Firefox 3.5 available for download!

[xclite]

Apparently it's really fast with Javascript.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

[ua549]

I'll put it on my test box and give it a workout. I hope they fixed many of the bugs that plagued version 3.0.x.
I see that FF copied the IE method of opening a new tab. That's a good move because it frees up space on the toolbar.

*edit*
FF 3.5 is very slow on sites such as cnn.com and reuters.com. I rolled back to FF 3.0.11 and the sites are responding normally (<2 second load time).

[cat5e]

So far (three hours) it looks good.

All the Add-Ons that I use updated themselves and are compatible.

One Add-Ons (Get Mail Plus) refused to load. I Uninstalled the version that I had, and downloaded the latest version from the author site and it works well too.

http://webdesigns.ms11.net/getmail.html .

The funny thing is that I do not see any advandege with the 3.5 release.

[xclite]

I haven't used it yet. Just hearsay.

[ua549]

I did a clean install of FF 3.5 and it seems to run faster.
Something must have glitched when I did the direct update.
So far its has not crashed. That alone is worth it.

[richardginn]

I did a clean install of FF 3.5 and it seems to run faster.
Something must have glitched when I did the direct update.
So far its has not crashed. That alone is worth it.

I will also say it runs faster.

[James]

I'll chime in that the helpdesk system we use runs much faster in 3.5. However, Ubuntu still doesn't have a release package available. I'm running on rc4.

[xclite]

I did a clean install of FF 3.5 and it seems to run faster.
Something must have glitched when I did the direct update.
So far its has not crashed. That alone is worth it.

That's weird. I obsess about clean installs myself, I guess now I actually have a reason to.

[ua549]

FF 3.5 is having rendering issues with this site. Notice text in some places where icons should be.

[cat5e]

Mine renders OK.

How ever it does not matter what I set as a Home page when the browser starts, it always comes with a Blank Page at Stat.

I tried it on two unrelated computers (Win 7 RC), and it behaves the same.

[xclite]

It came pretty fast out of the RC, maybe they didn't thoroughly test that. I still haven't installed it, but I'll let you guys know how mine works once I do.

[cat5e]

That is it I had it with the 3.5 Quirkiness.

I decide to go back to Version 3011.

For the fun it I tried to install version 30010 on top of 3.5.

Why 3010 ? Because that is the only offline full file that I have.

To my surprise it installed very smooth, then I used the online updated to to 3011.

In most cases when you try an older version of software on top of a newer one it would refuse to Install, or at t least will generate some kind of warning.

Nah, Not in this case. It like they prepare the software for such event.

The New Old installation works thus far OK.