Meet Firefox 5.0

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This page hasn't yet (at the time of posting) been updated:

https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/

coz may 17 was just aurora to beta merge day , not public release day , read meeting notes 

Please note that this is not the date users will see an update available

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Anyone else seeing this problem?

Nope, everything works fine in here, try to run Firefox in safe mode with disabled all extensions, maybe one of them cost You a problem, also did You use some scripts to change addon manager layout etc?

But I'm facing other problem with Aurora and Nightly, I can't drag window with mouse, Aero snap and shake duno work any more, can someone confirm or I must look for problem in my Sys. settings?

EDIT: TMP was a problem.... solved

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Are they ever giong to fix the font rendering in Firefox?

Looks just terrible compared to Chrome/IE/Opera

It looks fine to me personally. That being said, the 6.0 nightly builds - soon to be on the Aurora channel - offer more fine-grained control over the font rendering. See this mozillaZine forum post for more details.

Firefox 6.0 and higher with 'gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode' set to '2' in about:config is probably what you're looking for.

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Are they ever giong to fix the font rendering in Firefox?

Looks just terrible compared to Chrome/IE/Opera

Firefox uses the same font rendering APIs as Firefox, Chrome and Opera just haven't caught up yet.

When is Mozilla going to implement a native pdf viewer in Firefox?

Probably never, no other browser does it (Chrome just bundles Acrobat)

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Firefox uses the same font rendering APIs as Firefox, Chrome and Opera just haven't caught up yet.

Probably never, no other browser does it (Chrome just bundles Acrobat)

Hm? I was under the impression that Google rolled their own PDF viewer for Chrome rather than bundling Adobe Reader components.

Edit: They are rolling their own:

pdfdllchrome.png

Found in C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\<version number>\

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I was originally planning to switch to beta/aurora eventually, but I haven't been haven't had a single problem with the nightly channel so far.

Yup... Luckily is so stable it's like getting only fixes/improvements...

I use 6?1 as default... Even the x64 build.

Same happens with ABP preview builds ( 1.38? currently ).

We're lucky I suppose.

But also it's expected in a way, 'cause the rapid release cycle, makes only few changes, like Chrome and not many major ones which are most likely to give problems.

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Firefox uses the same font rendering APIs as Firefox, Chrome and Opera just haven't caught up yet.

Probably never, no other browser does it (Chrome just bundles Acrobat)

Only if you use the default windows themes. Otherwise the font rendering is bad even with HW Acceleration off. You could use any visual style with Firefox3 and the font would look normal like other browsers.

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This is fixed in firefox6. In firefox 6 there are settings in about:config to make directwrite render very similarly to classic cleartype.

It is half a shame this is what has come of directwrite. It looks quite a bit better for me, but I know many have had horrible issues with it. This will certainly prevent the adoption. I wonder why it looks horrible for some and great for others? The variability in the monitors that are used?

OS X has a smoother font rendering as well. Not as sharp, but still clearly defined.

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Hm? I was under the impression that Google rolled their own PDF viewer for Chrome rather than bundling Adobe Reader components.

Edit: They are rolling their own:

pdfdllchrome.png

Found in C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\<version number>\

Hmm, last time I tried it, it just loaded Acrobat (I knew it was separate since the system only had Acrobat 9, but Chrome was showing Acrobat 10 widgets)

Only if you use the default windows themes. Otherwise the font rendering is bad even with HW Acceleration off. You could use any visual style with Firefox3 and the font would look normal like other browsers.

Font rendering is the same regardless of the Windows theme.

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