Firefox 5

alleycat · Jun 22, 2011

I upgraded to Firefox 5 this morning. I thought I might as well start a thread in the event anyone has any new problems with it.

The only thing I lost was the Fireshot (image capture) add-on.

CaoPaux · Jun 22, 2011

Wait, whut? Didn't F4 just come out a couple months ago?! Or is F5 still in beta? Gah! :chair

alleycat · Jun 22, 2011

Yes to question 1. No (apparently) to question 2.

I'm guessing somewhat, but there could have be a major glitch in security with 4, so Mozilla went ahead and came out with 5.

muse · Jun 22, 2011

After hearing the problems everyone had with 4 I didn't update.

Will watch this thread with interest to see if it's worth updating to 5.

alleycat · Jun 22, 2011

I didn't really have any problems when I went to 4. I needed to fiddle with a couple of things, and I got an add-on to create colored tools on the toolbar, but I think that was about it. It did seem like it took a little longer for FF to completely close down when I quit the browser.

Snitchcat · Jun 22, 2011

Just hit the 'update' option for FF and a pop up window said the Movie Media 10.xxx addon (or something like that) doesn't yet work with FF5. I'm not sure whether that affects my browsing or not (probably not), but FF5 automatically disabled it for me. Else, haven't noticed anything different with version 5 so far.

Williebee · Jun 22, 2011

It shuts down AVG Safe Search, too.

But, it starts up nice and quick.

benbradley · Jun 22, 2011

I only have (had) one add-on that I know of, when you open a new tab the add-on sends the tab to your home page (just exactly like New Window does, and ALWAYS HAS done ... GRRRRRRR). That add-on doesn't work with FF5, and now a New Tab page is blank.

Does this thing have macros? Can I make a "new tab" command that does a new tab, then goes to the home page?

Going to 4 removed several Magic Buttons, and I finally got 'em placed right, and fortunately going to 5 left them in the same place. I just gotta make my netbook copy look the same as my desktop copy. Does bookmark sync do that?

Content-Wise · Jun 22, 2011

I never really had problems with Firefox 5, but the fact that it was too slow for me (for some reason it doesn't start up immediately when I click the icon as it did for past versions), so I switched to Google Chrome.

alleycat · Jun 22, 2011

benbradley said:
I only have (had) one add-on that I know of, when you open a new tab the add-on sends the tab to your home page (just exactly like New Window does, and ALWAYS HAS done ... GRRRRRRR). That add-on doesn't work with FF5, and now a New Tab page is blank.

Does this thing have macros? Can I make a "new tab" command that does a new tab, then goes to the home page?

Do you use the Bookmarks toolbar? That's what I do more of the time for the websites I visit most often; I just click New Tab and then hit the tool for whatever website I want to go to (one of which is my homepage). Two clicks instead of one.

App Tabs might be what you're looking for (I'm not sure). You can pin a website as an app tab.

Wojciehowicz · Jun 22, 2011

If you work from home and have to use a lot of web applications that are critical (VPN to work, or access on the web databases with big code loads), don't upgrade if you do not have to, or use IE for those applications if compatible. There's going to be a lot of application breaking with these rapid upgrades.

What? You didn't hear about it? PC World will fill you in. 6, 7, 8, etc. are going to be coming out way faster than before.

In the meantime, if you aren't afraid of a new bleeding edge, upgrade. I use a bunch of older plug-ins not updated for a while (mostly blogging related), so I will more than likely wait a few iterations to see if any replacements for them pop-up on the Mozilla site. This is going to be very interesting. Not sure why they are aping the Google Chrome fast update cycle, but it might leave Apple Safari and Microsoft IE as the most stable browsers, which is bizarre, but very sci-fi like.

These Mean Streets · Jun 23, 2011

benbradley said:
I just gotta make my netbook copy look the same as my desktop copy. Does bookmark sync do that?

You can use MozBackup (http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/)

It backs up your firefox profile and you can install the profile on any other computer so that it's exactly the same with no tinkering or adding anything. All your add-ons, bookmarks, buttons etc. will be there same as the original.

alleycat · Jun 23, 2011

Not that I really care, but Fireshot updated itself for FF5 and reloaded.

sailor · Jun 23, 2011

to make new tabs load up with the home page

tools/options/tabs then select 'tab mix options'.

in the new window

events/new tab

the top options should let you set it to home page, should say 'nothing' if it opens to a blank page

benbradley · Jun 23, 2011

sailor said:
to make new tabs load up with the home page

tools/options/tabs then select 'tab mix options'.
...

Tools/options/tabs just displays some checkboxes starting with "Open new window in a new tab instead." I double-checked, this is Firefox 5.0. Hmm.

sailor · Jun 23, 2011

"Tab Mix Plus Options..." appears directly under the 'general-tabs-content' tabs at the top, above all the check boxes

Edit: and I'm using FF5

These Mean Streets · Jun 23, 2011

Tab Mix Plus is an add-on. It'll show those options only if the person has it installed in their firefox.

sailor · Jun 23, 2011

ahh, my mistake

Bartholomew · Jun 24, 2011

So... I shouldn't have Firefox 1.05?

Buffysquirrel · Jun 24, 2011

I updated to 5. Now I can't print out of Firefox. This caused some minor irritation last night when I was trying to print out that evening's recipe....

cameron_chapman · Jun 24, 2011

I upgraded to 5 a couple days ago on my Mac. So far it's WAY better than 4. 4 was so unstable and slow that I ended up downgrading back to 3.6 (which is still supported, btw). I used FF for work, and 4 couldn't handle having more than half a dozen tabs open. I had a dozen open in 5 with no issues yet. We'll see how it goes when I need to have a couple hundred open.

Buffysquirrel · Jun 24, 2011

Hmm, I wonder if upgrading on the Mac will mean Ffox will actually fill in all those pesky passwords it's got saved.

ETA: Mozilla help fixed my printing problem. The second time this week that they've helped me out. Hmm. Now I just need help removing this tortie cat from the printer.

zanzjan · Jun 24, 2011

CaoPaux said:
Wait, whut? Didn't F4 just come out a couple months ago?! Or is F5 still in beta? Gah!

Interestingly (and somewhat worryingly) they not only just pushed out 5, they've already EOL'd 4:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217837/Mozilla_retires_Firefox_4_from_security_support

So now you get to choose between security updates and working extensions, apparently. It'll be interesting to see if there's sufficient uproar for us to start seeing some backpedaling by Monday.

-Suzanne, thinking about Opera.

Jersey Chick · Jun 24, 2011

I updated and it's better than 4 (which drove me to use Chrome for a while) but how much better remains to be seen, as I only updated this morning.

alleycat · Jun 24, 2011

Has anyone noticed any momentary "hangs" on websites using Adobe Flash?

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