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Firefox 3.5 RC1

Marcel Klum on 17 June 2009 - 06:26 · 24 comments & 5458 views

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v3.5 RC1 of the award-winning Firefox Web browser has been released.

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(1 reply) #1 vipwoody on 17 Jun 2009 - 07:01

mac?

#1.1 Redmak on 17 Jun 2009 - 07:08

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(10 replies) #2 kaborka on 17 Jun 2009 - 07:13

How come Mozilla doesn't make x64 builds?

#2.1 Vow_Z on 17 Jun 2009 - 07:25

Maybe they will in the final build.

#2.2 miguel_montes on 17 Jun 2009 - 07:38

kaborka said,

How come Mozilla doesn't make x64 builds?

One question: would extensions, themes and plugins work with a x64 Firefox?

#2.3 Jugalator on 17 Jun 2009 - 07:47

miguel_montes said,

One question: would extensions, themes and plugins work with a x64 Firefox?

Extensions and themes - yes, because they're based on XUL, not executable code compiled for specific platforms.
Plugins like Flash, it doesn't look like Flash does it, but others may.

#2.4 Bero on 17 Jun 2009 - 08:06

flash doesn't work on x64 .. enough said

#2.5 Neoauld on 17 Jun 2009 - 14:04

kaborka said,

How come Mozilla doesn't make x64 builds?

without flash i wouldnt want to use x64 builds, i dont think ive seen a speed diff in the 64bit custom builds either

#2.6 The_Decryptor on 17 Jun 2009 - 17:15

Jugalator said,

Extensions and themes - yes, because they're based on XUL, not executable code compiled for specific platforms.
Plugins like Flash, it doesn't look like Flash does it, but others may.

Extensions can include binary components, so some extensions wouldn't work either.

There's not really that much of a reason to go purely 64Bit, there are bigger gains in speed to be made just by cleaning up old/buggy code.

#2.7 protocol7 on 17 Jun 2009 - 19:20

Bero said,

flash doesn't work on x64 .. enough said

Better to badger Adobe to make it work on x64.

#2.8 BeatBlaster on 18 Jun 2009 - 19:03

protocol7 said,

Better to badger Adobe to make it work on x64.

Haven't they already release some kind of alpha/beta x64 Flash for Linux already? I thought I saw an article about this a few weeks back. Guess no one uses Liniux?

Please don't throw anything at me. I was just joking. GOSH!

#2.9 Juan4Ever on 18 Jun 2009 - 20:24

kaborka said,

How come Mozilla doesn't make x64 builds?

http://www.mozilla-x86-64.com/
there are the biulds for x86-64 systems...

#2.10 Juan4Ever on 18 Jun 2009 - 20:25

Jugalator said,

Extensions and themes - yes, because they're based on XUL, not executable code compiled for specific platforms.
Plugins like Flash, it doesn't look like Flash does it, but others may.

lugins" target="_blank">http://wiki.mozilla-x86-64.com/Firefox

lugins

#3 Bero on 17 Jun 2009 - 08:12

changelog ?

#4 LetsSurf on 17 Jun 2009 - 08:27

Hmm it links to b4 for me on the Mozilla site. Neowin's links are right. I just changed the b4 to rc1 and all seems good.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/down...&lang=en-US

#5 dt on 17 Jun 2009 - 09:53

Easiest way for current 3.5 beta users to upgrade is to go to the Help menu and choose "Check for Updates..."

#6 Faisal Islam on 17 Jun 2009 - 11:24

yea...HTML 5

#7 Xenomorph on 17 Jun 2009 - 13:19

Off topic:
When using the official 3.0, when trying to download the extension "Glasser", it tells me my Firefox is too old.
When using 3.5, when I try to download "Glasser", it tells me my Firefox is too new.

#8 +chorpeac on 17 Jun 2009 - 13:43

When is 3.5 supposed to be officially released?

(2 replies) #9 Dannydeman on 18 Jun 2009 - 13:28

HTML5 is useless since no other browser supports it yet. Untill IE supports it, it gets interesting.

#9.1 nonick on 18 Jun 2009 - 23:25

Dannydeman said,

HTML5 is useless since no other browser supports it yet. Untill IE supports it, it gets interesting.

Dumb remark of the day?

HTML5 useless?

#9.2 LiquidSolstice on 19 Jun 2009 - 08:59

nonick said,

Dumb remark of the day?

HTML5 useless?

...since no other browser supports it yet.

Ignorant comment of the day?

People need to read more carefully before trying to make witty comments?

#10 limeares on 19 Jun 2009 - 02:31

Downloading portable build..

#11 LiquidSolstice on 19 Jun 2009 - 08:58

Not really noticing any major speed upgrades. Nor is Firefox using any less memory.

Am I supposed to be seeing any of these things at all?

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