Firefox 3.5 is out.

[JPnyc]

anyone else find that this version opens incredibly, ridiculously slowly? I mean it was never a snappy application from start up, but this is to the point where I wonder if I actually clicked on the icon or missed...

[t34b4g5]

anyone else find that this version opens incredibly, ridiculously slowly? I mean it was never a snappy application from start up, but this is to the point where I wonder if I actually clicked on the icon or missed...

Joe it does need to load up all those uber exciting fabolously awesomebarness excitment + features now.

But yeah besides the somewhat slow loading feature, i've also noticed on some websites it actually takes a long time to load the page...

[JPnyc]

I'm sorry I upgraded.

[westin]

anyone else find that this version opens incredibly, ridiculously slowly? I mean it was never a snappy application from start up, but this is to the point where I wonder if I actually clicked on the icon or missed...

Yes, I actually quoted you, and have typed this reply since trying to open a new window. Yay! I thought they said something about being 2 times faster...

still not open

edit:

still not open... just checked the task manager. FF is using just less than 200MB of memory. What was that browser? K-Meleon?

[JPnyc]

Yes, I actually quoted you, and have typed this reply since trying to open a new window. Yay! I thought they said something about being 2 times faster...

still not open

edit:

still not open... just checked the task manager. FF is using just less than 200MB of memory. What was that browser? K-Meleon?

I use Maxthon1 with the DLLs of IE 8 Beta two

[westin]

I am using K-Meleon right now. Seems to work pretty well. I have not had any problems with pages not displaying correctly, and it seems pretty snappy. It will take a little getting used to, but so far, so good.

[The-Spec]

First of all, you might want to look up why IE and Chrome does that to begin with. Secondly, its not even something you'd even notice unless you go about your daily computer related activities with the task manager open.

Its completely normal for a process to fluctuate in memory usage too. If firefox jumps up an extra kilobyte then oh well.

I on the other hand dislike firefox because they...

A: Care more about helping users recover from being rick-roll'ed than browsing the web
B: Broke alot of ad revenues' terms of service while advertising itself
C: Lied to E-Tards; made it sound as if it'd fix their problems instead of displaying things

[ByTeWrangler]

I'm sorry I upgraded.

Now tell me how many times have you said that ?

C: Lied to E-Tards; made it sound as if it'd fix their problems instead of displaying things

One of the point's I hate firefox.

[JPnyc]

Now tell me how many times have you said that ?

One of the point's I hate firefox.

Can't. I'm only 32 bit and the number requires 64.

[t34b4g5]

Now this is amusing...

Mozilla slates first FireFox 3.5 patch...

Plans to patch bugs this month that went unfixed in final version

Mozilla will patch the just-released Firefox 3.5 in the next few weeks
to stamp out several bugs that went unfixed in the final version of the browser,
the company said Tuesday. Firefox 3.5.1, which Mozilla intends to deliver in mid-to-late July,
will include fixes for at least three bugs and "topcrashes,"
the term the company uses to describe the frequently-reported crashes.
Like many applications, Firefox asks users to report crashes by displaying a prompt after the browser goes down.

"[The] goal of this release should be a quick turnaround that fixes topcrashes and bugs we almost held ship for," Mozilla said in notes published after a weekly status meeting.

One of the topcrashes scheduled for a fix involves

TraceMonkey, the new, faster JavaScript engine that debuted in Firefox 3.5.
At least one of the bugs was fixed a week before Mozilla released the final code on Tuesday.

The quick patch is not unusual for Mozilla. The company did the same thing last year,
when it issued Firefox 3.0.1 four weeks after shipping Firefox 3.0, 2008's update.

Users downloaded about 6.5 million copies of Firefox 3.5 in the browser's first 36 hours, according to Mozilla's real-time counter.
Although that's a far cry from the 8.3 million copies of Firefox 3.0 Mozilla delivered in the first 24 hours of its availability last summer, it's a pace that, if sustained, would exceed the 11 million copies of Safari 4 that Apple claimed were downloaded in its first three days.

Firefox 3.5 can be downloaded in Windows, Mac and Linux editions in 58 different languages from Mozilla's site;

current users can update by choosing "Check for Updates" under the "Help" menu.