Mozilla has officially released Firefox 3.5 today as predicted earlier this week.Firefox 3.5 is the first major revision since 3.0 was released about a year ago. The new version sports a faster rendering engine, stability enhancements and a new javascript engine. It will also include support for the most widely-used elements of HTML 5 that allows for offline data access, enhanced web graphics and multimedia playback without plug-ins. The Firefox logo has also had a small revision as well.
Mozilla has been showing different 3.5 features within a 35 day period, and has also shown the new tools developers can take advantage of in the new version.
The new version was originally going to be 3.1, but was renamed to 3.5 later to reflect a greater scope of changes than what had originally been planned.
What's new in 3.5?
According to Mozilla's release notes:
- Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
- Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey javascript engine.
- The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.
- Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
- Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
- Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5, 'video' and 'audio' elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, javascript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.
Download: Firefox 3.5
That is for the USA version. Obviously if you have a different language or
OS, you'll want to back down to /releases/3.5/ and pick an OS or language to suit you. I snagged it around 6am CDT. It always shows up on the FTP site about 3/4 of a day early.
But I love it!
Also, sucks a few main addons I use don't work yet. :-\
thanks
on my PC which is pretty high end chrome does load things faster, but i find startup the same and the features/extensions make firefox worth it for me
i still use chrome though for certain things
No. Neither in web browsing, nor start-up. But it's much more competitive at least. Firefox 3.0 was sluggish. It'll still likely be beat by Safari and Chrome, but it's on par with Opera 10 and up to twice as fast as Firefox 3.
Thanks! Works great.
Actually, the plugin is adding some corruption on Fx 3.5 OSX. Corrupts the address bar graphic.
Last edited by Septimus on 30 Jun 2009 - 17:35
Actually, the plugin is adding some corruption on Fx 3.5 OSX. Corrupts the address bar graphic.
Suprised no one has reported that before. Could you send me a link to a screenshot and with any errors shown in the tools -> error console?
With refernece to Norton IPS and Norton Toolbar I just found an article from Symantec that IPS and Toolbar are still in development although it does not state a release date.
I find it nice. IE and Google Chrome have it.
Big disagree here. IE has it and it is very useful and you can quickly open a new tab.
Maybe you can turn it off in about:config ??? maybe?
Not when you have so many tabs open that the whole bar is full. Its annoying at that point because there's no where to click to open a new tab. So you have to ctrl+t it.
I looked. Unless the option is named strangely no dice.
Doesn't mean it's not possible. There are (or certainly used to be) lots of hacks you could do by adding new entries to about:config. One that springs to mind is config.trim_on_minimize=true which used to be a godsend for FF1/Windows when it was leaking a lot of memory.
Even if there's not a config directive, you should be able to make it invisible by adding something to userChrome.css -- they've still got that, right? -- keep an eye on mozillazine.org forums, this is bound to be covered before long.
Hope this helps, and yes it works for me.
http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9864
Exactly as I'm typing now.. 6 tabs open, no space to double click.
Minimalism is about intelligently using the space you have, not locking space out and saying NO NOT YOURS.
.tabs-newtab-button {
display: none !important;
}
Some other nice ones:
.tabs-alltabs-button,
#star-button,
#feed-button {
display: none !important;
}
#go-button { /* about:config's hideGoButton is not enough, wtf! */
list-style-image: none !important;
}
Says 7.7MB on the release page, but the download file is actually 10.2MB!
now beats safari/chrome on js speed to become the fastest, but is still behind Opera 10 on rendering speed.
Memory footprint after my stress test is larger than ff3.0's....
Loving the video tag
I take it you have installed nightly tester tools, it modifies the menubar to display the build number as well, go into the addons page and take out the build number part
Yer that'll be the problem then! Thanks.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543
Would someone be kind enough to tell me how to install this on ubuntu, I have installed the one in the repositories but it is the shiretoko one, guess ill wait for a day see if it gets on there
This is on Windows 7 Superbar. How do I do that? I think it's embedded.
edit : solution : Just change the shortcut icon on the shortcut, then pin or re-pin.
Last edited by lunamonkey on 30 Jun 2009 - 21:50
Download it and try it. Install a bunch of extensions. There are no problems uninstalling it, unlike with IE.
you can unistall IE , at least with windows 7 .....
Last edited by E.Fahd on 30 Jun 2009 - 18:57
How much ram do you have? And whats wrong with a program using your memory when its not used by anything else?
People that claim that they don't use X, Y, Z program/game because it consumes too much memory irk me. What the point of having 4 gigs or ram and only using 1 of it?
Just to verify, I run the browser all day (I updated to 3.5 about 6-7 hours ago) for the whole time I had a minimum of 3 tabs open and right now FF is used 103 mbs which I find perfectly reasonable.
You still need to use that.
I'm not certain if IE was the first to invent the following but it's the first time I've seen them:
Inprivate filtering
The Add Tab button to the right of every tab
A button to bring back lost tabs
http://www.getpersonas.com/
Unfortunately there seems to be a lot more problems with custom toolbar positions when upgrading
When Opera 10.00 Beta 1 has been available I have installed it and I must say that this is a 100% kick ass browser.
PS mozilla is a corporation I hate corporations
Last edited by ovd on 30 Jun 2009 - 22:13
When Opera 10.00 Beta 1 has been available I have installed it and I must say that this is a 100% kick ass browser.
PS mozilla is a corporation I hate corporations
yeah, that's normal. Good luck living in a cave with a charcoal sketch of Opera 10.00 Beta 1 on some dried, flattened rat crap.
Psst. Opera Software is a corporation. It's also closed source unlike Firefox, seems you'd like Mozilla better.
Opera 10 beta 1 show the websites exactly like firefox
I have used firefox for years and I must say that can't compete with Opera 10 is not even the same category, firefox must work a lot to get in competition with opera
ive installed latest codec pack as well. no go.
whats up with this?!
ive installed latest codec pack as well. no go.
whats up with this?!
youtube won't work on a 64-bit browser as there is no 64-bit flash
Udedenkz, the point of the HTML5 version is that you don't need flash so that isn't the reason.
Is it just me or is Firefox 3.5 geared towards better porn surfing?
Is it just me or is Firefox 3.5 geared towards better porn surfing?
Nothing wrong with that, is there?
Is it just me or is Firefox 3.5 geared towards better porn surfing?
Nothing wrong with that, is there?
absolutely nothing wrong there. parents fap to pron too you know XD
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin/
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