News Firefox 3.5 now available

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2009/07/01/firefox-3-5-now-available/1

Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5 and it's described as a major release. It boosts performance, introduces new features and supports emerging Web standards like HTML5.

 

Good because my old Firefox has been freezing up lately. Sad to have to switch back to IE

 

Been enjoying it since yesterday evening. The Weave Sync addon is just brilliant. Goes a little further than xmarks and syncs your tabs for when you get back from work. Very nice work in progress.

 

Greetings!

What is "Tear off tabs"?

 

Is it compatible with flash? Normally I have to wait for flash to be available to new variations of FF

 

Drag a tab off the tab bar to open it in a new window. you can drag tabs between windows too

yes it is

 

Greetings!

Ah! Thanks.
But the "drag tabs to another window" was already available on previous versions.

 

Ummm where is 3.6? I have been on 3.5 for ages now, next please, lol

 

This is the final release. You've been using the RC or Beta versions.

 

I'll give it a few weeks before I upgrade. Wanna make sure all my extensions and skins and such work. They're very important to me!

 

Eveything works fine here... No problems at all, even with the extensions...

 

Loving the tear out tab. Opera had this before didn't it?

 

I'll probably get this for work, as it's a new JS engine, but don't think I'll bother at home.
IE8 and Chrome occasionally serve my browsing needs. (Dons flameproof suit)

 

Been on 3.1 and then 3.5 in various beta iterations for probably at least six months now. I've been quite happy with it, and have had very few issues with stability or performance (most of those cleared up before the release candidate stage), but I guess the changes may not be as drastic to me, as I've seen then added in one-by-one in each version.

 

Rendering is sloppier in 3.5, I find.
It's prone to flickering/jumping with fixed-position backgrounds in CSS, which didn't happen in previous versions nor in IE8.

On the upside, it now only supports the standards-compliant opacity option in CSS and ignores the IE and Netscape opacity filters.

 

Hm, last time I tried a manual update, I lost all my settings and bookmarks. Going to wait for auto-update to get fixed.

 

not sure about Opera, but Chrome has it.

 

also Safari, if you don't mind Apple.

3.5 is fantastic, i can now go back to single browser. although it'd be nice to be able to have private mode by window instead of by session. eg, 1 private mode window, the other normal mode.

 

Installed it this morning, and am liking it.
JS rendering is deffinately quicker. All the sites i've made still work (very good thing, that), and as such i am a happy camper.

 

Any ideas why the installer is trying to force me to install to C:/ProgramData instead of C:/Program Files (x86) ??