FireFox Update Thread

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 4:11 pm

Sava700 wrote:Rather unusual as they skipped 3.6.5 and also released 3.7 Alpha 5 today so that tells me they are nearly ready for 3.7 full with HMTL5

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Mozilla_Firef ... d5905.html

HTML 5 support will be nice, but I'd really like to see full hardware acceleration support with it, which was suppose to be in the 4.0 beta but isn't going to be anymore.

akbarri · Post by **akbarri** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 11:48 am

Firefox 4.0 Beta 1
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/

akbarri · Post by **akbarri** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 12:00 pm

Some usefull links related to FF4 B1

Benchmark :
http://lifehacker.com/5581334/testing-s ... p-in-speed

Customization :
Remove Firefox 4.0's big, ugly, unmovable orange button
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/07/06 ... utton-css/

How to remove the Feedback button from Firefox 4
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/07/07 ... firefox-4/

How to Put Tabs Back on Bottom in Mozilla Firefox 4.0
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-put-tabs-ba ... refox-4-0/

How to Disable New “Firefox” Button in Titlebar and Get Menu Bar Back in Mozilla Firefox 4.0
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-disable-new ... refox-4-0/

Change Firefox 4's Toolbar Button Color or Make It Transparent
http://lifehacker.com/5581224/change-fi ... ransparent

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 12:40 pm

akbarri wrote:Firefox 4.0 Beta 1
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/

Good..moving right along! I'll wait till full release though.

akbarri · Post by **akbarri** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 12:31 am

Sava700 wrote:Good..moving right along! I'll wait till full release though.

same here, still wait for full release

but i try that FF4 B1 with portable edition :
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/f ... table/test

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 11:47 pm

I found a way to fix it so you can still use most if not all of your add-on's for 4 so far.

In the address bar type: about:config

accept that you wont kill anything

right click the screen and choose NEW > boolean

enter this as the name

extensions.checkCompatibility.4.0b

and set it to false

do the same with this

extensions.checkUpdateSecurity

and set it to false too

restart the browser and the addons will work

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 6:58 pm

3.6.7 Released today

http://www.mozilla.com/products/downloa ... lang=en-US

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:04 pm

Hmmm...

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 7:08 pm

3.6.8 is out.

http://www.mozilla.com/products/downloa ... lang=en-US

akbarri · Post by **akbarri** » Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:21 pm

CableDude wrote:3.6.8 is out.

http://www.mozilla.com/products/downloa ... lang=en-US

wow, it's so fast

just 3 day after 3.6.7

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:44 am

Yeah I noticed the new auto update pop up last night but I was too busy to let it restart FF. That's something new cause now it seems to change "check for updates" with a auto update feature which is something I may need to look into as I don't really like software auto updating on me.

Edit.. nvm seems the last one changed the update to auto update for some reason cause it's never done that before. hmm

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:33 pm

Running 4.0b1 on Debian, runs well. Scrolling on flash pages is dogged, but all else is well.

Tried 4.0b3 and it is unstable, rolled back to b1.

The neat thing about a FF linux install is one need only copy the extracted download to the /opt dir, copy the old plugins dir and yoiur done.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Aug 08, 2010 3:06 pm

Been having flash plug in crash alot on the latest version of FF.. anyone else see this?

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Sun Aug 08, 2010 5:20 pm

Nope. No crashing here.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sun Aug 08, 2010 5:28 pm

I've had no issues as well.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Aug 08, 2010 7:52 pm

well what the piss..... hmmm I'll look over logs for a little while and see what's going on.

satyre · Post by **satyre** » Mon Aug 09, 2010 12:16 pm

Hi Sava,

Today the flash plug crashed two times for me. It is the first time though I have been using FF 3.6.8 version since it came out.

DO you have Betterprivacy add on?

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Aug 09, 2010 1:13 pm

satyre wrote: DO you have Betterprivacy add on?

nope

24giovanni · Post by **24giovanni** » Mon Aug 09, 2010 6:45 pm

Has happened to me on occasions.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:50 pm

Firefox 4 Beta 4 released!!

Supposed to have a bunch of good changes, hints at full release in next two weeks!

