seems kind of quick?
Top 5 reasons to upgrade:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal-tech/desktop-apps/231000190
1. Added support for CSS animations.
2. Easier to find Do Not Track button.
3. The latest version is more stable.
4. Better support for Android devices.
5. Improved performance.
who will the first brave soul here?
Seems like only a few months since I was using 3.0... 3.5....4
think I'll be lazy and wait for them to tell me the upgrade is there
Well I loaded it, I always opt for a fresh install and backup the profile anyway so no problems.
Seems good so far, had to force off compatibility check for one add-on.
I hit the ignore button on this earlier. 1 person in the same room as me didn't, and spent the afternoon complaining. His mood wasn't great, so I didn't ask details. Can't imagine it could be much worse that 4 though with it's randomly slow javascript engine.
I'm with bol, early adopters can't find the problems for me. No way do I need to get the latest greatest software. I want stability.
Been on the beta for a while. Got some performance issues and keeps hanging/stalling on me.
Tried 4 and it crashed two machines, so hoping 5 will be more stable.
One pain I seem to have to pay for Roboform again. I thought I had a lifetime licence..... Looking for alternatives. Lastpass looks good. But $1 a month.
I am ridiculously tight about this it seems.
hmm - couple of people have mentioned last pass. I'm going to post a new thread as I've been looking at this as well.
5 seems fine so far for me. A bit faster too.
Yeah I've not had any problems and does seem faster.
Running pretty well here now too.
It took a while before a lot of my add-ons were ready for 5. That didn't stop me from installing it though. I wish I'd waited a few days though to let those all catch up. Next time I won't be so gung-ho.
I just forced off compatibility instead of waiting.
Firefox 6 is out now
Mozilla's Seamonkey has updated to become more like Firefox, ie, crap search function in the address bar that works by popularity rather than relevance, and can't handle Flash for too long.
Just did a fresh install of 6, copied over my profile, forced off addon compatibility, all of which is getting to be a regular event these days, and so far seems faster.
Memory management seems to be better as well. First five minutes = thumbs up.
Quote from: Drastic on August 18, 2011, 02:27:33 PMforced off addon compatibility
??? ??? ???
I'm reluctant to move to FF6 because of the plugin incompatibilities. Are you saying there's a way around that?
Most of my Addons are already updated for FF6. I'm not sure if this is new, but you can toggle Addons to update automatically now. I just noticed this.
So far it's working well, and I just did the standard install over my existing FF5.
To turn off compatibility checking, create a boolean in about:config.
extensions.checkCompatibility.<version>
so for this one make extensions.checkCompatibility.6.0 and make it false.
Of course this might actually create a problem with plugins that won't work but I've not run into this yet.
I usually have one or three critical extensions that aren't updated right away so I do this. I clean install every time in case something breaks or mungs the profile so I can go back to the older version or keep them both.
Six weeks later, Firefox 7
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-20112253-92/memory-comes-to-the-fore-in-firefox-7/
FF6 just suggested I upgrade to FF7. This upgrade pace can't be helping them on the enterprise level. That pace is going to keep FF off the table for a lot of companies I'm afraid.
> That pace is going to keep FF off the table for a lot of companies I'm afraid.
Is Chrome any better? The only enterprise browser on the market is IE.
Firefox is typically the first choice browser for developers because of all the add-ons. So pushing an upgrade every month or two, that breaks backward compatibility with add-ons, has got to be the dumbest strategy for any company in the history of man kind.
Bloody ridiculous. I'm dropping an addon a week at this pace. I'll be back to bloody Mosaic this time next year if my browser world keeps regressing like this.
Joy oh joy... thunderbird has joined in. Considering thunderbird needs a swathe of addons just to make it work properly that is a really dumb move. To be honest if I could import to outlook faster I would have already switched back.
Quote from: Torben on September 28, 2011, 07:26:18 AM
(...) So pushing an upgrade every month or two, that breaks backward compatibility with add-ons, has got to be the dumbest strategy for any company in the history of man kind.
