Comments on: Firefox 3.5 Available

By: William d'Inger

William d'Inger — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:45:29 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. I have written several compute intensive JavaScript applications (like great circle navigation) and have developed my own benchmarks. Firefox v3.5 ran my base benchmark an astounding 3.76 times faster than v3.0. Of course that's for a specialized application, so I suspect the numbers will be lower for general purpose stuff.

As far as I know, Chrome isn't available for Macs yet (or at least it hasn't been around long enough for me to trust it). I'd like to give it a whirl someday.

By: Brett

Brett — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:20:59 +0000

I'm annoyed by the fact that it is incompatible with Norton Toolbar 3.5 right now, but apparently Symantec is really trying to get a fix going.

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Firefox 3.5 Available | Tim's Tech Rant — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:51:54 +0000

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By: Triumph

Triumph — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:55:28 +0000

UPDATE: It’s both shrewd and creepy that a certain company that does no evil is filling the ad slots on this page with promotions for its own, competing browser.

I didn't realize you had adz on your site. One of the advantages of using Firefox with the advertizement bloocking extension!

By: Triumph

Triumph — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:52:03 +0000

UPDATE: It’s both shrewd and creepy that a certain company that does no evil is filling the ad slots on this page with promotions for its own, competing browser.

I didn't realize you had ads on your site--one of the advantages of running Firefox with the AdBlock extension (something that Chrome does not have, by the way)!

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:02:41 +0000

View/toolbars/customize will allow you to add all sorts of buttons, James. I am running 3.0.11 and have the "new window" button.

Once upon a time, I tweaked apps like crazy. Now, I pretty much treat my computer as an appliance.

By: Phil Smith

Phil Smith — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:47:23 +0000

View/toolbars/customize will allow you to add all sorts of buttons, James. I am running 3.0.11 and have the "new window" button.

By: sam

sam — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:18:39 +0000

Oh, I think I get it...that's for the wifi folks, no? In case they're roaming about.

By: sam

sam — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:15:17 +0000

geolocation technology that can let Web sites know where you are

And that's a good thing because? (And, anyway, they can do that now with your ip address. Which I'm not crazy about.)

By: Eric Florack

Eric Florack — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:53:15 +0000

One thing I noticed immediately is a + button next to the rightmost open tab which instantly opens a new, blank page. That’s handy. My workaround had been to open a random new tab from the toolbar.

Keystroke: Ctrl-T.

By: BigFire

BigFire — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:50:51 +0000

Odd you're having problem. I click on check update in the help pull down menu, and it went fairly smoothly. Don't know what else changed.