Meet the browser: Firefox Next

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mancode20

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6.0 is out, but the channel switch hasn't been updated yet. Any idea when Mozilla usually updates? I'm on Eastern Standard Time. I'm eager to switch to 7.0 Beta. I can't wait to get the new tab animations!

This is the correct site to keep checking, right? http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/
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+Zlip792 MVC

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Little UX change:

https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=648668

Will be in FF8.

Stuff I think, which will appear in FF9.

1. TI JS engine

2. MSVC 2010 support (in build system channel)

3. Few UX changes

4. PGO (on build system channel few fixes landed)

5. Maybe new Garbage Collector (highly doubt)

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BetaAddict

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I prefer Nightly over Firefox 6 currently but Pale Moon 64 bit over either because it is the only Firefox with a official 64 bit version and with a nice icon.

http://img814.imageshack.us/img814/8026/nightly.png

No surprise there really. Nightly and aurora are both leaps and bounds ahead of FF6 due to the memory and performance improvements. I really think we will see some nice reaction from recent defectors who continue to complain how sluggish and resource hog it is. Looking forward to see the FF8 changes come to aurora later this week whenever they merge the code.

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max22

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No surprise there really. Nightly and aurora are both leaps and bounds ahead of FF6 due to the memory and performance improvements. I really think we will see some nice reaction from recent defectors who continue to complain how sluggish and resource hog it is. Looking forward to see the FF8 changes come to aurora later this week whenever they merge the code.

Yep the problem is DownThemAll doesn't work with Firefox 8 yet. Not a huge deal but still sucks. That is why I haven't used Firefox 8 64 bit entirely. Even though I most likely wouldn't still it is alpha but at least it will soon be getting close to beta! Firefox 7 isn't to bad with it going to beta very soon! Still no official supported 64 bit from Mozilla

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remixedcat

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Yep the problem is DownThemAll doesn't work with Firefox 8 yet. Not a huge deal but still sucks.

please try the following:

save the add-on .xpi to your desktop you must navigate to the addons page (not using the addon browser, but going to the ff addons site) and right click on the download button>save as> save the xpi file then:

rename the .xpi to .zip

open the zip and extract the install.rdf

open the install.rdf with any text editor

find 4.0.* could be any version number

edit to 8.0.* or higher!

save and put back in zip overwriting the original and save zip

rename .zip back to .xpi

open firefox and "install add-on from file" find modified .xpi

now you'd follow the procedure I've noted above to get those addons to work.

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max22

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please try the following:

save the add-on .xpi to your desktop you must navigate to the addons page (not using the addon browser, but going to the ff addons site) and right click on the download button>save as> save the xpi file then:

rename the .xpi to .zip

open the zip and extract the install.rdf

open the install.rdf with any text editor

find 4.0.* could be any version number

edit to 8.0.* or higher!

save and put back in zip overwriting the original and save zip

rename .zip back to .xpi

open firefox and "install add-on from file" find modified .xpi

now you'd follow the procedure I've noted above to get those addons to work.

I dare you to try it yourself with DownThemAll. It doesn't work.

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mancode20

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please try the following:

save the add-on .xpi to your desktop you must navigate to the addons page (not using the addon browser, but going to the ff addons site) and right click on the download button>save as> save the xpi file then:

rename the .xpi to .zip

open the zip and extract the install.rdf

open the install.rdf with any text editor

find 4.0.* could be any version number

edit to 8.0.* or higher!

save and put back in zip overwriting the original and save zip

rename .zip back to .xpi

open firefox and "install add-on from file" find modified .xpi

now you'd follow the procedure I've noted above to get those addons to work.

Can you or someone try this method with two extensions that I would like to get to work fully with the latest Nightly? I don't currently have it installed, cause I went back to Aurora 7.0 The first extension is TabGroups Manager, which works somewhat but won't allow you to move tabs into specific groups, possibly because of the new tab animations feature. The second extension is TabMixPlus, which doesn't work at all. You have to disable it just to get the new tab animations to work. I'm wondering if this method could work for them? If so, I might go back to Nightly. Thanks if you can!! I'd really appreciate it!!
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Brandon H Supervisor

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Can you or someone try this method with two extensions that I would like to get to work fully with the latest Nightly? I don't currently have it installed, cause I went back to Aurora 7.0 The first extension is TabGroups Manager, which works somewhat but won't allow you to move tabs into specific groups, possibly because of the new tab animations feature. The second extension is TabMixPlus, which doesn't work at all. You have to disable it just to get the new tab animations to work. I'm wondering if this method could work for them? If so, I might go back to Nightly. Thanks if you can!! I'd really appreciate it!!

no, i don't even need to try to know the answer, because of the specific changes that have been made to the browser the developers of these two extensions will need to update to accommodate to the change

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dnast

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Why switch to full tab-size notification? When are they going to start using the notification bar-type popups you see in chrome and IE9? These are far less intrusive and better streamlined.

