why is the channels[1] page never up-to-date? the 'download beta' link still sends 7.0 - if they don't want to confuse people, they should try to be more consisten across their site (which is in general not very well thought-out in my opinion)
Firefox 7 Live: Download Here
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Re: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here
#42Why would I go there to download a new version of Firefox? I went to 'About Firefox', it downloaded a 10 MB update, restarted, and here's Firefox 7.
Consider the case of not having Firefox already installed.
Re: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here
#43IMHO quite importantly, this version also includes a list of Microsoft fonts that don't render well with DirectWrite, and will switch back to GDI font rendering for those. On my machine, this fixes the "fuzzy fonts" issue that existed since Firefox 4 if you enabled hardware acceleration.
Thanks for the information! I first noticed the improvement in Aurora and Nightly builds, and was wondering what they did to fix the problem.
Here is some more information I just found for anyone interested:
Main bug report:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661471
The two new preferences:
gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families
gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size
And a post talking in detail about the issue:
http://blog.mozilla.com/nattokirai/2011/08/11/directwrite-te...
Re: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here
#44I like this BUT addons need to catch up and for many it's impossible due to such frequent changes.
Re: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here
#45>The ' http:// URL prefix is now hidden by default This can be changed back with browser.urlbar.trimURLs in about:config. They should've provided an option for it.
Note that if you copy/paste the contents of the URL box, the pasted text includes http:// or https:// or whatever was relevant.
I've had problems with this using the X buffer copy / paste on Ubuntu. It also makes copying just parts on the URL less intuitive.
Personally I don't see the benefit of removing the "http://. If this trend continues we may end up with something similar to AOL Keywords.
Re: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here
#46I like this BUT addons need to catch up and for many it's impossible due to such frequent changes.
99% of the add-ons that are hosted on http://addons.mozilla.org are compatible and had been automatically updated to be compatible. Can you list which ones you use that are not?
Re: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here
#47Desktop highlights: * Drastically improved memory handling for certain use cases * Added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems * Bookmark and password changes now sync almost instantly when using Firefox Sync * The ' http:// URL prefix is now hidden by default * Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis * Added support for the Web Timing specification * Enhanced support for MathML *…
websocket protocol bump to v8? isn't v10 the one with the security issues fixed?
Version 8 is the same thing as Draft 10, which is the latest draft. Yes, it's confusing.
Re: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here
#48Great. So now I have to be two versions behind if I need to use GWT hosted mode. (Grrr... yet more evidence of G's gradual sunsetting of GWT.)
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#49I like this BUT addons need to catch up and for many it's impossible due to such frequent changes.
99% of the add-ons that are hosted on http://addons.mozilla.org are compatible and had been automatically updated to be compatible. Can you list which ones you use that are not?
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Re: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here
#50I thought the point of Mozilla's new release scheme was that we don't have to download anything anymore. The updates just come to us, as if by magic. https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Updating%20Firefox
But extensions are still version dependent.
I was just about to update my installation, but it told me that my Roboform extension isn't compatible with v7.
If they allow the application to update when it wants, they're going to quickly render me unable to use Firefox, since I won't be able to log into secure web sites.