Read more.New API enables synch between add-ons on different computers.
Read more.New API enables synch between add-ons on different computers.
Just updated to Firefox 11 now. Cannot see any different on the frontend.
that's half the point...it's not a major release...
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?
well I'd upgrade then, it's totally different now, imho the best all round browser.
Meh - I'll stick with Chrome...
Do you think the main dev has a broken . key?
No doubt this will be read as a statement of intent by Mozilla to take on Google, but the move is just common sense.
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.
Pssst Chrome is on version 17 right now....
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
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)
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.
Last edited by Whiternoise; 14-03-2012 at 09:26 PM.
So did Chrome I think!
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
jim (15-03-2012)
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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