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Firefox 5.0 released

Psi Baba said:
New Firefox add-on: Version Clock. Displays the changing version numbers in real time, just like the storage space ticker on the Gmail home page.

It won't be long before Firefox updates as often as No-Script.
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but no-script is more like an anti-virus that needs real time up dates
just to keep up
 
Up to version 8 already. Is there no end to these awesome technological breakthroughs?
 
Psi Baba said:
Up to version 8 already. Is there no end to these awesome technological breakthroughs?
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OnlyTellsTruths said:
I'm still using the last version of 3 from a few months ago (3.6.3) on one of my PCs. For no particular reason. It still works fine, and no-script still updates and works fine.

They are even still updating it (looks like newest is 3.6.18).

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html
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Still on version 3 here, they are still updating it*, and all my ad-ons still support and update with it.

*It's on 3.6.24 now. Six updates since my last post 5 months ago.
 
Psi Baba said:
Up to version 8 already. Is there no end to these awesome technological breakthroughs?
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"Awesome" is maybe not the best word. Since version 4 or something, Firefox has been rather unstable. I'd switch browser in a heartbeat if there was a better option out there.
 
Sarcasm from Psi Baba, I meant.

Firefox 3 wasn't very good at all in my opinion and was my least favourite of the main five browsers. Opera and Chromium were ahead.

Now, they're all fine in my experience.

What's wrong with it and the alternatives?
 
I was getting blue screens of death on average about twice a day. Worst of it was that my computer wouldn't restart afterwards. It would restart eventually but I had to turn it on and off about eight times. As part of my desperate attempts to figure out what was going on, I switched from FF to Chrome. No blue screens since then.

I'm still not sure what caused them. I eventually got Windows debugger up and working but apparently Windows in its wisdom deleted my dump files. Apparently to get Windows debugger you need to download a DVD image, burn to DVD, then install the debugging kit from the DVD. I had already wasted all my blank DVDs in an equally desperate attempt to run Windows backup, which failed every time with mysterious messages about reparse points. I have yet to find a comprehensible discussion of why I have reparse points and why backup doesn't like them. They seem to be some sort of fancy variant on links to directories, which should be pretty harmless.
 
ChristineR said:
I was getting blue screens of death on average about twice a day. Worst of it was that my computer wouldn't restart afterwards. It would restart eventually but I had to turn it on and off about eight times. As part of my desperate attempts to figure out what was going on, I switched from FF to Chrome. No blue screens since then.

I'm still not sure what caused them. I eventually got Windows debugger up and working but apparently Windows in its wisdom deleted my dump files. Apparently to get Windows debugger you need to download a DVD image, burn to DVD, then install the debugging kit from the DVD. I had already wasted all my blank DVDs in an equally desperate attempt to run Windows backup, which failed every time with mysterious messages about reparse points. I have yet to find a comprehensible discussion of why I have reparse points and why backup doesn't like them. They seem to be some sort of fancy variant on links to directories, which should be pretty harmless.
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Most likely graphics hardware acceleration. Try updating your graphics driver or find out how to turn the feature in firefox off.
 
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