I know I'm late replying, but this is made intrusive because the user has to make the decision before continuing to use Firefox.

Like Heartripper said, you'll only see this screen when there are 3rd party "drive-by" add-on installations from outside of Firefox.

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max22

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How is it not supported officially? It gets updated just as often as 32bit nightly, and if not it's only a day behind at most.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements.html

Firefox 5 System Requirements

Windows

Operating Systems

Windows 2000

Windows XP

Windows Server 2003

Windows Vista

Windows 7

Please note that while the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 can be used to run Firefox 5, only 32-bit builds of Firefox 5 are supported at this time.

Recommended Hardware

Pentium 4 or newer processor that supports SSE2

512MB of RAM

200MB of hard drive space

Mac

Operating Systems

Mac OS X 10.5

Mac OS X 10.6

Mac OS X 10.7

Recommended Hardware

Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 processor

512 MB of RAM

200 MB hard drive space

Linux

Software Requirements

Please note that Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements.

Firefox will not run at all without the following libraries or packages:

GTK+ 2.10 or higher

GLib 2.12 or higher

Pango 1.14 or higher

X.Org 1.0 or higher (1.7 or higher is recommended)

libstdc++ 4.3 or higher

For optimal functionality, we recommend the following libraries or packages:

NetworkManager 0.7 or higher

DBus 1.0 or higher

HAL 0.5.8 or higher

GNOME 2.16 or higher

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Cheatyface

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http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/system-requirements.html

Firefox 5 System Requirements

Windows

Operating Systems

Windows 2000

Windows XP

Windows Server 2003

Windows Vista

Windows 7

Please note that while the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 can be used to run Firefox 5, only 32-bit builds of Firefox 5 are supported at this time.

Recommended Hardware

Pentium 4 or newer processor that supports SSE2

512MB of RAM

200MB of hard drive space

Mac

Operating Systems

Mac OS X 10.5

Mac OS X 10.6

Mac OS X 10.7

Recommended Hardware

Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 processor

512 MB of RAM

200 MB hard drive space

Linux

Software Requirements

Please note that Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements.

Firefox will not run at all without the following libraries or packages:

GTK+ 2.10 or higher

GLib 2.12 or higher

Pango 1.14 or higher

X.Org 1.0 or higher (1.7 or higher is recommended)

libstdc++ 4.3 or higher

For optimal functionality, we recommend the following libraries or packages:

NetworkManager 0.7 or higher

DBus 1.0 or higher

HAL 0.5.8 or higher

GNOME 2.16 or higher

Did Fx5 even have an official 64bit build like 6, 7 and 8? oh well. *shrug* Any software receiving constant updates from the devs counts as supported in my book.

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Karl-Johan

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Yep the problem is DownThemAll doesn't work with Firefox 8 yet. Not a huge deal but still sucks. That is why I haven't used Firefox 8 64 bit entirely. Even though I most likely wouldn't still it is alpha but at least it will soon be getting close to beta! Firefox 7 isn't to bad with it going to beta very soon! Still no official supported 64 bit from Mozilla

Weird, DownThemAll works just fine here using Nightly and UX nightly builds. Never had a problem.

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Karl-Johan

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Try this to have DTA working.

Go to "about:config" and add this as a "string".

String; extensions.dta.directory

Value; ["Z:\\H?mtade filer"]

Change the path to yours. but use \\ in the path.

When i removed this value DTA dissappeared from download dialog and when adding it it came back.

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The_Decryptor Veteran

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Did Fx5 even have an official 64bit build like 6, 7 and 8? oh well. *shrug* Any software receiving constant updates from the devs counts as supported in my book.

They're test builds, that's it. Only the developer builds have 64bit variants (See here), and they're not the general use.

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