Firefox 3.5 is out

**Malsua** · July 1st, 2009, 01:33

If you've not switched by now, you should.

I've downloaded it and posting with 3.5 now.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox...rom=getfirefox

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**American Patriot** · July 1st, 2009, 02:02

Why?

**Ryan Ruck** · July 1st, 2009, 03:46

Yep, got it earlier today. Seems a bit speedier.

A word of caution though, at least for me, a number of my extensions haven't yet been updated and wouldn't work. I ended up using the Nightly Tester Tools extension to force them to install but it is still a little buggy (my closed tabs button up top won't show closed tabs).

**Malsua** · July 1st, 2009, 09:30

Originally Posted by Rick Donaldson

Why?

I suppose I should have been more clear. I meant switched to FF, not switched to 3.5.

As to the main reasons to switch, security and integrated video are some good reasons.

**American Patriot** · July 1st, 2009, 13:21

Originally Posted by Malsua

I suppose I should have been more clear. I meant switched to FF, not switched to 3.5.

As to the main reasons to switch, security and integrated video are some good reasons.

lol

I knew that! lol

**Phil Fiord** · July 4th, 2009, 02:20

Had a drive flake on me so I removed the data before it failed. Firefox was on that drive. Problem was, the saved data was on a removable drive.

I copied the Mozilla Firefox directory to my main drive and it would not work, but that's fine, i wanted my bookmarks and extensions anyway. I went on IE and downloaded 3.5 FF. It really is faster, well, also having it on my root drive helps I am sure. Best of all I have all my bookmarks and extensions.

**American Patriot** · July 4th, 2009, 14:12

3.5 installed. Nothing bad yet. Got a nice "+" to create a new tab on the fly.

**Ryan Ruck** · July 4th, 2009, 16:21

Phil,
Take a look at MozBackup. It's a handy tool for making a backup of your FF instance, including bookmarks, extensions, and even browser history and cookies.

I use it to create identical instances of FF on all the computers I have.

**Phil Fiord** · July 4th, 2009, 23:58

Rick, The + is a handy thing and now I can remove the one I made in my top bar and free up extra buttons.

Ryan, Thanks for that tool. It will come in handy as I am contemplating my next main computer to utilize a solid state drive for the OS and an added drive for programs. I actually have all my FF cookies, bookmarks etc. I had the directory, but the program was set to run off D and D was full formatted after I moved all the files manually. The biggest problem there was D had been my old C and was formatted fat32 while the other drives are NTFS. Now they are all NTFS and I will see if D is ok or truly flaking.

**Malsua** · July 8th, 2009, 17:28

I moved your post Phil. While I've tried Chrome, I haven't really given it the full review so maybe we can get a discussion going as to the merits of it.

The new thread is here: http://www.transasianaxis.com/vb/showthread.php?t=6348