Firefox 6.0 to ship today

[win7holic]

Mozilla are planning to release 6.0 to the web later today, just 2 months after Firefox 5.0 made it's way out of beta and a month after 5.0.1 was released in July.

Mozilla introduced a beta and development channel (much like that of Google Chrome) called Beta and Aurora respectively after Firefox 4.0 shipped, which has sped up their release cycle dramatically; they also have a "Nightly" channel which are development versions made available to testers without the quality assurance testing the other two channels do get.
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[moonshine]

What I can say is, I'm really impressed with the Work of Mozilla with the rapid release of Firefox versions. Thanks for the heads up win7holic, I'll be waiting for this.

 

[win7holic]

What I can say is, I'm really impressed with the Work of Mozilla with the rapid release of Firefox versions. Thanks for the heads up win7holic, I'll be waiting for this.

thanks boxx
me too, wait for this.

 

[Tom172]

Nice. hopefully the majority of addons will remain intact in the release.

 

[Deleted member 178]

Nice. hopefully the majority of addons will remain intact in the release.

that is my main question too

 

[K__M]

Nice. hopefully the majority of addons will remain intact in the release.

that is my main question too

When i used the beta all my addons were intact.

- AdBlock Plus
- LastPass

And more.. So that will not be a problem.

 

[Hungry Man]

Developers are probably starting to get used to the new release cycle. Until then you can use the nightly tester tools.

 

[jamescv7]

Most of the addons are already compatible even in the nightly/aurora/beta version to make sure it will work properly.

 

[illumination]

That is good to hear about the plug ins, was wondering about it myself with the new release. I will be trying the new 6.0

 

[jamescv7]

On every major version its like they upload first through FTP before it will show on their website.

 

[illumination]

It is released here, updated through the browser. Start up times have greatly improved.. Feeling good so far!

 

[jamescv7]

Cause of your stated post that was released through updater, I decided to do it and must say another well done version indeed.

 

[illumination]

Cause of your stated post that was released through updater, I decided to do it and must say another well done version indeed.

It is very well done indeed! I have only found one plug in that was not compatible so far today, and that I found, right away with the installation, and it was the Cocoon plug in.. So i removed it for time being..

 

[Tom172]

Avast webrep is also not compatible. This is a common occurence.

 

[HeffeD]

I have only found one plug in that was not compatible so far today, and that I found, right away with the installation

I had six... Nothing major, but still functionality that I miss.

I'm really not a fan of this new numbering system...

 

[win7holic]

i'll not update to v6, until all my add-on already compatible to run on v6.

 

[Ink]

Firefox always seem to have compatibility issues with new releases and add-ons. :-/

 

[Hungry Man]

Dev's just aren't used to the release schedule.

They're losing a lot of users since v4...

 

[mhartsellm]

All my add-ons are working including Norton Toolbar and the new browser release feels "snappier" at least so far. Good job Mozilla!!

 

[jamescv7]

All of my addons are compatible, Security Search Engine have the update and seems to fix the incompatible issue while Trafficlight is still not compatible.