Firefox 3.5 Is Out

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For those interested,

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I have it since RC1 and it rocks!

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Doesn’t work well with Google Reader :(

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how is the extensions support? rach time I upgraded, I always found uncompatible extensions. Is this going to happen with 3.5 too?

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cool, it’s faster and has porn mode

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It-Alien: It all depends on the authors of the extensions really, if they’ve provided a version that will work with 3.5 or not. As the betas has been out for quite a while most of my extensions worked, only had trouble with these:

  • Firebug (where Firefox downloaded a new, compatible version for me)
  • Privacy-plugin (I’ve forgotten its name) which Firefox 3.5 replaces anyway
  • Tab Catalog (makes a nice view of your tabs when you hit CTRL-TAB). Hopefully will come an update soon but it’s nothing I can’t live without.

Seems like an overall great update. Firefox FTW! :)

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Testing with sunspider, it’s still far slower than google chrome.

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You can check for “Updates” in your current version (Help → Check for updates) and then Firefox automatically tells you if your exentions may or may not work and you will see a button which will toggle the list with extensions that might fail.

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It works with Google Reader after all, I just had to disable the Firebug extension on the Google domain. \o/

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One of the nicest features around:

  
Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio. <br>
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</audio></video>
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One of the nicest features around:

  
Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio. <br>
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Well, it's nice but I always get buffer failures. Flash sucks big time but with this ogg-stuff my videos are as slow as in the beginning of the youtube-era.</audio></video>
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A lot of addons work also in newer versions of Firefox and can be patched by hand if needed. The XPI file is simply a ZIP which can be extracted and inside it is a file called “install.rdf”. Open it and edit the maximum version entry to something higher, ZIP it back and try if it works.

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Got since rc1 :)

Though also Opera 10 Unite is out in Beta.

Unite is a “new” technology which could make your computer into a server when you use Opera 10.

http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/06/16/