Mozilla Firefox 13.0 Final

British edition by swapping the US with GB ;)

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/13.0/win32/en-GB/Firefox Setup 13.0.exe

Well, it's... different. Very different.

New home page looks nicer, nice handy links at the bottom.

The new tab page looks too simple. And the screenshots of the sites looks like a low res thumbnail expanded.

Is it just me, or does the smooth scrolling feel slower?

On the other hand, it seems to be a lot more RAM friendly (170mb -> 110mb with just OcUK open)!

*Waits for Waterfox 13.0*

EDIT: Ok... it disabled smoothscroll on Waterfox... But I definitely prefer the scrolling on 12 and before. 13 feels too sluggish.
 
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Beginning to think that they're now starting to increase the version number of Firefox for the sheer sake of it.

Back in the day a major version number would indicate almost a complete re-write or major change in a program.

And they're also doing a bit of scare-mongering now. When I hit the Mozilla page it tells me I'm using an insecure version, but instead of telling me HOW the version I am using is insecure, it merely points me to wikipedia entry on vulnerable instead, not their brightest move.
 
Any more daft than chrome version 19? Besides, with the updates going on in the background it hardly matters what the name is.

Most people using a pc would have no clue how vulnerability would effect them. If you said an old version would allow pelicans to steal their identity, somewhere out there someone would believe it.

P.S. You can find the very detailed versions changes on the developer pages of the open source software. I guess they thought the people needing such info would be capable of deducing this.
 
New tab, 9 squares, suppose to all be blank? why aren't they all filling up like Safari with your regularly visited sites...
 
KIA said:
v13 has built-in auto-update. :)

http://www.nsaneforums.com/topic/121028-firefox-to-get-silent-auto-updates-with-version-13/

About time!
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Silent update was added in 12, 13 is the first build outside of beta that will use it though. Beta has been getting a patch every 2 days recently - makes life a lot easier.

this_is_gav said:
It also needs to silently update addons. Nothing gets on my nerves quite like opening Firefox only to find 4 tabs with new pages saying this or that about an addon and/or offering a paid upgrade. Sod off!
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It was flagged as won't fix when it was first asked for but that was years ago. Most people want to know when their addons change as features tend to change. Iirc it's possible to tweak that.

V F said:
New tab, 9 squares, suppose to all be blank? why aren't they all filling up like Safari with your regularly visited sites...
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They should. Bug that was patched 2 days ago fixed that, it's just a profile thing. Restarting a couple times should sort it.
 
Ah, I see. Sorted it. I originally had Firefox set to clear the cache on exit. Therefor the thumbnails were always blank.

The thumbnails on the about:newtab page are generated from the cache, so if the page is not in the cache or otherwise can't be rendered as a PNG image then you will get an empty box.
Do not use Clear Recent History to clear data when you close Firefox.
If there is no history then you get an about:newtab page with empty boxes.
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I like that it won't reload tabs until you click on them when restarting. Means that it starts up instantly even when I have 18 youtube videos :D
 
Hmmmm

clocks going up and down like a yo yo with firefox 13 !

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I'm getting that on the laptop too, but it uses to little gpu anyway it doesn't really matter. At least it's really using it :p

Assuming the minor bug doesn't irritate you you could always switch to the beta, with the updates being background it's no long a pain keeping it up to date :)
 
Orcvader said:
Is it just me, or does the smooth scrolling feel slower?

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EDIT: Ok... it disabled smoothscroll on Waterfox... But I definitely prefer the scrolling on 12 and before. 13 feels too sluggish.
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It's not just you. I'm finding it much slower too, it almost judders as you move down the page as well... Doesn't feel very, well, smooth any more :p
 
Tbh ff has done that for years, at least for me with logitech mice. SmoothWheel amo was created to fix that 4 years ago. Makes me wish the scrolling built into all browsers would make more of an effort to even try to imitate it.

- Faster navigation within long web pages (dynamic scroll distance).
- Less disorientation when scrolling, especially with long texts (fluid scroll).
- Reading while scrolling is actually possible.
- No learning curve - unaltered interaction, but more useful outcome.
- Very customizable, sane defaults.
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That's one heck of a sweet extension. With a scroll statistic as well.
 
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V F said:
Is this with hardware acceleration?

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1078531-why-does-hardware-acceleration-mode-make-firefox-so-slow/
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Nope. Still has the "sluggish" feel with it off. Rolled back to 12 and can confirm it's just happening with 13 for me. Will try it on my laptop later and see how it feels on that.

Azuse05 said:
Tbh ff has done that for years, at least for me with logitech mice. SmoothWheel amo was created to fix that 4 years ago. Makes me wish the scrolling built into all browsers would make more of an effort to even try to imitate it.
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Thanks for that, don't really like having too much addons but this really makes the scrolling feel much better :).
 
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