Its officially released! Some extensions have not been made compatible yet, but other than that I love it.

I tried the RC a few weeks ago, and wasn’t overfly impressed with it (partially due to lack of compatible extensions), but it didn’t seem to have any sort of wow factor compred to v3

What wow factor were you expecting? There doesnt appear to be much more than a browser can do to wow people. Just increase the speed, stability and support for standards.

garymardell - 30 June 2009 01:59 PM

What wow factor were you expecting? There doesnt appear to be much more than a browser can do to wow people. Just increase the speed, stability and support for standards.

And it’s the first 2 that failed to impress me, although I’ll give the real thing a shot, might have improved a bit, cause the RC seemed more slugish then 3.10

Seems pretty fast to me, and stable so far. Definitely has more supports for standards.

Pretty damn fast, no issues with stability (although I haven’t had issues since 3.0), private browsing, video/audio tag support, CSS3 support - 3.5 is an epic win.

I just downloaded the proper 3.5 now, and it does seem snappier then when I last tried it
Although in fairness, I did try the RC on my work PC which makes everything seem slow and unstable :(

Forgot it has “porn mode”, i mean private browsing.

Nobody else sees a link between ff 3.5 and php 5.3 coming out the same day?

Yeah firefox is released, however it is not functioning correctly so far, It has been squeezing the google.com page, where the page borders do not appear, I have placed that complaint on the firefox forum, and I hope they will fix it soon.

@liquidgraph: Thats not firefox, thats Google trying something new…
They often try these little UI tweaks to see if there’s any improvement in usability. It was documented on one of the Google blogs (can’t remember which one, as I follow several)

Liking it so far. Noticed webdeveloper updating, can’t live without it. Now going over, will need to work with it more.

It’s really fast, but still memory hungry. Also, a lot of extensions don’t work (have no idea why with every version they mess up the extension API)

Its not that they mess up the extension API. The extensions just are not configured to work with 3.5.

When you build a FireFox extension, you specify the minimum and maximum version of FireFox that its built to work with. The majority of extensions that dont run in FF 3.5 just have not had their maximum version increased to 3.5.

If you want to manually attempt to make the extensions work, you must download their xpi file. Rename it to a .zip. Extract install.rdf and open it up in notepad. Search for these lines.

Change the maxVersion line to 3.5.*
Put the new install.rdf back into the zip file, rename it back to a .xpi file and install. Presto.

@Ivan: Yeah the extension thing is annoying, although only one of mine broke (the URL suffix one)
I know it was possible to tweak a few settings in about:config to disable version checking and install it again, might dig that article out later

Use the MR tech toolkit to install incompatible addons.