Firefox 5 released

[Sysman]

Mozilla tells large corporations to get on their bikes

Big cheeses at the the open source outfit Mozilla have told corporate users who don't like its breakneck upgrade cycle to get lost.

This week Mozilla Corporation shipped Firefox 5 which was only three months after it shipped Firefox 4. In six weeks we will see Firefox 6, and Firefox 7 six weeks after that. So Mozilla is releasing upgrades as fast as its browser rival Chrome.

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But Mozilla seems to have had an attack of grumpiness about the problems of corporate users. Firefox evangelist Asa Dotzler posted a comment on Kaply's post to tell him that they could all go forth and multiply.

Basically he seems to think that with two million Firefox downloads per day from regular user types, Mozilla does not need corporate users. He said that the enterprise has never been, and shouldn't be a Mozilla focus.

He added that a minute spent making a corporate user happy can better be spent making many regular users happy.

[Jason Mitchell]

Can't wait to try out the new FF5. FF4 is such a disappointment. Liked the older one way more.

[Sysman]

Improved HTML5 support, CSS Animations, various security and performance improvements; more info in the release notes, or you can see a list of every single change together with a link to the associated bugzilla entry.

Fluff or substance?

I note that Mozilla have stepped up their upgrade campaign. I recently installed 3.6 on an old machine and was greeted with an update to 3.7. When upgrading to that I was greeted with "Nearly there, now please upgrade to 4".

At that point I went back to 3.5 and ignored update pleas

(I have a good reason for this, it's only on one system, and I only access specific sites from that instance)

[fullyautomatix]

Buggy piece of tulip. Opening a new tab slows the whole machine down, massive CPU usage. On Chrome now. Just stick with v3 IMO.

Seems like normal FireFox behaviour.

[wim121]

Crikey, that was quick - I haven't even got around to upgrading to FF4 yet

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Lol me neither, on FF4 first release since its stable .....

[administrator]

Buggy piece of tulip. Opening a new tab slows the whole machine down, massive CPU usage. On Chrome now. Just stick with v3 IMO.

[NickFitz]

I noticed some extensions that are already compatible up to Firefox 6.x so I guess it's just PR stunt to get more people at every "major" release (which would probably be called 3.7.8 in the old days).
Anyone noticed anything, any "major" change?? THe URL at the bottom perhaps?

Improved HTML5 support, CSS Animations, various security and performance improvements; more info in the release notes, or you can see a list of every single change together with a link to the associated bugzilla entry.

[TimberWolf]

I had updated to FF4 a few days ago and the update advisor today recommended upgrading to fix a security flaw, and the product version is showing at 5.0 now. I preferred the 3.6 interface personally.

[xchaotic]

I noticed some extensions that are already compatible up to Firefox 6.x so I guess it's just PR stunt to get more people at every "major" release (which would probably be called 3.7.8 in the old days).
Anyone noticed anything, any "major" change?? THe URL at the bottom perhaps?

[dang65]

I dread new browsers because I'm developing a site at the moment and not much has changed since the browser war days really. They all still have their quirks. Just installed the Firefox Mobile browser on my Android phone and found it does a couple of odd things which the iPhone, HTC, Blackberry and even Windows 7 Mobile browsers don't do. More issues to fix then. Is anyone really likely to start using Firefox Mobile? The native browsers on most the Androids are very good. Firefox seem to have included Add-ons on Mobile though, so I guess that could be an attraction for some people. Geeks anyway.

[NickFitz]

Crikey, that was quick - I haven't even got around to upgrading to FF4 yet

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