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/d ... lang=en-US

akbarri · Post by **akbarri** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 1:10 pm

Sava700 wrote:Firefox 4 Beta 4 released!!

Supposed to have a bunch of good changes, hints at full release in next two weeks!

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/d ... lang=en-US

installed

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 10:56 pm

3.6.9

http://www.mozilla.com/products/downloa ... lang=en-US

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 10:58 pm

4.0 Beta 5

http://majorgeeks.com/downloadget.php?i ... 85f1761044

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:33 pm

CableDude wrote:3.6.9

http://www.mozilla.com/products/downloa ... lang=en-US

and I just looked for updates an hour or so ago.... I wonder why the late release time?

akbarri · Post by **akbarri** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:59 am

hmm, remove FF 4B4 > install FF 3.6.9 (thx CableDude)
dowload portable FF 4B5 ...

i'll wait FF4 full release @ Nov

24giovanni · Post by **24giovanni** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 11:15 am

way to go akbarri

akbarri · Post by **akbarri** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:11 pm

24giovanni wrote:way to go akbarri

too many crashes with FF 4B4, gimme a headache

akbarri · Post by **akbarri** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 7:03 am

FF 4B6

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/4. ... easenotes/

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:04 am

This Beta 6 version is just a small cut... 7 is just around the corner and was really 6 to begin with.

https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/i ... -inserted/

24giovanni · Post by **24giovanni** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 1:08 pm

When is Sava going to FF 4.x.x.x ?

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:19 pm

Not moving to 4 any time soon till it goes official....however 3.6.10 got released this evening!! GOGO!

http://www.mozilla.com/products/downloa ... lang=en-US

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 8:05 pm

Can't keep up with all these updates.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:33 pm

CableDude wrote:Can't keep up with all these updates.

I bet if this chick was telling you to keep up you damn sure would!!

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Sep 16, 2010 10:03 pm

Mmmmm....

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 8:15 pm

3.6.11 released today

http://www.mozilla.com/products/downloa ... lang=en-US

Fixes:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cg ... A.11-fixed

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 8:58 pm

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 8:25 am

I'm not enjoying the latest 2 versions....memory consumption running away on them. I usually have several tabs open, but she'll average a gig and a half of RAM use. AdBlockPlus and Personas are my only add-on. All other plugins updated. Not so much worried about the RAM consumption...I gots 4 gigs in my system, but every minute or so while typing away, I'll get a period of lag/hang for about 5-6 seconds...it starts to get like doing PcAnywhere remote over dial up.

Dunno..may be jumping ship to Chrome unless this settles down. I notice it on 2x different rigs too, and so does the wife on her laptop. All within the past 2 weeks or so.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 11:26 am

YeOldeStonecat wrote:I'm not enjoying the latest 2 versions....memory consumption running away on them. I usually have several tabs open, but she'll average a gig and a half of RAM use. AdBlockPlus and Personas are my only add-on. All other plugins updated. Not so much worried about the RAM consumption...I gots 4 gigs in my system, but every minute or so while typing away, I'll get a period of lag/hang for about 5-6 seconds...it starts to get like doing PcAnywhere remote over dial up.

Dunno..may be jumping ship to Chrome unless this settles down. I notice it on 2x different rigs too, and so does the wife on her laptop. All within the past 2 weeks or so.

I had this problem about 2 versions back, its since gone away but mostly showed up when i was leaving FF open for extended periods of time. I thought it was from a ad-on to start with but never could narrow it down till I just started closing FF when not using it.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 2:44 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:I'm not enjoying the latest 2 versions....memory consumption running away on them. I usually have several tabs open, but she'll average a gig and a half of RAM use. AdBlockPlus and Personas are my only add-on. All other plugins updated. Not so much worried about the RAM consumption...I gots 4 gigs in my system, but every minute or so while typing away, I'll get a period of lag/hang for about 5-6 seconds...it starts to get like doing PcAnywhere remote over dial up.

Dunno..may be jumping ship to Chrome unless this settles down. I notice it on 2x different rigs too, and so does the wife on her laptop. All within the past 2 weeks or so.

What filters you running with AdBlock Plus?

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 2:45 pm

CableDude wrote:What filters you running with AdBlock Plus?

EasylistUSA.