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Firefox 21 Released

thanks, updated, no diff. to the end user, same as FF 6, 7, 8, etc...

they work, feel, and the speed is the same

hope one day they will catch up with the browsing speed of Chrome

I still use FF mainly due to XMARKS being fuxored up on Chrome when it comes to favicons u always lose them when u syn for the first time
 
What’s New


  • NEW The Social API now supports multiple providers
  • NEW Enhanced three-state UI for Do Not Track (DNT)
  • NEW Firefox will suggest how to improve your application startup time if needed
  • NEW Preliminary implementation of Firefox Health Report
  • CHANGED Ability to restore removed thumbnails on New Tab Page
  • CHANGED CSS -moz-user-select:none selection changed to improve compatibility with -webkit-user-select:none (bug 816298)
  • CHANGED Graphics related performance improvements (bug 809821)
  • CHANGED Removed E4X support from Spidermonkey
  • DEVELOPER Implemented Remote Profiling
  • DEVELOPER Integrated add-on SDK loader and API libraries into Firefox
  • HTML5 Added support for <main> element
  • HTML5 Implemented scoped stylesheets
  • FIXED Some function keys may not work when pressed (833719)
  • FIXED Browsing and Download history clearing needs unification to avoid confusion on clearing download history (847627)
  • FIXED 21.0: Security fixes can be found here
 
I guess I don't really get the point of the "Health Report". Is it one of those things that will only matter if I have a problem? More of a snapshot of statistics about your FF usage, than a "health report" of the browser.
 
Firefox also got h264 (and aac) decoding for html5 on Windows.

No idea why this isn't in the release notes, maybe they tried to sneak it in.
 
One change that had me confused for a second is the "Clear Recent History" link in the menus. I usually clear my history about once a day before going to bed and am so used to it being in the Tools menu. They moved it to the History menu. The first time I looked at the tools menu I was like wtf!? 😛
 
I have FF set to cleal all history and cookies on exit. Then the add-on Betterprivacy deletes flash based cookies every 4 minutes and on FF exit.
 
I just found something out yo! The middle click button on my laptop opens a page in a new tab. I'm sure pressing down on the scroll wheel of a mouse will yield the same effect on links.
 
Firefox started deteriorating since they started too frequent releases. Several times in the last year I had to launch IE or Chrome to get things done. I am slowly becoming a fan of Chrome. Thanks to Firefox!
 
hasu said:
Firefox started deteriorating since they started too frequent releases. Several times in the last year I had to launch IE or Chrome to get things done. I am slowly becoming a fan of Chrome. Thanks to Firefox!
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If you otherwise like Firefox, you could use the ESRs. I think the current is V17.
 
hasu said:
Firefox started deteriorating since they started too frequent releases. Several times in the last year I had to launch IE or Chrome to get things done. I am slowly becoming a fan of Chrome. Thanks to Firefox!
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And what's deteriorating in your opinion? the frequent updates that bring nothing new to the end user other than under the hood changes?

I mean for me, If I use FF 5 or FF 21 I don't notice a diff in terms of speed or usability
 
hasu said:
Firefox started deteriorating since they started too frequent releases. Several times in the last year I had to launch IE or Chrome to get things done. I am slowly becoming a fan of Chrome. Thanks to Firefox!
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I haven't had an issue with Firefox in years. What problems are you seeing? Too many add-ons?
 
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