waht is different between 4 and 5
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 06:54 (twelve years ago) link
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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...)
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 08:42 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
Is it as crashy as 4, bc this shit is driving me up the wall
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― koogs, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not averse to the idea of my computer being a piece of shit...
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
5 doesn't load for me. I had to downgrade to 3.6.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
There's already an update available... lol
― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 June 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― StanM, Thursday, 23 June 2011 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
^ thought they recommended this for every major upgrade, even
― StanM, Thursday, 23 June 2011 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― koogs, Thursday, 23 June 2011 07:23 (twelve years ago) link
Is there any reason that, with Firefox 5, there's a different font that appears on this site?
― EDB, Thursday, 23 June 2011 12:06 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Thursday, 23 June 2011 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
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. :'(
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 23 June 2011 12:19 (twelve years ago) link
googlebar lite extension has updated
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 June 2011 12:22 (twelve years ago) link
xxxpost: no, it's all still in Comic Sans here.
― StanM, Thursday, 23 June 2011 12:59 (twelve years ago) link
Firefox 4 minutes, more like it
― BIG TOONCES aka the steendriving cat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 June 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
There is a quick fix for plugins suddenly not working, but it involves some minor mucking about in the code.
― E.L. Doctorow Who (Leee), Saturday, 25 June 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
Not afraid of some mucking about! Could you share it?
― Frogbs Day Afternoon (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 25 June 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
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/Profiles3. CD to whatever profile is the one you wantVoila, 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.)
― E.L. Doctorow Who (Leee), Saturday, 25 June 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
Hey thanks, I'll give it a go tonight!
― Frogbs Day Afternoon (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 25 June 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
Or just install this - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/
― James Mitchell, Saturday, 25 June 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
it installed firefox 6 beta this morning. madness.
― koogs, Thursday, 14 July 2011 10:09 (twelve years ago) link
and disabled 4 of my plugins.
― koogs, Thursday, 14 July 2011 10:10 (twelve years ago) link
just me or is firefox increasingly refusing to take "no" for an answer when it wants to upgrade?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 July 2011 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― koogs, Thursday, 14 July 2011 10:22 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 14 July 2011 10:23 (twelve years ago) link
It keeps chucking errors at me "COULD NOT PERFORM THE UPDATE" like I care.
― Gary Barlow syndrome (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 14 July 2011 10:29 (twelve years ago) link
I'm still on 3.6.2. You all scared me.
― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, 14 July 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
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/
― StanM, Thursday, 14 July 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/FlzFw.jpg
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 14 July 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Thx!
― StanM, Thursday, 14 July 2011 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― Matt Groening's Cousin (Leee), Saturday, 16 July 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
Now Firefox wants me to update to 6.0???
FUCK YOU
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 11:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 12:27 (twelve years ago) link
if they can do it in the background, fuck yeah.
― ledge, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 13:01 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
With 5 I went crazy with extensions. My faves: YouTube downloader, Boomerrang (Gmail snoozer and more), imgur, Last Pass.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
ff has become so unstable and crashy i only use it when i have to (which is all the time for development work since firebug for chrome is still shitty and ie8 developer tools is fucking useless)
― akm, Thursday, 18 August 2011 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
installed 6.
do you want to reboot to finish installation? no, not really.
try to run firefox and got "you must reboot to finish installation". so why was it an option?
oh, btw, 2 of your add ons no longer work.
and your flash needs updating. here's a handy link. but the installation won't work whilst firefox is still running...
― koogs, Thursday, 18 August 2011 08:48 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone use the add-on checking thing? I just installed it. We'll see if um up to the challenge.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Thursday, 18 August 2011 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
not bothered to check tech sites, but flash in firefox has been *really* unstable since I got 6, must have updated it about four times in the last two weeks.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Thursday, 18 August 2011 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
it's silently disabled another 2 add ons (Adblock Plus Element Hiding Helper and Modify Headers)...
and re-enabled acrobat and silverlight...
― koogs, Thursday, 18 August 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
seriously, i'd recommend you hold off updating for a week or so and give the plugin developers a chance to update.
― koogs, Thursday, 18 August 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
Yeh, I'm definitely waiting.
Also, is this where we rep for add-ons? B/c I want to say: Boomerang is awesome. It's an app for Gmail that lets you snooze, schedule sending, and other stuff. I've been bitching about wanting something like that forever! And it's been around for quite a while, I just didn't know.
I ran a Gmail script that enables snoozing, but it's clunky and not very versatile.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Thursday, 18 August 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
What the hell? I'm using 6 now but I don't remember upgrading. Maybe I agreed to the upgrade by absent-mindedly clicking something, but I really do not recall being asked.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Sunday, 21 August 2011 13:56 (twelve years ago) link