Ron Schenone

Rumors Were True – Firefox 3.5 Has Arrived

Posted by on Jun 30, 2009 | 20 Comments

Last week I had mentioned that the folks at Mozilla were getting ready to release Firefox 3.5 final on today’s date. True to form it did in fact hit the Internet today and I have already downloaded and installed the latest release. Now I could waste your time and mine telling you about how wonderful Firefox 3.5 is, but I will let others bore you with the minor details. I actually don’t care which browser you use. It comes down to personal choice and what makes your boat float.

Over the years I have learned one thing. I choose what I want to use on my system because it is comfortable. Sound crazy? I don’t think so. Each of us has a comfort level that we find in the software we use on our computers that takes on a persona of its own. For me Firefox fits like a glove. Yes it uses a lot of memory and yes can suck up cpu cycles, but quite frankly Scarlet, I don’t give a damn. LOL

The nice thing is that today we have such a large selection of very fine browsers compared to when there was only one to choose from. Need I say more.

Comments welcome.

Firefox official download site

  • Ryan Farmer

    Opera 10 has kind of caught my eye.

    The official Beta release is nowhere near ready, but the June 30 daily build is quite stable and performs solidly.

    Integrated mail/news, and a personal file sharing server won’t be high on everyones list, but I find them useful.

    Do-everything browser suites are what Mozilla has moved away from, and of course IE is mimicking Firefox, but Opera pulls it together quite nicely.

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  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

    Hello Ryan,
    I like Opera. It works very well. It is fast and most sites render properly.

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  • http://twitter.com/jth005 John Haman CGBSpendr

    I bet by the time they hit 12.04 or 11.10, Ubuntu will be back to the distro we know and love.

    • http://twitter.com/matthartley Matt Hartley

      I sure hope so.

  • Vhayes1992

    Before you even log in, choose the option “Classic Ubuntu” in the drop down menu in the bottom. You got your GNOME interface back. That’s how you do it.

    • http://twitter.com/matthartley Matt Hartley

      Yes. You and I know this. 100% of the new to Linux users out there do not. Besides, it’s still GNOME 2, not the next version.

    • http://twitter.com/ryanmacnish Ryan Macnish

      This is only going to be an option for a little while, eventually this will be replaced with Unity2D i believe.

  • Andrew Jamison

    you forgot Zorin which is a very good Ubuntu based Linux Distro and some would argue more user friendly then Ubuntu

    • http://twitter.com/matthartley Matt Hartley

      I’ve used Linux since the early days of Red Hat and I have no idea what Zorin is? Rather than saying I forgot it, how about sharing some features/functions about this distro instead? ;)

  • Jordan Vasquez

    If someone has any doubt in their mind about the direction of both Unity and Gnome, head over to Xubuntu. XFCE is the great alternative the dying gnome 2.x we know and love. Plus, runs faster than Gnome. Its great for computers with low memory. I highly recommend it!

    • http://twitter.com/ryanmacnish Ryan Macnish

      I disagree, while xfce is lighter than gnome, its not as light as any of the *box’s, enlightenment or any of the tiling window managers.

  • http://twitter.com/ryanmacnish Ryan Macnish

    I switched to Arch Linux because of Unity, i dont think Unity itself is a terrible shell, but the fact that every single application needs to be patched in order for it to play nice with the global menu and the launcher is just crap. It is already frustratingly difficult to get your app into Ubuntu’s repo’s, now its expected that we patch all our apps to play nice with ubuntu’s bling?

  • http://twitter.com/matthartley Matt Hartley

    I’ve played with it. Deep in Fedora ATM, but Arch is on my list.

  • http://twitter.com/ryanmacnish Ryan Macnish

    +1