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Firefox 3.5 Reviewed; Draws Praise For HTML5, Speed
johndmartiniii writes "Farhad Manjoo has a review of Firefox 3.5 at Slate.com this week. From the article: 'Lately I've been worried about Firefox. Ever since its debut in 2004, the open-source Web browser has won acclaim for its speed, stability, and customizability. It eventually captured nearly a quarter of the market, an astonishing achievement for a project run by a nonprofit foundation. But recently Firefox seemed to go soft.' The worried tone in the beginning of the review gives way to excitement over the HTML5 features being implemented, saying that thus far Firefox 3.5 'offers the best implementation of the standard — and because it's the second-most-popular Web browser in the world, the new release is sure to prompt Web designers to create pages tailored to the Web's new language.'" The final version could be here at any time; Firefox 3.5 is still shown as a release candidate at Mozilla's home page. Update: 06/30 15:31 GMT by T : No longer marked as RC; the Firefox upgrade page now says 3.5 has arrived.
It does indeed. On my Linux box I've created a custom version of Firefox that does just that, but on Windows this simply isn't possible. I've tried copying and pasting code from my Linux copy into the Windows DLL's using a hex editor but this hasn't worked and has broken my Firefox installation - Windows shittyness at it's finest!
... send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back.
"The dew has clearly fallen with a particularly sickening thud this morning"
In Firefox 3.5, the bard class has been totally revised, and you no longer need to "intuit direction" to browse the web.
Oh, you mean the multiprocess architecture that I described in my blog as being a pile of shit? See "Processes".
Yes, I fully agree, we need to provide more "distractions" for programmers. Hey man, rather than solve bugs, let's just fuck around!
Next up, Firefox On Rails...
Acid4 is even worse. And Acid5, I mean, make your browser work guys.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
>I squirted milk out my nose when I read that.
Had you been drinking milk at the time or are you just really wierd?
I want a list of atrocities done in your name - Recoil
"The most tabs I ever have open on Firefox is three, maybe four."
So... what browser do you use for watching porn?
I squirted milk out my nose when I read that.
> Had you been drinking milk at the time or are you just really wierd?
You must have gotten Eric Cartman's bad kidney.
Huh? Is there somebody out there yelling, "No! We need one browser! Competition is evil"?
I think his name is Ballmer.
If so, I haven't run across them.
That's good... he throws chairs. :)
It was much easier to deal with him back when he used to just roll barrels at you...
Actually, you can buy 2x2GB DDR2 for 45$ - at least in the states. The point is, it's cheap. Really cheap. Almost "yo momma" cheap. Or at least my momma cheap. Either way, it's cheap.