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    News - Mozilla launches Firefox 11, now with Chrome migration

    New API enables synch between add-ons on different computers.
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    Re: News - Mozilla launches Firefox 11, now with Chrome migration

    Just updated to Firefox 11 now. Cannot see any different on the frontend.

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    Re: News - Mozilla launches Firefox 11, now with Chrome migration

    that's half the point...it's not a major release...

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    Re: News - Mozilla launches Firefox 11, now with Chrome migration

    Gotta love how quickly everyone is racing through version numbers now to appear more up to date.

    Not that I use it as my main browser, but I'm pretty sure my Firefox is version 2?

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    Re: News - Mozilla launches Firefox 11, now with Chrome migration

    well I'd upgrade then, it's totally different now, imho the best all round browser.

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    Re: News - Mozilla launches Firefox 11, now with Chrome migration

    Meh - I'll stick with Chrome...
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    Re: News - Mozilla launches Firefox 11, now with Chrome migration

    Do you think the main dev has a broken . key?

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    Re: News - Mozilla launches Firefox 11, now with Chrome migration

    Quote Originally Posted by snootyjim View Post
    Do you think the main dev has a broken . key?
    haha, maybe

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    Re: News - Mozilla launches Firefox 11, now with Chrome migration

    No doubt this will be read as a statement of intent by Mozilla to take on Google, but the move is just common sense.

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    Re: News - Mozilla launches Firefox 11, now with Chrome migration

    I agree that the fact that they have given this a major release version number, rather than just updating the subversion number, but I think that may in part be down to your average internet user.

    I think that a lot of people just don't see upgrading between 10.1 and 10.2 as something that they should bother with as surely not that much has changed... whereas they are more likely to upgrade if it is a completely new version. Although TBH the new auto updating should have solved that issue. Still I guess that if some people see FF on version 11 and Chrome on version 15 they probably think that Chrome must be newer and better.

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    Re: News - Mozilla launches Firefox 11, now with Chrome migration

    Pssst Chrome is on version 17 right now....
    Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!

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    Re: News - Mozilla launches Firefox 11, now with Chrome migration

    Well, basic marketing. Some people were actually thinking that a higher version number means it's better. It is not logical, but since when did logic apply to markets

    (This is a satirical statement, I did study Business and yes, there is a certain logic behind the market, but I guess we all know some people who will swear their Operating system is Sony and their Browser Windows XP)


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    Re: News - Mozilla launches Firefox 11, now with Chrome migration

    The style editor is actually quite good, the Inspect function is great and it has inline editing that's on par with Firebug, albeit a little less slick. I've always found Firebug is a bit jittery in that respect. 3D is a bit gimmicky, but it does look like it could be handy - one thing missing, by the looks of it, is the ability to hide a "plane" of content so you can just see what's behind it e.g. body->layout divs->sublayout divs->content.

    Obviously Firebug is what people will be comparing this too, and the only thing the Firefox editor is missing is the DOM and Net tabs. FF already has the JS scratchpad, console, HTTP request viewer (but it doesn't show it visually quite so well, with timings and so on), etc. Haven't used Chrome dev tools, but supposedly they're getting pretty good too.

    Happy with Firefox when I've got the desktop's grunt behind it

    I've got 8GB RAM and it only uses 400MB with 15 tabs (some with heavy flash content) open. Similarly on the quad it rarely hangs and never stops me from using another application.

    I still think it's a good idea to support the open source people and I really, really don't trust Google with a browser given that they've got basically everything else; yes, I block their various sneak services via ghostery, etc.
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    Re: News - Mozilla launches Firefox 11, now with Chrome migration

    Quote Originally Posted by 3dcandy View Post
    Pssst Chrome is on version 17 right now....
    It probably is - I just picked a random number to make the point

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    Re: News - Mozilla launches Firefox 11, now with Chrome migration

    So did Chrome I think!
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    Re: News - Mozilla launches Firefox 11, now with Chrome migration

    To be fair to Google, they don't really advertise version numbers in Chrome and to the average end-user, version upgrades just happen invisibly in the background.

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