Firefox 3.5 Preview Is Out

[Aaron Olive]

Firefox Preview

Preview

First Run

Edited June 9, 2009 by Killa Aaron

[+longgonebn Subscriber²]

Can I install 3.5 over 3.0.1.0, with my extensions, or how can I find out what extensions of mine will work before installing?

[Deathray]

What's a preview? final rc, possibly final build?

[primexx]

What's a preview? final rc, possibly final build?

if there's no bugs to this they'll release it as RC1

and I didn't see any colour problems either.

[Neoauld]

Heres the color difference ive noticed, top image is SRWare iron(chrome edit)..bottom is firefox, ive noticed the difference on facebook also, safari 4.0/IE are consitent with the chrome based browser, only firefox is different

Edit: Found another bug, where it says above the image i posted "Click for full image" - those links dont work anymore

[primexx]

hmm i don't see that darkness and click for full image works fine too :s

[Guest xiphi]

Colors and full image link works fine for me.

[Neoauld]

wow i wonder wahts going on then, im gonna turn off some extensions maybe

well disabling and enable adblock fixed the link issue

the color remains the same, others in this thread are noticing it to..

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

All fine here!

All 21 extensions working perfectly too.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Don't know why colours would be strange, there's nothing special about the files, and by default Firefox doesn't do anything to the colours.

If you're getting it, try going to about:config, and setting the "gfx.color_management.mode" preference to 0 (default's 2)

[BlueFiberOptics]

The way I understand it, Safari was the only browser that handled the embedded color setting thing (insert term here) in images. But now the new Firefox will also recognize them as well.

[Xerxes]

Running 3.0.10, see no updates.

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It won't show up there yet, it's not final. If your running the lastest stable release of Firefox you need to manually download and install the preview. However, if your running an earlier build of Firefox 3.5 then you should be able to auto update to the preview build. Well that is how I understand it, so take with a grain of salt.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

The way I understand it, Safari was the only browser that handled the embedded color setting thing (insert term here) in images. But now the new Firefox will also recognize them as well.

Yep, 3.0 can do it too but it's disabled by default. By default 3.5 behaves like Safari, but can be forced to do it properly for all images.

That's what the setting does, 0 disables it entirely, 1 enables it for everything, and 2 makes it behave like Safari.

[Neoauld]

i reverted back to 3.1, didnt see the possible fix until after

[QuickSort]

Neat. :)

[dt]

Colors seem the same to me... but if you guys are correct, does this mean that this change in colors makes the colors actually more "accurate"?

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

The colours in the screenshots are wrong, so that's a bug.

The colours will match (internally to the page) if it's doing it properly, they'll just be more accurate (as in, they'll look similar on 2 correctly configured computers). Compare this page with the 3 different modes, only full colour correction gets you matching colours, http://alex.thefrapp.com/files/cm-test/cm-test.php

[Co-ords]

The colours in the screenshots are wrong, so that's a bug.

The colours will match (internally to the page) if it's doing it properly, they'll just be more accurate (as in, they'll look similar on 2 correctly configured computers). Compare this page with the 3 different modes, only full colour correction gets you matching colours, http://alex.thefrapp.com/files/cm-test/cm-test.php

Setting gfx.color_management.mode to 1 was the answer 4 me. TY.

[Aaron Olive]

he should just completely uninstall Firefox then install it.

[mancode20]

Just updated. Def seems faster.

[Dannydeman]

Glasser works fine, don't like the glow though. URL bar is more square, and with my Longhorn skin it looks a little worse then before. Fingerprint software plugin doesn't work either, crashes Firefox.

[sujmano]

just updated

[Trivious]

Sweet! Thanks for the heads up. It is snappy

[The Right Guy]

My Wordpress admin page is bugged with this release

[primexx]

My Wordpress admin page is bugged with this release

same

[Robbie Khan Reviews]

I've had to go back to 3010 today as I found a bug in the preview where for some reason it kept losing cookies so I had to sign into iGoogle every time the browser loaded for example. Also my saved passwords suddenly vanished for every site! luckily I keep mozbackup backups so was able to restore them easily.

Gonna wait for final I think :)

BTW Firefox is the prettiest browser with a little tweaking IMO.