Firefox 5.0 to Launch 16 Weeks after 4.0, Firefox 6.0 Just 6 Weeks aft

[stormy13]

Is it stable?

Seems to be so far. Then again only had it installed for about 45 minutes. Could be my imagination but it does seem that most sites are loading quicker now, especially a few that I visit that have a tendency to hang for a few seconds or more.

How is the new Alpha? Are Add-On's working o.k. with it? I turned off auto update on the last day of 4.0b13pre until I hear some feedback about 4.2a1pre.

Thanks

All of mine seem to be working as they should. Most of them were declared incompatible, but a quick visit to about:config and adding the following (new boolean),

extensions.checkCompatibility.4.2a

and setting it to false, and they were all re-enabled. Still showing as incompatible in the Add-ons manager, but they are working.

 

[Commodore Pet]

O.K. I give in, I will go to 4.2!

 

[Fayla]

OK, so I installed it, but I get a weird message at the start up of it or when I try to "manage attachments" here. Other than that it does seem to run pretty speedily.

EDIT: erasing the old beta profile and making a new profile for this 4.2 ver solved the problem

Is it stable?

Seems to be so far. Then again only had it installed for about 45 minutes. Could be my imagination but it does seem that most sites are loading quicker now, especially a few that I visit that have a tendency to hang for a few seconds or more.

 

[Zirro]

I have tried FF4.0 and the font rendering doesn't look right, especially when you compare FF side-by-side with IE9. Text in IE9 and Chrome looks just fine, but the FF text is a bit blurry.

Has anyone else noticed this?

 

[Mike Connor]

I have tried FF4.0 and the font rendering doesn't look right, especially when you compare FF side-by-side with IE9. Text in IE9 and Chrome looks just fine, but the FF text is a bit blurry.

Has anyone else noticed this?

This varies a lot from system to system, site to site, but you can try this if it bothers you;

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/search/?q=anti+alias&cat=all&x=17&y=20

Regards....Mike Connor

 

[mr pc]

It appears the fonts on my browser have cleaned up - so quite possible the fix did work - just getting my exts/add-ons in order.

The bookmarks didn't seem to import properly (from FF3.6) at first, having created pods of interest (ok, folders containing related links), they seem to have gone all willy nilly.

SO - I hunted down a json file I created after doing a mass backup due to HHD S.M.A.R.T errors and it appears to have worked.

still going to run 3.6 and 4.0 separately

 

[Zirro]

Fonts in Firefox 4.0

I have tried FF4.0 and the font rendering doesn't look right, especially when you compare FF side-by-side with IE9. Text in IE9 and Chrome looks just fine, but the FF text is a bit blurry.

Has anyone else noticed this?

This varies a lot from system to system, site to site, but you can try this if it bothers you;

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/search/?q=anti+alias&cat=all&x=17&y=20

Regards....Mike Connor

That is an excellent addon.
I used GDI Classic mode as suggested by one of its users and achieved a major improvement in font rendering as sson as I applied it.

Thanks Mike.

 

[JerometheGiraff]

I upgraded to Firefox 4 and half of my add-ons including my theme are not updated, almost a week later since FireFox 4 release. You'd think since FireFox 4 was in RC stages for month the developers of these addons and themes would have been working on making it ready, atleast 3 days after official launch. FireFox default theme looks horrible and I despise that the loading of content is text in the lower right hand corner, I can't even turn it off. I won't go back to 3.6 because I've managed to get 4.0 to have a new flow for me but I'll continue to grip until my previous add-ons are updated including theme. I'm going to give the developers one more week until I begin emailing their ass.

 

[sreedhav]

I upgraded to Firefox 4 and half of my add-ons including my theme are not updated, almost a week later since FireFox 4 release. You'd think since FireFox 4 was in RC stages for month the developers of these addons and themes would have been working on making it ready, atleast 3 days after official launch. FireFox default theme looks horrible and I despise that the loading of content is text in the lower right hand corner, I can't even turn it off. I won't go back to 3.6 because I've managed to get 4.0 to have a new flow for me but I'll continue to grip until my previous add-ons are updated including theme. I'm going to give the developers one more week until I begin emailing their ass.

Dear JerometheGiraff,
It is a fact that many add-ons and extensions have not been up to par with FF4! The beauty and the attraction of FF were partly(if not mainly) the add-ons! I miss the color tabs and a few more security add-ons!
Regards,
Sreedhav

 

[win7clutz]

... I'm going to give the developers one more week until I begin emailing their ass.

