Meet Firefox 5.0

[vasa1]

I got it from the Mozillazine forum. Credit goes to that person who posted it but I couldn't find the post because that forum was down for quite a while!

This is the specific post by angelica:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=10579721#p10579721

but that whole thread is worth looking over.

[xoperax]

According to Softpedia http://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-5-0-Features-to-Be-Announced-191821.shtml , Mozilla is gonna remove smart search keyword in Firefox 5. Can someone here please confirm that? I'm so mad at them since Firefox 4 released. It lacks so many useful features that should be built-in by default and now they're gonna remove one of my favorite feature that is extremely useful for me. F*** them for their stupid decision. When the **** they gonna stop relying so much on its user's add on? It's not their works. What have they done in almost 3 years since Firefox 3 released?

Sorry mods, I can't hold my anger.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

They're removing the smart search stuff since it's near impossible to use (there's no UI for creating or editing them, so you either have to edit the SQL database by hand or run your own JS code to create them)

I have a smart search I created back when Firefox 3 was in beta, simply because back then they were treated as plain bookmarks (and as such, allowed you to edit the location, which is a special internal URI that runs the search)

[xoperax]

They're removing the smart search stuff since it's near impossible to use (there's no UI for creating or editing them, so you either have to edit the SQL database by hand or run your own JS code to create them)

I have a smart search I created back when Firefox 3 was in beta, simply because back then they were treated as plain bookmarks (and as such, allowed you to edit the location, which is a special internal URI that runs the search)

Are you mentioning about the search engine that unable to modify? I have a folder with my own custom search in bookmark toolbar and I must say that it's so useful when you can search a specific site with your right click context menu. It's obviously not availble for Fireofx 4 default unless you use "smart search" addon. I wish they'd implemented that feature by default and now they're gonna remove it. Great !!!!!

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

No, that's something else. Mozilla is talking about the "Recent Tags" and "Recently Bookmarked" stuff (They could be better done by specialised code, instead of generalised code that isn't used by anybody else)

[Detection]

One of the things I wish they would address in FF is the length of time it takes to open after booting the PC - I can open IE9 and Chrome almost instantly while the system is still loading things up, but FF takes forever - its not bad once its been opened once and shut down, but first time after boot is horrible

[grayscale]

Mine does not exceed 7 seconds on cold boot. That's not forever for me. Chrome with adblock, tampermonkey, neat bookmarks, (some other extensions) opens instantly but takes roughly 3-4 seconds for it to be responsive for me. But I'm not really into starting up time, I'd like it more if they can handle memory efficiently for a long time.

[Detection]

Mine seems to take easily over 15 seconds after a cold boot with only 2 extensions - I do have a shed load of bookmarks though... wonder if thats it

[gr9zev]

I wish by 5.0 they will get all pop-up dialogs substituted with in-tab layout like in mock-ups :]

[bogas04]

anyone benchmarked the nightly ? it has 100s of JS fixes !!

[bogas04]

i know its too late , but these are few visual changes that landed after firefox 4.0 rtw

Also , on my system , Firefox 4.2 nightlies in sunspider are now about 30ms faster than chrome 12 , and 10 ms faster than ie9 :o

Also peacekeeper score are reported to be improved by great margin

[kilara1988]

bogas04 I agree with you.On my laptop on sunspider FF 4.2 nightly is 50ms faster than latest chromium,on kraken is 300ms faster than FF 4 final and 900ms faster than latest chromium and has improved big time on peacekeeper.

PS:Anyone have link to the bugs for FF 5?

[bogas04]

bogas04 I agree with you.On my laptop on sunspider FF 4.2 nightly is 50ms faster than latest chromium,on kraken is 300ms faster than FF 4 final and 900ms faster than latest chromium and has improved big time on peacekeeper.

PS:Anyone have link to the bugs for FF 5?

Firefox 5.0 targets are not yet set , so just rely on http://areweprettyyet.com/5/ mostly

right now there is no separate branch for firefox 4.x and firefox 5.x , so all bugs are just for trunk only ,u can still follow 2.2 blockers

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

They better pump out some of these updates into 4.1, 4.5 or whatever. Waiting on 5.0 from 4.0 is a really stupid move considering how often Chrome is updated. Even if 5.0 is planned for 2 months time, that's far too long to neglect the main trunk.

It's the one thing I despise about Mozilla/Firefox, the update speed is that of a bicycle instead of car.

No, I don't want to run minefield.

[torrentthief]

5.0 is planned for 4-5 months from now not 2 months. Hopefully 4.2 will fix the bugs that 4.0 didn't have time to fix, hoping fonts will be pretty with hardware acceleration in 4.2

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

5.0 is planned for 4-5 months from now not 2 months. Hopefully 4.2 will fix the bugs that 4.0 didn't have time to fix, hoping fonts will be pretty with hardware acceleration in 4.2

I guess I should of made the intent of my comment more apparent :p I didn't know when 5.0 is planned for, I was merely suggesting even if it's within a decent time frame from now, I expect further updates before it.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

I got news that in alpha 1 build.. Do not track is moved to Privacy tab in Options. Didn`t checked myself yet. Now going to check. Checked:

[bogas04]

I got news that in alpha 1 build.. Do not track is moved to Privacy tab in Options. Didn`t checked myself yet. Now going to check. Checked:

alpha 1 o.O , new u GOT? From where?

[kilara1988]

The nightly.It has 4.2a1pre index.

[bogas04]

The nightly.It has 4.2a1pre index.

REMEMBER , its PRE ALPHA that too coz we dont have any other name to call it , it could be 4.1a1pre either!

[Steven P. Administrators]

Would anyone know why Echofon doesn't send messages anymore?

It updates and everything, but everytime I try to send a message it just shows the green loading bar and then eventually times out. I tried the latest one 1.9.7.2 3 and 4 all the same result!

[+Heartripper Subscriber¹]

Has anything related to startup time landed in the last two days? it's the second time firefox cold starts in 3sec, wow!

[Jebadiah]

Multi-process? Is there a way to turn it on for browsing in FF4? I saw a couple of articles about it a year ago.

I am close to shifting to Firefox for good, coming from Chrome. Less Google in my life, the better.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

No, none of the work has landed yet, it's slated for Firefox 7 or something.

[mysiskatten]

found this list of Features that they hope will be in fx5 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Features