Corrine Posted May 12, 2015 Share Posted May 12, 2015 Mozilla sent Version 38.0 to the release channel. The update includes five (5) critical, five (5) high, two (two) moderate and one (1) low security updates. Security Updates Mozilla Firefox Release Notes H/T plodr: FF ESR version has been updated to 31.7. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrke Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Unfortunately, FF continues to tell me it's up to date at 37.0.2 on win 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 (edited) You can go here http://filehippo.com/download_firefox/ and download and install manually over the top of what is on the computer. or here http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ for almost any version you want. Edited May 14, 2015 by zlim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrke Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 (edited) You can go here http://filehippo.com/download_firefox/ and download and install manually over the top of what is on the computer. or here http://ftp.mozilla.o...refox/releases/ for almost any version you want. I'll probably do that if FF won't update by end of today. Edited May 14, 2015 by ebrke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 (edited) This is horrible. The Bookmarks Toolbar became huge so many formerly easy to click links are now in the side menu. The tabs are huge too. It's a huge waste of space. I have a 24 inch monitor. Maybe it would look okay if I had a 30 inch. OS Ubuntu. Edited May 14, 2015 by Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrke Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 This is horrible. The Bookmarks Toolbar became huge so many formerly easy to click links are now in the side menu. The tabs are huge too. It's a huge waste of space. I have a 24 inch monitor. Maybe it would look okay if I had a 30 inch. OS Ubuntu. Hmm, there's no difference on my mother's win7 machine. I haven't had FF update from OpenSuSE yet, they're always a little slow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 FF updated again to 38.0.1 on 14 May. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrke Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 When I did finally get FF to update itself (last night), it did move to 38.0.1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrine Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 Mozilla sent Version 38.0.5 to the release channel. This is a minor update that includes a couple of fixes and the integration of the "Pocket" add-on. An existing Pocket account or a Firefox account is required to use the feature. What’s New New -- Keep track of articles and videos with Pocket New -- Clean formatting for articles and blog posts with Reader View New -- Share the active tab or window in a Hello conversation Fixed -- A race condition that would cause Firefox to stop painting when switching tabs (bug 1067470) Fixed -- Fixed graphics performance when using the built-in VGA driver on Windows 7 (Bug 1165732) Release notes for Firefox 38.0.5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrine Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 via siljaline: How to disable Pocket in Firefox - gHacks Tech News. I agree completely with the quote below from the above article: There seems to be a disparity between what Mozilla does and what Firefox users want, and the integration of Pocket is just the latest feature that highlights that. If you elect to go the route of editing about:config, I suggest also toggling browser.pocket.useLocaleList to false 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 May 2010 Firefox had 46.9% of the browser shares. April 2015 it is 21.6% and falling monthly. The rapid release schedule started in August 2011 Source: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/firefox-release-new-version-six-weeks and the numbers started sliding. Then they started adding "features" that few wanted and the numbers slid further. I wonder how low the shares have to drop before the developers at Mozilla wake up and smell the coffee? If I want a feature that few want, I can install an addon. I think that is a good way to get a feature not hard boil it into the browser so everyone has to config to kill it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt.Crow Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 I well agree with Zlim. Not wishing to offend anyone ,but FF really have lost the plot.It's got far too unwieldy for me. It's still on the'box'for perhaps future reference. Just at the moment I am having a much smoother experience with Chrome. Corrine, Many thanks for your work keeping us up to date with FF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrine Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share Posted June 4, 2015 Well stated, Liz! I agree completely. As to browser share, I wonder how much of the FF share is actually Pale Moon being incorrectly identified. As to providing info on the updates, I'll probably continue and I do update FF but that is the extent of it. I'm happy with Pale Moon since it has the extensions I want to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 I do have FF ESR as a backup browser so when you post FF updates, I fire up the backup browser and check. I do appreciate the posts about the FF updates for that reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrke Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 I also very much appreciate the updates Corrine. They help me keep my 87-year-old mother's win7 FF install up-to-date. I really can't change anything she's grown accustomed to, so I'm stuck with FF for her machine as long as it's feasible. I do still use FF myself because I'm also used to it and SuSE provides updates fairly quickly for any issues. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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