Who's using Firefox 3.5? - Democratic Underground

Commie Pinko Dirtbag

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Tue Jun-30-09 04:11 PM
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Who's using Firefox 3.5?

Looks and feels exactly the same as 3.0.x so far. This Private Browsing feature is nice, though.

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suninvited

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Tue Jun-30-09 04:12 PM
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1. I am

haven't noticed a difference, but I was a pretty new firefox user when they updated.

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Call Me Wesley

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Tue Jun-30-09 04:36 PM
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2. Me, since today ...

I was wondering why a web feature didn't work in it, because I knew it should work. Then I checked out my version, and I was way behind. It's not so obvious, but it has great funcionalitis while still looking the same, though.

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Orsino

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Tue Jun-30-09 05:02 PM
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3. Well, I am now.

Thanks--I wasn't aware there was an update.

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HopeHoops

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Wed Jul-01-09 09:03 AM
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4. I am now - thanks!

Mozilla is the ONLY source of software where it is completely safe to apply every update (not talking about beta, of course). Micro$oft is exactly the opposite.

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gmoney

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Wed Jul-01-09 09:04 AM
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5. OT: I STILL crack up every time I see that comic in your sig line...

Thanks for cheering me up, CPD.

BTW, just upgraded to Firefox 3.5 for Mac last night, so too soon to give a review. But it launched at least! Woohoo!

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RebelOne

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Wed Jul-01-09 09:10 AM
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6. I'm using Firefox 3.0.7.

This is what it reads on About Firefox:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021906 Firefox/3.0.7

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Vidar

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Wed Jul-01-09 11:43 AM
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7. Still using 3.0.1. Got burned on one update & quit doing them.

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Vidar

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Wed Jul-01-09 01:56 PM
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9. Upgraded to 3.011 today.

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qnr

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Wed Jul-01-09 11:49 AM
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8. 3.5b4 here, though this is posted from 3.1b2 on a virtual machine n/t

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Dogtown

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Wed Jul-01-09 02:24 PM
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10. Alerted by your post

Tx!

:hi:

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Tangerine LaBamba

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Wed Jul-01-09 02:27 PM
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11. I got the update,

but what's Private Browsing?

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RoyGBiv

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Wed Jul-01-09 02:44 PM
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13. In a nutshell ...

Private browsing disables all the little things browsers do that save your browsing history, leaving traces of it on your machine.

It's useful, for example, if you are in a library and are browsing the Internet with Firefox and do not want the next person who comes along to know what you were doing just by checking the history. It saves you from having to remember to go in and delete all that afterward.

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Tangerine LaBamba

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Wed Jul-01-09 03:09 PM
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14. Thank you -

It won't affect me - everything is private - but I wondered.

Thanks, and did I tell you that your screen name was a character in a dream I had a few weeks ago?

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RoyGBiv

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Wed Jul-01-09 02:31 PM
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12. Here ...

Edited on Wed Jul-01-09 02:34 PM by RoyGBiv

The major improvement with performance involve the javascript engine. Busy pages with lots of javascript show measurable improvement.

Some of the new additions are apparent because the elements of HTML 5 aren't in wide use. There's now an open standard media format in it, which is very cool and is going to piss off Adobe and MS. Dynamic content injection is always impressive.

http://people.mozilla.com/~prouget/demos/DynamicContentInjection/play.xhtml

Over in the computer forum, charlie gave a run-down of things as he was trying it out. It's available here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=242&topic_id=25720&mesg_id=25741

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Commie Pinko Dirtbag

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Thu Jul-02-09 08:56 AM
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15. Hmm. Google Maps DOES look snappier. -nt

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CrownPrinceBandar

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Thu Jul-02-09 10:10 AM
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16. It takes forever to load...............

something on the order of 30 secs or so. I don't have but a few add-ons (AdBlock, ForecastFox and IE Tab) and my bookmarks are not out of hand, so I'm at a loss as to why it opens so slowly. I cruised the Mozilla community page and many folks are having this issue.

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