Loading ...Firefox 3.5 is here and loaded with a plethora of improvements and new features . Sometimes with all of the download upgrades and new features that we are bombarded with it is hard to keep track of what tools are really available to us. This week, our very own Mike McDonald sat down to give you a rundown of some of the top features, improvements, and a few things to look out for with Firefox 3.5.
Some of the most buzzworthy features of 3.5 are its performance features. It leaves a smaller footprint, which means that it uses less of your computer’s memory while it is running. Firefox has also improved their graphics engine with improved Color Profile Support which, depending on the quality of your monitor, will make your images more crisp and vibrant. On top of that, page load is faster and memory management has been improved by continuously cleaning up any unused memory, but the top performance feature Firefox has added is the Super Speed feature. With Super Speed the browser is 3 times faster than Firefox 3 and 10 times faster than Firefox 2.
The new browser is also fully customizable. It has over 6,000 add-ons, which is a tremendous improvement from previous versions. In addition to being able to mold Firefox to fit your personal style, you can add different search engines, edit toolbar preferences, form the navigation buttons to your liking, and a multitude of other customization features.
The location bar, referred to as the Awesome Bar, has also been drastically improved. It now allows quicker navigation to the sites you like to visit, you can simply type in a site you’re looking for and it delivers all matching results. This feature is particularly useful for those hard to remember URLs. The Awesome Bar also offers one-click bookmarking and improved tagging.
Firefox 3.5 has a lot of handy features, but beware that compatibility has been an issue for some people, so before you upgrade be sure it is compatible with everything you need to run. Here we have just touched on several of the newest improvements but there are still many many more. To here more about these features watch the video above, and you can download Firefox 3.5 for yourself here.
I like Firefox 3.5 except for the constant “server not found” bug that Mozilla has yet to fix.
Cool. I like the speed increase and less memory usage. I live Firefox running a lot and I do notice it leaks a lot of memory in 3.0 and below.
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It’s a dog. Am a huge fan of firefox but WTF were they thinking? DO NOT upgrade until the next version fixes all the glaring issues that should have been resolved prior to releasing this fox into the wild.
Hi I would like to use firefox but I am currently have microsoft 2000 proffesional and I was told your new verision won’t work with my current system
Do have an old verision avaible or will your new work with my system?
Thank You in advance for your help Tony 7/24
I used Firefox 80% of the time since I am a programmer I need to support other browsers IE, Opera and Safari, Chrome but Firefox still has a slightly edge over Opera in usability but superior to Safari and Firefox. Chrome is getting there but still a lot of work to do.
The 2008 Summer release was buggy as heck, and there are still many problems. The newest version seems to be about the same, it crashes for mo apparent reason (and often cannot restore the session.
Customization is nice, but each round of upgrades seems to fiddle with the hooks used to customize it, much the same way the Windows DLL’s were supposed to be “reusable” modules…each release wipes out a bunch of add-ons.
Heck, I can’t even get FF (3.5) or IE (7)to display gmail properly.
I’ve switched to Opera again because I REALLY hate having a session with 5-6 open windows and hundreds of tabs crash at random.
Is it the browser? I don’t know, maybe it’s a virus.
What I do know is that adding too many features to anything can make it fail at it’s original task–or at least perform poorly.
A browser should, first of all, browse and display web pages properly.
Any device, hardware or software, needs a certain level of reliability–without reliability, what good are added features?
I’ve been in IT since the early 1970′s and “feature creep” has always been a problem. A multi-tool is pretty handy, but while it can do several things, it seldom does any of the exceptionally well.
“Customization” is all well and good, but at some point you can customize things to the point that you are unable to transfer you knowledge of how the product works to other user’s versions. That’s fine, if you never, ever need to use someone else’s machine.
Unfortunately, even Opera is on the customization bandwagon.
Sometimes, a standardized interface is a huge advantage. Do you like having learn where each car model has it’s controls and instrumentation? How many accidents are caused by the non-standardization of automobile controls?
If you have massively customized your interface, and I have too, can either of us use the other’s machine with and degree of efficiency?
Hardware and software, like economies, do NOT need to constantly expand, it’s just the way we are used to using them. Sometimes, a device actually reaches a stage where further changes only decrease it’s functional ability.
