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Firefox 25 is released

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Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by josefresco »

qwerty_asdf wrote: post #14

I find it irritating that Mozilla now herds its Firefox users toward the Stub installer, and not the full offline-install redistributable binary. The actual download itself is available on the "Systems & Languages" page: > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ This kind of download is important, when you want to try out a new release, without committing yourself to it. For example, let's say you want to load it…

Alternatively, you could wait for the folks over at PortableApps to update: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by josefresco »

erikb wrote: post #48

I know a guy who still runs FF3. It's really incredible how fast Mozilla can push out new releases now!

Maybe this comment was meant to be sarcastic, but the version number is not an indication of progress as it was with prior development. When Chrome went all nutty with frequent new version numbers, Mozilla followed suit.

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by asdasf »

Yoric wrote: post #30
asdasf wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did not suggest the size of any given update, or the schedule they are released at was evidence of stagnation. The fact that firefox is the problem browser now instead of IE is what I pointed to. It is nearly 2014. Firefox still doesn't have html 5 form elements even. Remember making internal use sites and telling people "we're not supporting IE, use firefox"? Now we're doing "we're not supporting firefox, use chro…

I'm not sure what you mean. As far as I can remember, Firefox has had HTML 5 forms since Firefox 4 ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Form... ). What exactly are you talking about?

I am talking about the rest of them. In particular, the most useful ones: date, time, datetime(-local), hell even number is useful and forever missing in firefox.

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by msujaws »

liveoneggs wrote: post #22

So session cookies now never expire? CHANGED Resetting Firefox no longer clears your browsing session

This is a misinterpretation of what they are saying. Firefox has a "Reset Firefox" feature that will reset many of the settings within Firefox that may be causing a poor browsing experience.

Previously, when the "Reset Firefox" feature was used, all of your open tabs would get lost in the shuffle. This has now been fixed, and you won't lose your open tabs and current browsing session when Firefox restarts with a fresh and clean profile.

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by wnevets »

snarfy wrote: post #51
liveoneggs wrote: post #22

So session cookies now never expire? CHANGED Resetting Firefox no longer clears your browsing session

I believe 'session' and 'session cookies' are different things here. IMO It's a rather poorly described change.

Yeah, session probably means tabs open, etc.

Re: Firefox 25 is released

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Post by bearbin »

qwerty_asdf wrote: post #14

I find it irritating that Mozilla now herds its Firefox users toward the Stub installer, and not the full offline-install redistributable binary. The actual download itself is available on the "Systems & Languages" page: > https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/ This kind of download is important, when you want to try out a new release, without committing yourself to it. For example, let's say you want to load it…

I'm getting the full version download. It might just be location (UK) or maybe random. I don't know.

Edit: It's probably just that I'm using Linux.

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