Firefox 5 is now available

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 12:34 pm

It seems like FF4 only came out yesterday. I hope they fixed the slow printing problem that FF4 had. I'm sticking to 3.6 until it matures.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/central/

Err · Post by **Err** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:58 pm

I installed it last night and so far I haven't seen any difference over 4. I think Mozilla has adopted Google's scheme of calling each update a new version. I guess FF6 is already in alpha.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:53 am

I dunno what's going on, but this is strange. I'm staying on 3.6 until the dust settles or they stop supporting it. 4 was obviously rushed (they never fixed the slow printing problem) and I don't feel like playing beta tester for 5.

Mozilla and Firefox 5: Upgrade or Die!

In shifting gears to a faster pace of development and release, Mozilla has opted to abandon security support for Firefox 4 immediately upon the release of version 5, which came out this week. This could be a risky move, since many users neglect to update their browsers immediately for various reasons, despite the pop-up reminders Firefox periodically displays....

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:48 am

Is there any way to go back to 3.x?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:01 pm

Yes. I'm still on 3.6: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 10:52 pm

Thanks for the link. I'm now typing this on an old P3 1GHz duallie that I resurrected. I have Win2k installed. Amazing how fast win2k is. I'm also using Opera since there are only 2 browsers that work with win2k: FF and Opera. IE for win2k is at 6.x version and I believe that is no longer supported as of last year (summer).

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Sat Jun 25, 2011 1:50 am

Opera is my preference. Though Firefox definitely has it's merits.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:33 pm

I'm testing 5 on a laptop that had 4 installed. They seem to have fixed the slow printing issue that 5 had.

Visually it looks the same as 4.