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Mozilla Releases Firefox 5

ResPublica said:
Firefox 3.6 still has support...
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Yep I still have it, haven't upgraded to 4 and the 5 comes out....

IE 8 was good at my new laptop but now it lags, IE just seems to suck nowadays, have been using google chrome for the past year and it fits me well.
 
FF 4 was giving me problems, so I figured I'd try 5 right away.

I can't get Safari to show the proper zoom by default, haven't really tried Chrome -- I was scared off by the privacy warnings.

Update: So far FF 5 is slow as s***
 
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Still on 3.6 as 4 was horrible for me. Will wait awhile for reviews on this before considering to upgrade.
 
Wonder if they'll add any of these enhancements to their other Gecko brower, Camino? After all Camino is made more for OSX.
 
I kept having problems with FF4 hanging, and it got to the point where it wouldn't even exit out of the program (I kept having to force quit). I ended up grabbing the bookmark backups, and uninstalling it all together, then doing a complete reinstall from scratch. That seems to have fixed almost all of the sluggishness.

I dunno that I'll upgrade to 5 just yet tho.
 
1,000 improvements? I think we're getting to the point where they're just counting the number of new lines of code...
 
FF5 3 months after FF4's release? That is the worst abuse of version numbers I've ever seen. This really should be FF4.1.
 
Ahahaha, just had a fight that we should be support FF4 (also Safari, Chrome and IE9). Now FF5 is gonna be an issue. The only thing I can figure out is that we don't want customers so why should we support all those? :rolleyes:
 
I'm enjoying Firefox 5, so far, after using it for a couple of hours.

Well, anything's better than the epic failure that was Firefox 4. I hope they learned from that..
 
saulinpa said:
Off to a bad start. FF5 doesn't display Apple's Mac page correctly.

http://www.apple.com/mac/
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Eh?

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Looks good to me.
 
kainjow said:
FF5 3 months after FF4's release? That is the worst abuse of version numbers I've ever seen. This really should be FF4.1.
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Have you heard of Google's Chrome browser?

Initial release September 2, 2008; 2 years ago
Stable release 12.0.742.100 (June 14, 2011; 7 days ago)
Preview release 13.0.782.24 (Beta) (June 16, 2011; 5 days ago)
14.0.797.0 (Dev) (June 21, 2011; 0 days ago)
 
Kar98 said:
Eh?

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Looks good to me.
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Doesn't look good to me.

A whole part of Apple's webpage is missing in this shot. (Adblock is turned off on Apple's site too, btw.)

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You can see where the text is halfway on the line and halfway off the line above the girl with the MacBook Pro on her lap.

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losing bookmarks upon upgrading?

I stopped using Firefox a while back (ver. 2? 3?) because I would lose all bookmarks I had with each update.

Does that still happen with Firefox versions 4 and 5?
 
Ruh-roh. I'm using FF5 and the Apple site's collapsing top menu is not working for me either.

Haven't had any other problems though.
 
FF5 runs in 64-bit and has the best ad blocker add-on ever (ABP). Love the way the address bar works to recall pages. It's fast and very stable on my MBP5,5. Never had a problem with it so far, but I have a friend who can't hardly keep it running.

I've tried Camino and Safari, and I always go back. Oh well, I'm just glad they're actively trying to solve problems that they created themselves after version 4.
 
On windows 7 it's the worst browser
 

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