Fun with Firefox

this shit goes up to 11

who uses konqueror

Been using FF4 at work, didn't seem to be horrible so now I've finally installed it at home if only for quicker startup. One thing I don't like though, is that pressing F6 doesn't take you directly to the address bar anymore (it takes you to the tab bar, from which you can tab to the address bar).

Alt + D works! Stumbled by accident on that one, my one-hand browsing is happy.

(raises eyebrow)

Say, that's a good look for you, can you hold it for a little longer...

(frowns)

Awww. :(

*hugs*

waht is different between 4 and 5

1

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217813/Mozilla_ships_Firefox_5_holds_to_new_rapid_release_plan

"Although the company said it added more than 1,000 improvements to the browser, most were minor bug fixes or tweaks. Among the most significant changes were enhanced support for HTML5 and new support for CSS (cascading style sheet) animations.

Firefox 5's user interface is nearly identical to Firefox 4, for instance."

doesn't sound essential although it pretty much insisted i upgrade this morning (and then failed to connect to the upgrade server...)

Pretty much as essential as any point release, this really should've been 4.1 - security fixes are enough to get the upgrade, though I can't think of a single site that uses WebGL. They're considering the major release numbers to be 3.6 and 5, I believe.

Is it as crashy as 4, bc this shit is driving me up the wall

hasn't crashed in the 4 hours i've been using it, but then i never had any trouble with 4.

yes, they've adopted the chrome technique of uping the major number every 6 months. just because bigger numbers look like the thing has more of a history. it's all hype. (and is causing the plugin developers a headache apparently)

That's a good point, Koogs. It's the biggest downside of all these new upgrades, constantly being confronted with addons that aren't working anymore. This is bugging me to no end.

Other than that, unlike Vegemitegrrl, FF 4 has been more stable for me than its predecessors.

I'm not averse to the idea of my computer being a piece of shit...

skipped 4, went straight to 5

feels a little faster, but it takes like 10 seconds (and sends firefox to using 50% of cpu) to load gmail, which is weird and bad

5 doesn't load for me. I had to downgrade to 3.6.

There's already an update available... lol

If you have firefox crashes, try making a new profile. Backup your bookmarks, take a note of your addons, google firefox profile manager on how to proceed in detail (I don't know by heart, mine doesn't crash)

^ thought they recommended this for every major upgrade, even

at work i appear to have 4 copies of each bookmark (not adjacent to each other so i never see the bottom 3 copies unless i scroll (and scroll and scroll) down).

ubuntu lucid is still on 3.6 and you don't get the option to upgrade until the package is upgraded (you can install it separately but it's a hassle)

Is there any reason that, with Firefox 5, there's a different font that appears on this site?

could be the html5 kicking in (if you upgraded from 3). i've noticed a different default font (smaller, serif) in text input boxes (but not here) and rounded corners on the Add a Post box.

seems to me like 4 except without the breakiness (e.g. grinding to a halt whenever I'm downloading), which I appreciate, but also without Google toolbar compatibility, which I really don't appreciate. Like losing a limb. :'(

googlebar lite extension has updated

xxxpost: no, it's all still in Comic Sans here.

Firefox 4 minutes, more like it

That's a good point, Koogs. It's the biggest downside of all these new upgrades, constantly being confronted with addons that aren't working anymore. This is bugging me to no end.

There is a quick fix for plugins suddenly not working, but it involves some minor mucking about in the code.

Not afraid of some mucking about! Could you share it?

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-update-firefox-thunderbird-addons-new-release.htm

The trick is to find the right directory where your add-ons are stored, probably in the FF sub-dir of %APPDATA%:

1. Run to "%APPDATA%"
2. CD to Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles
3. CD to whatever profile is the one you want
Voila, that should be your add-ons directory, I *think*. Then follow the steps in the link above. (No idea if this works for FF4/5, but it's how I fixed some of my fav add-ons in the FF3.* era.)

Hey thanks, I'll give it a go tonight!

Or just install this - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/

it installed firefox 6 beta this morning. madness.

and disabled 4 of my plugins.

just me or is firefox increasingly refusing to take "no" for an answer when it wants to upgrade?

i did force it by doing 'about, check for updates' and was given the option (and warned that 2 plugins would be disbaled). then it installed and disabled 4...

(this is my 'only for games' windows partition so i don't really care)

but yes, when there are major security updates it is kinda forced.

i swear to god i never said "yes" to firefox 5 but then it just went ahead and did it anyway. fuck you, firefox.

It keeps chucking errors at me "COULD NOT PERFORM THE UPDATE" like I care.

I'm still on 3.6.2. You all scared me.

6 ? Doesn't this look like they're skipping a couple and are building towards 8.0 ?

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

http://i.imgur.com/FlzFw.jpg

Thx!

Grrr, I'm wondering if the 5.0 is messing with my SwiftTabs plugin -- sometimes takes multiple presses of my designated tab navigating keys, and sometimes doesn't work at all!

Now Firefox wants me to update to 6.0???

FUCK YOU

Where's the "never ask me again" button

according to slashdot yesterday they are soon doing away with version numbers. you will then be 'up to date' or not.

if they can do it in the background, fuck yeah.

I went from 3 to 5 and liked the upgrade except that about 50% of the time when I open FF after my computer has been off, it freezes and I have to force it to close an reopen it.

With 5 I went crazy with extensions. My faves: YouTube downloader, Boomerrang (Gmail snoozer and more), imgur, Last Pass.