FireFox Update Thread

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 2:47 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:EasylistUSA.

I actually did have a Skype plugin...removed that yesterday, she's hummin at 160 megs now...been running all morning. Will keep an eye on it.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 5:15 pm

I have 5 different subscriptions. Disabled a few, will see what happens.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sat Oct 23, 2010 5:21 pm

I'm going at 157 with 4 tabs open right now.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:49 pm

3.6.12 released today! GO!

Firefox 3.6.12 fixes a critical security issue that could potentially allow remote code execution.

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announc ... 10-73.html

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

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:15 pm

nevermind

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:51 am

FF 4 Beta 7 out

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

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sun Nov 07, 2010 11:20 am

Sava700 wrote:FF 4 Beta 7 out

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

Go grab it Sava!

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri Nov 12, 2010 9:12 pm

Sava700 wrote:FF 4 Beta 7 out

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

I'm using it now.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sat Nov 13, 2010 11:53 am

CableDude wrote:I'm using it now.

It's very nice!

24giovanni · Post by **24giovanni** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 5:30 pm

CableDude wrote:I'm using it now.

Did you just install it right over 3.6.12?

thx

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 7:04 pm

Beta software= Uh, NO.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 7:30 pm

24giovanni wrote:Did you just install it right over 3.6.12?

thx

Don't recommend doing this on your system that you use daily... I install beta and test software on a junk machine but it's often re-imaged right before I do it to verify results vs some other software causing issues.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 9:49 pm

24giovanni wrote:Did you just install it right over 3.6.12?

thx

Running the portable version.

24giovanni · Post by **24giovanni** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:56 am

CableDude wrote:Running the portable version.

Good idea. I tred that in past as well. Didnt know they had portable as beta.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 7:24 pm

24giovanni wrote:Good idea. I tred that in past as well. Didnt know they had portable as beta.

It works really nice on my slow XP machine, much better then the 3.5 version.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri Nov 19, 2010 10:20 am

CableDude wrote:It works really nice on my slow XP machine, much better then the 3.5 version.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 4:01 pm

Not really a update.. FF 4 is coming soon but for now Mozilla has put live cam's at the Knoxville zoo to show how they have adopted red pandas for ya to watch. http://firefoxlive.mozilla.org/

According to the caretaker : "the cubs are extra active & entertaining after they’ve been fed, usually around 9 a.m., 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. EST."

Funny to watch that's for sure

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:37 pm

3.6.13 Released

http://download.mozilla.org/?product=fi ... lang=en-US

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3. ... easenotes/

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 6:20 pm

Oh joy, more stuff to go around and update.

Tuesday - Quicktime
Wednesday - Java
Thursday - FF.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 8:20 pm

CableDude wrote:Oh joy, more stuff to go around and update.

Tuesday - Quicktime
Wednesday - Java
Thursday - FF.

Well Java and FF update on their own... why do you need quicktime?

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 8:43 pm

In my world they don't. I have deep freeze protecting my computers and have to update this **** manually. I am getting tired of an update coming out every other day it seems now.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 10:21 pm

CableDude wrote:In my world they don't. I have deep freeze protecting my computers and have to update this **** manually. I am getting tired of an update coming out every other day it seems now.

Just remember.... "Job Security"

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Dec 09, 2010 10:29 pm

Sava700 wrote:Just remember.... "Job Security"

That's what everyone tells me.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Dec 21, 2010 10:45 am

Firefox 4 Beta 8

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

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Dec 21, 2010 11:19 am

I think we will see the full final of 4 release in the next 3 weeks.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 10:06 am

Firefox 4 Beta 9

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

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:17 am

Sava, ftw.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 9:32 am

CableDude wrote:Sava, ftw.

From what I've been reading around, full final version of 4 will release towards the end of Feb. Releasing one more beta and one RC prior to it.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 11:30 am

This bug fix or update coming in FF 4 will end up speeding the load time of FF4 by twice as fast as what you can get now!!

