Apparently Firefox 5 is out or soon will be and then each new version of Firefox will release every two months or so.
What the hell? Frankly, I'm happy with FF3 and I plan to stick with it as long as possible.
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ReplyDeleteI've been using F5 since it was released, it's stable & not that much different from F3. Honestly can't tell you that it's an improvement, I don't use a lot of the bells & whistles that got added.
Bells and whistles are not the reason to update. Your browser is your interface with every piece of malware on the internet. There's an arms race going on, so your browser needs to be as tough as you can possibly make it. FF5 is a lot better than 3, in that respect.
ReplyDeleteI switched to Chrome after gaining the impression that FF was getting slower and slower. I don't imagine the later versions have or will ever improve that.
ReplyDeleteMy only beefs with Chrome are that it can't handle some form entry sites, and it can't load new pages when my CPU is at 100% usage. That doesn't seem like it would be a problem for most, but as a 3D artist, I can peg my CPUs for hours at a time.
FF 5 is a bit faster and a bit more secure than FF3. You won't notice any differences in functionality or UI though.
ReplyDeleteI switched to Chrome because FF had an annoying memory leak on both MacOS and Linux that would eventually consume all of your memory. That is apparently fixed now, but (shrug). Water. Bridge. Under. Gone. So it goes.
Regarding the release schedule, one issue facing the Web right now is so many obsolete browsers out there which are child's play for malware to subvert. People just don't update their browsers. They don't see any need to. That's why Google decided to make Chrome auto-update -- Chrome releases a new version every two months or so, but it silently installs itself and starts the new version the next time you exit and re-enter your browser, and you don't really get much choice in the matter -- it just does it. FF is trying to do that too, but is facing resistance from IT types who are afraid FF is going to break something. My guess is that what's going to happen is what happened to IE, companies are just going to keep running the same old version of the browser until forced to move to a new one by an OS update. New versions of IE are fairly secure, but you'd never know it from looking at exploit reports, because there's so many old versions out there that bad guys are exploiting...
So it goes. Needless to say there's good reason to update your browser on much the same schedule as your antivirus -- it's one of the primary means viruses get into your computer -- but between IT types who have no understanding of security and home users who run what came on their computer and never update *anything*, my guess is that the bad guys are going to have no problem getting into significant numbers of computers for the foreseeable future. SIIIIIiiiigh!
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