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Sava700 wrote:Yep... here is official link

http://download.mozilla.org/?product=fi ... lang=en-US
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It's on filehippo now too.
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CableDude wrote:It's on filehippo now too.
It's still beta though.
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24giovanni wrote:It's still beta though.
No it's not the 5.0 is official.. I posted the official link the other day.

I'm not sure what filehippo is linking but use the link I posted.
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I got it Friday from majorgeeks.
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I can get it through AU now too.
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It also went live today on their main page http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/fx/
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Sava700 wrote:It also went live today on their main page http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/fx/
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CableDude wrote:I can get it through AU now too.
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I went from a 3.6.x version and the went to 5.0 on a machine today.......Not sure if I would do it that way again.
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CableDude wrote:I went from a 3.6.x version and the went to 5.0 on a machine today.......Not sure if I would do it that way again.
shouldn't really do much.. the UI is going to change the same way 4.0 did.
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Sava700 wrote:shouldn't really do much.. the UI is going to change the same way 4.0 did.
:nod:

I was experimenting to see what would happen. Since 6 is on the horizon. I not going to go and bother to do 100 plus machines right now.
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Uh clicking on a link now opens a new window and not a tab.... Do not like.
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https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases

FF6 will hit beta on July 5th.
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Sava700 wrote:Fire Fox 5.0.1 Released today!

http://www.mozilla.com/products/downloa ... lang=en-US
i'm still waiting on one of my plugins to be updated for firefox 5 before i update
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Mark wrote:i'm still waiting on one of my plugins to be updated for firefox 5 before i update
It may not be if it hasn't been by now..you may want to find an alternative...all of mine were updated for 5 within a few days.
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FireFox 6 should be released some time this week coming up FYI!
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Hell yeah..saw it coming now on for FF7 which they say will be 50% faster!
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Did you update?
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CableDude wrote:Did you update?
of course I did :)
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I did, see nothing different, as usual. ;)
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CableDude wrote:I did, see nothing different, as usual. ;)
its a little faster.. it won't be official till tomorrow so I hope by end of week all plug-in's are updated.
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Sava700 wrote:its a little faster.. it won't be official till tomorrow so I hope by end of week all plug-in's are updated.
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I'm not seeing this domain highlighting they speak of?
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dhil.jpg
This release was meh. Looks like 7 is where the fun is.
She's presenting like a mandrill!
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TY 64-bit. I thought there was something new called permissions manager, but I'm not seeing that either. :confused:
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CableDude wrote:TY 64-bit. I thought there was something new called permissions manager, but I'm not seeing that either. :confused:
its on by default... reinstall ff and you may have a add-on messing with it who knows.
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Sava, when is version 7 coming out?
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She's presenting like a mandrill!
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http://www.majorgeeks.com/Mozilla_Firef ... d6479.html

Firefox 8 is already in production... here ya go :)
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Sava700 wrote:http://www.majorgeeks.com/Mozilla_Firef ... d6479.html

Firefox 8 is already in production... here ya go :)
Thanks Sava.
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Sava700 wrote:http://www.majorgeeks.com/Mozilla_Firef ... d6479.html

Firefox 8 is already in production... here ya go :)
CableDude wrote:Thanks Sava.
Been using it for about 3 hours now. Only 1 crash on a flash game. Have yet to check what is under the hood.
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What makes you: "...waking up in the morning so excited about & wanna FLY out of the door ?"
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