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Firefox 40 Arrives With Windows 10 Support, Expanded Malware Protection

Posted by timothy on from the does-make-it-over-the-hill? dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today launched Firefox 40 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Notable additions to the browser include official Windows 10 support, added protection against unwanted software downloads, and new navigational gestures on Android. Firefox 40 for the desktop is available for download now on Firefox.com, and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. As always, the Android version is trickling out slowly on Google Play. Changelogs are here: desktop and Android.

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  1. Still not as good as Google Chrome... by jcfandino · · Score: 5, Funny

    because Chrome version is 44. This is 10% better.

    1. Re:Still not as good as Google Chrome... by MagickalMyst · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yes but Chrome still sucks.

      --
      Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
    2. Re:Still not as good as Google Chrome... by aaron4801 · · Score: 4, Funny

      But 40x better than Edge.

  2. alternative browsers, Opera? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    After using windows 10 edge i felt that without ad blocker was useless in this ad ridden web, so which are the options?, a slow and bloated firefox, or the alphabet privacy nightmare and memory hog Chrome.

    I installed the latest Opera and was surprised, is fast, based in chromium so is very compatible and has the gestures and usual goodies of every opera install, it is even a universal app in windows 10, so it looks great too.

    For me Opera is my alternative browser for years to come

  3. Also some improvements for Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    "New: Improved scrolling, graphics, and video playback performance with off main thread compositing (GNU/Linux only)."

  4. Good by T.E.D. · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I did the upgrade to 10 (finally!), and now Firefox doesn't come back from sleep properly anymore. It gets weird visual glitches that look like refresh issues, and none of the tab gadgets are visible (or clickable). I pretty much have to kill it and restart it every time I wake my PC. Hopefully the "supported" version won't do that.

  5. Thoughtful tweaks by dstyle5 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We’ve made thoughtful tweaks to the interface to give Firefox a streamlined feel. You’ll also notice bigger, bolder design elements as well as more space for viewing the Web.

    Translation: We tried to hide more buttons and functionality from users with Firefox 40, but in the end people complained about the lack of a field to enter addresses into and the removal of the back button. Users, tsk, tsk... Rest assured that in the future we will continue to add more useful buttons and features like Pocket and voice chat.

    Regards,
    The Firefox "UX" Team

    In all seriousness the "new look" for Windows 10 doesn't look all that different from FF 38 that I've been using for months in the Tech Preview. I can't wait to try and find what other menus, options and functionality they have "designed" out of FF 40.

  6. Re:All URLs are going to Google by new_01 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's how to disable it. Not sure yet how this is implemented. https://support.mozilla.org/en...

  7. Incoherent headling by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "Firefox 40 Arrives With Windows 10 Support, Expanded Malware Protection"

    That seems like a contradiction, given what I've read about Windows 10.

  8. Re:All URLs are going to Google by new_01 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apparently version 3 of the API downloads the hashed list to the client side rather than sending URL's to mother Google: https://developers.google.com/... So I think I'm going to leave it enabled on my machines. This is reasonable and actually a fairly decent service if that's true.

  9. Re:Let me check... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've found bugs in Firefox that date back to not only before it was called Firefox but before Firefox even existed.

    My personal favorite is this bug which is over 15 years old now. The practical effect is that if your screen resolution ever changes, Firefox breaks and you have to restart it. (Basically tooltips start appearing over the wrong areas and anything that's supposed to not go off the screen uses the wrong screen values.)

    A practical example of why that might happen is projecting, say, a web app in a meeting. Doing that means you have to restart Firefox after hooking up the projector and then again when done. Another example is docking a laptop. 15 years with absolutely no progress.

  10. Re:Let's do it! by Dahan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You expect every button in an application to have text on the button itself fully describing what it does?

    Yes. Most people only read what is on the button itself, if even that. Expecting them to have read the entire page to know what it is that they will be doing (it's not even mentioned in the page title) is too much.

    No, I think it's just you... you must have a huge problem when using any GUI interface these days--"OK or Cancel? OK to what?? Cancel what??? I have no idea what it's talking about!"