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Re: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here

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Post by asymmetric »

mbrubeck wrote: post #58
asymmetric wrote: post #41

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) [1]: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/

The Aurora and Beta channel updates are released a few days after the stable channel update. See the text on https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar - or for even more details see http://blog.mozilla.com/channels/2011/05/11/merge-dates-vs-r...

"Code is not always released to users on the same day as the branch migration. The release to users may be a few days later, to allow for manual testing and sign-off."

I think this is confusing. Either you synch the switch (i.e. when you release the "release" version to users you release the "beta" too), or it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Re: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here

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Post by codecaine »

jamesgeck0 wrote: post #61
codecaine wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what bothers me most is that they made the whole top part (including title, menu bar etc if you choose to enable it) transparent. I personally just find that horrible. Screenshot: http://0.tqn.com/d/browsers/1/0/Z/c/-/-/firefox-5-show-menu-... Here is a screenshot comparing FF 3.5 to 4: http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/500x_firefox... (3.5 is right)

Enable the menu bar and disable tags on top. Then install a plain persona like this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/white-glossy-... It's not exactly like 3.5, but it's not transparent anymore.

I did that and installed a couple of extensions that add old functionality and Firefox now crashes pretty much randomly

Re: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here

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Post by codecaine »

afhof wrote: post #15
codecaine wrote: post #8

After Firefox 4 came out I had to install so many extensions to make it feel like 3.6 that it became unstable and incredibly slow. Because Firefox apparently tries to be more like Chrome I decided to switch to the original and I haven't looked back yet. I only fire up Firefox when Chromes built-in developer tools lack functionality compared to Firebug, which is rarely the case. The way Firefox decided to take makes m…

I actually still run 3.6 since I like the UI on it better. The speed of the browser means very little to me, I'd rather have the familiar UI. If you liked FF 3.6, why not stick with it?

after I've worked with a fast browser like Chrome I just can't go back

Re: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here

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Post by AgentConundrum »

mbrubeck wrote: post #73
AgentConundrum wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's awesome, but it's still not nearly as frictionless as Chrome. My understanding of Chromes upgrader - as a user who only occasionally uses the browser since firefox is still my main - is that the browser auto-upgrades the first time you load it after the new version comes out. Now, I thought this was how the new Firefox worked, but since I did it manually today even after rebooting once for a plugin issue (Netfli…

Firefox does update automatically. By default it checks for updates every 8 hours, downloads the update in the background, and installs it the next time you start Firefox. If you haven't restarted Firefox for 24 hours after an update is downloaded, it'll prompt you to restart. If any of your add-ons will be disabled by the update, Firefox will list those add-ons and ask whether to upgrade or not. We're working on ref…

Thanks for the clarification. I did think the Firefox update was automatic, but I think I confused myself by doing it manually today.

My main point was really meant to be the UAC, since it was a bit jarring to see today (First upgrade on Win7; just bought this computer a month ago). I'm glad to see that this is being looked into.

On the bright side, I had absolutely no issues with add-on compatibility this time around. In the old days, I would wait a while - sometimes literally months - before upgrading, because of issues with add-ons I considered "important". I actually ended up backing up my profile before any upgrades, and often had to roll back the version. I didn't even think of that today, I just clicked apply and everything worked. It's a serious improvement.

Re: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here

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Post by keeperofdakeys »

sp332 wrote: post #22
lfx wrote: post #10

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What fundamental new is for new UI comparing with 3.6? I use Firefox for some way, only for firebug mostly. I think its just evolution of person, now I use what is most serves my needs.

Tab Groups are cool, but I don't think anyone uses them. If you're on Windows 7 it hides the menu bar for more vertical space. It has support for lightweight extensions (called "JetPacks" internally) which don't require a restart to install or uninstall. There's no statusbar, like Chrome, URLs pop up when you hover over a hyperlink. The main advantage over Chrome is that it doesn't freeze up when it's loading a new t…

Firefox also hides the menubar on linux, although it can also be disabled. It is also posiblse to enable an 'extension bar', which takes the place of the status bar for extension icons.

Re: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here

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Post by starwed »

ck2 wrote: post #55
jimktrains2 wrote: post #51

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>* The ' http:// URL prefix is now hidden by default I hate that:( I hate that they removed the rss button too:(

RSS urlbar icon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rss-icon/

That's weird -- the icon is still there, but not default, and it just takes about two clicks to restore it.

So what's the purpose of the addon?

Re: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here

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Post by [deleted] »

hollerith wrote: post #29
afhof wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually still run 3.6 since I like the UI on it better. The speed of the browser means very little to me, I'd rather have the familiar UI. If you liked FF 3.6, why not stick with it?

And FF 7 (which I've been using for about 5 months now) is not even noticeably faster than 3.6 on my usage pattern. In fact it seems to spend more time with an unresponsive UI than 3.6.

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Re: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here

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Post by starwed »

AaronMT wrote: post #46
itswindy wrote: post #44

I 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?

Earlier, I read a pretty interesting mozilla post about the problem with non-AMO addons.

> it was quite eye-opening when I learned that only 25% of the 600 million add-ons in use every day in Firefox 4 and later are active on AMO.

http://blog.fligtar.com/2011/09/26/add-on-compatibility-prog...

Re: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here

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Post by bzbarsky »

onedognight wrote: post #4

I 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

Yep. You only have to download the update if you don't want to wait the up to 8 hours before your browser pings the update server and discovers there's an update.
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