a_bertrand Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 Firefox 5.0 has been released... now what new? - Allows to define which site is allowed to track you and which one is not. - CSS animations - More HTML 5 (don't know yet exactly what) - Should be faster on Linux Is it worth a version 5? Certainly not. This is because of stupid Chrome versions which increase like the days of the calendar, other browser developers think they should as well. I installed FF 5 on my PC and saw... no difference beside this privacy new option in the preferences. Great... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucky3809 Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 I tried 5 they even have 6 they both have flaws, 5 is somewhat faster then 4 i think but 5 crashes periodically when your playing a flash games. 6 is just not worth the testing so many things wrong, it's been in beta testing for a couple months now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickson Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 Urgh, Honestly I'm going to wait ... I'll see where and how it will all evolve. Honestly I don't like it either that software releases a new version every couple of months. It's fine if there is an update or a bug fix, but 3 new releases per year ... can't be good or changes will just be stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a_bertrand Posted June 21, 2011 Author Share Posted June 21, 2011 They could certainly do a 4.0.1 for that, or in best cases 4.1 but not a 5... it would be like every patch of Microsoft means a new version of windows... we would have windows 3401312... how cool... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesl Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 Well, they did say they were going to adopt a more "google-like" update schedule. If its a new one every 3 months, than it would mean 4 versions per year.. which isn't that bad. I haven't tested FF5 yet, but will get around to it eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a_bertrand Posted June 21, 2011 Author Share Posted June 21, 2011 Well 4 MAJOR versions a year is a lot, and yet if they have nothing changed between version I hardly see the need for a major release. Sorry but software release numbers are really old and do have some meaning. Major.Minor.Patch which means, you change the major number when you really change a lot, like introducing tons of new feature, changing interface or whatever. This should not be all that often. Also a major release may introduce breaking changes. Minor means you added a few things, could be mainly improvements. Patch versions are just bug fixes or very small things. Now as Google feel better than anyone else, as always "manie des grandeur" => "grandeur mania" is their sickness and yet believe we are stupid enough to believe that new number to a software means the software is better. Nope sorry... people will simply stop upgrading every now and then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucky3809 Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 I was personally happy with firefox 3.0 before they upgraded it, there was nothing wrong with that version then it was upgraded to 3.1-3.6 which was stupid and they added that plugin-container that stalls constantly supposedly it suppose to detect plugins and be fast but its actually slowing the process. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluegman991 Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 (edited) there was a firefox 4.0.1 it was the update that patched the bug were no one could update to the next version and firefox 4 had very little support for html5 and still wass till missing a lot of things in css3 so im guessing that they have added a lot and caught up with support for html5 and css3 to catch up with google chrome and safari Edited June 21, 2011 by bluegman991 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluegman991 Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 just checked the 5.0 release notes page and it came with - New feature: fabulous tabs - Added support for CSS animations - The Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability - Tuned HTTP idle connection logic for increased performance - Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance - Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas - Improved spell checking for some locales - Improved desktop environment integration for Linux users - WebGL content can no longer load cross-domain textures - Background tabs have setTimeout and setInterval clamped to 1000ms to improve performance + over 900 security and stability fixes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a_bertrand Posted June 22, 2011 Author Share Posted June 22, 2011 Yes but I keep my point... this by no way a major release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uridium Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 wake me up when FF 95 comes out ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluegman991 Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 (edited) well im sure they have their reasons *for releasing a major version* i dont keep track of other browser versions but there has to be some reason both firefox and ie are already to release another major version with the last major version just coming out of the box but im hoping that this new version will have just as much support for html5 and css3 as google chrome has because i am looking forward to changing it back to my default browser :D Edited June 22, 2011 by bluegman991 didn't state what i was talking about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a_bertrand Posted June 22, 2011 Author Share Posted June 22, 2011 there is a good reason why browser don't have all the same support for HTML5... currently HTML5 specs are NOT released and just draft more or less. Which means the standard is not yet fully defined. Which means as well that browser cannot really implement it as it's not yet clear as how all things shall works, and google don't really follow all that HTML5 / CSS3 instead create their own "dialect" which is not a wise choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickson Posted June 30, 2011 Share Posted June 30, 2011 FF dev team just wanted to eat cake with their tea... I installed FF5 recently, and I have to say, the only difference I notice is a different default font on some sites.. Major imporvement, whooo! (sarcasm) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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