Firefox 14

opethdisciple · 17 Jul 2012 at 17:55

Nexus18 said:
Wait till you see firefox when australis hits!

Yea it looks like chrome, but it is nice.

Notice the Back button is how it was in Version 13!

Much better!

dante6491 · 17 Jul 2012 at 18:13

Apparently 15 will be a superb for developers with a new JS debugging thing. Ion Monkey might hit by the end of the year too. Oh, is this the version with a built in .pdf reader?

darael · 17 Jul 2012 at 18:32

Can't see any difference right now, looks exactly the same. I have the menu toolbar enabled, so the back/forward buttons change is no issue for me.

mmj_uk · 17 Jul 2012 at 18:43

I've found Firefox to be slow as **** and problematic with Flash last couple of releases, I hope this is an improvement.

opethdisciple · 17 Jul 2012 at 19:38

opethdisciple said:
Oh dear. With every new version, it gets more and more like chrome.

What have they done to the back and forward buttons?

It was perfect before!

I made this comment at work, running XP.

At home 14 looks great on Win 7. Same default buttons and theme as before.

Mr Krugga · 17 Jul 2012 at 19:57

Vimes said:
I moved over to Chrome as the YouTube type issues were too problematic for me but left version 13 installed.
Version 13 of FF has updated for me to 14 and disabled all my plugins, but I updated and enabled them, and the Youtube issue is still there.

I used to be very pro-Firefox. Somewhere down the line, the Nigthlies became less stable or exciting, performance has suffered with multiple tabs open, new features were not as useful as I though and Chrome has caught up to the point that it feels like a safer and faster browser, with enough addons to suit my needs.

Short story is, I've moved completely to Chrome this week, previously testing SR Ironware.

Phil2008 · 17 Jul 2012 at 20:08

Has the smooth scrolling been fixed yet,, cos they buggered it up in 13?

SheepBeast · 17 Jul 2012 at 20:43

Phil2008 said:
Has the smooth scrolling been fixed yet,, cos they buggered it up in 13?

Works fine for me.

You can always turn it off anyway if it doesn't.

Orcvader · 17 Jul 2012 at 20:47

Phil2008 said:
Has the smooth scrolling been fixed yet,, cos they buggered it up in 13?

The sluggish feel of it? It's there to stay. But I found this fix when I was fiddling with Firefox's settings without the need of addons when they changed the scrolling algorithm in 13.

1) Go into about:config
2) Search "smoothscroll"
3) Change general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel.durationMaxMS from 400 to 150, and general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel.durationMinMS from 200 to 75

Then you get the old 12 and before scrolling back

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Phil2008 · 17 Jul 2012 at 20:55

Orcvader said:
The sluggish feel of it? It's there to stay. But I found this fix when I was fiddling with Firefox's settings without the need of addons when they changed the scrolling algorithm in 13.

1) Go into about:config
2) Search "smoothscroll"
3) Change general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel.durationMaxMS from 400 to 150, and general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel.durationMinMS from 200 to 75

Then you get the old 12 and before scrolling back .

I use "yet another smooth scrolling" plugin but on 13 it didnt work, so went back to 12

Orcvader · 17 Jul 2012 at 21:53

Should give my method a go then. All it does is speeds up the default Firefox smoothscroll algorithm back to the old speed.

SheepBeast · 18 Jul 2012 at 00:30

You do realise there is an option in Firefox settings just to turn smooth scrolling off, right?

Orcvader · 18 Jul 2012 at 01:26

SheepBeast said:
You do realise there is an option in Firefox settings just to turn smooth scrolling off, right?

But then it feels so clunky

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V F · 18 Jul 2012 at 01:39

opethdisciple said:
Yea it looks like chrome, but it is nice.

Notice the Back button is how it was in Version 13!

Much better!

What are you using to make the inactive tabs have no background?

Stoner81 · 18 Jul 2012 at 02:16

Click me for image (the image ends up too small so hence the clicky).

Firefox can be changed very easily so as the tabs are on the bottom and you can have all the old buttons back again.

Stoner81.

Broken Hope · 18 Jul 2012 at 07:08

dante6491 said:
Apparently 15 will be a superb for developers with a new JS debugging thing. Ion Monkey might hit by the end of the year too. Oh, is this the version with a built in .pdf reader?

15 beta is up on the ftp, has the built in .pdf reader at least.

I never run release versions of Firefox these days, the beta version is stable enough and you get to be at least 1 version ahead of release.

Neil79 · 18 Jul 2012 at 15:54

Firefox 15.b1 Beta is nice thanks for the tip Broken Hope

robinbredin · 18 Jul 2012 at 16:43

Broken Hope

Originally Posted by dante6491 View Post
Apparently 15 will be a superb for developers with a new JS debugging thing. Ion Monkey might hit by the end of the year too. Oh, is this the version with a built in .pdf reader?

Click to expand...

15 beta is up on the ftp, has the built in .pdf reader at least.

I never run release versions of Firefox these days, the beta version is stable enough and you get to be at least 1 version ahead of release.

Have you got the link for the 15.1 beta thanks.

V_R · 18 Jul 2012 at 16:58

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/15.0b1/win32/en-GB/

robinbredin · 18 Jul 2012 at 17:37

V_R
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/re...1/win32/en-GB/

Thanks.