Firefox 5 released

kobaj

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I honestly didn't believe my brother when he told me Firefox 5 was released. That is to say, not a beta. Straight up 5.0

Though doesn't look like it has too many differences between 4.

Although, Firefox 4 introduced lots of impressive features over its earlier release, Firefox 5 only adds minor improvements and few new UI features. Two such notable features are the “Do Not Track” button and channel switcher in Firefox 5...
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Strange to see Firefox 5 released so soon after 4?
No real news or advertising on the matter either?
So I guess discussion?

EDIT: Just discovered app tabs with FF5. Goodbye bookmarks bar, I am in love.
 
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That is fast.
They might have discovered some big fault or back door in Firefox 4 and covered it completely by releasing a new edition before it gets out or something.

It is really weird this close releases.There must be something else than just an upgrade.
Since their development team could have incorporated the same in 4 also but they didn't and they couldn't have just come up with some more ideas and decided that it was worth a release rather than just some revision.
 
They are following chrome with the bastardised version numbers :(

A few cumulative updates != new version. This could have easily just been 4.1

Updated though, doesn't seem any different.
 
It is faster. Problem is a lot of pluggins could not be used. I went back to 3.6 for now and will wait.
 
kobaj said:
I honestly didn't believe my brother when he told me Firefox 5 was released. That is to say, not a beta. Straight up 5.0

Though doesn't look like it has too many differences between 4.



Strange to see Firefox 5 released so soon after 4?
No real news or advertising on the matter either?
So I guess discussion?

EDIT: Just discovered app tabs with FF5. Goodbye bookmarks bar, I am in love.
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Internet Explorer 9 Seems To Work Pretty Well Too,
I Use FF5 And IE9, IE8 Was Just Too Complicated... I Hate Goole Chrome As Well...
 
hopefully ff5 fixes some of that... i dont think i can go back to IE as my default browser... been using FF for a long time... started back when they just had the mozilla browser.
 
And just think... FF v6(!) is scheduled to be released in August!
As long as Mozilla insists on mimicking Chrome, I'll stick with v3.6.17, thank you very much.
 
Man, I don't understand why everyone is sticking with 3.6, imho its sooooooo slow, and the top url/tab/etc bar of 3.6 takes up so much precious screen space! I kind of understand the fact that not all addons work with 5, but at least update to 4!
 
I got an auto update to firefox 5 the same day this thread came out so as soon as Firefox 5 was released all users on firefox 4 got an auto update to 5 straight away. They mustn't have changed much.
 
kobaj said:
Man, I don't understand why everyone is sticking with 3.6, imho its sooooooo slow, and the top url/tab/etc bar of 3.6 takes up so much precious screen space! I kind of understand the fact that not all addons work with 5, but at least update to 4!
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I hate the look of FF4 and 5. It looks and acts too much like Chrome, and it's very awkward and unnatural and clumsy for me to use. I've used Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox since 1998 and I'm used to it for my work. Why are they screwing up a good thing? Change for change's sake, IMO.
 
OvenMaster said:
I hate the look of FF4 and 5. It looks and acts too much like Chrome, and it's very awkward and unnatural and clumsy for me to use. I've used Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox since 1998 and I'm used to it for my work. Why are they screwing up a good thing? Change for change's sake, IMO.
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You know you can actually change the settings to the point that it looks just like the old firefox. As soon as I saw how 4 looked I looked through every setting to change it to look the same. That was actually a plus for me. While they tried something new with the layout, they still give us the option to have it look the way it use too
 
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