Firefox 20.0 Final

They revived the 64 bit "nightlies" after a public outcry. At some point they're goiing to release an official build.

Right now the only stable unofficial current build of 64X remains Cyberfox.

Waterfox seems to want to be a 64X ESR version of Firefox.

 

I knew about the outcry and the bringing back of nightlies, but I do believe Mozilla made it crystal clear they had no plans on supporting these nightlies officially, and in no uncertain terms made it known FF would not go x64 in the known future.

As to Waterfox, I believe you're right.

 

Honestly I cannot even check this because the telemetry settings are missing from the GUI in Arch Linux's Firefox build. However the toolkit.telemetry.enabled setting does exist in about:config. I don't know what the setting name is for submitting crash reports though.

 

Some are passing on this build due to the noted issues. That said, whose to say that the next release will not be worse than this one.

 

I've yet to have any issues with 20. I haven't looked into this telemetry stuff. I expect 20 will end up having the same annoying quirks all FF releases do, namely hanging and often not shutting down its processes after closing the browser.

 

Yeah, that seems to be a common issue with Firefox on occasion, especially on pages with heavy Flash content.

 

Happens to me too.. not too often, but now and then. Annoying, but...

 

...it's our favorite browser so we tolerate it

 

Yep, you got that right...

 

The hanging seems to me to be more frequent after the last flash update that we had. I'm thinking it hangs sometimes without flash, but far less often.

I'm a little less tolerant of it than you guys though, I think. Firefox may be relegated to 2nd string on my desktop, again, pretty soon. I can't remember what the specific reason was before, but I switched from it to Chrome and stayed with Chrome for a good while until I had an issue with it and switch back to Firefox, and wound up just staying with it primarily. It's getting close to time for me to switch again.

Always handy to have two or three browsers installed and ready to go when needed.

 

Firefox 20 Fixes 11 Critical Flaws, Adds Per-Tab Private Browsing:

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/f...itical-flaws-adds-tab-private-browsing-040213

 

Cfox doesn't have the Data Choices tab.

 

Hello.

After installing Firefox 20.0, when I visited a site, came a notification at below saying that Firefox sends some information to Mozilla to help make your browser better (more or less) with an option to adjust this. When I clicked it, a setting window pop up like the one you attached; it seems that the setting for Enable Crash Reporter is enabled and Enable Telemetry is disabled by default. Is this the right settings? Is it safe to send crash report to Mozilla? (do they collect some data of me?)

Thanks.

 

had an issue with firefox reverting back to default settings (along with add-on settings) after upgrading to version 20 and version 11.7.700.170 beta of flash. problem replicated multiple times, seems to be an issue with flash.

imaged pc back to before the flash beta update and then updated firefox to version 20, all ok.

 

The information they send includes stuff like the Firefox version, addons, information about your system, etc. You can see an example here:

https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/279526d2-ae2f-42f5-bbc7-49d7b2130403

 

for Linux users:

it hit the Mint repos just minutes ago.
so check your updater throughut the day.
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doesn't seem that much different except for that Crash Reporter and a button for the download manager.

well, as long as they keep fixing bugs and improving it i'm ok with it.

 

PDF viewer needs more love.

 

Anyone else notice that the add on bar shows up at the bottom every time you restart a fresh copy of Firefox 20? This is probably a bug in this version 20. I have been unable to figure out how to hide it permanently.

 

Raza do you use NoSquint addon?

 

Yes. Is this a bug related to NoSquint?

 

I think so. If "Show current zoom levels in the status bar" is checked in the NoSquint settings it will make the add-on bar appear every restart.

 

It shouldn't be as I have had NoSquint since Firefox 3 and this problem only showed up with this new update to Firefox 20. In fact, this problem and the new download manager are the only two changes I have noticed in this update so far.

Firefox has a setting activated through right click on the title bar to hide the add on bar, apparently that is broken in v20. Hopefully they will fix it soon, as it is rather irritating to have to hide the add on bar every time I restart Firefox.

 

Thanks!

 

I don't know why i have the maintenanceservice .
I updated to version 20 via help about since i don't wanted to install and now i see it in add remove programs .

 

But it doesn't need bugs and ads like Foxit.