Firefox 6.0 Released

I'm not even going to bother. As of about a week ago I've officially given up on Firefox.

Time and time again I would try the new IE or new Chrome and always end up back with Firefox. After giving IE9 a fair chance however, I just can't put up with the Firefox shortcomings anymore.

FireFox constantly has problems with slow loading YouTube videos.
FireFox has numerous glitches with Facebook and refresh/notifications.

But overall I'm just fed up with the sluggishness of it. I make a living in this industry and have quality hardware, but each FF release seems to feel slower and buggier to me.

The first day of using IE9 I was in awe. I'd forgotten what a quick snappy browser felt like.

Admitidly I'm pretty impatient. I run SSD's etc for a reason. But still, if IE9 can impress me obviously the speed is possible. As the years go by I find I use a lot less Firefox extensions anyways, which was always the main thing keeping me with Firefox.
 
Firefox has gotten nothing but faster and more stable for me. Looking forward to 6.0
 
I think Firefox 6 is officially slated to be released later this week. Visiting the main Firefox site still shows 5.0.1 as the latest.
 
Firefox 6 is/was slated for official release on August 15, which is basically tomorrow (Monday) but they always end up with the "final" build several days early and someone notes it's posted on their FTP server and then everyone that wants it pounces on it early...

That build posted above at the link appears to be the final one but the about page still shows it's part of the release channel so, that's a bit of a difference. It doesn't list "beta" anywhere like the one I grabbed earlier on Saturday did (and that was about 25 bytes smaller too so not even the same .exe installer).

I don't think I'll be doing any upgrade anytime soon, but I will test this out as soon as PortableApps gets a proper portable version, probably by Tuesday, then see what's what. It's basically the same browser with even more bug fixes from what I can tell - it's not like it's a new browser overall.

If I don't find any issues, then I'll stick with it, but if anything goes awry, screw it, I'll be sticking with 5.0.1 for a while since mine (portable, of course) is currently as flawless as I can expect.
 
The Donut said:
I'm getting File is Corrupt on every download from the Mozilla FF6 downloads.
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Had an issue like this once, turned out to be bad ram corrupting my downloads

Or maybe it's just a bad image on the Mozilla server.

Back on topic. I've found myself liking firefox less and less. The only things keeping me with it is the great Adblock plus extension and a few other things
 
File doesn't work.....but I also found myself using chrome a lot more....they've lost me already, and I don't think they're gonna get me back
 
I was quite happy with 3.6 but looking forward to the hardware acceleration of 4.0. 4.0 was OK and 5.0 was slower. I updated to 6.0 and noticed some extensions were disabled. It seems a faster though. I also haven't noticed flickering icons on the toolbar either.
 
I'm encountering several unresponsive pages with 6.0. It has seemed to grow from 4.0 now. Makes me think about looking at some new browser options.
 
MISMCSA said:
I'm encountering several unresponsive pages with 6.0. It has seemed to grow from 4.0 now. Makes me think about looking at some new browser options.
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I've gotten a few on the 6.0 beta, but I get this problem a ton with chrome.
 
Upgraded from 5 to 6, and pages are still loading slowly. FF 3.6 is faster than 4,5, or 6, which is not really what I hoped for. And ironically, my 3.6 install has the most extensions (since many have not been updated).
 
As on 5.01, I clean installed FF, not upgrade over old versions, and not a single problem to report.
 
Skip it and go straight to 7. Browsing the neogaf high res screenshot htread I would hit 1.6GB of ram usage with FF6 then it would crash. FF7 is using only 800MB.
 
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I'm using Waterfox (64-bit build, may be incompatible with Silverlight (Netflix uses silverlight)) 7.0 RC1, and it seems better than 5.0 (skipped 6.0).

I'm not sure that it's as smooth as Chrome, however. I'd need to download Chrome again...
 
Did they fix the issue with the mouse wheel not working?

Also since 4+ Firefox has had a lot of issues with Javascript.
 
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