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The Firefox 3.5 Upgrade – One Experience

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firefox-logo I thought I’d capture a few thoughts regarding my experience with the upgrade to the latest version of Firefox.  The short version is that everything went extremely well, better than the last point version upgrade. to 3.0

Of course, the 3.0 upgrade last year had significant architectural changes within the browser, akin to the major changes in Windows from XP to Vista.  Last year, I had significant issues with plugins and such as well – which is similar to the software compatibility issues folks had with Vista too.

This time, however, with version 3.5, there were very few issues.  The only one I could point to in fact, was Google Gears which needed an additional week before it was updated to work with 3.5.  Everything else just worked, and worked well.

So, yes, I’m still a committed Firefox user and plan to be for a long time.  The new enhancements & performance of the browser is fantastic.  It really helps to enhance the added portability of the new netbook I picked up two weeks ago as well.

But that’s another post.

;-)

Looking for 4 Firefox plug-in updates

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firefox-logo My migration to Firefox 3 has been fairly painless. I specifically put off trying out most all the beta versions until the last release candidate. Since I’d embraced the plug-in feature of Firefox and installed upwards of two dozen of these spiffy enhancements to a great browser I knew a few (or many) would not be updated right away.

And I was right, many plug-ins were not updated when I installed FF3 rc3, and I had to do without a lot of functionality. The only thing that allowed me to ride it out from the release candidate to shipping code was the fact that Foxmarks was updated to work with FF3 – it’s my absolutely most needed plug-in.

But in the three weeks I’ve been running the latest versions of Firefox 3, I’ve seen updates to plug-ins on an almost daily basis! out of 21 plug-ins, I’ve only 4 that aren’t yet updated: Blog This in Windows Live Writer, coComment!, ColorZilla, and Thinger.

Yes this was cross-posted with my personal blog, but I’m interested in feedback from both blogs. – Rick

UPDATE: I just found the latest ColorZilla beta here that works with Firefox 3!  In addition, I removed the coComment! plug-in as I see that the folks at coComment themselves will be getting their plug-in updated shortly. I’ve kind of given up waiting for any update to the Blog This in Windows Live Writer plug-in. That leaves Thinger, which I really do hope gets updated, because I really need a second (third?) bookmark toolbar.