Firefox 5

[Guest iYoshinho]

So. What do you think of Firefox 5 since it came out a couple of days ago.

[Manta]

I haven't noticed much of a difference from Firefox 4, but I've enjoyed using it thus far :D

[~Shoot Em All Peophin!~]

i cant trust mozilla blindly this time.

previous update caused me too many crashes and problems.

[Syrin of Neopia]

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 . . .

[Angeló]

i dont know .. it's the same as 4 .. whats the difference ??

[Xepha]

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

[Manta]

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:

[Tank Girl]

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

[antiaircraft]

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.

[Xepha]

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

[Jase]

Firefox 5 is actually v4.0.1 Mozilla simply decided they prefer to work with whole numbers

[antiaircraft]

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*