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Firefox 5.0 Final is out!!!

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Anubis said:
humm never see Opera thrash my HDD, been using it forever.
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This is on Ubuntu, and I suspect Flash has something to do with it, but I haven't been paying close attention. I don't like browsers caching to the drive on this anyway. It's needless writes that are best not made to a crappy ssd.
 
hclarkjr said:
5 is not officially out yet, if you go to www.firefox.com it still points to 4.0.1 , this is still a RC
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Conflicting reports as always,mind you their website is always slow to update,they were slow updating their site for new beta builds for FF5,anyway these sites say final,

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Browsers/Mozilla-Firefox-Final.shtml


http://www.majorgeeks.com/Mozilla_Firefox_d2248.html .

Mute point really since I have gone back to fast Opera 🙂.
 
majorgeeks will do anything to promote itself to get traffic on its site. go the the forums i linked too, they are saying it is not final and are waiting to see if any more bugs appear then will make it final on the 21st
 
I hope when Mozilla does the release on the web site for FF5 that some of the bugs in FF4 were worked out. Such as extensive hard drive accessing, FF4 taking forever to shut down or having to do it manually in task manager, tabs disappearing from the area next to the Start button, but still being open and shown in task manager. And I hope all my addons still work with FF5
 
lxskllr said:
This is on Ubuntu, and I suspect Flash has something to do with it, but I haven't been paying close attention. I don't like browsers caching to the drive on this anyway. It's needless writes that are best not made to a crappy ssd.
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If anyone's interested, this page has instructions for putting the cache on ramdisk for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera on Linux...

http://samuelololol.blogspot.com/2009/12/ramdisk-for-browserschromium-firefox.html

Opera seems peppier so far,but it'll take some time before I see if it fixes the system crippling disk lock. Keep in mind my ssd is like an onboard USB drive(read painfully slow), so the results on a normal disk won't be as dramatic, but it's worth a try. Obviously you'll lose your cache on system restart, so that may be a concern for some.
 
installed firefox 5.0, ran a few benchmarks and noticed speed gains with peacekeeper. the graphics test saw a big speed increase of over 30% over firefox 4.0 and compared to chrome 12 firefox 5.0 is only 8% slower with that test. I am liking firefox 5.0, no crashes and a good speed increase 🙂
 
Did the update and the only issue is it thinks Google Toolbar Version 7.1.20110512W is not compatible, but it seems to work ok. Only issue was some of my custom buttons for Google Toolbar went away. Anyone know where they are stored for the toolbar in Firefox ? ? I have the buttons from the IE Browser Firefox toolbar saved. It would be nice to save the ones created while in firefox as well.
 
I wasn't a fan of ff4 but for some reason I really like ff5. I'm not sure what it is. It just seems more...smoother?
 
woot, I checked out of boredom for updates thinking it would be something like 4.0.2 and it updated to 5.0. I put 4.0 a couple months ago. Mozilla is kinda joining the ranks of Intel/nVidia/AMD in stupid naming/versioning. this should have been 4.1 or something, 5 should be a lot bigger change than this...
 
I installed it and noticed no difference from v4.0.1. I agree with the other people who think this accelerated version numbering system is hokey. I guess they're caught up with what Chrome is doing which is a shame because I think Firefox is still hands down the best browser out there. They should do what they do best and go back to doing they're own thing.
 
I really don't see much of a difference, other than closing and opening are faster. Tineye wasn't 5 compatible until today, and when I updated it and clicked to restart the browser it was noticeably much, much faster at closing and reopening than it was pre-5.
 
I don't see any reason not to upgrade, heh, run the latest at least to ensure you have the latest security fixes. And the addons will soon be updated to support FF 5 anyway.

All my addons are working fine including XMARKS and IETAB2 🙂

I love this FF 5. it is so smooth!

FF FTW 😀
 
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