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It's Firefox 3.5 test day - go beat up your browser!
I'm sure many of you have been running Firefox 3.5 for quite a while by now - it's been available for download from the nightly build FTP for ages. Today, however, is the official test day for RC1 - and Mozilla wants you to get involved!If you aren't running the latest version, you can download it manually to get started. The build string doesn't yet indicate an RC, but Mozilla has asked that testers run what's available. Any differences from the actual current nightly build to the RC would be very minor.
To get down and dirty, visit the Litmus page and see what kind of test results you can contribute. You'll need to register an account to start submitting. Initial reports are overwhelmingly positive (about 94%).
That won't come as a surprise if you've been running other builds. I've been using 3.5 for daily browsing for weeks, and I've enjoyed its speed and stability.
Firefox users, if you can spare some time to support your browser's development, go get testing!
update: Mozilla Live Chat is now closed.
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Subscribe to commentsJonMay 29th 2009 2:14PM
I have been using 3.6a1pre for months , once and awhile it bugs out but its pretty smooth sailing
MJZimmer88May 29th 2009 2:49PM
Honestly... 3.0.1.0 works perfectly for me... never have a problem, I cant really imagine what improvements would look like
Tris HusseyMay 29th 2009 3:10PM
How is the xpi compatibility and comparison to Safari4?
I switched to Safari4 a while ago and have been pretty happy with it's speed and stability.
MaxMay 29th 2009 3:37PM
May sound silly, but I won't use it until it's got the Firefox icon. This whole thing about alphas being called something else and using the blue icon is b.s. to me.
If they want me to use it, it needs to be FF-ized.
BrianMay 29th 2009 5:33PM
Has anybody else's facebook chat stopped working after the installation of this build?
Lee MathewsMay 29th 2009 5:33PM
Live chat is open again...Hit them up! http://tinyurl.com/mozlivechat
BrianMay 29th 2009 5:59PM
I just did. They told me to run it in safe mode, which helped absolutely nothing.
NormMay 31st 2009 3:01PM
You need to switch your user agent to something facebook recognizes. Try opera. ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59 )
NonprofitTechMay 29th 2009 11:10PM
I've been running 3.5b4 on Vista 64 and have had a handful of problems. Nothing game breaking, the worst of which is probably that it won't shut down without crashing out - but this is a minor annoyance.
The thing I still can not get over is how much I hate the "Awesome bar". And the supposed improvements and extra options have done just about nothing to address the problems a lot of people, including me obviously, have with it... which is that it STILL does not act like the old bar. There is STILL no way to make it simply record and display history.
The new IE8 bar is the creme of the crop imo.
vikybossMay 30th 2009 2:01PM
I will not care about Firefox anymore. Been fan for long time, but after using chrome never turned back to anything. Chrome rocks.
PriusMay 30th 2009 5:18PM
Yeah Chrome is great if you don't mind the fact that Google logs every single thing you do in that browser and then keep it forever. Well actually other than the horrible privacy issues, well, no it's not a very good browser compared to Firefox at all. Forget about that whole "Chrome is great" line because it isn't.
vikybossMay 31st 2009 12:14AM
But Prius, to tell the truth chrome opens even faster than windows application. It's blazing speed rocks. But only think i don't understand is why browser pioneer like Firefox, successor of the great Netscape can't even make a browser faster than Chrome, the new comer. To tell the truth don't ever think Firefox is a privacy browser, it send each website you visit to Google Analytics.
Bryan PriceMay 30th 2009 9:22PM
It figures.
I'm away from my computer this weekend.
Trying to catch up on my Gmail, and finding it incredibly slow. But then I'm running 3.0.10 to make sure I actually get through the gateway at the hotel. Bring up 3.5, and what I thought was a problem with the connection was a problem with the browser.