FireFox 5.0 released!

wd40

Hi, FireFox 5.0 was released few days back !!! , it looks and feels the same, any body used it yet?

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mikej412

I had enough problems after the "upgrade" that I was wondering if it was a fake malware upgrade.

I have rebooted this laptop more in the last couple days than I have over the last 6 months.

What ever it is (real or malware) it seems to function now.

[Deleted User]

I've actually had more luck with IE9 than I have with Firefox lately. I never thought I would actually say that.

bermovick

I've been running aurora (firefox 6 alpha) for a while. surprisingly stable - I don't think it's crashed once on me.

veritas_libertas

xmalachi wrote: »

I've actually had more luck with IE9 than I have with Firefox lately. I never thought I would actually say that.

I having similar experience with FireFox. For some reason it just freezes every once and awhile and I have to close it through task manager.

CodeBlox

mikej412 wrote: »

I had enough problems after the "upgrade" that I was wondering if it was a fake malware upgrade.

I have rebooted this laptop more in the last couple days than I have over the last 6 months.

What ever it is (real or malware) it seems to function now.

Can't say that I've had any problems with it. I updated to FireFox 5.0 a few days ago and have had 0 problems yet. No lockups, no reboots.

rogue2shadow

mikej412 wrote: »

I had enough problems after the "upgrade" that I was wondering if it was a fake malware upgrade.

Exactly! I ran through like five sites and checked the process before allowing the upgrade lol.

NOC-Ninja

same problem like mike. i had to disable services and go to safe mode to fix it. weird!

MentholMoose

What the heck, didn't 4.0 just come out? I'm still running Firefox 3.6!!

Devilsbane

and here to think I'm still running IE8

WafflesAndRootbeer

MentholMoose wrote: »

What the heck, didn't 4.0 just come out? I'm still running Firefox 3.6!!

They have switched to a fast-release schedule so they renamed the code projects, making a version of 4 into 5. They did it because there were tons of complaints about the slow releases and Google was throwing new versions of Chrome out the door like a cookie factory.

SteveLord

No issues with it here. Still a diehard Firefox user ever since 1.5!

RomBUS

WafflesAndRootbeer wrote: »

They have switched to a fast-release schedule so they renamed the code projects, making a version of 4 into 5. They did it because there were tons of complaints about the slow releases and Google was throwing new versions of Chrome out the door like a cookie factory.

Yeah I thought the same Moose

I am running Firefox 5 now and havent ran into a single problem so far (knock on wood) and its been good to me...very smooth and fast from my experience so far

Cpl.Klinger

I've not had issues with it on anything I run here at home. The kids desktop does occasionally lock up, but I'm pretty sure that may have more to do with a slight user error on her part. At 4 years old, she's good, but still prone to goofing things up.

djfunz

Once I made the switch to Chrome, I never looked back.

Xantcha

Still running 3.6 on all my systems. I think if they are trying to play catch up with Google and MS on version releases then they are bound to fudge a few things up.

I also run Iron browser on some systems.

Bokeh

No issues at all here. Have it running on my work machine, then 4 machines at the house. All are chugging along just fine.

Mishra

Had to revert from 4.0 to 3.6.18. Too many weird issues I was having.

Co-worker didn't have them though. Who knows.

wd40

Version 6 have been released a few days back ..

Still it keeps crashing for no apparent reason

zaxbysauce

Holy necro batman!

hiddenknight821

zaxbysauce wrote: »

Holy necro batman!

What's wrong? You reminded me of my earth-science high school teacher who said the same thing, except the necro replaces with dodo.

zaxbysauce

hiddenknight821 wrote: »

What's wrong? You reminded me of my earth-science high school teacher who said the same thing, except the necro replaces with dodo.

Urban Dictionary: necro-thread

crrussell3

zaxbysauce wrote: »

Holy necro batman!

Isn't it better to necro a thread (especially one you created) instead of creating a new one?

hiddenknight821

zaxbysauce wrote: »

Urban Dictionary: necro-thread

Dude, there's nothing wrong with reviving an old thread that's two months old. Especially when it's completely relevant to the person's post. Firefox 6 came out right after Firefox 5, and I have to say that was pretty unusual. If you want to see some serious necro-threading on TE, check the permalinks below.

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Now, that's what I call HOLY NECRO-THREADING!

TE community, if you can find more, please enlighten this guy that you have seen worse.

Devilsbane

The best part of
http://www.techexams.net/forums/windows-2000-core/2787-passed.html#post531834

is how many people saw the topic of "passed" and wrote congrats. Didn't read. Didn't think "hmmm why is someone passing a 2000 exam in 2011?"

But lets try to keep this on the topic of Firefox 4/5/6. What is prompting the quick releases? Trying to beat IE to version 10?

JDMurray

Firefox versions 7 and 8 are due out before long: Firefox 7 add-on compatibility, and looking forward to 8 | Mozilla Add-ons Blog

Mozilla obviously isn't using the traditional version numbering scheme, otherwise they'd be on v4.2.x.

MentholMoose

Firefox 7 is out.
Mozilla Firefox Web Browser

JDMurray

Nah. I'm waiting until FF 23 to upgrade again. I hear that'll be a real good'un.

RomBUS

JDMurray wrote: »

Nah. I'm waiting until FF 23 to upgrade again. I hear that'll be a real good'un.

Geez I know I cant keep with these constant version changes, I'm doing them in 5's now lol

JDMurray

RomBUS wrote: »

Geez I know I cant keep with these constant version changes, I'm doing them in 5's now lol

If Mozilla makes a major release of FF every quarter like they have been, I'm seriously considering only upgrading only on powers of two.

Everyone

Just updated to 7, can't see any difference. Still using 375MB of RAM to have 16 tabs open between 2 browser windows.