Mozilla Urges Firefox Users to Update to 3.6
Mozilla Urges Firefox Users to Update to 3.6
Posted 03/11/2010 at 8:04pm
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Firefox 3.6 has recorded over 100 million downloads during the past 50 days, according to a new post by Melissa Shapiro on Mozilla's official blog. Now, Mozilla wants Firefox loyalists still holding onto older versions of the browser to make the leap to the latest version. To this end, people running older versions will begin seeing a pop-up message to inform them about the latest version and urge them to update.
They will have to pick either one of the three options available to them: Ask Later, No Thanks, or Get the New Version. Mozilla also tried to address a widespread apprehension that already installed Firefox add-ons and Firefox 3.6 may prove to be incongruous. “It’s fast, stable, compatible with over 90% of the thousands of Firefox Add-ons, and contains new features such as lightweight themes and plugin version checking,” Shapiro wrote in a clear bid to allay such fears.
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Zazubovich
March 12, 2010 at 5:06pm
If you have a bunch of instances running with multiple tabs in each it freezes up and the close/minimize/resize boxes start flickering and nothing will happen. It hasn't totally crashed, but it is in a coma of some sort. (Like Word 2007 every time i close it!) I'm liking minefield much better, and it's an alpha fcol.
Lucky for FF that IE8 is just a smidge more obnoxious, and chrome a tidly bit more obnoxious than that.
aerotive
March 12, 2010 at 12:40pm
I'll upgrade when there's a reliable way to disable tear-off tabs.
Keith E. Whisman
March 12, 2010 at 9:48am
3.6 is great. 3.7 nightly alpha/beta builds are even better. I can't believe I'm actually excited about Firefox again. Type a company name into the address URL field and the appropriate website comes up and when it's not sure it brings up a google search results page.
Just awesome ideas built in make it exciting.
QuakindudeMod
March 12, 2010 at 1:36am
My main choice for mouse gestures isn't compatible with 3.5. So I'm using FireGestures, which isn't compatible with 3.6.
No thanks. I'm not upgrading anything until one of the two main gesture add-on's supports 3.6.
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bjoswald
March 12, 2010 at 1:16am
Thanks for the popup, Mozilla. Nice to see your popup blocking efforts weren't in vain!
I'll upgrade when Lucid is released. Until then, I'll stick to 3.5. :)
Neufeldt2002
March 11, 2010 at 8:35pm
To bad it still has the memory bug.
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