Firefox 5 released: Same as it wever was

**Beskar** · 08-27-2011, 15:06

Mine updated to Firefox 7 for whatever reason at least.

**a completely inoffensive name** · 08-28-2011, 10:20

I'm running Firefox 12 beta, idk what you guys are rambling about. Update already.

**Centurion1** · 08-29-2011, 05:21

you guys know what always shines in every situation?

Chrome

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**Risasi** · 08-30-2011, 12:44

To ward off the draconian big-brother Google spies I just chant "don't be evil" while using it.

**Lemur** · 09-15-2011, 02:20

Okay, now we're on 6.02, and I'm getting slightly cheesed off. The reason? My Photobucket uploader. I guess unless Photobucket does some grerrymandering, it won't be compatible with the breakneck release speed. I think it was fully compatible with all the versions of Firefox 5, which was quite similar to 6, so what's the big whup? Does the dev really need to call different hooks, or do they just need to nudge the compatibility text from 5 to 6? In other words, is this a technical necessity (that I live without auto-uploading of photos) or is it bureaucratic horse-hockey?

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 09-15-2011, 03:43

It may even be as crude as editing the extension to support higher release versions. Like there's a line in the code for the extension (it's confusingly called a chrome I think) that says "what version is this compatible with" and the extension will fail if the Firefox version is higher.

That's not necessarily the only problem, but it might be worth a look if you really, really need an extension.

**a completely inoffensive name** · 09-15-2011, 05:54

Just switched to chrome. I like getting rid of the bloat.

**classical_hero** · 09-17-2011, 23:03

Originally Posted by Lemur

Okay, now we're on 6.02, and I'm getting slightly cheesed off. The reason? My Photobucket uploader. I guess unless Photobucket does some grerrymandering, it won't be compatible with the breakneck release speed. I think it was fully compatible with all the versions of Firefox 5, which was quite similar to 6, so what's the big whup? Does the dev really need to call different hooks, or do they just need to nudge the compatibility text from 5 to 6? In other words, is this a technical necessity (that I live without auto-uploading of photos) or is it bureaucratic horse-hockey?

I use the Imageshack toolbar and that is still only compatible to Firefox 3 Engines and it is incompatible with Firefox 6.0.2. It is really frustraing that I can't use that right now.

**caravel** · 10-31-2011, 18:05

There has been talk of an extended support release for a while now, not sure how far along they are with it: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/...pport:Proposal

I do wonder what the Mozilla devs are smoking, but personally I have a love/hate relationship with firefox, but have stuck with it because other browsers lack many features/add ons.