Guest iYoshinho Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 So. What do you think of Firefox 5 since it came out a couple of days ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manta Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 I haven't noticed much of a difference from Firefox 4, but I've enjoyed using it thus far :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Shoot Em All Peophin!~ Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 i cant trust mozilla blindly this time. previous update caused me too many crashes and problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syrin of Neopia Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 I haven't noticed much of a difference, personally. It feels like it wasn't that long ago that the updated to 4 & now 5 is here . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angeló Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 i dont know .. it's the same as 4 .. whats the difference ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xepha Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 i dont know .. it's the same as 4 .. whats the difference ?? You will have to wait for the TheOncyclopedia for a completed answer... But he told us that most of the work had been done in the background and that pages should load faster. Also, there should be a new Firefox version every 6 months now :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manta Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 Hmm, it does seem to be faster than before, now that you mention it :D Anything's better than the travesty that was FF3 :rolleyes_anim: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tank Girl Posted June 25, 2011 Share Posted June 25, 2011 I cant really notice the difference. Do you think TNT will ever update the Neopets Toolbar to work with the newer versions of FF?? :( EDIT: Just went to the portal on premium which usually takes ages to load, was much faster! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiaircraft Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 You will have to wait for the TheOncyclopedia for a completed answer... But he told us that most of the work had been done in the background and that pages should load faster. Also, there should be a new Firefox version every 6 months now :P *6 weeks, it appears I used the wrong time unit in that conversation. :P But yeah, Firefox has moved up to a more aggressive schedule of smaller updates (something which we've been trying to do for ages) - this has a lot of implications for us developers, but as far as you users go, what you'll mainly be seeing is new features coming out faster, but not so many landing at once. ;) Most of the Firefox 5 changes are indeed under-the-hood, with general speed and stability improvements, as well as support for various new web standards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xepha Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Maybe I didn't register the right number Theo XD I did think that 6 months was a bit long for something that was supposed to be faster. xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Firefox 5 is actually v4.0.1 Mozilla simply decided they prefer to work with whole numbers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antiaircraft Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Firefox 5 is actually v4.0.1 Mozilla simply decided they prefer to work with whole numbers You're not quite right on that: 1) Firefox 4.0.1 was released a while ago, the release in question would be 4.0.2. 2) While Firefox 5 fulfils the role of a bugfix & security point release to Firefox 4 (the same role that 4.0.2 would be playing), there's actually been a lot more work done on version 5. So while Firefox 5 is a superset of what would be Firefox 4.0.2, the two are not equal. 3) Actually, it's not so much that we'd rather work with whole numbers than we'd rather get rid of version numbers altogether. Version numbers have been an inaccurate misnomer for a long time, while really what users want to know most of the time is whether or not they're on the 'latest version' (for which version numbers are largely irrelevant). We're keeping the numbers around purely for the sake of general convenience for developers (since not all of us enjoy referencing commit tags), and making it a whole number makes it clearer how arbitrary it is. Sadly, it seems very few people actually read what's going on and simply jump to conclusions. *shrug* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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