Comments on: Top 5 Firefox 3.5 Features

By: Artyom

Artyom — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:59:48 +0000

Strange that pipelining is turned off by default. Open new tab, type about:config, agree to the note, and type first letters like “pipe” — there you’ll see four pipelining options. Change False to True by doubleclicking each, restart firefox and voila, your Firefox is now able to load internet in parallel streams.

By: Hazard

Hazard — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:01:29 +0000

I suspect Vecuccio is either using the typical “weasel words” when he says “I and most others find it bloated and slow, not to mention about as stable as a retard in a hall of mirrors !” Either that, or he’s just a Windows fanboy who just talks out of his arse without any real evidence or experience to support his bloviations.

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By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:34:12 +0000

I for one am very pleased with the progress Firefox has made. I’ve been a user since early days, and I eagerly look forward to each new release. And once again they don’t disappoint. I love InPrivate for Banking and such, just that tiny bit more security. Also I honestly notice the speed difference, especially on my slightly older machines. and it purrs along at 99MB of RAM with 10 tabs open for me, so I don’t know what is causing other people’s 600+MB woes.

Now if only the rest of the browsers would ratify a solid HTML5 standard, rather than being flimsy on the issue. I for one think they are just too lazy to upgrade their codebase to support some of the best of the new features.

By: Yves Cazelais

Yves Cazelais — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:47:12 +0000

The main default of the 3.5 is its slowness to start. It takes minutes, sometime a lot of them, to start up. It’s very annoying. It’s OK after that, except that it does not use less memory than the 3.0, as advertised. As many as 600 Megs.

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:53:47 +0000

The private browsing is one that I was not aware of. Thanks for the list. I’m glad that firefox is faster now. I have had problems with ff being too slow.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:31:49 +0000

@John L LOL too bad about Location aware browsing! And Forget this site is useful if you are on a friend’s computer, or at work, etc. Well, in theory anyway.

By: John L

John L — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:12:56 +0000

Don’t know what Venuccio’s problem is. Firefox has always been rock stable unlike IE7 (you can forget that piece of poop called IE8) and Opera. Mind you the benefits you have listed make no difference to me. I have not noticed any difference in speed with 3.5 over the previous version at all, it feels exactly the same. HTML 5 ? Private browsing seems fairly pointless as I delete everything whenever I shut Firefox. I cannot imagine Forget this Site being of any benefit for hardly anyone. Location Aware browsing appears not to be working on my computer unless I go to a porn site where there is always dubious young ladies in my area but then there was with the previous version.
I love Firefox to bits but apart from the tab bar I cannot see any difference at all. But then there wasn’t a lot to be able to improve on to be fair.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:20:38 +0000

I agree that 3.5 is a lot faster, and so far perfectly stable. Just a pity that some add-on’s don’t work first time, but it is fairly easy to force install, or change the maxversion, and they seem Ok then.

One factor that seemed to be a problem with 3.0 was that it did not always interpret CAPTCHA images correctly so it made it difficult to log on to certain sites. Seems as though this has been put right in 3.5.

GREAT !

By: admin

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:56:04 +0000

@Venuccio Sorry to hear that. For me it is a lot faster than the previous version and all my add-ons work.