Well on FileHippo at least, not officially till tomorrow apparently:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox/
No changelog as yet, anyone feeling brave
Well on FileHippo at least, not officially till tomorrow apparently:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox/
No changelog as yet, anyone feeling brave
It's technically still a beta, see here why it's a good ideal to wait for Mozilla to post it as available which is expected to be tomorrow.
i've got firefox 5-7, they all run fine on my system
It's not like I just collect betas and alphas of programs or anything
Any mod fancy correcting the typo in the thread title
i've got firefox 5-7, they all run fine on my system
It's not like I just collect betas and alphas of programs or anything
I'm way behind the times now, still using FF3.6
Why not update to four? It's quite a bit faster than its older brother 3.6!
Why not update to four? It's quite a bit faster than its older brother 3.6!
Pure laziness to be honest, always like to do a clean install of major updates and just haven't got round to it
What does FF5 got that FF4 doesn't?
What does FF5 got that FF4 doesn't?
AFAIK its not a huge change as they are going down the Chrome route of making every update a major number change (so by old versioning this would probably have been FF4.1). Its supposed to be a bit lighter on resource usage and have some privacy improvements but don't think there's anything major.
Meh, I'll wait then.
Memory usage improvements, performance enhancements, etc. That's about it, no major features have been implemented yet.
It's officially released now, I had the little update pop-up appear in Firefox and it's now hosted on Mozilla.com for downloading.
When I look at the add-on site and see a total of about 26 add-ons compatible with FF5 and none of them are the ones I use, I think I'll use FF4 for the rest of the year and check back then.
Oh wait, I went to the wrong page, or something. The add-on site keeps confusing extensions and add-ons.
Hmm, maybe I will try out FF5.
All of my addons have been working fine with firefox 5, aurora and nightly too. I think it's still up to the developers to confirm that it works, so things seem to take some time.
All of the ones I used still work with FF5. So I installed it. I'm good to go. And I MozBackupped it.
Apparently there are "over 1000" under-the-hood improvements to 5 over 4, and 5 beats Chrome in <insert benchmarks here>
Of course, benchmarks are getting to the point where a 1ms difference is "winning"
What does FF5 got that FF4 doesn't?
A number 5 in the version. Seriously see here. I did a clean install earlier, and can't tell a difference between version 4. By the way there's no reason not to update, not even for the lazy bunch (other than being lazy).
Any mod fancy correcting the typo in the thread title
Done.
By the way there's no reason not to update, not even for the lazy bunch (other than being lazy).![]()
Ok ok
Done.
Cheers Dennis.
I think Firefox 5 should work a bit better on slower machines, due to the memory handling and performance improvements Haven't had a chance to test yet on a slower machine.