Firefox 3.5

[Chekhonte]

Have any of you downloaded it yet? It handles complex code really well and loads pages fast. I'm really liking it.

[tkam]

Been using it since the first beta came out. It's a substantial improvement over the snails pace of page loading that was firefox 3.

[deepak]

This is the biggest upgrade in browsing speed I've experienced. I'm pleasantly surprised.

[CD44hi]

much faster indeed! I never seen a change this drastic since the times of mosaic

[padam]

Yep, and it seems pretty stable as well.

[tkam]

It's really not that fast overall, compared to say Chrome, Safari 4 or Opera 10. But yeah if firefox 3 is your only comparison point then it's a ton faster.

[CD44hi]

well, it seems extremely faster in my case as I don't use any other browser

[Chekhonte]

Yeah I only use firefox as well so it seems a ton faster to me as well. I didn't like Opera for reasons that I can't remember and chrome still won't scroll up for me with my laptops touchpad for some goofy reason. IE has been simplified to a Wii game level which I don't like.

[Hopstretch]

It pains my fanboy soul to say it, but Safari 4 has been weirdly flaky for me recently and I've been using FF more and more often.

[Cankin]

It's really not that fast overall, compared to say Chrome, Safari 4 or Opera 10. But yeah if firefox 3 is your only comparison point then it's a ton faster.

really? FF3.5 is faster than Chrome on my Vista laptop and about as fast as Safari 4, I haven't tried Opera 10 yet, but Opera 9.6 is really slow from my experience.

[Torpedo]

Just installed it. Seems faster than FF3, but not that fast, for your comments I expected the astonishing speed of Chrome, which I don't use for other reasons.

Good update anyway, thanks for the heads up.

[Dusty Chalk]

Am I being obtuse? Where are the installation instructions for Linux? What am I supposed to run, updater?

[JBLoudG20]

Am I being obtuse? Where are the installation instructions for Linux? What am I supposed to run, updater?

yum preupgrade until you hit F11.

[Dusty Chalk]

Okay, Billy, now disengage the plugin and speak English.

[JBLoudG20]

Okay, Billy, now disengage the plugin and speak English.

Very corny redhat/fedora joke.

[Smeggy]

just updated mine, see how it runs

[Fitz]

Am I being obtuse? Where are the installation instructions for Linux? What am I supposed to run, updater?

Switch to ArchLinux then type "pacman -Sy firefox"

[deepak]

Since upgrading, I have noticed FF3.5 crashes a lot more than 3 (which seldom, if never crashed). It's not a big deal since it reopens all the tabs within seconds. I suspect this is just due to one website which I usually have open.

[guzziguy]

I had lots of problems with 3 crashing. The problem turned out to be an add-on. Sorry, I can't remember which one it was. I haven't had a single crash since I upgraded to 3.5. You might want to start disabling add-ons to see if one of them is causing the problem.

[deepak]

I have smooth scroll and Adblock Plus.

Edited July 11, 2009 by deepak

[guzziguy]

I have neither of them. After thinking more about it, I think it was the Skype add-on that was giving me the problem. Obviously that add-on is not your problem, but you can easily disable your add-ons to see which, if either, is causing your crashes.

[Torpedo]

FF 3 used to crash when closing for the Spanish spellchecker. No such problem with 3.5, it works very well here.

[uberburger101]

Just installed it. Seems to be marginally faster and with that new tab button, but other than that I can't really tell what's the difference.

[uberburger101]

I take it back. It's much faster than version 3.

[Chekhonte]

One bonus I've noticed with 3.5 is that the spell check seems to work past the 6 mark barrier. With three spell check seemed to stop working once I typed more than a couple of paragraphs.