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Title: Firefox 3.5 released
Post by: idolminds on Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 07:11:26 PM: Get it (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/upgrade.html).

Is nice. HTML 5, faster Javascript, privacy mode, etc.
Title: Re: Firefox 3.5 released
Post by: scottws on Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 08:11:27 PM: Privacy mode? Wow. Interesting to see Fx take a feature from IE.

Edit: Just installed it. That video thing they have on the front page is pretty cool. It's like Lightbox or Highslide, but with video.
Title: Re: Firefox 3.5 released
Post by: Ghandi on Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 09:48:41 PM: Faster Javascript was much needed, there is a marked speed increase now. Very nice.
Title: Re: Firefox 3.5 released
Post by: Xessive on Wednesday, July 01, 2009, 07:42:50 AM: Using it now. So far so good!
Title: Re: Firefox 3.5 released
Post by: nickclone on Wednesday, July 01, 2009, 09:14:24 AM: I hate firefox now, it doesn't save my logins so I have to log into a site everytime I start a new session. It doesn't sound too bad, but having to do it twenty times on twenty different sites gets really old fast.
Title: Re: Firefox 3.5 released
Post by: scottws on Wednesday, July 01, 2009, 09:51:48 AM: Do you have it set to delete cookies and other data when you close Firefox? Or maybe you have your cookie settings too strict.
Title: Re: Firefox 3.5 released
Post by: nickclone on Wednesday, July 01, 2009, 10:03:51 AM: Quote from: scottws on Wednesday, July 01, 2009, 09:51:48 AM
Do you have it set to delete cookies and other data when you close Firefox? Or maybe you have your cookie settings too strict.

I've tried every except create a new profile, I went to FF's site on how to do it but the instructions were horrible and I gave up.
Title: Re: Firefox 3.5 released
Post by: scottws on Wednesday, July 01, 2009, 10:24:33 AM: Creating a new profile is really easy, especially if you aren't concerned about losing your favorites, preferences, and history.
Title: Re: Firefox 3.5 released
Post by: Cobra951 on Wednesday, July 01, 2009, 12:01:52 PM: I wonder if they fixed the horrendous memory leaks.
Title: Re: Firefox 3.5 released
Post by: scottws on Thursday, July 02, 2009, 09:56:25 PM: It wouldn't surprise me if they did. The memory leak wascaused by the Javascript engine, so if they switched or reworked it then it might finally be solved.

I also just noticed they took another page from IE, this time from IE7. They have a new tab tab. For whatever reason I didn't see it until just now.
Title: Re: Firefox 3.5 released
Post by: Xessive on Saturday, July 04, 2009, 12:20:34 AM: TweakGuides.com has the new Firefox Tweak Guide (http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_1.html) up and ready.

It's got a lot of general info. The good part starts at Tips & Tricks.

It's a prettyy good way to brief over the features of Firefox (and new features of v3.5).

EDIT:
There's a segment on Profiles on page 9, which briefly describes how to manage profiles.
Title: Re: Firefox 3.5 released
Post by: nickclone on Saturday, July 04, 2009, 12:25:57 PM: I tried a new profile, still didn't work. This has been going on for a while, how could they not fix this yet?