Firefox 5 (already?)

jetboy · November 09, 2011, 12:39:10 PM

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.

bill · November 11, 2011, 07:47:47 AM

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.

Zwart · November 11, 2011, 09:51:58 AM

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]

Zwart · November 11, 2011, 11:55:15 AM

Forget it. I'm screwed.

bill · November 12, 2011, 04:55:29 AM

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?

Zwart · November 12, 2011, 07:36:30 AM

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.

4Eyes · November 12, 2011, 10:34:38 PM

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.

Brad · November 12, 2011, 11:56:42 PM

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.

4Eyes · 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

Brad · November 13, 2011, 01:44:02 PM

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.