Firefox 6 released

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palmgeo replied

15 September 2011, 09:41
I have upgraded FF6.. Its good to use and the tab design is lovely....
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Sysman replied

22 August 2011, 16:08
Originally posted by PAH View Post

That'll be fixed in version 7.

Welcome to the world of mandatory user global beta testing.

And today its window keeps disappearing and won't come back.

Well, unless you count a new window with all the open tabs gone.

Fail!
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ThomasSoerensen replied

18 August 2011, 06:38
you obviously need to buy a shiny new laptop :-)
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darmstadt replied

17 August 2011, 19:35
Crashed twice so far this evening, crap.
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PAH replied

17 August 2011, 16:13
That'll be fixed in version 7.

Welcome to the world of mandatory user global beta testing.
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darmstadt replied

17 August 2011, 14:33
I upgraded last night and the upgrade box did say 6. 10 minutes later it crashed when I tried to refresh a page
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PAH replied

17 August 2011, 13:16
NoIdea. I'm not that paranoid.

Though I use a VM sandbox for any potentially dodgy browsing, and to keep my main browser history clean.
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Sysman replied

17 August 2011, 13:09
Originally posted by PAH View Post

The best upgrade of Firefox I did was to install Chrome.

Is there an equivalent of NoScript with Chrome?
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PAH replied

17 August 2011, 12:54
The best upgrade of Firefox I did was to install Chrome.
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Sysman started a topic Firefox 6 released

17 August 2011, 10:35
Firefox 6 released

Originally posted by NickFitz View Post

Firefox 6 released - 21st June 2011

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

Less than 2 months later, we have Firefox 6. Soon after I fired up Firefox this morning, it started downloading.

It moaned that the Java Console Extension is incompatible, and disabled it. I don't work with Java myself and I haven't a clue how that got there in the first place anyway.

Goodies for developers, apparently

Mozilla's third major Firefox release of 2011 offers improvements to performance, security and stability, but it is perhaps web developers that will be most happy with Firefox 6. Mozilla has added support for more HTML5 elements such as progress and tracking, introducing Server Sent Events while bringing back Websockets.

Mozilla to drop version numbers?

Firefox 5 users will be prompted to update to Firefox 6, and while there is very little to visually distinguish Firefox 5 from Firefox 6, users will be urged to upgrade. Earlier Mozilla said it was mulling a move to remove version numbers altogether from Firefox's About dialogue box, but Firefox 6 still proudly displays its vintage.

Well, sort of. The prompt I got was just to update, not mentioning the version number. I had to go into About to see that it was iindeed 6.0
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