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Title: FF 6.0a1
Post by: bear on April 15, 2011, 15:37:52 PM
Trying out FF Nightly 6.0 alpha 1 at the moment  :D
Title: Re: FF 6.0a1
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on April 15, 2011, 16:06:03 PM
What's new in it? Anything good?
Title: Re: FF 6.0a1
Post by: bear on April 15, 2011, 16:27:34 PM
I cannot see anything new just yet looks like 4 but  Aurora 5 beta is on it's way :) a bit confusing :)

http://nightly.mozilla.org/
Title: Re: FF 6.0a1
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on April 15, 2011, 17:05:38 PM
Looks like there arn't many features on the roadmap, its all about stability/future proofing at the moment; I'm quite happy with that as I still think it's too buggy/suffers slowdowns and crashes too much.
Title: Re: FF 6.0a1
Post by: bear on April 15, 2011, 20:49:26 PM
Works fine but bugs can happen, not yet so far though.
Title: Re: FF 6.0a1
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on April 18, 2011, 09:53:58 AM
I meant Firefox in general, not this alpha specifically :) Any stability and speed improvements are welcome on the roadmap, I think it has all the right features currently and they need to polish it up.
Title: Re: FF 6.0a1
Post by: Mongoose on April 18, 2011, 10:11:02 AM
call me old fashioned, but isn't the next version after 4 usually 5?
Title: Re: FF 6.0a1
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on April 18, 2011, 10:14:42 AM
Yeah, its a bit strange, they are working on both concurrently as they are trialling a new development process structure. 5 is due out in the next couple of months.
Title: Re: FF 6.0a1
Post by: neXus on April 18, 2011, 20:36:05 PM
Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on April 18, 2011, 10:14:42 AM
Yeah, its a bit strange, they are working on both concurrently as they are trialling a new development process structure. 5 is due out in the next couple of months.
Beta mate, 5 out live is a little further out then that.

IE 10 could be out before the years out as well.

It is the whole mindset thing. Chrome and Opera are on 10/11 FF on 4 so it must not be as good? The dumb genera user mus think.
Title: Re: FF 6.0a1
Post by: soopahfly on April 22, 2011, 06:33:20 AM
Just like winamp.

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Title: Re: FF 6.0a1
Post by: Sam on April 23, 2011, 22:07:04 PM
Firebug is the only reason to keep using firefox.
Title: Re: FF 6.0a1
Post by: neXus on April 24, 2011, 02:42:05 AM
Quote from: Sam on April 23, 2011, 22:07:04 PM
Firebug is the only reason to keep using firefox.
You not using tab grouping? Your mad if your not. Its a brilliant feature. Anything you do on chrome FF4 does too.
Title: Re: FF 6.0a1
Post by: bear on June 27, 2011, 00:14:25 AM
Now running FF 5.0  and nightly (6.01)
Title: Re: FF 6.0a1
Post by: Leon on June 27, 2011, 08:00:43 AM
Chrome ftw ;)
Title: Re: FF 6.0a1
Post by: neXus on June 27, 2011, 09:25:47 AM
Quote from: Leon on June 27, 2011, 08:00:43 AM
Chrome ftw ;)

Chrome clears resources better then FF but running a large amount of tabs Chrome uses quadrupedal amount of memory. It is only good if your running a handful of windows.