Firefox 3.5 Preview out
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Just installed this 3.5 beta and it's noticeably faster than v3, like the new tab-dragging too 
Yes, the preview is b99. It'll update in a few weeks to RC1.
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Not compatible with my addons. Shame.
Do you mean for me? I don't have any colour issues, Dup does but my ICC profiles are Matrix ICC not v4 based!
Use Nightly tester tools to force compat them, like I said above I have 20+ extensions that work no problems.
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mrk that is a really nice skin for firefox may i ask which one it is?
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.Griff. just linked the forum theme above!
As for the skin for firefox, it's aero via Glasser extension: http://www.sixxgate.com/
The layout is just a bit of moving menus here and there in Firefox itself.
As for the skin for firefox, it's aero via Glasser extension: http://www.sixxgate.com/
The layout is just a bit of moving menus here and there in Firefox itself.
As for Java testing, I used http://celtickane.com/labs/web-browser-javascript-benchmark/ and the one linked above as well as Acid 3 test
To Compare:
IE8 32bit
394ms
IE8 64bit
374ms
FF3.5
193ms
Anyone care to try Chrome 2? (don't have it installed anymore)
My results (run a few times, ignoring abnormally high results):
Safari4: 67-71ms
FF3.5: 197-202ms
IE8: 390-406ms
I'm often surprised at how people rave about the speed of Chrome - if speed is a major concern, then people could do a lot worse than Safari.
Edit: Oooh there's an updated Safari out, that's another 15% shaved off the benchmark!
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I've had to go back to 3010 today as I found a bug in the preview where for some reason it kept losing cookies so I had to sign into iGoogle every time the browser loaded for example. Also my saved passwords suddenly vanished for every site! luckily I keep mozbackup backups so was able to restore them easily.
Gonna wait for final I think
BTW Firefox is the prettiest browser with a little tweaking IMO.
Anyone getting the colour issue can fix it by going to about:config and changing the gfx.color_management.mode value to 1
Gonna wait for final I think
BTW Firefox is the prettiest browser with a little tweaking IMO.
Anyone getting the colour issue can fix it by going to about:config and changing the gfx.color_management.mode value to 1
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Same issue here with having to resign in to sites.
3.5 RC1 now out, safe to use by the looks of it, RC builds usually go final without any change unless there are build problems.
Installed and new icon etc all good.
All extensions working.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.5rc1-candidates/build1/
Installed and new icon etc all good.
All extensions working.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.5rc1-candidates/build1/
BAH I found the same bug in the RC.
I think I know what causes it.
Can someone confirm though (and make a backup of your saved passwords first using mozbackup).
Simply visit a site you need to log in to and don't have a password saved for and when prompted save the logon details and visit the saved passwords dialogue to see if it saved the password.
You'll notice it has saved it but removed all other passwords if it is the same bug I am seeing!
Back to 3010 for now until this is confirmed
I think I know what causes it.
Can someone confirm though (and make a backup of your saved passwords first using mozbackup).
Simply visit a site you need to log in to and don't have a password saved for and when prompted save the logon details and visit the saved passwords dialogue to see if it saved the password.
You'll notice it has saved it but removed all other passwords if it is the same bug I am seeing!
Back to 3010 for now until this is confirmed
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