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 !