Mozilla's Firefox, Aurora and Nightly Builds

guest2859 · May 23, 2011, 05:00:12 PM

Current Version: 5.0

Well, it's about time we could keep up with this. For those of you enjoying FireFox 4, it would be good to know that 5 and 6 are already on Beta releases. Their generally Minefield releases, but go under codenames "Aurora" (In process), and "Nightly" (In future sight). They can be downloaded, 6 being the easiest to find, but they're a slight pain to get to. I have Nightly on a portable account at school, so I don't remember what FTP site Mozilla had up for it.

Just though you'd like to know.

Swoka Ikran · May 23, 2011, 06:54:49 PM

Still running 3.6 here.

Never updated because one of my addons took forever to be updated for 4.0...and 2 of them are not supported on 4.0

Tirea Atstunwi · May 24, 2011, 08:35:40 AM

I run the 4.0.1 version and it's working just fine. The only change that i've made is the skin. (I put an avatar skin on it). I'm not going to change it to other beta versions because the beta versions always causing conflicts with other applications. (For example when motzila v.4 was in beta version, crashed with my antivirus (AVG).

guest2859 · May 27, 2011, 11:36:40 AM

Mas info.

Technowraith · May 30, 2011, 12:26:05 AM

I have IE, Firefox and Chrome. I use Chrome for daily activity. Anything Chrome can't digest, I use Firefox or IE. IE I haven't touched in ages, only because it's the slowest browser in the world. Firefox is a solid performer still but chrome took the cake and ran when a friend installed it and didn't tell me. LoL.

Sіr. Ηaxalot · May 30, 2011, 01:10:34 PM

I love firefox, it's a wonderful browser except the fact that it becomes so slow that it is fully unusable if I don't restart it every 1-2 hours...

Swoka Ikran · May 30, 2011, 01:36:12 PM

Quote from: Sir. Haxalot on May 30, 2011, 01:10:34 PM
I love firefox, it's a wonderful browser except the fact that it becomes so slow that it is fully unusable if I don't restart it every 1-2 hours...

Mine doesn't usually become slow...but it does need to be killed in task manager on occasion. It'll randomly become slow (or freeze) and peg one of my CPU cores. Then its RAM consumption starts ballooning until the system runs out of memory or I kill it.

No clue why it happens either. Sometimes it won't happen for days. Other times, it can happen twice in an hour.

Human No More · June 01, 2011, 01:04:01 AM

Mine doesn't since I cut down on the number of tabs and windows. Keep it under 100 and it never crashes.

I still use 3.6 though, 4.0 is fugly and is missing support for a lot of addons I love, as well as just full of stupid decisions like the missing status bar.
It's annoying, I like firefox but Mozilla seem to make it their mission to break it in new ways with every release.

Swoka Ikran · June 01, 2011, 12:08:58 PM

Quote from: Human No More on June 01, 2011, 01:04:01 AM
Mine doesn't since I cut down on the number of tabs and windows. Keep it under 100 and it never crashes.

I never have more than 30 tabs open at once, and they're usually closed fairly quickly. It still freezes.

I think it's caused by bad add-ons though. Running without them, I can easily open 50+ tabs without slowdown or freezes.

guest2859 · June 01, 2011, 02:41:30 PM

Quote from: Swoka Ikran on June 01, 2011, 12:08:58 PM
Quote from: Human No More on June 01, 2011, 01:04:01 AM
Mine doesn't since I cut down on the number of tabs and windows. Keep it under 100 and it never crashes.
I never have more than 30 tabs open at once, and they're usually closed fairly quickly. It still freezes.

I think it's caused by bad add-ons though. Running without them, I can easily open 50+ tabs without slowdown or freezes.

I have only 2 open at a time, but Firefox does take over my RAM on a bad day.