It is already out. Wow.
What's new?
I guess these:
QuoteAdded 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.
Yeah, no noticeable difference.
"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.
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.
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.
Quote from: DGuller on June 21, 2011, 07:03:11 PM
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 #.
How odd. Four was just a month or two ago. They realised they were losing the east asian market due to the numbering?
Quote from: Tyr on June 22, 2011, 09:47:41 AM
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.
Thunderbird just went to 5.0 as well, I didn't even know 4.0 was out.
Adobe finally released the 64-bit version of the Flash Player 11 (http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer11.html). What a difference! Firefox 8 x64 (http://nightly.mozilla.org/) 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.
Firefox 6.0 is out... :wacko:
Haha, I hadn't even realised it upgraded to 6.0. In my excuse I can't see any noticeable differences.
I honestly don't think there are any. There are no versions between 5.0 and 6.0. :D
6 is mostly changes for developers. Basically, Mozilla's ramping up the version numbers as part of their "rapid release" schedule.
And 7.0 just updated itself. :rolleyes:
if they stuck to their road map, this one should have gotten rid of the memory leaks. Wonder if it's true.
The memory leak fix is coming next week, in version 11.0.
Quote from: DGuller on September 28, 2011, 12:29:15 PM
The memory leak fix is coming next week, in version 11.0.
:lmfao:
Firefox has decided that it can't contact many websites now. Farewell Firefox. You was fun until you grew into a piece of shit.
I have zero problems with FF on 4 computers...