Anyone tried FireFox 5 yet?

**Ben** · July 3rd, 2011, 23:33

I miss Phoenix/Firebird

Going from the old internet explorer to those was like WHOA WTF DUDE

**jb088** · July 20th, 2011, 23:16

I have the firefox 5 installed on my iMac and do not have any significant changes I can take note of. The one thing probably in it is faster browsing though I think it is negligible.

Most of the upgrades they made are geared toward plug-ins and hardware acceleration. I will try to post some updates with how they fair with heavy pages with a lot of plug-ins.

**Ben** · July 24th, 2011, 16:59

I just installed Firefox v126.0 ... Firefox v235.1 is coming out in a few hours. I think at this point they're just recompiling with new version numbers.

**theraptor** · July 29th, 2011, 17:26

The thing you have to realize is that chrome uses a separate container for each tab, while firefox puts them all into one container. Thus, when viewing resources for them, with firefox you will have 1 process with 300,000kb mem, while with chrome you will have 5 processess with 100,000kb mem each. Also, chrome can't handle JS / AJAX properly (I've been waiting a long time for them to fix this).

**stuffradio** · July 30th, 2011, 18:24

I'm using Firefox 7. It's called Aurora. Still has the memory leak though.

**TaoPhoenix** · July 30th, 2011, 22:21

What about some of the spinoff projects? I stumbled onto Pale Moon because I was tired of FF-natural somehow spending 15 seconds doing cleanup after I closed it, forcing me to keep getting "Firefox is stuck open in a process and can't launch your new copy" errors. Pale Moon is supposedly tightened for Windows, so at least for me it now behaves properly. (Your Mileage / Kilometers May Vary).

My usability factor went up 25% from that alone. Not sure if it actually fixes the "memory leak" proper, but I haven't seen it crash as much either.

Edit: Cometbird is another FF Spinoff, I think with their own attempts to fix some problems. I'll leave it to my betters to evaluate this statement on their website. All I know is that it, too, doesn't need to spend 15 sec cleaning up after closing.

"Improved Memory Management

With all new management functions in place, Cometbird keeps memory usage under control. The XPCOM cycle collector continuously cleans up unused memory. Plus, hundreds of memory leaks are now remedied."

**jennyjackson** · July 31st, 2011, 15:42

i have tried Firefox and remove because i think old is gold. old version again all firefox beta new versions. no changing extra useless option just changing in styles n version of names.

**DuncanCox** · August 8th, 2011, 04:56

I agree that Firefox is using more resources as compare to other but as compare to other browsers it also gives so many add-ons to work with. It makes our life more simple and easy.

**deanhills** · August 8th, 2011, 05:46

Originally Posted by jennyjackson

i have tried Firefox and remove because i think old is gold. old version again all firefox beta new versions. no changing extra useless option just changing in styles n version of names.

I've heard the same thing. The older version of Firefox is better than the new one. So I'm sticking with the older version for now.

**Phil Comforthost** · August 8th, 2011, 11:37

But does that mean that you can't see any new CSS features of websites, if you're still on FF3??

It wont read any HTML5 either would it??

**paulkingston** · August 9th, 2011, 12:11

i used firefox 5 and it is quite cool looking
its looks compares with google chrome
i think you should update to firefox 5

**casius** · August 24th, 2011, 05:50

From my side difference only in speed of surfing over the web. All the rest is just marketing trick by increasing version number.

**smugbest** · August 24th, 2011, 11:12

Firefox was and is always known for its memory leak problems. It is a great browser so far and the one I am using daily but I can't find any good reason not to move on to chrome..

Even if I like Firefox 6 I think I will.