Firefox 5.0

[WaReZ]

Firefox 4.0 was released hardly some months ago and now Firefox 5.0?

They have gone crazy

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/5.0/whatsnew/

 

[Nitish]

if you dont know, Firefox 6,7 are also lined up to be released in this year only!

 

[SalmanAbbas007]

Updated already :D

 

[WaReZ]

i don't think there are enough changes to release a major updated version

 

[lukip006]

ff5 suckz x-(

 

[soft2050]

anyone know how many updates were there between v4 - v5 ? :s

 

[ShareShiz]

FF4 was released months ago ??

WTF i just upgraded like a week or 2 ago.

wont be upgrading until FF6 (a few weeks from now) <_<

 

[House_maniac]

well i'm glad the development team is working their ass harder xD.

 

[chaudhary9]

if lulzimg add on will work then i'll shift from ff4

 

[SalmanAbbas007]

lol they have not gone crazy, just have switched to a Google Chrome like development process

 

[SJshah]

The firefox 6 beta will be released in 2-3 weeks too.
Mozilla are just speeding up their releases now, like chrome.

 

[House_maniac]

lol they have not gone crazy, just have switched to a Google Chrome like development process

yeps means less beta version,firefox 4 had 12 beta,look at chrome they release a new version every month or may be less.

 

[Nitish]

if you are a developer you would already be knowing that they are already working on FF 7 alpha 1

If you want to download it then go here:
http://nightly.mozilla.org/

 

[doni]

from now on every 3 months there will be another version of firefox this was announced half a year ago.

 

[Myth?]

Ill be updating right now. :D

 

[CloudShadow]

You guys should upgrade to version 5, everything feels smoother and faster in this.

 

[WaReZ]

^^ i don't know why but i can't see any single performance increase

 

[Mr Happy]

Problem is FireFox are still a good 9-12 months behind Google. I've being using Google Canary (pre dev) and it has instant load with voice control. By Google spending millions and developing Chrome at such a pace FireFox have being forced to switch to a faster release process but this isn't news.

Google announced months ago they were changing their development schedule. It was July last year when Chrome went into turbo promising a new version every 6 weeks.

Since we are going to continue to increment our major versions with every new release (i.e. 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0) those numbers will start to move a little faster than before. Please don’t read too much into the pace of version number changes – they just mean we are moving through release cycles and we are geared up to get fresher releases into your hands!

So FireFox reacted way way later in Feburary of this year with it's 2011 schedule

There are huge problems with this for FireFox though. FireFox extensions often break when updating due to the way they are designed while other's like Chrome or Opera extensions don't. They keep working as you upgrade so you never even notice. Who's going to want to keep updating if everything keeps braking when you update. FireFox still have a lot to learn.


I make Chrome and FireFox extensions so this is a serious pain in the ass for developers like me.
eg https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/deihbgkfdacmnhfjcmaiibaeniddcmfl

 

[Carbon]

Most of the addons i tried on firefox addons featured list show that they are not compatible with firefox 5. Now, if a developer upgrades his addon to firefox 5 and then at the same time firefox 6 releases it will seriously create lots of problems both for the creators and users.

Firefox should definitely look into this. Time to downgrade it back to ff4

 

[DEViANCE]

Just updated from 4.01 to 5.00 no none of my addons work and it still looks shitty like 4.x.x... Still love firefox 3.xx TBH..