But it appears that releasing new versions constantly is a marketing requirement, and takes priority to actual functionality of the products.
WTF is right!
For staters…
Who is that dude in the video? A: Get that pen out of your hand and B: No need to look at that paper on your desk as nothing is on it.
OK enought with that. All the updates Mozilla did via this version is the same as IE 8. The update is a complete waste of time. All the “new” tools they claim do not work. Wait 5 months and try again.
Not sure who the ‘staters’ are but i’m sure you have impressed them by calling something popular crap. how cliche. let me guess? you compile all your own builds of linux and microsoft is the devil too right?
I haven’t had any issues with 3.5 and I use it every day. 5 months til it is good? w/e
as for the guy in the video, so he has a pen and a paper he looks at a couple of times. bfd. he’s in the video maybe 40 seconds and i didn’t think it was bad or a big deal at all.
I don’t comment much, but you ‘everything sucks’ guys get on my nerves. if you can do so much better why don’t YOU go make a video or build a browser. until then go back to digg or whatever troll hole you crawled out of.
3.5.1 is full of bugs. I often tell users to revert to 3.5.1 until Add-ons and other user-submitted things work. I also tell them to revert because simply how many bugs 3.5.1 has.
~Myst~
Too many bugs, please go back to 3.1.12
http://www.filehippo.com has this version.
Thanks,
~Myst~
Like it, have it installed now & its definatley faster especially browsing the net, well done firefox :0)
Had to go to all my plug in sites and re-install but new features are cool.
join to my site and enogy
Very helpful information. Personally, I love the new 3.5.
I watched your video on Firefox 3.5 – I think this is very interesting. What would be the impact for me if I switch from Windows Internet Explorer to Firefox? (email address or type of stuff…) Thank you
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Very good video, thank you very much.
I like Firefox is safer to navigate,very good new applications.
Mike thanks for the review.
I have watched the video and I really enjoy it. Firefox 3.5 with improvements and new features are great. The performance features is awesome. The overall changes narrated by Mike McDonald in the video are very interesting.
I have just loaded the new Firefox, first impressions are great. I really like the simple way to add more tabs.
The most common external plugin/tool I use is fire ftp, this worked fine first time.
Good job.
Has the “server not found” bug been fixed yet? I tried the previous version of Firefox and fully 30%-50% of the time I tried to open a site, FF came back quickly with that ugly message. After 2 weeks of trying all the fixes (finding forum msgs all the way back to 2005 complaining about the same thing!) I finally gave up and went back to IE. Whew …surfing again.
What’s up with that, anyway, Firefox aficionados?
I’ve been wondering that very same thing Edward. Man, it’s been what, like 8 years so far, and STILL Firefox can’t create a fix for the “hot link protection”. Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome can visit a website and start viewing videos with no problem what so ever with Hot Link Protection on. But as for Firefox…NOPE. Maybe 10 more years from now they will…But until Firefox fixes this simple little problem, I guess I won’t be using Firefox to watch my all time favorite Andrew Dice Clay video short at:
http://www.bloodshows.com/html/Andrew Dice Clay – Anger.html
It’ll just keep coming up with “Video Not Found”. While Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome plays the video SWEET as hell.
Actually, here’s another link for the video. That’s another thing about Firefox, if the url link has a space in it, it won’t work. lol. Terrible Firefox…You are losing it. You were the best…Now you are the worst…
http://www.bloodshows.com/html/Andrew%20Dice%20Clay%20-%20Anger.html
I’ve triedthis new version of FireFox three times–each time it has allowed malicious scripts to install onto my computer. It’s buggy and has security issues! Currently I’m using IE8 and/or Safari until FireFox gets it together.
I hv been using Firefox 24 hours a day for surfing. I have the this new version and i am very thankful for increasing the performance. less memory usage, & speed
Have been using Firefox3.5 for over a week now. Works fine and have had no problems. It is an improvement on the older versions. Much more convenient with the add new tab button on the browser page.
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A ‘smaller footprint’ is so vital these days with so addon’s available. The user can then use these add on and plugins to customize their browsing for their needs and not the manufacturers tieins.
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