Tuesday, August 16th 2011

Mozilla Firefox 6 Web-Browser Released

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Mozilla's Firefox version number inflation drive continues as it plays catch up with Google Chrome 13 and Internet Explorer 9. Released today, Firefox 6 packs small number of new features, improved font rendering, along with the usual load of security and bug fixes. To begin with, the navigation toolbar got a couple of updates: the address bar now highlights the domain name of the loaded webpage. The site identity box (which displays the favicon, and security status of the loaded webpage), is now "streamlined" with the rest of the address bar.

Firefox 6 supports the latest draft version of WebSockets with a prefixed API. It adds support for EventSource / server-sent events, window.matchMedia. There's an improved web-console to help developers. The browser has better discoverability with Firefox Sync. It starts faster when using Panorama. Again, there's the a load of security and stability fixes.

DOWNLOAD: Mozilla Firefox 6

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36 Comments on Mozilla Firefox 6 Web-Browser Released

#26
xsever
WarraWarraAt least IE( can be fixed and the menu bar and tabs + status bar can be re-enabled.
The menu bar can be easily re-enabled in firefox. Just hold ALT.
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#28
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
FF6 working fine here, disabling that compatibility check solves my only problem.


why they cant just call it 4.2/4.3 etc is beyond me.
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#29
faramir
xseverI am not really getting people's fuss about the way Mozilla is going with the version numbers.

Who cares if they are jumping version numbers in integers or going in 0.001 increments! What matters is that the browser is not getting worse!

Whether it's called 3.6.10 or 6.1, it's still performing.
We (users) do. Web browser can be used for things other than just squandering time on Facebook so the rapid release schedule without proper testing only ensures that certain services and plugins stop working (for a while). Things like e-banking not working because some clown figured out the 4.03 should be named 6.0 and that 9.0 should be out by the end of 2011 ? Thanks, but no thanks, I don't need number inflation - I need a browser that works and doesn't break compatibility every other month. If M$ can manage security upgrades without advancing version for no reason so could Mozilla ..
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#30
Bo$$
Lab Extraordinaire
i really dont see the number inflation as a problem, let the devs do whatever they want...
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#31
[H]@RD5TUFF
Bo$$i really dont see the number inflation as a problem, let the devs do whatever they want...
That's how I see it I don't get why people are griping OMG they used the number 6 . . .
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#32
Red_Machine
Thunderbird has been bumped up to v6 now...
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#33
INSTG8R
Vanguard Beta Tester
Red_MachineStylish isn't compatible with it (so it says, it's likely to just be a version number fart), so I'm back to the default and ugly powder blue look.
Never used Stylish but I assume its for changing the FF theme? I use Personas for that. It works fine still.

My beef is the loss of Google Toolbar. I managed to be able to keep it alive using compatibility reporter on my laptop but I mistakenly forgot to install it on my desktop before upgrading to FF5 and now I can't even get it anymore.

Living in Norway and being Canadian the Translator was great for getting thru wordy Norwegian pages was great...

But then even that in itself has issues because Noscript breaks the toolbar too now and they are VERY vague on how to allow it thru Noscript to function fully...
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#34
Red_Machine
I use it for integrating Aero into the Firefox shell. They said they did it, but they only did it halfway.
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#35
xsever
faramirWe (users) do. Web browser can be used for things other than just squandering time on Facebook so the rapid release schedule without proper testing only ensures that certain services and plugins stop working (for a while). Things like e-banking not working because some clown figured out the 4.03 should be named 6.0 and that 9.0 should be out by the end of 2011 ? Thanks, but no thanks, I don't need number inflation - I need a browser that works and doesn't break compatibility every other month. If M$ can manage security upgrades without advancing version for no reason so could Mozilla ..
If e-banking stops working because of the browser's version number, then there are some issue with that e-banking system.

The security certificates should not expire like that!
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#36
Arctucas
Using FF 6.0.2, I have had the browser crash three times in the last week, the screen goes black and then the desktop returns with the little FF window saying something went wrong, etc.

I have never had FF crash before, and was wondering if anyone else has has this happen to them?
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