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Firefox 3.5 Reviewed; Draws Praise For HTML5, Speed

Posted by timothy on from the new-improved-dragon dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Competition by KillerBob · · Score: 0, Troll

    While some mod is sure to rate this a troll (it isn't), I have to say that IE8 isn't all that bad. I still prefer FF on my laptop, and my netbook is running Linux (an Ubuntu variant), but on my HTPC, I haven't bothered to install anything other than IE8. Said system is rarely used to browse the net, of course, but the experience I have with IE8 is surprisingly not crappy.

    I was also saddled with IE8 or IE8 at my last job, and again, it was pretty good. (was laid off a month ago, going back to school in september).

    I agree with you in saying that if it weren't for Firefox, MS and others would have stopped upgrading their technology, and we'd still all be pretty well screwed from a security and stability standpoint.

    --
    If you believe everything you read, you'd better not read. - Japanese proverb
  2. first rule of troll club by viralMeme · · Score: 0, Troll

    When ever FF is mentioned on slashdot always bring up the memory usage 'problem' or CPU usage FUD !!!

    "meh, i get 100% cpu usage after the page has loaded on Firefox"

    The lowercase i's are a nice touch .. :)