Firefox
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Category: News & Announcements
Forum Name: News & Announcements
Forum Description: Changes, patch release dates, server launch dates, downtime notifications etc.
URL: http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/forum_posts.asp?TID=2076
Printed Date: 17 Apr 2022 at 21:42
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Topic: Firefox
Posted By: GM ThunderCat
Subject: Firefox
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 11:04
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Mozilla are retiring Firefox version 4 from security support shortly We recommend if you are a Firefox user you upgrade to Firefox 5: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/" rel="nofollow - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/ However, if you use add-ons you may want to make sure they are available before upgrading [ http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217837/Mozilla_retires_Firefox_4_from_security_support" rel="nofollow - http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9217837/Mozilla_retires_Firefox_4_from_security_support ]
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Posted By: Brids17
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 11:45
| Seriously? -.- I was hoping I could just ignore their constant pop-ups suggesting I upgrade... |
Posted By: Jerec Cross
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 20:37
| And it seems like only yesterday, I downloaded FF4... |
Posted By: GM Stormcrow
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 21:21
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My personal recommendation is that you eschew the once-glorious-now-bloated-sub-IE9 horror that is what we call "modern Firefox" and move to Chrome or Opera. Unless you're using lots of FF-specific add-ins, or have another extraordinarily good reason to use Firefox... you won't regret it for a billionth of an iota of a jot of a scintilla of a shadow of a nanosecond. SC
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Posted By: GM ThunderCat
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 21:34
 *ahem* Chrome as Opera doesn't have goodies like WebGL yet...
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GM Stormcrow wrote:Posted By: Manannan
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 21:53
GM FIGHT!!!!   ------------- Doesn't look good... doesn't look bad either! "Manananananananananan, so long Sir, and thanks for all the fish." ~ St.Jude |
Posted By: fluffy
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 22:00
| wait, there's FF 4 and 5? I still only have 3... |
Posted By: Kurfist
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 22:05
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i only have three as well.
------------- Patience is a virtue, resource giving is a sin |
Posted By: HonoredMule
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 22:14
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5 is a substantial performance improvement over 4, and since it's not actually a major version change (regardless of the face-saving larger number changes), there's no need to be concerned about extension compatibility. As long as you're using the "Add-on Compatibility Reporter" any version checks will be disabled so everything will just keep working. On a personal note, while others like Chrome and Opera do perform more smoothly, every attempt to use them more regularly has left me quite frustrated with their countless ineptitudes from decidedly choppy "smooth" scrolling to simplistic tab management to awkward developer tools (still no equal for Firebug's profiling and readable/distinguishable multi-level logging) to complete omissions of functionality whether innate or by extension (such as the radically more efficient grab-and-drag tablet-style scrolling, "rocker" gesture support, true ad blocking that doesn't just hide ads, linking between text inputs and your preferred text editor, and proper support for user scripts). Heck, some are even lagging quite badly in terms of standards support...badly enough to get overtaken by IE. And, as GM Thundercat hints, FF is still at the forefront of pioneering new standards, with Web GL being just one example (others being offline storage, cross-origin resource sharing, better/more open web font standards, and css animations). One example near to my heart is the already established E4X (XML for ECMAScript) which has been supported in several other ECMAScript derivatives (as Javascript is). Firefox has been the only browser to support E4X for years now, and this was a crucial component for making the original HarmlessButler work without depending on server-side resources and storing vast quantities of template data as "preferences" back when offline storage wasn't yet implemented anywhere. Such an approach would have performed terribly. |
Posted By: Brids17
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2011 at 22:15
| Chrome used to make java crash for me, so I kind of stayed away from it. I might consider getting it again. |
Posted By: G0DsDestroyer
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2011 at 16:56
FireFox, use it!
------------- http://live.xbox.com/en-US/MyXbox/Profile?gamertag=G0DsDestroyer" rel="nofollow - Tia mi aven Moridin isainde vadin |
Posted By: Dvalin
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2013 at 09:04
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I'm quite happy with FF and http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php" rel="nofollow - Iron , played Illy confortably with those. |
Posted By: belargyle
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2013 at 16:31
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You know Dvalin, you can still play Illy... just pop in and out of your account and say "Hi" to the rest of us. :) We miss your fun in the AC .. but we do hope things are going well. |