More bad news from the interwebs… those merry pranksters over at Mozilla Labs upgraded/updated Firefox – they released v 3.5 in the last couple of days. It’s wonderful, it’s marvelous, it’s faster, it hard boils eggs in a minute and a half, and I’m sorta pissed off.
Firefox 3.5 does seem to be a solid improvement. Pages load more quickly, there’s a new “Private Browsing Mode,” you can reopen recently closed windows, and it has remarkable video capabilities.
So what’s my problem? Several of the Add-Ons that I’ve been using for the last couple of years aren’t (yet) compatible with version 3.5, and I’m still searching for alternatives. Otherwise, v 3.5 seems great. If you are still using Internet Explorer (why God why?!), you owe it to yourself to check out Firefox.
Here’s a brief video from Mike Beltzner, the Director of Firefox Development at Mozilla, which provides a great yet short (less than 3 minutes) Firefox 3.5 overview:
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July 2nd, 2009 at 9:41 am
Just wait until the addons are ready. I think there’s too much expectation of having cake and eating it.
I’ve upgraded and am willing to live without a few my favorite addons. I’m happy enough that FF is upgraded and remains free of charge!
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Kevin Reply:
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:04 am
Miguel,
The post is mostly tongue in cheek. I love Firefox AND the upgrades… and have in fact identified substitute Add-Ons for the ones I was missing. Thanks for commenting.
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