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GM ThunderCat 
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GM
Joined: 11 Dec 2009
Location: Everywhere
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 Topic: Firefox
Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 11:04 |
Mozilla are retiring Firefox version 4 from security support shortly
We recommend if you are a Firefox user you upgrade to Firefox 5:
However, if you use add-ons you may want to make sure they are available before upgrading
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Brids17
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Joined: 30 Jul 2010
Location: Canada
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Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 11:45 |
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Seriously? -.- I was hoping I could just ignore their constant pop-ups suggesting I upgrade...
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Jerec Cross
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Joined: 31 Aug 2010
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Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 20:37 |
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And it seems like only yesterday, I downloaded FF4...
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GM Stormcrow
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Joined: 23 Feb 2010
Location: Illyria
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Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 21:21 |
My personal recommendation is that you eschew the once-glorious-now-bloated-sub-IE9 horror that is what we call "modern Firefox" and move to Chrome or Opera. Unless you're using lots of FF-specific add-ins, or have another extraordinarily good reason to use Firefox... you won't regret it for a billionth of an iota of a jot of a scintilla of a shadow of a nanosecond.
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GM ThunderCat
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Joined: 11 Dec 2009
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Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 21:34 |
 GM Stormcrow wrote:
My personal recommendation is that you eschew the once-glorious-now-bloated-sub-IE9 horror that is what we call "modern Firefox" and move to Chrome or Opera. Unless you're using lots of FF-specific add-ins, or have another extraordinarily good reason to use Firefox... you won't regret it for a billionth of an iota of a jot of a scintilla of a shadow of a nanosecond. |
So much for GM impartiality!
*ahem* Chrome as Opera doesn't have goodies like WebGL yet...
Edited by GM ThunderCat - 25 Jun 2011 at 21:36
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Manannan
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Joined: 22 Mar 2011
Location: Mystical Mists
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Points: 576 |
Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 21:53 |
GM FIGHT!!!!
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Doesn't look good... doesn't look bad either!
"Manananananananananan, so long Sir, and thanks for all the fish." ~ St.Jude
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fluffy
Forum Warrior
Joined: 02 Mar 2010
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Points: 335 |
Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 22:00 |
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wait, there's FF 4 and 5? I still only have 3...
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Kurfist
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Joined: 14 Apr 2011
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Points: 824 |
Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 22:05 |
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i only have three as well.
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Patience is a virtue, resource giving is a sin
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HonoredMule
Postmaster General
Joined: 05 Mar 2010
Location: Canada
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Points: 1650 |
Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 22:14 |
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5 is a substantial performance improvement over 4, and since it's not
actually a major version change (regardless of the face-saving larger number changes), there's no need to be concerned about extension compatibility. As long as you're using the "Add-on Compatibility Reporter" any version checks will be disabled so everything will just keep working.
On a personal note, while others like Chrome and Opera do perform more smoothly, every attempt to use them more regularly has left me quite frustrated with their countless ineptitudes from decidedly choppy "smooth" scrolling to simplistic tab management to awkward developer tools (still no equal for Firebug's profiling and readable/distinguishable multi-level logging) to complete omissions of functionality whether innate or by extension (such as the radically more efficient grab-and-drag tablet-style scrolling, "rocker" gesture support, true ad blocking that doesn't just hide ads, linking between text inputs and your preferred text editor, and
proper support for user scripts). Heck, some are even lagging quite badly in terms of standards support...badly enough to get overtaken by IE.
And, as GM Thundercat hints, FF is still at the forefront of pioneering new standards, with Web GL being just one example (others being offline storage, cross-origin resource sharing, better/more open web font standards, and css animations). One example near to my heart is the already established E4X (XML for ECMAScript) which has been supported in several other ECMAScript derivatives (as Javascript is). Firefox has been the only browser to support E4X for years now, and this was a crucial component for making the original HarmlessButler work without depending on server-side resources
and storing vast quantities of template data as "preferences" back when offline storage wasn't yet implemented anywhere. Such an approach would have performed terribly.
Edited by HonoredMule - 25 Jun 2011 at 22:59
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Brids17
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Joined: 30 Jul 2010
Location: Canada
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Points: 1483 |
Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 22:15 |
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Chrome used to make java crash for me, so I kind of stayed away from it. I might consider getting it again.
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