Firefox 3.5 is now out and ready to download. But Wait!
Posted by Karen in Internet, tags: browsers, firefox, FireFox Plugins, Internet
So the other day I noticed that my FireFox was letting me know that V3.5 was ready to download and upgrade, great I thought the next version which had been promised to be faster that previous incarnations of the browser.
Without any hesitation I updated my Firefox to 3.5 and found several thing straight away!
For starters a few plugin that I use were not compatible with 3.5 and were disabled, not too much of a fuss as there were only two that wouldn’t work one was the Microsoft .NET framework assistant and the other was the EntreCard Toolbar, now the toolbar is something that I do use, so not been able to use it has caused a drop in my EC, but I’ve had to resort to the original method of dropping, for now anyway.
The other thing I noticed after running Firefox 3.5 for the first time is that it’s faster, not turbo fast, but as least twice as fast as the earlier version which has made my browsing that bit faster.
So here’s a run down from the Firefox site on what’s new:
Firefox 3.5 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the earlier version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use. Some of the notable features are:
- Available in more than 70 languages. (Get your local version!)
- Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio. (Try it here!)
- Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
- Better web application performance using the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
- The ability to share your location with websites using Location Aware Browsing. (Try it here!)
- Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
- Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
- Support for new web technologies such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, <canvas> text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms.
Developers can find out about all the changes and new features at the Mozilla Developer Center.
So far everything is running great, I have noticed an increase in speed on sites that I used to visit and this is great, if your not too fussy about your plugin and can wait for the updates to arrive then I would recommend updating now, if you are concerned with your plugins, then just give it a little longer and then upgrade, by which time those plugin should have upgrade 
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Twitter: extremejohn
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I like the new Friefox but a few of my favorite plugins are killing me
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Karen
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July 6th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Hopefully all plugins will be compatible very soon
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Twitter: dragonblogger
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even though dashblog is incompatible I am happy with Firefox 3.5 so far, it is noticeably faster than 3.0 in my opinion
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Karen
Twitter: RemBeatZ
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July 6th, 2009 at 9:36 am
I do find it faster, which is a great advantage these days
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Twitter: ladybanana
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Just checked the plugins that I have that won’t work.. now thinking about it. Thanks for the warning!
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Karen
Twitter: RemBeatZ
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July 6th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Anything to help, I know sites like EntreCard are working on an update for their toolbar so, hopefully, it won’t be too long before disabled plugins are compatible again.
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Starting a couple of months ago (e.g., April 2009) I noticed Yahoo web mail pages were not rendering very well. Overlapping text, hypertext items with limited mouse-over areas (difficult to “click”), and font sizes changing as I moved from page to page, opened new tabs, etc. The problem was not limited only to Yahoo…but did not seem to be as bad as with Yahoo.
Anyway, when FF 3.5 was announced I was hopeful that it might resolve these problems. No such luck.
Anyone notice similar page rendering problems with FF (any version). Any ideas how to remedy?
Great page BTW. Regards,
Steve
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Karen
Twitter: RemBeatZ
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July 6th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Hi Steve, sorry to hear about your problems, so far touch wood, I haven’t had any problems, except those I mentioned in my post, maybe it’s something a little more serious than just Firefox!
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I love the new version of Firefox! Thankfully all my add-ons are compatible.
AussieSheila´s last blog ..Top 5 Firefox 3.5 Features
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Firefox 3.5 may have new features plus the incompatibility issues with some plugins. I don’t think it’s any better than the older versions. Page loading speed doesn’t quite change, as far as I’m using PC speed boosting software and frequently tweak my system, it doesn’t even count. Its Minefield counterpart is way faster.
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Twitter: Wiggy3
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I did have the new firefox, but quickly went back to the old version, due to lack of memory meant there was very little I could do before getting an error message, and all the buttons dissapear and everything! I’ll wait a while before getting 3.5 again
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Twitter: ladybanana
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Did you try this
I have and it works well
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Karen
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July 12th, 2009 at 9:46 am
I downloaded the fixed version of the toolbar the other day after visiting the EC Forums, so far, so good
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