Firefox 5 , Final?

[nolimit]

I had serious Java Applet issues with FF4 and it seems there are many people with various different Java Applet issues on Mac and PC.

Perhaps this version fixes this problem, along with others.

 

[3dcandy]

main differences are accelerated css3 transforms, especially the 3d ones...

 

[Fangman]

Thanks for the link!

 

[robinbredin]

When i open a new tab Im getting a blank screen. Is there a addon that will display pictures of my favorite sites, or any site that I have visited.

 

[BloodyL]

Tab Mix Plus will allow you to set the homepage for new tabs.

 

[Fanatic]

I just middle click Home Page to open new tab

 

[Orcvader]

Just installed FF 5. I see or feel no differences from 4... what makes this one better then 4?

 

[RavenXXX2]

Well I can dump chrome now as firefox is now as fast as it.

 

[Coldzero]

Edit: Nvm

 

[mrk]

Looks fine to me

 

[CaptainCrash]

Having said that I tried FF4 and now have tried FF5 for a couple of days. It seems a decent enough browser, but by comparisson the Chrome and IE9 it "feels" a bit slow and flabby. I'm not using any add-ons, and perhaps that's the bit i'm missing. If I relied on noscript and a bunch of other add-ons perhaps FF would be on the button. As it is it strikes me as a middle ground between IE9 and Chrome with no particular advantage over either.

Except perhaps the add-ons, and as I don't really use them maybe that's why FF5 has been a bit of a let down for me.

Have you tried fiddling with pipelining and page rendering delay in about:config?

network.http.pipelining true

network.http.proxy.pipelining true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 30

nglayout.initialpaint.delay 0

To be honest I haven't personally noticed much difference with these settings, and in fact all the main browsers seem about equally speedy to me for all practical purposes. I think the breadth and quality of FF's add-ons are pretty much its USP, and if you have no use for them then it doesn't really offer anything worthwhile over the other contenders.

 

[Deception]

Hm, im getting access denied now when trying to download it from the FTP. I guess their servers got hammered as soon as it popped up.

 

[Mr.Fantastic]

Hope this link helps.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18500383/Firefox Setup 5.0.exe

 

[Deception]

Hope this link helps.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18500383/Firefox Setup 5.0.exe

Worked like a charm. Thanks!

 

[Zosimus]

not got new tab plus working with 5 but was fine with 4, now using newurltab http://www.sogame.cat/newtaburl/ this gives the same functionality.

 

[Azuse05]

Have you tried fiddling with pipelining and page rendering delay in about:config?

network.http.pipelining true

network.http.proxy.pipelining true

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests 30

nglayout.initialpaint.delay 0

There's no real reason to set requests to anything more than 8, for several reasons which makes people question the knowledge of the person who initial wrote those "tweaks" years ago. Changing paintdelay to 0 will actually increase load time on certain image heavy pages. Produces an unpleasant popup effect on quite a few image heavy text sites I know of.

 

[craigxt22]

Yet another smooth scrolling add-on doesn't work

 

[Elevon]

not got new tab plus working with 5 but was fine with 4, now using newurltab http://www.sogame.cat/newtaburl/ this gives the same functionality.

I use Tab Mix Plus,https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/ ,btw scrolling is smooth for me.

 

[BloodyL]

Fast Dial does not work with v5.

 

[Elevon]

Fast Dial does not work with v5.

I use Speed Dial works fine with 5,https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/speed-dial/ .