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Postby AXE » Tue 30 Jun, 2009 5:57 pm

Hello guys i test for firefox latley i use firefox. Ihate IE no matter what version but firefox is comeing along nicely . i thought i would say that as i am new here 8-)
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Postby Mandrake » Wed 01 Jul, 2009 2:30 am

The release candidates all worked fine for me so it's not much of a surprise that the final version is working well too. Much faster than Firefox 3. :)
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Postby Antony » Wed 01 Jul, 2009 6:38 am

Thanks profman for the update.

Was that just me, or Mozilla's Firefox team consider that Apple Safari is a threat?
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But not Internet Explorer.
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Postby Fulvio » Wed 01 Jul, 2009 11:23 am

Antony, I could not find a page which you showed, but I found one which compares with IE
There is an interesting link at ZDNet Australia, but nothing as you showed. Could you provide a link?
Regardless, it is nothing but meaningless advertising.
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Postby Antony » Wed 01 Jul, 2009 12:10 pm

Sorry, forgot to include the link.

It was http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/up ... ature-vsie

They must have browser detection (or OS detection), and shows up Safari for Mac users.

Here's the screenshot when I visit it:
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Postby Fulvio » Wed 01 Jul, 2009 12:34 pm

They must have browser detection (or OS detection), and shows up Safari for Mac users.

It makes sense. In a separate post, I will give my impression of 3.5.
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Postby Don_HH2K » Wed 01 Jul, 2009 12:51 pm

Here it is on Windows:
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Strangely they also use the "Firefox vs. IE" comparison on Linux too, probably because Firefox is already the default on so many distros.
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Postby Antony » Wed 01 Jul, 2009 11:10 pm

Don_HH2K wrote:Here it is on Windows:
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Strangely they also use the "Firefox vs. IE" comparison on Linux too, probably because Firefox is already the default on so many distros.

Thanks Don.

How do you know the comparison on Linux platform?
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Postby Don_HH2K » Thu 02 Jul, 2009 11:21 am

Antony wrote:How do you know the comparison on Linux platform?


I checked it on my box running Debian and still got the "Firefox vs. IE" comparison. I haven't tried on any other distros but I assume the more popular ones like Fedora, Mandriva, and Ubuntu all do likewise.
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hey how is that stuff that says what you are useing work

Postby AXE » Fri 03 Jul, 2009 5:24 pm

As it is not correct but when i posted it has 3.5 listed :)
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Re: hey how is that stuff that says what you are useing work

Postby Fulvio » Fri 03 Jul, 2009 5:33 pm

AXE wrote:As it is not correct but when i posted it has 3.5 listed :)


I don't understand what you are saying.
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Re: hey how is that stuff that says what you are useing work

Postby James » Fri 03 Jul, 2009 8:29 pm

Fulvio wrote:
AXE wrote:As it is not correct but when i posted it has 3.5 listed :)


I don't understand what you are saying.


I believe he is saying that his user agent string did not in fact match what he was formerly using but now on this post it appears to be correct (since his user string shows he is using version 3.5). In other words, he posted what he thought to be a problem prematurely only to discover that it resolved itself. Now how that came about it beyond me.
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Postby richard mitnick » Fri 10 Jul, 2009 3:06 pm

One irritant in FF3.5 is its regression back to handling tab closing like IE. If I have only one tab open, I apparently must open a new tab before I can close the one I was using. I tried to install tabx, but it is not useable (yet) in FF3.5.

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Postby Fulvio » Sat 11 Jul, 2009 11:30 am

Here goes another non-issue, for me. I, just, came from another newsgroup, and I saw a raging discussion (anything over ten replies, is "raging") about some tab issue which was incomprehensible, to me.
Richard, as far as you are concerned, you must have some settings different from mine.
What are your Tab settings? Are you saving Tabs, or open with no tabs?
My 3.5 has a two tab Home group, and a tab setting is to "always show the tab bar".
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Postby richard mitnick » Sat 11 Jul, 2009 4:24 pm

Fulvio-

I always open to an empty page, one tab, with the tab visible. No issue here. What I am complaining about is no "X" in the tab, as we had before, and the inability to just X out the current page and get an empty page. I am forced to open a new blank page on its own tab before I can close the current tab.

I got tabx.xpi for SeaMonkey, when it lacked an "X" in the tab. I tried to install it in FF3.5, but the message was that it was not available for 3.5.

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