Firefox 3.5

**Lemur** · 06-30-2009, 23:05

The new Firefox is out.

**Weebeast** · 06-30-2009, 23:30

Oh the one that for some reason wont load a page like the rest that came out after 3.0.4 on some people's computers?

**seireikhaan** · 07-01-2009, 00:54

No problems thus far. Seems to be working well. Plus, my favored theme already has been released for it.

**Hooahguy** · 07-01-2009, 01:14

im going to wait until all my add-ons are compatible with it. i love Forcastfox, adblock, and my Redshift V3 skin!

**Lemur** · 07-01-2009, 02:58

It's noticeably faster on my Wintel box. Note that Firefox now starts up with tabs visible at all times, which I find irritating. (Why are you chewing up screen real estate when it isn't necessary, you beast?)

To turn it off in Windows: Tools→Options→Tabs→Always show the tab bar.

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Ars Technica also has a big write-up of all the goodies included in the upgrade. Worth a read.

**CountArach** · 07-01-2009, 05:32

Thanks for explaining how to do that Lemur. No point seeing the tab-bar when there is only 1 tab there.

It really is quite a bit faster.

@ Hooahguy - Adblock works with it for sure.

**naut** · 07-01-2009, 06:31

Originally Posted by Lemur

To turn it off in Windows: Tools→Options→Tabs→Always show the tab bar.

Yeh, I wish I could do that...

**Xiahou** · 07-17-2009, 21:24

Originally Posted by Lemur

It's noticeably faster on my Wintel box. Note that Firefox now starts up with tabs visible at all times, which I find irritating. (Why are you chewing up screen real estate when it isn't necessary, you beast?)

To turn it off in Windows: Tools→Options→Tabs→Always show the tab bar.

Here's one annoyance I have with that. In 3.5, it seems that the "activity dots" circle that shows when it's attempting to load a page only exists on the tabs. So, when I have "Always show the tab bar" unchecked, I've often found myself wondering if a page is loading slow or if maybe I've just misclicked.