Firefox 3.5 is out!

marscay · 1 Jul 2009 at 16:11

yeh lol thanks found it now

Craig321 · 1 Jul 2009 at 16:43

I thought Firefox 3.5 had a process for each tab like in Chrome/IE?

Broken Hope · 1 Jul 2009 at 17:06

tolien said:
The 3.5 release is RC3.

What sites are you talking about? There's a bug with fixed backgrounds being jerky, but that takes some heavy lifting to fix.

I know RC3 is the release version that's what I stated and well even this forum seems to not scroll as smoothly as it did in Firefox 3.

tolien · 1 Jul 2009 at 17:06

No. I don't think it was ever on the agenda for 3.5 (although there are slightly working versions with separate processes).

Broken Hope said:
I know RC3 is the release version that's what I stated and well even this forum seems to not scroll as smoothly as it did in Firefox 3.

I took what you said to mean RC3's as bad as the release version.

Glaucus · 1 Jul 2009 at 18:39

Darn bbcodextra doesn't work with it. Anyway to force it? or anything similar? or maybe a beta version of BBcodextra

Big Kev · 1 Jul 2009 at 18:47

This version seems to be almost unusable for me, jerky scrolling on all websites, plus it seems to stutter every minute or so.

Glaucus · 1 Jul 2009 at 19:43

working fine for me, apart from a few unsupported add-ons.

Pho · 1 Jul 2009 at 19:51

Broken Hope said:
Scrolling on some sites seems to be a lot more jerky than with Firefox 3, was hoping they would fix that, but 3.5 final is the same as RC3 so guess not.

Have you tried smoothwheel?

AcidHell2 said:
working fine for me, apart from a few unsupported add-ons.

You can try forcing compatibility with Nightly Tester Tools - it usually works.

NickM · 1 Jul 2009 at 20:02

I cant seem to scroll through tabs any more, it now just scrolls the tab bar if I have more tabs than can fit on screen..

mrk · 1 Jul 2009 at 20:19

BBcode extra works flawlessly - just use nightly tester tools to force.

Big Kev · 1 Jul 2009 at 21:16

I deleted 3.5 as it was totally useless, so I reinstalled 3.0.11 and it mucked up some of the passwords, so I System Restored to 29th June and I couldn't open Firefox at all, so I had to uninstall and reinstall 3.0.11.

Now I can't play some flash games, even though I've uninstalled and reinstalled all of the relevant plugin's, overall, very disappointed.

I hope it's not a problem with Windows 7 and 3.5.

tolien · 1 Jul 2009 at 21:27

System Restore doesn't, AFAIK, touch your profile. It'll have been upgraded and so strange things will happen. There'll be a pluginreg.dat or something you'll probably have to delete to make it pick up on Flash.

Scrolling aside (if it was happening on every page, I'd suggest it was an issue with your profile/configuration than Firefox itself), what else was "totally useless"?

Big Kev · 1 Jul 2009 at 21:31

tolien said:
System Restore doesn't, AFAIK, touch your profile. It'll have been upgraded and so strange things will happen. There'll be a pluginreg.dat or something you'll probably have to delete to make it pick up on Flash.

Scrolling aside (if it was happening on every page, I'd suggest it was an issue with your profile/configuration than Firefox itself), what else was "totally useless"?

I looked for a pluginreg.dat and found nothing.

The scrolling issue was happening on every page, from BBC, Sky Mail, TV Guide, here etc, but a big issue was the bad response, often taking a couple of seconds to open another tab when clicked and shutting down took about five seconds as well.

tolien · 1 Jul 2009 at 21:36

%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\pluginreg.dat

That definitely sounds like some issue with an addon. I'd have suggested sticking with 3.5 and fixing the problem.

Edit: or pluginreg.dat inside your actual profile (i.e. replace pluginreg.dat in the above path with Profiles\[random alphanumeric].[profile name]\)

mrk · 1 Jul 2009 at 22:02

I have just found the most kick ass theme EVER!

It's call Rein and is on the Mozilla themes pages

Big Kev · 1 Jul 2009 at 22:05

tolien said:
%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\pluginreg.dat

That definitely sounds like some issue with an addon. I'd have suggested sticking with 3.5 and fixing the problem.

Edit: or pluginreg.dat inside your actual profile (i.e. replace pluginreg.dat in the above path with Profiles\[random alphanumeric].[profile name]\)

Don't know if I'm being stupid, but I've searched everywhere and can't find the pluginreg.dat at all.

MarcLister · 1 Jul 2009 at 22:31

Quite liking this release. Much, much faster at Javascript than Even the latest Opera 10 beta builds.

So Fastmail and Gmail load up quicker for me.

Craig321 said:
It's exactly the same as it was in 3.0 for me. I'm guessing you're wanting to strange smooth scrolling that IE uses? I personally scroll 3 lines at a time.

Is that a Windows or Firefox setting?

Craig321 · 1 Jul 2009 at 22:42

MarcLister said:
Quite liking this release. Much, much faster at Javascript than Even the latest Opera 10 beta builds. So Fastmail and Gmail load up quicker for me. Is that a Windows or Firefox setting?

A Windows setting. I've never touched the scrolling settings in Firefox as I like the 3-lines-at-a-time scrolling.

MarcLister · 1 Jul 2009 at 22:49

Thanks. I'll have a look around.

tolien · 1 Jul 2009 at 23:34

Big Kev said:
Don't know if I'm being stupid, but I've searched everywhere and can't find the pluginreg.dat at all.

On XP it's definitely at the path I mentioned, especially the one inside the profile itself (i.e. %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\Profiles\[random alphanumeric].[profile name]\pluginreg.dat).