Firefox 5.0

[garbon]

It is already out. Wow.

[Grey Fox]

What's new?

[garbon]

I guess these:

Added support for CSS animations
    The Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability
    Tuned HTTP idle connection logic for increased performance
    Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance
    Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas
    Improved spell checking for some locales
    Improved desktop environment integration for Linux users
    WebGL content can no longer load cross-domain textures
    Background tabs have setTimeout and setInterval clamped to 1000ms to improve performance
    Fixed several stability issues
    Fixed several security issues

Wonder why they jumped to the 5.0 moniker.

[Liep]

Yeah, no noticeable difference.

[Liep]

"A draft roadmap indicates that Mozilla hopes to release versions 6 and 7 in 2011 following the release of Firefox 5 in June 2011. These versions will be smaller incremental updates, primarily focusing on improving speed, stability and security."

From Wikipedia.

[DGuller]

Holy crap, that's quite a version number hyperinflation that sprang out of nowhere.  I remember not too long ago when significant changes to Firefox were made with version numbers changing only from the fourth significant digit on.

[Weijun]

For all that, the 64-bit version has been pushed out to version 7.  I was really hoping to get off of Nightly track and onto Aurora.  Oh well, just a few more months of instability to go.

[viper37]

Holy crap, that's quite a version number hyperinflation that sprang out of nowhere.  I remember not too long ago when significant changes to Firefox were made with version numbers changing only from the fourth significant digit on.

I believe they want to catch Google Chrome.  I don't think I've seen any big changes in Chrome since v7.
I suppose some consumers feel FF is not yet up to date since it has a lower version #.

[Josquius]

How odd. Four was just a month or two ago. They realised they were losing the east asian market due to the numbering?

[garbon]

How odd. Four was just a month or two ago. They realised they were losing the east asian market due to the numbering?

Also known as 3 months.

[Liep]

Thunderbird just went to 5.0 as well, I didn't even know 4.0 was out.

[Weijun]

Adobe finally released the 64-bit version of the Flash Player 11.  What a difference!  Firefox 8 x64 no longer crashes 50% of the time of you load YouTube.  It would still be nice if 64-bit Firefox actually got bumped up to the Aurora track, but even on Nightly, about half of my extensions still work.

[Lucidor]

Firefox 6.0 is out... 

[Liep]

Haha, I hadn't even realised it upgraded to 6.0. In my excuse I can't see any noticeable differences.

[Lucidor]

I honestly don't think there are any. There are no versions between 5.0 and 6.0.