Meet Firefox 5.0

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Will Fx 4.0.1 be offered Fx 5 or will I have to manually update? I know it sounds stupid but I prefer it to be offered as an update rather than manually update.

It will be offered.

Just updated to version 5. Sadly I think FF is getting uglier with each release.

Er, anything specific in Fx5? I don't recall anything obvious changing in the UI.

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Deo Domuique

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Great release. Its fast for me and no addon troubles here but then again I am launching it from a ssd and only use abp. :shiftyninja:

This combination is essential. The guy behind ABP is working so good that makes the addon like native Firefox's function.

Also, it gives you the fastest browsing experience across all browsers. Mainly because the blocker does truly block and as I said it embeds perfectly into Fx.

I've it installed on SSD too with a good processor ( i5 2500 ). The results are just instant browsing.

Not to mention what is coming... Like better JavaScript Engine and Hardware Acceleration mechanism.

In a while Fx will be more than perfect. Optimized and even more bugs-free from the major overhaul it got when 4 released.

In general, Fx 5 got around 1000 -mostly unseen- "bugs" fixed. This means optimizing.

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They prolly thought the performance enhancements were worth the major jump.... I think it is so far....

32 tabs open duration 2 days...

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but most will agree a 4.5 would have been more suitable.

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Some of you may have noticed this but some sites (including Neowin) now show slightly more "condensed" text. It appears to be caused by this update for Windows: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2545698

It's supposed to change the way some fonts are rendered in IE9 but it also affects Fx5.

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bjoswald

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Some of you may have noticed this but some sites (including Neowin) now show slightly more "condensed" text. It appears to be caused by this update for Windows: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2545698

It's supposed to change the way some fonts are rendered in IE9 but it also affects Fx5.

Ah-ha! So I'm not crazy after all. I knew something was going on with IE 9. Thanks for the info.

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It's supposed to change the way some fonts are rendered in IE9 but it also affects Fx5.

Since it changes the fonts, it actually affects the way these fonts are rendered in any app that uses DirectWrite (So IE9, Firefox 4+, Steam, etc.). No idea why Microsoft claimed only IE would/is affected in that KB article.

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Some of you may have noticed this but some sites (including Neowin) now show slightly more "condensed" text. It appears to be caused by this update for Windows: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2545698

It's supposed to change the way some fonts are rendered in IE9 but it also affects Fx5.

I opened IE9 and compared it to firefox and it was the same so I thought oh well maybe its me.

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Does anyone know why it lags when I close a tab? When the tab is closed it takes a few seconds for the other tabs to re-order themselves in the tab bar.

I don't know... maybe it's on purpose... but it really feels like the browser's code is a mess!

I hate the scrolling in Firefox... it takes pages forever to be scrolled up and down.

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Does anyone know why it lags when I close a tab? When the tab is closed it takes a few seconds for the other tabs to re-order themselves in the tab bar.

hmm, in firefox 6+ the tabs don't re-size until your mouse leaves the tab bar, like chrome. But I don't think 5 has that change yet, so not sure whats going on there.

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hmm, in firefox 6+ the tabs don't re-size until your mouse leaves the tab bar, like chrome. But I don't think 5 has that change yet, so not sure whats going on there.

5 has that change. I think that its stupid if you have multiple tabs open at a time. :/ Anyone know of a way to change it back?

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5 has that change. I think that its stupid if you have multiple tabs open at a time. :/ Anyone know of a way to change it back?

Ah, I guess that is it then. I personally like the change. The reason behind it is that if you have a lot of tabs open and are closing many of them when it resizes it makes it more difficult to select the tab you want because they all move.

There's no way to turn it off to my knowledge.

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