Firefox 3.5 Released
Say hello to HTML 5. Today, Mozilla released the newest edition of their browser, Firefox 3.5. While still very similar to Firefox 3.1 , there are a number of additions that are worth mentioning:
- HTML 5 support! Although I would never actually use it in a production website yet, as the technology is still too new (you still have folks on IE 6, for Pete’s sake), features such as the new <video> and <audio> tags are now supported in Firefox 3.5, joining Google Chrome.
- Tearable tabs – First introduced on Google’s Chrome, this feature allows you to move tabs from browser window to browser window, and even create new windows. Remember though, each tab does not yet run in a separate process, so if one tab crashes, the whole thing’s still coming down. Stay tuned for future Firefox releases though.
- Location Aware browsing – Using Google location services
- Private browsing mode
Apart from that, there are minor UI tweaks, but those are the main additions. You can download it here: www.getfirefox.com
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Yeah.. it’s finally here!!!
by Jessica McKinney on Jul 9, 2009 at 11:11 pm
You are right, there are people still using odd browsers like Netscape 4. But the longer we passify them the longer it will be before they upgrade. Time for some tough love.
Why should we spend extra hours and money on them. Make them upgrade!
by Dwight Stegall on Jul 10, 2009 at 5:07 am
Maybe you should write a story about the extra time, money and manpower it takes to cater to people that insist on not upgrading to the current technology.
Maybe they can’t afford it. But I bet everyone of them go out on Saturday nights and spend money they can’t afford, have cellphones and cars they also can’t afford.
My point is, if people want something bad enough, they always find a way to pay for it. They say they can’t pay their bills but still go partying on the weekends. Time for tough love.
by Dwight Stegall on Jul 10, 2009 at 5:26 am
@Dwight-
I agree with you. The thing is that most people are clueless about the technology to begin with. They can’t even begin to fathom level of heartache that they cause us. =D
One other problem is that you have many corporate networks that are still running IE7, and there probably still a few out there that are on IE6. Many of their home-brewed application are written requiring a particular version of IE, and the IT staff doesn’t think that an upgrade is warranted.
by Jack on Jul 10, 2009 at 8:19 am