Announcing Firefox Aurora 10

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/11/announcing-firefox-aurora-10/

by maratd • 15 years ago

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xtacy• 15 years ago

I am on the Nightly builds and I found that when Nightly was version 10.0 (now Nightly is 11.0), Twitter broke because LocalStorage did not work. Has it been fixed in v10?

BauerUK• 15 years ago

Good to see they have finally integrated developer tools natively. However, they're all over the place. Each tool sits in its own separate window, they really need to bring them altogether and implement something more like FireBug.

Oh, the JavaScript scratch pad is a nice addition. A CSS version would also be nice.

pbhjpbhj• 15 years ago

>something more like FireBug. //

I'd have thought a first iteration would simply be firebug simplified, optimised and built in.

pcwalton2• 15 years ago

The CSS version is under development: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583041

LeafStorm• 15 years ago

The visibility APIs look useful. Why didn't anyone come up with that before?

james33• 15 years ago

Yeah, I hadn't even thought of that before, but right after I read that I started thinking of countless opportunities to put that to use.

Hovertruck• 15 years ago

You already can in Webkit-based browsers by listening for the 'webkitvisibilitychange' event.

pgaurav1432• 15 years ago

new will be anounsed yet. . . .

suivix• 15 years ago

Why don't they automatically update yet like Chrome? Having to download something every couple of weeks is a huge annoyance.

copper• 15 years ago

But they do: my version of Aurora notifies me when there's a new update that's been downloaded, and if I don't click it then, it updates the next time I start firefox.

gcp• 15 years ago

I suspect parent may have meant silent updates, where the browser updates without having to notify you. (Whereas now it still asks you each time)

I think that can't work until "compatible by default" is enabled for add-ons, which hopefully will come soon.

chaud• 15 years ago

Take a look at Brian's blog post that goes through what is coming on this front: http://www.brianbondy.com/blog/id/125/

starwed• 15 years ago

Check Preferences -> Updates, you might well have disabled that option.

dylangs10302• 15 years ago

I downloaded and ran it. Here's a few observations:

1. Mozilla is stating that Aurora has focused on enhancements in HTML5, but aside from the new visibility API for tabs not being viewed, both Aurora and Firefox score 314 on http://html5test.com (behind Chrome).

2. Aurora loads (warm, not cold) at about 2.1 seconds for me, from run to display. In context, that's about half a second faster than Firefox opening (again, warm) on the same computer, as Firefox opens in about 2.6 seconds.

3. This release seems like the kind of thing very easy to glaze over because it doesn't have immediately apparent differences with Firefox - power users and coders will find it useful and appealing.

dvdhsu• 15 years ago

> Aurora loads (warm, not cold) at about 2.1 seconds for me, from run to display. In context, that's about half a second faster than Firefox opening (again, warm) on the same computer, as Firefox opens in about 2.6 seconds.

I really suggest getting a SSD if you can afford it. The amount of time it will save you everytime you boot your computer and/or start programs really adds up in the long run.

Once you go SSD, you can't go back.

Tharkun• 15 years ago

Getting faster hardware to improve performance of slow bloatware is a tad silly.

jvoorhis• 15 years ago

The inspector is a needed improvement over previous versions. It's responsive, and shows tag, id and class info as you hover over any element.

ebiester• 15 years ago

I'm looking at the page visibility API. On one hand, I can think of a dozen ways it could be useful. On the other hand, images in my head of interstitials pausing while they are in the background is enough to kill someone. (I prefer not to use adblock, oddly enough.)

tommi• 15 years ago

Just in case you didn't know it: Firefox release stages are: nightly, aurora, beta, final. Had to look this one up.

Lessons learned from this: always describe in release notes with at least one sentence what you are releasing.

ebabchick• 15 years ago

They really need to get developer Inspect working such that simply hovering over the HTML highlights the relevant part of the page, not only clicking on it. Chrome is crushing them here with that feature.

pcwalton2• 15 years ago

If I understand what you mean, that's working in nightlies.

bokchoi• 15 years ago

> We fixed E4X syntax so that it is not accepted in ES5 strict mode.

I kinda like E4X even with it's warts. Why remove it from strict mode?

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