Firefox 7 has been released

My Firefox in Windows 7 detected the upgrade yesterday already .. the ubuntu version has not detected the update yet
 
Already! This is becoming a nightmare for plugins. eg. Selenium
 
fbman said:
My Firefox in Windows 7 detected the upgrade yesterday already .. the ubuntu version has not detected the update yet
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One of the guys in the office also said that his Firefox picked up the update at home (on Windows) last night, but this morning his work machine (also Windows) wasn't seeing it - strange.
 
The memory is a little less, think it was placed 2nd with Opera first on some recent benchmark tests
 
Jan said:
One of the guys in the office also said that his Firefox picked up the update at home (on Windows) last night, but this morning his work machine (also Windows) wasn't seeing it - strange.
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Ubuntu probably still needs to create a package for it, they usually drag behind...
 
Yup, no TLS1.1 or 1.2 yet (only IE9 and Opera have this by default--you have to turn it on though). And the start up time is still slow compared to Google Chrome on my machine. Too busy interface imo compared to Chrome. But, I use it a lot bec some sites do not like webkits.
 
Bleh I used to be a HUGE Firefox fan,just before they brought out FF6 in desperation I downloaded Chrome and since then I have never looked back..

I lie actually I did look back when FF6 came out,I was one of the first to download it and found it clunky and slow vs the pure awesome of Chrome. I still use it when I need to open another facebook account or gmail account on my split screen and find it so clunky and that’s with no plugins.

I am going to try this release though, hope it rocks again!
 
splinter_watsup said:
Bleh I used to be a HUGE Firefox fan,just before they brought out FF6 in desperation I downloaded Chrome and since then I have never looked back..

I lie actually I did look back when FF6 came out,I was one of the first to download it and found it clunky and slow vs the pure awesome of Chrome. I still use it when I need to open another facebook account or gmail account on my split screen and find it so clunky and that’s with no plugins.

I am going to try this release though, hope it rocks again!
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I really hope so aswell. Would be a killer if it does not do what they specifically claim they have improved on
 
Chrome is also my preferred browser, but I use firefox because of Video Downloadhelper
 
splinter_watsup said:
Bleh I used to be a HUGE Firefox fan,just before they brought out FF6 in desperation I downloaded Chrome and since then I have never looked back..

I lie actually I did look back when FF6 came out,I was one of the first to download it and found it clunky and slow vs the pure awesome of Chrome. I still use it when I need to open another facebook account or gmail account on my split screen and find it so clunky and that’s with no plugins.

I am going to try this release though, hope it rocks again!
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7 broke one my can't live without addons (Google Redesigned) yet again....
Then I saw that Google Redesigned Beta is now available on Chrome.
So i have once again temporarily moved over to Chrome, but this time I think Chrome might be ready to be my first choice displacing Firefox after many years....
 
On a side note I worked out what causes the FF freezes (some others here complained too)...its MSE. FTL...now I've got to find another AV.
 
I am still on Netscape 6... Is that version still up to date??? Some websites looks a bit weird though...
 
Adrenalin said:
Well, I am on V7, still using 171mb of memory. Useless :(
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171mb memory? Wow back in 2000 I guess it could have been a problem.

Anyway so yes Chrome does start up faster and has a lot of screen space for sites but that is where it ends. I just wanna die having to wait 3sec longer with 10+ more addons for Firefox to start up. :erm:

Seriously until Google makes some drastic changes to Chrome for addon development I will not even think of switching. Plus as I've said before in another thread having loads of tabs open in Chrome still causes plugins to crash. New version of Chrome did not fix anything.
 
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