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Firefox 13 Released, Debuts Brand New Tab Page and Homepage
MrSeb writes "Mozilla has officially released Firefox 13. Unlike Firefox 12 (or 11, or 10, or indeed many of the recent Firefox versions), Firefox 13 is an important release with a handful of much-needed features that are long overdue. There's a new New Tab Page launcher, with your favorite and most-used websites, and a new default home page with one-click access to Bookmarks, Settings, Add-ons, etc. SPDY is on by default, too, which should help ameliorate the perceived speed difference between Chrome and Firefox. Finally, the developer tools (Page Inspector, Style Inspector, etc.) have been tweaked and updated!"
Now it looks like Safari.
Last week it looked like Chrome.
I'm going back to Internet Explorer. Or maybe Mosaic.
Either that or I'm going to wait another week for Firefox 16 which will likely imitate Facebook.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Opera doesn't count, the only reason anybody used Opera was to say the used Opera, then turn their nose up and storm off in a huff. Everybody who knew better used a real browser like Netscape Communicator.
"There's a new New Tab Page launcher, with your favorite and most-used websites, and a new default home page with one-click access to Bookmarks, Settings, Add-ons, etc."
Okay, that's great, but what are the much-needed features that they added?
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I'll wait until tomorrow and get FF14
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
The OS already has a perfectly fine task-switching mechanism.
Let me guess, a GIMP developer?
Seriously. Who pays for a web browser?
A couple things have changed while you were in your apparent coma: nearly 3,000 people were killed and World Trade Centers 1, 2, 3 and 7 were destroyed in a terrorist attack on the United States 10.5 years ago and desktop Opera has been free for roughly 12 years now.
Welcome back.
People will pass up steak once a week, for crap every day.
Opera was so indy, it was not caring about Opera before everyone else didn't care about Opera.
>>>In fact, a commit was made to Mozilla a few months before Opera 5 was released that added tab support.
So you're saying Opera 5 was first.
Huh, I think I finally understand why there is such contention between you and everyone else. It's because we're not all speaking the same language. The words look alike, but they apparently mean different things. So you think you're saying one thing, but everyone else perceives it as something else, and then you can't understand where all the rage comes from.
But don't fret, I'm here to help! Y'see, "before" means "first" in this context. And if "first" means something different in your language, here are some examples to try and help you to better understand.
January 1st comes before January 2nd.
January comes before February.
The letter A comes before the letter B in the alphabet.
Of course, not knowing which other words differ in meaning between us, I may have just made matters worse.