Hear here! Still clinging to FF5 myself :-\
Did the upgrade, one thing that annoyed me was the dropping of the connection type in the URL bar. To undo go to about:config and set browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false. I am not sure why everyone feels the need to dumb down the user experience.
Quote from: Rooftop on September 28, 2011, 09:44:17 AMBloody ridiculous. I'm dropping an addon a week at this pace. I'll be back to bloody Mosaic this time next year if my browser world keeps regressing like this.
LOL. I'm having the same feeling here. I have an HTML validator add-on that is majorly borked in this upgrade. I'm hoping they can catch up soon.
Quote from: littleman on September 28, 2011, 05:42:38 PM
Did the upgrade, one thing that annoyed me was the dropping of the connection type in the URL bar. To undo go to about:config and set browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false. I am not sure why everyone feels the need to dumb down the user experience.
That tip is a life saver. I hadn't noticed the change upon upgrade, but I do rely on being able to check that when I'm surfing. I guess that to the average Joe it's useless information.
>was the dropping of the connection type in the URL bar.
Noticed that too! THANK YOU littleman!
ok, this is getting ridiculous. I just got around to installing 7 on my work PCs a few days ago and now 8 is out as of today.
At this rate we should hit FF 20.0 by end of 2012.
yup, got that warning today.
They should just change it to version FFS ... that'd describe them all at the rate they're coming out.
I'm presuming that the aim is to overtake IE.
I can think of no other explanation other than the belief that the public are morons and will think that "Some browser 10" must be better than "Another browser 9" because the number is higher. Isn't that why MS went with XBox 360 as Xbox 2 would not have stood up against Playstation 3?
Why don't they just go the whole hog and call it "Firefox 2011" instead? Actually - with their release cycle, maybe Firefox November 2011 !
I patched all the software on my dev PC the weekend before last. Chrome, which I don't use regularly, went up from v11 to v15. That's crazy in a six month span.
I actually like FF8. I'm not sure what they tweaked, but it even with close to 100 tabs open in several windows for days on end the thing hasn't crashed on me or eaten up all of my available memory. I've switched back to FF from Chrome because of this one. If I have as much going on in Chrome pages will die and the entire thing becomes unstable.
Ok, bill, I'm going to try an update again.
Lessee if my favourite plugins (nothing fancy) are supported now. [fingers crossed]
-------edit:
Ummm eww: FF updated without showing me a list of unsupported extensions THIS time.
I dunno if this means that all my extensions are supported, or if I'm now officially screwed
without even knowing [already crossed fingers crossed once again]
Forget it. I'm screwed.
When I updated I was presented with a dialog box that clearly showed me which add-ons were being upgraded. The others were marked as to be 'to be upgraded when compatible'.
What add-on is that important to you?
I have a couple of greasemonkey-type thingies, some handy proxy tools and the usual mouse gestures and tab tools installed. FF 8 disabled more than half of my extensions without asking, and the little trick with about:config didn't work either. So I went back to FF 3.6 and now it's fine :) Or it will be after I correct the settings that were conveniently overruled by the install program. Grr.
I can't believe how badly Firefox are screwing things up - its worse than Wordpress for pointless updates
I stick with Chromium now - not cos it is inherently better, but because I don't lose functionality to the same extent when it upgrades.
I just tried FF again and it seemed okay. I'm still not a fan. I used Chromium for about 6 mo. but it seemed buggy. Back to Opera for me. I use very few extentions so Opera suffices.
Not sure whether the linux version of Chromium is any different from the others, but I am on v.14.0.835.202 ... it seems pretty stable for me
Quote from: 4Eyes on November 13, 2011, 12:10:12 PM
Not sure whether the linux version of Chromium is any different from the others, but I am on v.14.0.835.202 ... it seems pretty stable for me
I'm using the Linux ver. 4Eyes. My problem with Chromium has been on pages that rely on heavy Web 2.0 stuff.
Examples: Yahoo mail - freezes up when I try to add attachments. Sites like gocomics.com sometimes the nav buttons on the site just don't work in Chromium. Etc.
It's all very strange.
On the Firefox front: why is the popup blocker in FF so bad? Chromium and Opera are way better at stopping popups, but you would think FF would have it perfected by now.