Firefox 5 , Final?

[opethdisciple]

Life saver, that was my biggest bug bear. But can also turn it off on 4 why did no one tell me in that thread when I had a moan. Tabs on top make no sense, unless you use address bar more than the tabs.
Last remaining things is the pop up load bar bottom left, anyway to get that in a permanent bar across the bottom, or just turn it off completely.

Any one run bbcodextra and does it work with 5.0?

Also only found the cloud syncing today, what an amazing feature.

I acually like the new Firefox interface - the minimal desing.

It took some getting used to but it really maximises the screen area, so you see more website and less Firefox.

 

[DarkShadow]

OcUK extension isn't compatible

 

[BloodyL]

OcUK extension isn't compatible

Are you referring to the dark theme?, it's working fine via the stylish plugin here.

Fast dial has been updated to work with v5, the only problem is it has been modified by a russian user, call me paranoid but I ain't going anywhere near that!

 

[topgun06]

Dark theme works fine here

 

[warren_1979]

The King is back then??

 

[3dcandy]

OcUK extension isn't compatible

It is...but I haven't had time to add/modify the members market stuff yet...
Just to confirm that the latest version of OCUK extension is Firefox 6 compatible too! If you need the latest version, then find it

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overclockers-forum-menu/

 

[mrk]

If you want to force enable supposedly "incompatible" extensions just add the new boolean entry:

extensions.checkCompatibility.5.0

With a False value and you're done.

 

[DarkShadow]

It is...but I haven't had time to add/modify the members market stuff yet...
Just to confirm that the latest version of OCUK extension is Firefox 6 compatible too! If you need the latest version, then find it

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overclockers-forum-menu/

Excellent, thanks. It seems I had an older version installed!

 

[3dcandy]

no worries...as soon as I get a spare half hour I'll update it

 

[3dcandy]

ok guys updated...it will take a while to go through the add-ons process. If you want the xpi I can mail it to you, gimme a mail on 3dcandy[at]gmail[dot]com

*edit* even better download it @ http://www.3dcandy.co.uk/files/ocuk-forum-menu-V1.9.0.xpi

You will need to right click and save download as...

 

[andy_mk3]

I've just had a box pop up asking me to upgrade to 5. 4 was very short lived wasn't it? I didn't think 5 was anything more than early releases yet. I'll upgrade once my downloads have finished anyway.

 

[mrk]

Firefox version updates are quick now as part of Mozilla's new update schedule which was announced months ago. Firefox 7 is due by fall.

 

[BloodyL]

Fast Dial has been updated by the developer: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fast-dial-5721/#install-beta

 

[Trifid]

Firefox version updates are quick now as part of Mozilla's new update schedule which was announced months ago. Firefox 7 is due by fall.

Are these revision updates being advertised as version updates? Or are they actually new versions?

 

[3dcandy]

they are actually new versions, just that they have accelerated the development to match Chrome's fast version updates.

 

[MR.B]

Yeah they accelerated FF version numbering because a lot of (extremely stupid) people thought that Chrome must progress far faster as it gets a new version number every other second.

I personally think it's stupid. FF5, should have been FF 4.1, theres no massive improvements as it's simply not possible to do that in such a short period. The fast Chrome numbering updates is retarded and FF should not have copied it. By this this next year we'll have something like FF 10 and Chrome 25. it's ridiculous.
Going up a whole version number should bring big and obvious improvements, as with IE8 > IE9.

 

[opethdisciple]

I find that the speed increase from 4-5 is greater than 3.6-4 however.

 

[Nexus18]

Personally I haven't noticed any difference between FF 4 and 5, maybe FF 5 starts up a bit quicker.

Although ever since FF4, I have been using it instead of chrome, it feels much quicker overall due to the page rendering and much smoother when scrolling in the high res screenshot thread .

Plus the add on system is much better, the way FF manages it all.

 

[3dcandy]

Yeah they accelerated FF version numbering because a lot of (extremely stupid) people thought that Chrome must progress far faster as it gets a new version number every other second.

I personally think it's stupid. FF5, should have been FF 4.1, theres no massive improvements as it's simply not possible to do that in such a short period. The fast Chrome numbering updates is retarded and FF should not have copied it. By this this next year we'll have something like FF 10 and Chrome 25. it's ridiculous.
Going up a whole version number should bring big and obvious improvements, as with IE8 > IE9.

It is a new full version, however they decided to keep the interface and menu's similiar. The reason they have changed the updates is because Chrome is perceived to move faster, and Firefox 4 took so long (14 months) to come to market. So although the versions come quicker there will be less significant differences from version to version...

 

[dante6491]

http://www.extremetech.com/internet/88998-fixes-to-memory-footprint-land-in-firefox-7

Read that yesterday. Seems that this accelerated release cycle should be a good thing for "consumers", (for lack of a better word). The new JS engine IonMonkey will hopefully be in there this time next year too.

Will be interesting to see how all the browsers fare by Christmas. Firefox will hopefully be leaner and faster, IE10 will have a beta out, Chrome will probably shove a turbo under the hood and have some ChromeOS/android integration and Opera will have some fantastic feature introduced that no one hear about until FF or Chrome picks it up. Goodness knows what will happen to Safari