I guess. Seems to be taking about 137-240mb of physical memory... and about 22.2% of cpu. It was insane when running flash tho. It was 140% cpu usage and like 240mb of physical memory usage... I didn't get to check the usage of FF before update so is this normal or is this a memory leak like one of the posters said?

-Tony

Edit: Smooth Scrolling so far with Smooth Scrolling Function On.... And FAST AS HELL. I must say..... it's faster than Safari 4 to me.... I used mainly Safari 4 and occasional FF on my Mac....and Chrome mainly on my PC and occasional FF and Safari... But after FF implementing the multitouch functions.... it might just win me back :D
 
I tried FF on my Mac and I just couldn't get used to it. I am so used to Safari and how it works. Now on Windows (have to use it for work), FF all the way. It is hard for me to go to another browser after I have gotten use to another one.
 
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