Firefox 40 is here

The way these version numbers jump is a little ridiculous
 
Drifter said:
But can it run Adobe Flash?
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^ It would be nice if they could sort out this issue. Flash may be going away in future, but it is still with us at the moment.
 
garyc said:
^ It would be nice if they could sort out this issue. Flash may be going away in future, but it is still with us at the moment.
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Let's first get Adobe to create software that doesn't have holes you can drive a truck through?

This morning's list of fixes:

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-19.html

I count 30 vulnerabilities fixed. Now yes, they are fixed, but at this rate, how many are remaining? More are discovered almost every month. Also, the oldest one (CVE-2015-3107) is 2 months old, the others around 3 weeks and newer.
 
garyc said:
^ It would be nice if they could sort out this issue. Flash may be going away in future, but it is still with us at the moment.
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The best thing that could happen is for all browsers to drop flash, will rapidly expedite it's death.
 
ponder said:
The best thing that could happen is for all browsers to drop flash, will rapidly expedite it's death.
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Agreed. Most mobile devices already don't support it, so it's just the desktop browsers lagging behind.
 
I ditched Firefox ages ago. The messed up search bar, corrupted saved images and frequent crashing was too much for me. I tried a number of browsers and settled on Chrome.
 
Bryn said:
I ditched Firefox ages ago. The messed up search bar, corrupted saved images and frequent crashing was too much for me. I tried a number of browsers and settled on Chrome.
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Never had any of those problems.
Been using it for more than a decade.
 
Garyvdh said:
Never had any of those problems.
Been using it for more than a decade.
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Such is life. When I say the search bar was messed up, I mean it isn't as useful as it used to be since the redesign. Having my bookmarks sync to Chrome on Android is awesome too, and it would take a lot to convince me to switch browsers and lose that cross-platform compatibility. Not crazy about Firefox on Android. I'd sooner use Opera.
 
Bryn said:
Having my bookmarks sync to Chrome on Android is awesome too, and it would take a lot to convince me to switch browsers and lose that cross-platform compatibility.
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Firefox syncs just as well.

Not a fan of chrome or opera but at the end of the day browsers are a personal choice.
 
MickZA said:
Firefox syncs just as well.

Not a fan of chrome or opera but at the end of the day browsers are a personal choice.
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To benefit from the sync functionality though you need to use Firefox on your mobile devices too. I find Chrome a bit better than Firefox on desktop, but substantially better than Firefox on mobile. So overall it's the winner for me. And yeah, of course it's personal preference.
 
Bryn said:
To benefit from the sync functionality though you need to use Firefox on your mobile devices too. I find Chrome a bit better than Firefox on desktop, but substantially better than Firefox on mobile. So overall it's the winner for me. And yeah, of course it's personal preference.
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Firefox on my android syncs perfectly with my PC desktops (windows & linux); bookmarks, passwords, alles.
 
MickZA said:
Firefox on my android syncs perfectly with my PC desktops (windows & linux); bookmarks, passwords, alles.
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I'm not commenting on mobile Firefox's ability to sync, but its quality as an app.
 
MickZA said:
My mistake - still prefer the fox on all my devices though :)
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Just checked out Firefox to see if it's changed much since I last used it, and I must give credit where it's due - Firefox has improved a lot. It looks more modern than Chrome, and the smooth scrolling is great. If only Firefox on Android didn't have such crappy tab management.
 
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