Mozilla Releases Firefox 26 to Beta Channel

This week Mozilla released Firefox 25, the stable version of its browser and almost immediately put out Firefox 26 in the Beta channel . The beta has a good many new features in both the desktop and Android versions that are worth checking out.

The biggest addition is undoubtedly the Click to Play revamp, which affects all versions of all plugins, except the latest release of Flash.

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I haven't noticed a single change since version 4 while using firefox

This browser gets more bloated by the day.

The feature I'm waiting for is fewer features. Just make the damn thing fast and efficient with a normal GUI.

BryanSTG said:

This browser gets more bloated by the day.

The feature I'm waiting for is fewer features. Just make the damn thing fast and efficient with a normal GUI.

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It is called Internet Explorer 11.

Firefox used to be my favorite but it kept getting fatter and slower and non stop "new" releases that changed who knows what. I jumped to Chrome and after a slightly painful adjustment period, I don't see me going back. So much faster and no more Flash crashes.

Burticus said:

Firefox used to be my favorite but it kept getting fatter and slower and non stop "new" releases that changed who knows what. I jumped to Chrome and after a slightly painful adjustment period, I don't see me going back. So much faster and no more Flash crashes.

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You do realize Chrome updates it's browser about every 6 weeks and is now on version 30, right? Also, the release notes for all of Firefox's releases are published: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/25.0/releasenotes/

Not sure what happened, but the coloring on Firefox's default skin is completely broken now. It seems to be pulling the color you've set for Windows.

Chrome is getting increasingly worse for me. Uses way more ram and cup then it should.

Cup = autocorrect cpu lol

siliconnerd said:

You do realize Chrome updates it's browser about every 6 weeks and is now on version 30, right? Also, the release notes for all of Firefox's releases are published: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/25.0/releasenotes/

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The difference is that without being told you would hardly know that Chrome was updated - a new item might appear in a menu, but things still work. Mozilla has a habit of making sharp turns at every release, ripping out existing features and slapping on new untested ones in a constant attempt to turn Firefox into whatever the flavor of the week is. The result is that it feels like a constant alpha release where the developers haven't figured out what the final form will be.

And Firefox's release notes are far from complete - for starters you don't see them mentioning the features being removed in each release, which is great for IT who has to go in and try out every button to find which functionality has been lost in the hopes of figuring out a workaround before the department that relied on it calls in screaming. It also means you have to review and potentially retrain the level 1 tech support every 6 weeks (it's not their place and it's a very bad time for them to be figuring out how Firefox works this week while they are on a call).

CvP said:

It is called Internet Explorer 11.

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Yeah, I tried 11. Search in the address bar kept bringing up windows explorer with the address pointing to nonexisting folders. Also, I ran into numerous websites that would not load. As far as I can tell, MS stopped their crusade to follow web standards with IE9 and each version is getting less compatible than the last.

Firefox is my default browser now.

Coming up, Bongo's review of Firefox five... thousand.

Hopefully it fixes the large arrows on menu's with windows 8.1. Surprised this bug even exists since windows 8.1 was out in beta for months. Not like they could of tested for 8.1 compatibility before hand.

David_CAN said:

It also means you have to review and potentially retrain the level 1 tech support every 6 weeks (it's not their place and it's a very bad time for them to be figuring out how Firefox works this week while they are on a call).

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I'd argue that a level 1 tech support spends a lot of time using all of the popular browsers at work. They're probably a die-hard fan of 1 of them as well.

I know this is going to sound optimistic in the most ridiculous way, but as a colleague of them, I'd sure as hell hope they know what browser features are up-and-coming. At the very least for Firefox, since Mozilla posts upcoming features on their website. They also post when they remove stuff. It takes 5 minutes every few weeks to see what's been going on in the browser world.