Meet Firefox 5.0

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Kyang

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What I mean is, pressing and holding the up/down arrow on the keyboard will make the page will move a small increment, stop, then start scrolling continuously. Technically there's no "delay" since the page moves the instant I press the up/down arrow, but I don't like the little pause that happens before it starts scrolling more. I want it to just scroll continuously from the start without the pause. I'm pretty sure it's actually intentional, so I'm looking to see if it can be changed. :) .

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Littlemutt

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nice, wonder where we can find a changelog for ff5 beta1.

Well, since according to yesterday's meeting notes the merge to beta is not going to happen for two weeks yet .. I don't know why everyone is jumping gun just because its on the server as build1. Its not beta till Mozilla says it is...

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Planning/2011-04-27#Firefox_5_.28Desktop.29

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Well, since according to yesterday's meeting notes the merge to beta is not going to happen for two weeks yet .. I don't know why everyone is jumping gun just because its on the server as build1. Its not beta till Mozilla says it is...

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Planning/2011-04-27#Firefox_5_.28Desktop.29

Yes but quite often build 1 ends up being the final build used for beta 1.

Firefox 5 Beta 1 build 1: 

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/5.0b1-candidates/build1/win32/en-US/Firefox Setup 5.0b1.exe

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dnast

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Popup dialogues are now specific to the tab and no longer prevents you to switch to another tab or close the tab! That's pretty awesome, especially with all those spam popups that prevent you from leaving.

It's like that in 4.0, too :p

What I mean is, pressing and holding the up/down arrow on the keyboard will make the page will move a small increment, stop, then start scrolling continuously. Technically there's no "delay" since the page moves the instant I press the up/down arrow, but I don't like the little pause that happens before it starts scrolling more. I want it to just scroll continuously from the start without the pause. I'm pretty sure it's actually intentional, so I'm looking to see if it can be changed. :) .

It might not be possible to change it if it's just catching individual key presses (including auto-repeat) like, for instance, in a text editor as opposed to how a game handles keyboard input. I'm only speculating, but that's what it seems like it's doing.

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Well, which build has it? I remember reading a thread on here where people were raving about it. I'd definitely like to have that feature. I just want to know if the build is stable enough and will my add-ons work with it?

No build seems to have it. I just updated to the latest version of Nightly and it's not present there. It'll be a nice feature when it becomes available. The Nightly builds seem to have been quite stable in my experience, though the last time I used one before now was on April 15th. Your addons can work as long as you use the about:config boolean string below, and set it to 'false'. I think that's the string but I can't remember it off the top of my head.

extensions.checkCompatibility.6.0a1

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Littlemutt

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Well, which build has it? I remember reading a thread on here where people were raving about it. I'd definitely like to have that feature. I just want to know if the build is stable enough and will my add-ons work with it?

This is the bug, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455694 , there was a 'tryserver' build a few days ago, but it has since expired. Tryserver builds only last I think 24-48 hrs. The test build likely would not have worked right after reading the bug, as more changes were made to the patch after the tryserver build was built. Watch the bug for further additions, or perhaps tryserver builds. But as I see it, there are no builds at present that has the patch.

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grayscale

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i am running the latest nightly v6 and have tried heaps of things to try to get text to display properly

can anyone suggest something that they have done to fix text displaying as below, because its really starting to irk me.

or does it display like this for everyone?

Have you tried changing the 'gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode' setting in the about:config (I'm not sure if it is present on aurora since I use the nightly)

0 = default

1 = aliased

2 = GDI Classic

3 = GDI Natural,

4 = Natural

5 = Natural Symmetric

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Kirkburn

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No Firefox 5 beta isn't really out - it was a test build. When beta is properly out, it'll be announced - Aurora is still the Firefox 5 progress build (and looking mighty fine if you ask me).

Btw, this is the Firefox 5 thread, take nightly stuff to the other 'Meet Firefox Next' thread.

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What are the main differences between Firefox 4.01 and 5.0? I'm wondering if I should use it? I might even try 6.0 because it has the smooth moving tabs animation now. I'm guessing 5.0 might be more stable at this point, but sadly it lacks the smooth moving tabs animation. Which one should I use? Tough decision.

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What are the main differences between Firefox 4.01 and 5.0? I'm wondering if I should use it? I might even try 6.0 because it has the smooth moving tabs animation now. I'm guessing 5.0 might be more stable at this point, but sadly it lacks the smooth moving tabs animation. Which one should I use? Tough decision.

The tab animations aren't in the nightlies quite yet but they should be soon. Stability wise so far the firefox 6 nightlies have been rock solid for me, but with nightlies you should always expect possible problems down the road when bigger changes land.

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bogas04

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What are the main differences between Firefox 4.01 and 5.0? I'm wondering if I should use it? I might even try 6.0 because it has the smooth moving tabs animation now. I'm guessing 5.0 might be more stable at this point, but sadly it lacks the smooth moving tabs animation. Which one should I use? Tough decision.

Javascript Performance improvements , shadows from navigation bar are dropped now , CSS 3 Transitions added , memory reductions , rest is not noticeable IMO

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