Firefox 5 launched

Rouxenator said:
Mouse gestures, browsing session, password manager, download manager, email client even tabs - Opera had all that even before these n00bie browsers were developed. With Opera Unite and Opera Link they are just keeping on with the keeping ahead.
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But STILL no live bookmarks! FF FTW!
 
Elimentals said:
My problem is that Opera was commercial back then, dont know about now, And there is no way I am going to buy a browser if I can get FF and all its glory for free.

As for Chrome, when I turn on Ad Block or no script it means dont download the damn things, not hide them.
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This Ad block for Chrome will not download the ads. Simple and effective app.
 
arneduppi said:
This Ad block for Chrome will not download the ads. Simple and effective app.
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Still downloads them, it just hides the ads, its something that Chrome does by design, the developers of chrome also said its not something they are planning to support.
 
Elimentals said:
My problem is that Opera was commercial back then, dont know about now, And there is no way I am going to buy a browser if I can get FF and all its glory for free.

As for Chrome, when I turn on Ad Block or no script it means dont download the damn things, not hide them.
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Opera is free since I been using its(good few years already probably over 8) so I dont know about the commercial part of it.
 
McT said:
FF5 came as a bit of surprise. I cannot recall any hype leading up to it.


Nice to see Mozilla doing their thing. FF FTW!!! :D
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Firefox is now applying a rapid release model where new versions of Firefox will be released much faster than before, roughly every six weeks. Chrome has been using this model with success. So yes, FF5 is considered the first release in this model but still a minor update. Hence the reason there was no real hype about it.

One possible downside to this is that if there's going to be a new FF version release every two months, you may end up with a situation where add-ons are not working since the add-on developers will have to play catch-up more frequently than before. However, this will only apply if there's major UI or API changes. I use 12 FF add-ons and four weren't compatible with FF5. If a lot of the add-ons are not compatible with every 2 month update... it may cause frustration to some users who rely on those add-ons. :) I guess that's the nature of the beast.
 
Just upgraded to FF5, found FF4 buggy as hell, have never had so many crashes with FF before, will see how it goes. Am also starting to use Chrome more and more though as I've never had a problem with it since it was launched.
 
Good to see Firefox making good on their promises for a faster release cycle. This will mean incremental but frequent upgrades in the future, a-la Chrome. Firefox 6 and 7 are planned for this year. MS are adopting the same principle for IE.

Times are good for browers!
 
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arneduppi said:
Because have you ever seen a Opera ad? They very small so cannot spend lots and lots on ads. And also I think because MS has IE, Mac has Safari and Linux have Firefox/Chromium. Opera has?
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Opera has the EU to cry to, to force a browser ballot screen on Windows... oh wait, that didn't help either.

Yeah, they got nothin'.

All the major browsers today are pretty good. You can use latest FF, IE, Chrome, Opera, Safari, hit any site, and it just works. As a web developer, I usually have an instance of every browser open all the time, and if i just alt-tab to a random one, I'd pretty much have to look at the top of the screen to the tab/title bar to see which one I'm in.

There's nothing wrong with using any browser you want nowdays. It's just personal preference, like what's your favourite liquorice allsort. No wrong answer, you just like what you like.
 
Synaesthesia said:
Good to see Firefox making good on their promises for a faster release cycle. This will mean incremental but frequent upgrades in the future, a-la Chrome. Firefox 6 and 7 are planned for this year. MS are adopting the same principle for IE.
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MS are still keeping a pretty long major release schedule. In the time FF went from FF4 to FF5, IE9 went from 9.0.0 to 9.0.1 ... IE10 is still a few months away. They're still adopting the major feature/release paradigm. I guess it's much more corporate friendly, and they have to make sure they keep them happy.
 
Sure but to MS's credit, they've really accelerated IE development in a great way, especially considering the lull they had from IE 6 - IE7. And IE 9 is a massive improvement from IE 7 and 8, which were just horrendously slow.
 
Synaesthesia said:
Sure but to MS's credit, they've really accelerated IE development in a great way, especially considering the lull they had from IE 6 - IE7. And IE 9 is a massive improvement from IE 7 and 8, which were just horrendously slow.
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Indeed, it would be physically impossible to have gone slower than the IE6->IE7 years, unless they started numbering their releases backwards.
 
There are some improvements

r00igev@@r said:
I noticed no difference in v5. I hope it is more stable (that will be a bonus!)
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We work on a web based crm system that worked fine under ie7 better under ff3 but did not work with chrome or safari (used to work with Safari too)

Ff5 (on a pc) I am happy to report the problem seems to have gone. Seeing I am a mac user I was stuck with ff3.
So today I check whether there is a ff5 for mac
 
elvis_presley said:
There's nothing wrong with using any browser you want nowdays. It's just personal preference, like what's your favourite liquorice allsort. No wrong answer, you just like what you like.
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Can't wait for the day this hits home in some juvinile minds.
 
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