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For all you Firefox users that haven’t updated already / automatically, Firefox 3.5.3 is out. Aside from a handful of stability issues, version 3.5.3 also address a number of security problems as well. The download weighs in at just under 8MB.

Things move quickly online, and we’ve beefed up the engine that runs Firefox to make sure you can keep up: Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2.* As a result, Web applications like email, photo sites and your favorite social networks will feel snappier and more responsive.
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Things move quickly online, and we’ve beefed up the engine that runs Firefox to make sure you can keep up: Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3, and ten times as fast as Firefox 2.* As a result, Web applications like email, photo sites and your favorite social networks will feel snappier and more responsive.
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Why do I find it hard to believe that v3.5 is twice as fast as v3? :rolleyes:
 
PyroHoltz said:
Why do I find it hard to believe that v3.5 is twice as fast as v3? :rolleyes:
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Because is probably a half-lie. I bet it runs that fast doing a very specific thing only. If they want to talk about speed, they should be comparing themselves to Chrome. Now, that's a damn fast browser.

I still Firefox tho', the plug-ins available are awesome.
 
I installed this and a short time later it crashed on me in the middle of a lengthy facebook message. Nice.
 
i do like the recent builds of firefox. when chrome came out i switched to that but just in the past month i have come back to firefox. its very snappy. and i think its better then chrome atm.
 
Ryle said:
i do like the recent builds of firefox. when chrome came out i switched to that but just in the past month i have come back to firefox. its very snappy. and i think its better then chrome atm.
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I have to agree with you on that one. I also had switched to Chrome after seeing how it was much faster than Firefox (just didn't like the lack of add-ons) but these latest builds seem to really speed FF up more and more. My latest version of Chrome takes almost 1.5x longer to load up a single web page than FF. Heck, sometimes Internet Explorer is quicker that Chrome. :confused:
 
SolidBladez said:
I have to agree with you on that one. I also had switched to Chrome after seeing how it was much faster than Firefox (just didn't like the lack of add-ons) but these latest builds seem to really speed FF up more and more. My latest version of Chrome takes almost 1.5x longer to load up a single web page than FF. Heck, sometimes Internet Explorer is quicker that Chrome. :confused:
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I'm having a hard time believing that one broski. Chrome is still blazing fast for me especially compared to Firefox.
 
speed is not the reason I stick with FF. It's the plugins. The day chrome comes up with plugins like zotero is the day I switch.
 
Well I did a clean installation a short time ago and threw Firefox 3.5.3 on it and as soon as I fired it up the first time I hit the Sunspider Javascript benchmark: 1057 ms...

Then I took a portable version of Iron I have (SRWare Iron, a Chrome/Webkit offshoot designed with more security and other aspects; not quite as much fluff as the basic Chrome direct from Google has. Ran that off a USB stick and hit the same benchmark on the same machine on the same installation just after that test I did with Firefox.

525 ms...

Both browsers untouched from the default installation configuration, and the portable Iron was literally twice as fast on that benchmark. Now, yes, not everything is done with Javascript but, as it does play a huge roll in how the WWW works these days, speed can be important to some folks.

Personally, I could care less. I simply don't like the look and feel of Chrome, or Safari, or most anything else anymore, and obviously there is nothing out there with the community of addons and extensions that Firefox has built, hence it will remain my primary browser (with IE8 as backup) for the foreseeable future...
 
I upgraded it last night but then shut down the PC. Like w/ all minor updates, I don't expect to notice any changes since it's under-the-hood security that this purports to address.
 
@Joe Average:

Did you tried running that from a regular HDD? A USB drive has around 10x lower latency than a HDD.
 
Once the app is loaded, it doesn't matter anymore, same with Firefox Portable which I have on a stick too. Same results, etc.

(I knew someone would ask...) :D

SRWare Iron is just fast as hell on that benchmark, as regular Chrome tends to be as well, and Firefox 3.5.x is slower, simple.
 
Odin75 said:
Because is probably a half-lie. I bet it runs that fast doing a very specific thing only. If they want to talk about speed, they should be comparing themselves to Chrome. Now, that's a damn fast browser.

I still Firefox tho', the plug-ins available are awesome.
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Most likely referring specifically to their traceMonkey javascript rendering engine. It is significantly faster over FF3, I think I've heard or seen 20+ times faster. In many benchmarks comparable to Chrome/Opera, etc. Close to me anyway for the difference to be insignificant or not weigh my decision on browser choice either way.

MANY websites heavily use javascript, so I could see assertion that they are twice as fast "overall", "could" be valid or is at least plausible.
 
