Tuesday, June 30th 2009
Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Released
Mozilla today announced the newest stable version of Firefox, version 3.5, which has been available in various developer preview forms for months. The new version is a milestone release, unlike timely updates that Firefox receives on a near-monthly basis, and boasts of better performance. For instance, Firefox 3.5 outperforms its previous version (Firefox 3) by over 100% in the SunSpider benchmark.
Under the hood, this new version extends support for HTML5 audio and video elements, including native support for open-source formats such as Ogg Theora. It uses a faster TraceMonkey Javascript engine (which is behind the performance boost in SunSpider), It supports downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, canvas-driven text, ICC profiles, and SVG transformations. The user interface remains fairly identical to its predecessor, except for a few minor changes. The browser finally supports a private browsing feature which MSIE 8 (InPrivate) and Google Chrome (Incognito mode) have. Existing users of Firefox will be prompted to upgrade to the new browser. Others can find it here.
Under the hood, this new version extends support for HTML5 audio and video elements, including native support for open-source formats such as Ogg Theora. It uses a faster TraceMonkey Javascript engine (which is behind the performance boost in SunSpider), It supports downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, canvas-driven text, ICC profiles, and SVG transformations. The user interface remains fairly identical to its predecessor, except for a few minor changes. The browser finally supports a private browsing feature which MSIE 8 (InPrivate) and Google Chrome (Incognito mode) have. Existing users of Firefox will be prompted to upgrade to the new browser. Others can find it here.
38 Comments on Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Released
Go to "about:config" in your browser.
Look for these values:
network.http.pipelining > TRUE
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests > 30
network.http.proxy.pipelining > TRUE
Now right-click anywhere and select New > Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaintdelay" and its value to "0" and you should get a nice speed boost on any DSL or higher connection.
Going from 3.0 to 3.5 using these fixes in both, it's a tad quicker :)
Upon rebooting and starting FF 3.5 back up, it not only recovered my tabs... but everything i'd been typing in the reply box :) lost maybe two words of a whole, large reply.
FireFox FOREVER!
(a download in progress when FF crashed also auto resumed when it came back.... <3 )
Been using Firefox 3.5 for a few months now in various beta and RC forms, and I have to say -- after developing in it heavily, keeping it open all day, opening up 20+ javascript-heavy tabs all while using 10 different developer extensions -- the memory-hogging problems seem to be fixed!
I can do this with Firefox 3.5 all day and it's barely using over 250mb of memory. Firefox 3.0 would be taking up 500 or more by that point.
But FF is the best replacement for ex-Internet Explorer users for the first time :)
its my result ... have a see ...
here is it : compare link No Change ...
its too slow than tests ive seen in other sites ..
maybe its cause of my addons ...
There might be more, but those three are the most retarded ones I've encountered.
Will be upgrading to 3.5 right after this post, it can't be worse than 3. I don't like restarting the browser constantly, just the free up the memory. btw. while writing this post the memory usage went up to 644MB, 1MB for just sitting there, no wonder the memory usage builds up if I have the browser open for couple days.
Did I do something wrong by just updating straight from 3?
Plus -- and this is the beauty of Firefox -- don't like the way the tab behaviour works? Get an extension to fix it. :D
This beta build of the famous TabMixPlus extension works with Firefox 3.5: tmp.garyr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9864&start=0Open up a command line, and type "firefox -safe-mode". Then turn off your extensions, and test them one by one.
2. The close button on the last tab was there in 3.0.x. there's nothing wrong with it.
1 and 2 happened because some moron submitted a bug and it got "FIXED" even though many people were/are opposing it.
3. Firefox started giving a f about Windows security zones in 3.0. now 3.5 stopped giving a f about group policy - SO WHAT IS THE POINT OF IT?
if you have such serious problems, stop using firefox and go play with chrome. Or do something constructive, such as send reports to the firefox team.