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627591

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:01 pm

Sava700 wrote:This bug fix or update coming in FF 4 will end up speeding the load time of FF4 by twice as fast as what you can get now!!

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627591

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:02 pm

Getting closer.. FF 4 Beta 10

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

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:29 pm

Sava700 wrote:Getting closer.. FF 4 Beta 10

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

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:49 am

Expect FF 4 soon but also expect to see 5,6 and 7 by the end of THIS year!!! Although it does have "Draft" at the top of the page for the wiki, it's still leaves the door open for at least 1 version this year after FF4.

Firefox's official roadmap has been updated, and boy are there some interesting changes afoot. Most notably, Firefox 7 will ship in 2011. The second biggy, and the main focus of Firefox development in 2011, is to make sure there is no more than 50ms between any user interaction and feedback from the browser.

As far as feature sets go, this is what the roadmap looks like: Firefox 5 will absorb the Account Manager and F1 Simple Sharing add-ons to become built-in features. It looks like Windows 7 64-bit will be officially supported with FF5, too.

Firefox 6 will have a focus on the Web applications framework, JavaScript optimizations, and support for OS X 10.7. For Web applications, some missing pieces of CSS3 and HTML5 will be added to Gecko, the rendering engine.

Firefox 7's feature list is less clear. Electrolysis (splitting everything into separate processes) and changes to XBL support are mentioned, but nothing certain.

Overall, there's a big emphasis on responsiveness and "shining the primary UI until it gleams."

It'll definitely be interesting to see how Mozilla transitions to a new release cycle -- and it'll definitely mean a lot more Firefox-related news, too!

source

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 8:13 am

CableDude wrote:In my world they don't. I have deep freeze protecting my computers and have to update this **** manually. I am getting tired of an update coming out every other day it seems now.

Group Policy FTW! I wrapped up my Java .23 updates at most clients last week.
About 15 minutes of my time per client/network.....no matter how large the network.
We also just purchased Kaseya....to automate smaller clients.

I'm about to 100% complete the jump from Firefox to Chrome. Ad block in Chrome good 'n mature, faster loading, faster response, safer...can't think of why to stay with FF.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Feb 08, 2011 9:09 am

even more closer FF4 Beta 11

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

satyre · Post by **satyre** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:58 am

YeOldeStonecat wrote: I'm about to 100% complete the jump from Firefox to Chrome. Ad block in Chrome good 'n mature, faster loading, faster response, safer...can't think of why to stay with FF.

I will never use Chrome.

The problem with Chrome is the privacy issue. Google business model is to find out what we do to assess our behavior and life style for future use. Though they can track us up to certain level, using their own browser makes it easy for them to follow our every move.

One day they will get enough information to predict everything about a person and profiling. Like credit reporting agencies, they may become a Character reporting agency.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:56 am

satyre wrote:I will never use Chrome.

The problem with Chrome is the privacy issue. Google business model is to find out what we do to assess our behavior and life style for future use. Though they can track us up to certain level, using their own browser makes it easy for them to follow our every move..

Very easily turned off by unchecking the "suggestion" feature of the searches. And...this search data is the same as when you install toolbars into Internet Exploader or Firefox or Safari....as they install BHO's into those browsers which do the same thing.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:00 am

YeOldeStonecat wrote:Very easily turned off by unchecking the "suggestion" feature of the searches. And...this search data is the same as when you install toolbars into Internet Exploader or Firefox or Safari....as they install BHO's into those browsers which do the same thing.

This is why I refuse to use Toolbars, and satrye has a good point on privacy. Google is sticking its head into just about everything that Face(Lame)book isn't.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:46 am

Sava700 wrote:This is why I refuse to use Toolbars, and satrye has a good point on privacy. Google is sticking its head into just about everything that Face(Lame)book isn't.

And by default...what does Firefox had for a search bar? Yup! The BHO's for Google are in there too!
And Internet Exploader users....what does IE have by default? Bing...and we have pretty much the same equivalent.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:22 pm

Everything tracks us. I like Chrome's incognito mode. Still use FF as well.