This is one of the funniest post I've seen here! :roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:
Let's see: free browser, free themes, free add-ons, and you think they care 'bout you complaining in email... Nothing personal, but let us know how this works out for you.

Regards-

 

[DalekOverSeer]

I upgraded to Firefox 4 and half of my add-ons including my theme are not updated, almost a week later since FireFox 4 release. You'd think since FireFox 4 was in RC stages for month the developers of these addons and themes would have been working on making it ready, atleast 3 days after official launch. FireFox default theme looks horrible and I despise that the loading of content is text in the lower right hand corner, I can't even turn it off. I won't go back to 3.6 because I've managed to get 4.0 to have a new flow for me but I'll continue to grip until my previous add-ons are updated including theme. I'm going to give the developers one more week until I begin emailing their ass.

I upgraded to Firefox 4 and half of my add-ons including my theme are not updated, almost a week later since FireFox 4 release. You'd think since FireFox 4 was in RC stages for month the developers of these addons and themes would have been working on making it ready, atleast 3 days after official launch. FireFox default theme looks horrible and I despise that the loading of content is text in the lower right hand corner, I can't even turn it off. I won't go back to 3.6 because I've managed to get 4.0 to have a new flow for me but I'll continue to grip until my previous add-ons are updated including theme. I'm going to give the developers one more week until I begin emailing their ass.

Dear JerometheGiraff,
It is a fact that many add-ons and extensions have not been up to par with FF4! The beauty and the attraction of FF were partly(if not mainly) the add-ons! I miss the color tabs and a few more security add-ons!
Regards,
Sreedhav

... I'm going to give the developers one more week until I begin emailing their ass.

This is one of the funniest post I've seen here! :roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:
Let's see: free browser, free themes, free add-ons, and you think they care 'bout you complaining in email... Nothing personal, but let us know how this works out for you.

Regards-

agree most of those emails will go straight into the trash. now add mr tech toolkit(for some compatibility issues), nightly tester tools(for some compatiblity issues), add colorful tabs(for your colorful tabs).

 

[Rockfella]

So true, many don't understand this. :roflmao:

... I'm going to give the developers one more week until I begin emailing their ass.

This is one of the funniest post I've seen here! :roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:
Let's see: free browser, free themes, free add-ons, and you think they care 'bout you complaining in email... Nothing personal, but let us know how this works out for you.

Regards-

 

[Phone Man]

FF big draw is the Add-ons. Still waiting on a bunch for FF 4.0 to be updated. If each of these FF version break a lot of Add-ons you can kiss FF good bye.

Jim

 

[JerometheGiraff]

I understand perfectly. They knew that FireFox 4 Final was around the corner and they didn't make previsions that a few days after it's final release they would have update complete, FireFox 4.0 final wasn't just dumped on their lap the last minute.

 

[stormy13]

I miss the color tabs and a few more security add-ons!

In case you missed it, it was updated today and now works with 4.2,

ColorfulTabs (latest Version) For Firefox 4 & 3.6

 

[roban]

After many years with FF I have moved to Chrome. This latest version (4) lost me completely.

 

[Fayla]

They have no obligation to continue updating it for every Firefox release. There is also such a thing as one-time authors-- they make an addon and then move on (never had any intent to update it.)

Besides, all you have to do is change the maxversion tag on an extension to get it listed as enabled in a new release of Firefox, but there's no guarantee that it will work as it did in the old Firefox version though.

I understand perfectly. They knew that FireFox 4 Final was around the corner and they didn't make previsions that a few days after it's final release they would have update complete, FireFox 4.0 final wasn't just dumped on their lap the last minute.

 

[Night Hawk]

4.0 has been out for a week already and I haven't even looked at it still running 3.6 here. FF takes a back seat to IE 9, Opera 11 as the first alternate, Ice Weasel for Windows, and 3.6.

FF tends to lose mainly for second place due to being Google and ask only while Bing can be added to Opera. Yet people are still rushing at the latest 4.0 release apparently. Neowin.net - Firefox 4 downloads top 7 million in 24 hours

 

[severedsolo]

FF tends to lose mainly for second place due to being Google and ask only while Bing can be added to Opera. Yet people are still rushing at the latest 4.0 release apparently. Neowin.net - Firefox 4 downloads top 7 million in 24 hours

I don't know about your machine.... but on mine, Bing is one of the search options by default, even though Google is "First choice" until you change it.

 

[JerometheGiraff]

I know they are not under any obligation to update. I just want to see my addons updated and besides the addons I use I doubt that they are going to abandon version 4.0.