Meet the browser: Firefox Next

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I'm really disappointed the panel based download manager keeps getting pushed backed! Firefox 11? Gah!

I still probably wouldn't use it considering Download Statusbar is much more informative and useful. I actually hope Firefox ditches the panel and implements an autohide-on-download-completion bar instead.

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I would also like to see a fix that enables firefox to update my "incompatible" labeled addons when i have disabled the compatibility check.Most of them are still working ok,but firefox does not update them since they are labeled "incompatible".If i disabled the compatibility check i understand the risk of broken "incompatible" addons,but still want them to update.Now i have to use an addon that spoofs FF version when it tries to update the addons.

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Here's the bug for that. I haven't finished reading through the bug yet so I don't know how it's coming along.

I hope it gets done soon, too. I completely forgot about this limitation and probably have quite a few add-ons that are pretty outdated.

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I would also like to see a fix that enables firefox to update my "incompatible" labeled addons when i have disabled the compatibility check.Most of them are still working ok,but firefox does not update them since they are labeled "incompatible".If i disabled the compatibility check i understand the risk of broken "incompatible" addons,but still want them to update.Now i have to use an addon that spoofs FF version when it tries to update the addons.

Yeah, this is a long standing problem that I'm glad they finally removed the hassle of having to work around it.

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Since my start of FF Nightly usage (6 - 2nd week to be exact), for the first time, Firefox scored 10k plus for me on Peacekeeper 1.0:

Benchmarks aren't really useful unless you compare them to products. So test whatever other browsers you have installed and post back. But I will agree with you on one thing, Nightly is fast.

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Benchmarks aren't really useful unless you compare them to products. So test whatever other browsers you have installed and post back. But I will agree with you on one thing, Nightly is fast.

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It's great that the FF Nightly builds are getting as fast as they are. Personally, I thought from Firefox 7 and up they were very fast. But here is the thing...IE9 on these "benchmark" tests doesn't do all that well...HOWEVER, when I use it when browsing or working with websites it is FASTER than all the other browsers. For me, it renders a website in about half the time as Chromium 17, and even faster than FF10 or Opera 12 (which never stops loading).

How can IE9 be SO FAST in the real world rendering of websites and yet seem to be very inadequate with these Benchmark tests?

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Goodies coming to UX builds

Move the Library window (Bookmarks, History, Downloads) to a tab Bug 697359

Home Tab Bug 544819

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Goodies coming to UX builds

Move the Library window (Bookmarks, History, Downloads) to a tab Bug 697359

Home Tab Bug 544819

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Fail? WebGL and WebM aren't going anywhere.

It's just relevant from a developer standpoint, as most benchmarks are. A benchmark like Sunspider, which tests javascript rendering, is more relevant to daily use as pretty much all website are loaded with js scripts to some extent these days, therefore would be a more accurate measurement of performance to the end-user.

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