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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.

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.

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)

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 !!!!!

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

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.

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

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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

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

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.

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.

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!

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