For some reason, 3.5.3 doesn't have the pop-up box for entering a username/password when manual proxy is enabled. Can't use this version at work. Reinstalled 3.5.2 and works again.
 
Only gripe I have with newer versions of FF is the inability to highlight a web address in the address bar and just drag it below for a shortcut.

I admit that is a minor gripe, but the only thing that I personally notice during regular usage.



Also found Chrome to be faster when refreshing Goozex while waiting to add a new game or movie release to my queue.
 
stop!theradio said:
I COULDN'T care less. COULDN'T.. Now that I got that out of the way...:p lol

Updated this morning, been using it for the past 4 hours or so. No problems yet.
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Actually, I said it right - people always feel the need to tell me I'm saying it wrong when I'm saying exactly what I mean. "I couldn't care less" requires more effort, actually... "I could care less" is precisely what I mean to say, meaning "If I bothered to care at all, I could actually do less of it" soo... bleh, nobody ever gets it. :) And yes, my English teachers hated me saying it but, they hated me saying "ain't" just as much, it ain't no big deal. hehe

No issues noted with 3.5.3 so far, been using it since early in the morning, but as the changes weren't "huge" then there's no reason to expect anything noticeable anyway...
 
FoxhoundOp said:
I'm having a hard time believing that one broski. Chrome is still blazing fast for me especially compared to Firefox.
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I think it depends on the OS. I mean, under Windows 7 it takes a lot longer on my i7 desktop while it's much quicker in XP on my P4 desktop. :confused:

And I'm using the latest beta too.
 
Joe Average said:
Actually, I said it right - people always feel the need to tell me I'm saying it wrong when I'm saying exactly what I mean. "I couldn't care less" requires more effort, actually... "I could care less" is precisely what I mean to say, meaning "If I bothered to care at all, I could actually do less of it" soo... bleh, nobody ever gets it. :) And yes, my English teachers hated me saying it but, they hated me saying "ain't" just as much, it ain't no big deal. hehe

No issues noted with 3.5.3 so far, been using it since early in the morning, but as the changes weren't "huge" then there's no reason to expect anything noticeable anyway...
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Ha ha, you're totally just saying it wrong, no matter how you look at it. "I couldn't care less" means you don't care in the least. Meaning, you couldn't care any less than you already do, because you just don't care at all. "I could care less" means - yes, you care! If you "could" care less, then you'd have to at least care a little. Get it? ;)
 
installed today at both work and home - no issues with 3.5.3 but i can't really say i noticed an improvement (wasn't really expecting one though). same old same old

oh - and all this could/couldn't business piqued my interest and i came across this article
 
stop!theradio said:
Ha ha, you're totally just saying it wrong, no matter how you look at it. "I couldn't care less" means you don't care in the least. Meaning, you couldn't care any less than you already do, because you just don't care at all. "I could care less" means - yes, you care! If you "could" care less, then you'd have to at least care a little. Get it? ;)
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This man is correct.
 
Hence me saying what I said... you kids, always so quick on the trigger, geez ;) If I didn't care at all, even in some small manner, I wouldn't participate in such a discussion. But because I do care to some degree by participating, when I say "I could care less" I'm saying exactly what I mean to say because - by caring enough to comment - I'm demonstrating that small amount, of which I could expend even less effort to do, hence... "I could care less."

But seeing as folks like to rip it apart, and since I really could care less hence my continuing and now ending participation in this thread... who cares. :)

"Can't we all just get along?"
 
Joe Average said:
Hence me saying what I said... you kids, always so quick on the trigger, geez ;) If I didn't care at all, even in some small manner, I wouldn't participate in such a discussion. But because I do care to some degree by participating, when I say "I could care less" I'm saying exactly what I mean to say because - by caring enough to comment - I'm demonstrating that small amount, of which I could expend even less effort to do, hence... "I could care less."

But seeing as folks like to rip it apart, and since I really could care less hence my continuing and now ending participation in this thread... who cares. :)

"Can't we all just get along?"
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You finally used that in a context-correct form, congrats - that's difficult to do! I understood what you meant, but I was just giving you a hard time. I suppose it's because I've gotten this lecture before, when I said the phrase without giving much thought at how the words actually work together. I think it's agreed that we all understand what "I could care less" implies, so it's pretty much a non-issue. ;)
 
Good ol' Mozilla wanting me to use McAfee to scan my computer when checking for Flash updates after Firefox 3.5.3 installs.

Talk about backwards.
 
I also updated both of my computers' FF to 3.5.3. No noticeable change, as expected.
 
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