Firefox 7, 8, 9, 10... - Making the web faster

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Firefox 7, 8, 9, 10... - Making the web faster

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Started 12 years ago by Robert
Latest reply from Inas

Robert
StrayCat

Making the Web Faster

Fasten your seat belts! With lightning fast start-up times, rapid graphics rendering and improved page load speed, the latest version of Firefox is full of performance enhancements that you’ll notice instantly.

Web applications like mail, video and games keep getting more awesome, but they also require additional power to run smoothly. To meet these increasingly sophisticated demands, our latest release features a massively improved JavaScript engine called JägerMonkey.

Firefox 7.0 was released today and yes, browsing is really fast and the browser's memory management has reached a new level but...
are we in a rush to get our old version updated?

Personally I'll stick to my old -and- stable version 3.6.22 for a bit longer (and I'm running Firefox ~~(4,5,6.02)~~ 7 as a portable version ),mainly because some of the addons I grew accustomed to use, are not compatible ...unless I buy new software.

Just wondering if we all follow the update craze or stick to our old version for better and for worse..
and/or maybe if "install.rdf" editing did solve compatibility issues for some of your addons.

Download Firefox 7.

Posted 12 years ago #
graylox
Moderator

Yep, this old girl dared to update to 7.

Some time ago I had problems because I lost some add-ons - but meanwhile everything I lost then is included or even better in the new Firefox. Well, I hope LinkmanFox will be updated soon.
At the moment I'm building tab groups and I already love the "AppTab". Maybe I can skip "TabMixPlus" now.
Did you try Add-on Compatibility Reporter?
I could enable some add-ons with it in the past.
At the moment there is only one app that uses this help: Text Formatting Toolbar 0.1.4.12

Dare to update :)

You do know that you can back-up with MozBackup ?

graylox

Posted 12 years ago #
delenn13
Minbari Ambassador

You mean, I just spent 3 hours, Saturday, updating all the computers to Version 6. Man, this is getting annoying. Now, I got to do it again...grumble, grumble, grumble!

May wait a while. I set up separate profiles on the spare one so we each have our OWN FireFox even if we have to use the spare one for some reason. So I actually set up 4 browsers. Thank god for my FEBE backups. 37 addons and they all work. But I forced them with Add-on Compatibility Reporter. I can't live without my BarTab.

Posted 12 years ago #
Dragonlair
Member

It's getting kind of stupid. They're using the major version number change where it should be a minor update - like to 6.1, not 7.0!

I did update and I'm kind of glad I did. I thought that the game I did the other day didn't affect FF but it did, it just wasn't visible.

Posted 12 years ago #
Anonymous
Unregistered

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10507

ASP.NET fails to detect IE10 causing _doPostBack is undefined JavaScript error
bug affects Firefox versions 5 and above & IE 10

Dragonlair just click up date & you be ok for 6 weeks

Posted 12 years ago #
copmom
Member

Well the setup download is slow as molasses in January! But, I'm going to try it. Thanks for the info.

Posted 12 years ago #
mikiem2
Moderator

They're talking about slowing the development cycle back down, more like it used to be & less like Google's Chrome. Won't help everyone that has or will update to 7, but maybe it'll give hope for the future. :-)

Posted 12 years ago #
Robert
StrayCat

Most addons seem to be working just fine on FF7,but...

there seems to be an issue in which some users may have one or more of their addons hidden after upgrading to the latest Firefox version.
(the add-ons remain intact though)

A fix is to be expected soon.

In the meantime Mozilla released an add-on (...),thus providing a simple workaround to recover hidden addons.

Add-on Recovery Tool
(USE WITH CAUTION,so backup your addons first)

I guess the best thing to do would be to wait for a couple of days ,until the issue is resolved.

FF 3.6.23 was released too.

@ Lady Gray and Del:thanks for the links.

Posted 12 years ago #
graylox
Moderator

Gizmo's tip of the day is:

How to update Firefox or Thunderbird addons to work with a new release

Read the comments made by the users too, maybe this will help.

I'll try the "install.rdf" hack. But I doubt that this will help for commercial add-ons like Linkman and StickyPassword. Both need some days for an update. :(

graylox

Posted 12 years ago #
Controlled Chaos
Member

Hi just be careful where you get FF7 from read the following PCWorld warning - Bogus Firefox

Always download from the Mozilla official source site Firefox 7 official

Cheers
CC

Posted 12 years ago #
Idunnobutiwastold
Gaming Acolyte

If needed, you can revert to Firefox 3.6x here:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all-older.html

Posted 12 years ago #
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru

Thanks for the update Robert. not been checking the internet over the past several days. Been killing zombies on Dead Island, lol

Posted 12 years ago #
Idunnobutiwastold
Gaming Acolyte

After Firefox Versions 7, 8 & 9; Firefox Version 10 (Beta) is now available.

If you prefer the Portable Edition of Firefox, get a previous version released on the the Beta Channel and update it to version 10 (Beta).
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

Posted 12 years ago #
copmom
Member

Guess I'd better update, I've got V8 here. Thanks for the info!

Posted 12 years ago #
Anonymous
Unregistered

I use Firefox & Pale Moon Firefox http://www.palemoon.org/
can get 32 & 64-bit

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/90546-firefox-8-x64-has-64-bit-browsing-finally-come-of-age

Test 32 v 64-bit

http://betanews.com/2011/11/17/cant-wait-for-firefox-64-bit-try-waterfox-8/

http://waterfoxproj.sourceforge.net/

Posted 12 years ago #
Anonymous
Unregistered

https://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/12/20/major-javascript-enhancements-make-firefox-speedy-up-to-30-faster/

Major JavaScript Enhancements Make Firefox Speedy – up to 30% Faster.

https://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/12/20/mozilla-and-google-sign-new-agreement-for-default-search-in-firefox/

Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default Search in Firefox

https://www.mozilla.org/

Posted 12 years ago #
Terri218
Member

If you don't want to update, how do you stop those annoying nag screens?

Posted 12 years ago #
Robert
StrayCat

Go to options - advanced - update ,and untick "automatically check for updates" "Firefox".
As for now ,only version 3.6 still updates its own version (latest is 3.6.25 ) and don't push version 9.1.

Some companies like TechSmith (Snagit) even stopped releasing updated add-ons
(I can't blame them really, it takes a lot of work trying to catch up with the frequency new versions of FF are launched).
Not really appreciated by some ...so it's a knife that cuts both ways.

Still working with a portable version of 3.6.25 and 8 (next to version 9.1), to enjoy some of my favorite addons.

Posted 12 years ago #
Inas
Member

I upgraded to Firefox 9 & am loving it very much - not sure I want to test beta 10.

Posted 12 years ago #
Anonymous
Unregistered

http://www.scmagazine.com/mozilla-fixes-crash-issue-after-new-firefox-version-issued/article/220639/

One day after releasing version 9 of its Firefox web browser, Mozilla on Wednesday issued Firefox 9.0.1 to address an issue with a bug fix that caused Windows, Mac and Linux users' browsers to crash.

may pay to update.

Posted 12 years ago #
Idunnobutiwastold
Gaming Acolyte

If you're having problems with Firefox 19, this custom-build of Firefox 19 (Portable version) worked for me.

Pale Moon, Official build:
http://www.palemoon.org/

[Resource accessed March 2013]

Posted 11 years ago #
Inas
Member

Thanks, all.

Posted 11 years ago #

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