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Firefox 16 live: Here's What's New

72 pointsby lforrestover 12 years ago

14 comments

SeanDavover 12 years ago
Still my favourite browser by far. I usually have 3-4 windows open and up to several hundred tabs and Firefox handles this better than anything else.
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mellingover 12 years ago
How many people here have stuck with 3.6? It looks like it's only a few percent of FF users (&#60;1% of all users).<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox</a><p>It was a really long road but with 3.6 essentially gone and silent updates, developers can worry a lot less about legacy in the Firefox world.
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AdamGibbinsover 12 years ago
One of the primary reasons I switched to Chrome was due to the awesome syncing abilities with Android Chrome.<p>Does anyone know if Firefox Mobile has matured to a point where it doesn't lag incredibly due to the huge memory footprint on Android?
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estacadoover 12 years ago
I still use FF, but switch to Chrome for JS heavy stuff. Even amazon.com is laggy on FF. The things that's stopping me from switching to Chrome full-time is the Extensions that FF has. I can really customize things to work exactly the way I want. My biggest gripe about Chrome is that the download bar at the bottom doesn't go away when you finish a download.
Aardwolfover 12 years ago
Still not the feature I'd like in there: A way to open link here instead of in new tab or window
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ineedtosleepover 12 years ago
I hope they keep plugging away at making their developer tools better. I use Firefox as my main browser, but I often have to switch to Chrome because Firebug's performance is pretty crappy even on my Ivy Bridge laptop (with 16GB of RAM).
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freehunterover 12 years ago
I wish they'd just bump the version number to 30 then save major revision numbers for major revisions. I don't see anything in here that would warrant anything but a bump from 15 to 15.5 under the old Firefox revision standards.
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MatthewPhillipsover 12 years ago
So it adds Webapp support, but the Firefox Marketplace is not yet open to the public, is this correct?
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Ensorceledover 12 years ago
Is 16 worth installing? Firefox used to be my favourite browser, but I stopped using it when the almost daily install and "reload or disable" addons cycle became too painful.
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sahaskattaover 12 years ago
Was hoping for HDPI support, doesn't look like this update includes it.
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johnyzeeover 12 years ago
Tabs in separate processes is the only thing I care about when considering switching back to Firefox. As long as a single poorly coded site or plugin can freeze or kill the entire browser, I simply cannot use Firefox.
mbchandarover 12 years ago
i am worried. even though it touched 16, it still sucks most of my memory and slows down the system and drains the battery immediately (1 hour of power)<p>Firefox still needs to improve its memory usage.
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vnukover 12 years ago
Why does Firefox's roadmap look like "copy everything that Chrome has"?<p>If Firefox users needed (or wanted) marketplace for (web) apps (or any other Chrome feature) they'd already be using Chrome ...
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webwanderingsover 12 years ago
After being a FF user for so many years (since at least there was no hype behind it among average users), I caved in to Chrome finally and completely. Moved my bookmarks (lost tagging), history and sync, all to Google.
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