[aklug] Re: Firefox version

From: Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com>
Date: Mon Dec 12 2011 - 22:05:32 AKST

On 12/12/2011 08:52 PM, barsalou wrote:
> Recently I went to a website that said that my version of Firefox
> (3.5) was too old and that 4.0 would be sufficient.
>
> Imagine my surprise when I went to download the latest version of
> Firefox and found that it is version 8!
>
> It's official, I've been living under a rock! :)
>
> The interesting thing is that apt-cache only shows the latest version of 3.5.
>
> Anyone using version 8?
>
> What the heck has happened in 5 versions and what the heck is Ubuntu doing?
>
> Mike B.
>
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Don't feel too bad. Mozilla ramped up their release schedule, for
promotional purposes. We went from Firefox 6 -> 7 -> 8 in four months.

As far as changes, probably the biggest stuff is all the HTML5
implementation, such as native WebM, OGV, and Canvas support. The WebM
and OGV support works really well too, not all buggy like in Chromium.
Lot of back end work too, I think, to tweak or improve performance. (For
example, now Firefox throttles down (up, technically) the timeout
interval to make JavaScripts run slower in non-focused threads.) And a
few GUI improvements you probably won't care about, like pinned tabs,
personas, and a graphical tab group management mode.

I'm especially happy they managed to get in all the HTML5 support.
(Let's hear it for Web freedom!) But I'm still ticked that they haven't
taken care of TLS 1.2 support yet. And someone they managed to overlook
HTML5 slider support. (grumble, grumble...)

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