What's new in Firefox 7

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/7.0/releasenotes/

by ck2 • 15 years ago

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ck22• 15 years ago

It took me years to finally upgrade from Firefox 3.x (to 6)

Then it only took me a week to upgrade to 7, which was 100% painless and added some nice abilities.

Check out this FF7 extension which finally allows you to see what fonts are used on a page including font-face:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fontinfo/

rkudeshi• 15 years ago

I'm a big fan of the WhatFont bookmarklet, which seems to do the same thing in a simpler, more user-friendly way.

http://chengyinliu.com/whatfont.html

joelmichael• 15 years ago

It couldn't have taken you years. Firefox 4 was only released in March of this year. Firefox 5 came three months later in June. Firefox 6 was two months later in August, and Firefox 7 now comes a little over a month afterwards.

erickhill• 15 years ago

Actually, it could. If he was on 3.6, he could have waited years to make the leap to 6.

3.6 doesn't force you to auto-upgrade. You're encouraged, but never forced.

nl• 15 years ago

It couldn't have taken you years.

Sure it could. Firefox 3.0 was released in June 2008, 3.5 in June 2009 and 3.6 January 2010. If he just upgraded then he could have been on Firefox 3.x for over 3 years.

thirdhaf2• 15 years ago

Their release notes has an incorrect link for the article on memory reduction, they should be linking to:

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/09/firefox-7-is-lean-and-fast/

I would request a fix but I can't find a contact on that page and I don't feel like creating another account for their bugfix system right now.

jlongster2• 15 years ago

Thanks for the informal bug report. I will file a bug and fix it soon!

thirdhaf2• 15 years ago

Thank you! Sorry if that came off as antagonistic, I think I really need to start using some form of password manager or another.

shinratdr• 15 years ago

The nightly channel was on 9 last time I checked and it had a much better OS X UI, the first time some put effort into cleaning it up since FF4. I really wish they would get that into the release channel.

jlongster2• 15 years ago

A new version is released every 6 weeks, so if it's on 7 than you will see 9 in production in 12 weeks.

jeremyswank• 15 years ago

i've been using the 9 nightlies now for about month and have had no problems with it -- seems pretty solid.

baby• 15 years ago

No real change except the "http:// for a beta user?

ck22• 15 years ago

BTW to undo that "feature" in about:config set browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false

I only wish undoing the javascript disable from the urlbar was as easy.

mcpherrinm• 15 years ago

I'm curious what you use Javascript in the URL bar for?

It's been used as a security hole: A large-ish number of Facebook/etc phishing scams have had people copy javascript into their address bar.

For technical users, it's a pretty bad interface for writing and testing javascript.

Check out the Web Console or Scratchpad under the Web Developer Tools menu instead. It's really a much nicer way to run some impromptu javascript on a page.

skeptical• 15 years ago

BTW, what's the rational behind that change besides trying to morph firefox into chrome?

guywithabike• 15 years ago

It conveys no useful information to the user. It'd be like prefixing all emails with "email:".

DanielRibeiro4• 15 years ago

Firefox 6 still doesn't have a delicious plugin. Guess I'll stick with firefox 5 for a while.

josefresco• 15 years ago

You don 't just use the bookmarklet?

DanielRibeiro4• 15 years ago

I use the full plugin. Posting things to delicious, searching, and so on.

tdurden• 15 years ago

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/delicious-ext... works fine for me on both 6 and 7

DanielRibeiro4• 15 years ago

Guess it just requires some manifest/firefox hacking then. The top reviews complain just exactly about not working on ff6 and 7.

jmathai• 15 years ago

Gladly clicked "yes" to send Mozilla memory usage. Hope that helps them speed it up on OSX!

thristian• 15 years ago

I think 7 is the first version with a useful "about:memory" page so that you can get some idea of what's actually chewing up your RAM.

Now that you've clicked "yes", if you install the "about:telemetry" addon you can go to about:telemetry to see the exact data that Firefox sends: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/abouttelemetr...

InclinedPlane• 15 years ago

What's new? Most of your favorite plugins stopped working. Wait, that's not really that new anymore, nevermind.

It seems like they have a lot of work to do before they're able to match Chrome's super-smooth version bumps.

illumen• 15 years ago

All my plugins work this time.

dewiz• 15 years ago

All my plugins work, nothing to report. Perhaps you could contact your addons' developer to see if they are going to upgrade them. During the years I learnt to distinguish which addons I really need, while I uninstalled the others, making Firefox a lot faster to load and run. Honestly, many addons are not vital and I can happily live without them.

sthulbourn• 15 years ago

Also, there's a new feature of having a "retro" feel in OS X Lion: visible scrollbars and lack (Lion) of gestures.

Further more, why do I need to restart my browser to install an extension in this day and age and why didn't it auto update instead of it bitching and forcing me to download it manually?

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