Firefox 32 Released

[Chiefcrowe]

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/32.0/releasenotes

 

[MontyAC]

Thanks, updated.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Stupid version numbers.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I'm still enjoying version 24.

 

[PliotronX]

Stupid version numbers.

Bring on 64.3!

 

[nemesismk2]

although i still do like firefox i am looking into using google chrome because i just love the raw speed chrome gives me.

 

[Mem]

although i still do like firefox i am looking into using google chrome because i just love the raw speed chrome gives me.

I never found Chrome much faster,Opera's new version is very fast which I would use once they give it more customisation like Firefox has.

 

[Auric]

I'm still enjoying version 24.

ESR4LIFE, yo. 😛

Seriousry though, ESR 24 will EOL soon so security maintenace will require updating to and farking around with the new GUI version 31. 🙄

 

[John Connor]

I switched to Pale Moon. Use it, know it, love it.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Unless you hate the new GUI in which case you can just get the classic theme restorer addon.

ESR4LIFE, yo. 😛

Seriousry though, ESR 24 will EOL soon so security maintenace will require updating to and farking around with the new GUI version 31. 🙄

 

[Hugh Jass]

Stupid version numbers.

Not sure why this irritates people so much.

 

[ultimatebob]

Not sure why this irritates people so much.

If you've ever had to certify an "Enterprise" software package to work with a specific browser version for a big corporate customer, you would know.

Before Firefox released an ESR version, we basically had to tell our customers that we could only officially support Internet Explorer. There is no point in testing our software against the latest Firefox flavor of the week, knowing that at least 2 new versions would pop in the middle of our 3 month development cycles.

 

[Fayd]

i had no idea that i was on version 35. (nightly user) I never even pay attention.

 

[PliotronX]

If you've ever had to certify an "Enterprise" software package to work with a specific browser version for a big corporate customer, you would know.

Before Firefox released an ESR version, we basically had to tell our customers that we could only officially support Internet Explorer. There is no point in testing our software against the latest Firefox flavor of the week, knowing that at least 2 new versions would pop in the middle of our 3 month development cycles.

+1 At least they havent gone off the deepend like NVIDIA. I remember the formative Detonator drivers with sane versioning.

 

[bbhaag]

If you've ever had to certify an "Enterprise" software package to work with a specific browser version for a big corporate customer, you would know.

Before Firefox released an ESR version, we basically had to tell our customers that we could only officially support Internet Explorer. There is no point in testing our software against the latest Firefox flavor of the week, knowing that at least 2 new versions would pop in the middle of our 3 month development cycles.

I never thought of it like that but it makes sense.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Unless you hate the new GUI in which case you can just get the classic theme restorer addon.

Now this is information I can use. And yes, it IS why I kept the older version.

I'll trial the add-on on another computer and if it looks good I'll update and add-on. :biggrin:

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Cool. FYI here is the link for anyone who hasn't seen the Classic Theme Restorer addon yet, it seems to work pretty well!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/?src=api

Now this is information I can use. And yes, it IS why I kept the older version.

I'll trial the add-on on another computer and if it looks good I'll update and add-on. :biggrin:

 

[Hugh Jass]

If you've ever had to certify an "Enterprise" software package to work with a specific browser version for a big corporate customer, you would know.

Before Firefox released an ESR version, we basically had to tell our customers that we could only officially support Internet Explorer. There is no point in testing our software against the latest Firefox flavor of the week, knowing that at least 2 new versions would pop in the middle of our 3 month development cycles.

Makes sense.

 

[biostud]

Seems to have problems with "Quick links" on the forums not always working after updating to 32.

 

[nemesismk2]

although i still do like firefox i am looking into using google chrome because i just love the raw speed chrome gives me.

well i gave using google chrome 37 a couple of days but can't stand using it anymore. back to firefox with windows 7 and windows xp for me. 🙂

 

[bononos]

Cool. FYI here is the link for anyone who hasn't seen the Classic Theme Restorer addon yet, it seems to work pretty well!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemerestorer/?src=api

That addon is the bomb. I like the icon only titlebar v2 and switch back to FF from Palemoon.

Palemoon is great but I'm uneasy that its a one man show and there isn't any speed difference if there ever was a perceptible one for casual browsing in the first place. I think FF requires sse3 lately which fixed the speed issue.

 

[oynaz]

although i still do like firefox i am looking into using google chrome because i just love the raw speed chrome gives me.

I think Firefox win out as the fastest browser in the newest speed tests. By a very small margin, though.

 

[nemesismk2]

I think Firefox win out as the fastest browser in the newest speed tests. By a very small margin, though.

i have always used firefox so when i tried using chrome i liked the speed but it just wasn't as easy to use as firefox.

 

[maxi007]

firefox is moving towards chrome's UI . and the new versions take a huge RAM 🙁
i prefer safari .its light fast . but only for some tweaks i cant uninstall firefox

 

[Jeff7]

Version 31 and earlier:
The page in a tab would start to display immediately, and then continue to load various elements and fill in.

Version 32: Firefox is unusable until a newly-loaded tab's page is completely finished.


Example: Loading a forum main page with 100 topics listed would previously start to load, render, and populate the screen while it was still downloading content.

Version 32: The Firefox process goes to max CPU and is unresponsive until the entire page finishes downloading, then it all displays at once.


I would begin to move the cursor as a page was loading, but now I've got to wait until it's done to know exactly where I'm going.
(Our database interface at work is Firefox-based, so I'm using it quite frequently.)


Anyone else seeing this performance degradation, or is it one of my numerous addons that's choking on something?

Not sure why this irritates people so much.

People who are barely computer literate (80% of the country) freak the hell out when something looks slightly different.

Each new version of Firefox brings with it a rearrangement of the toolbars and icons, or some change to the UI. If an icon isn't within 0.25mm of where it was yesterday, it has effectively vanished from existence.


(And the whole thing is just a stupid numbers game so that they can have a version number that's as big as Chrome's. Changes to the whole integer of a software version normally indicates a substantial change, not "We decided to make our browser tabs have sloped edges instead of vertical ones. Version 87!")