Firefox 3.5 out

Hopefully one of the apparent bugs they're fixing (and I haven't heard anyone else mention having this problem) has to to with very poor DNS lookup and handshaking. After upgrading, every click results in a very slow (10 secs. or more) "looking up ..." phase, quite often followed up by an equally slow "waiting for ....".

I have to assume the problem's in Firefox itself and not "out there" somewhere, because when I gritted my teeth and tried again with IE-8 (with tabbing disabled) it went smooth as silk. I've got all of FF's anti-phishing stuff, and the related new features, turned off, so I don't think they're the problem.

 

I find no way to close the last remaining tab in firefox 3.5.That is I cannot close a lone tab in firefox.The only to do this is to open another tab and close the previous.Is there a direct way to do this?

 

Lifehacker has an article about this
One other way is if u use mouse gestures.

 

'BugDay' Planned To Fix Bugs in New Firefox 3.5

http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/story.xhtml?story_id=003000004CAX&full_skip=1

 

Thanks.I am dreaming of a browser that could combine the fastness of opera and the versatility of firefox.

 

Well i didn't test the tweak on lifehacker as i always have multible tabs opened,but after trying,i wasn't able to make it work.There is still one remaining blank tab.
Overall i would say this is quite a buggy release.

 

http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/07/disable-tab-tearing-and-six-other-firefox-3-5-tab-tweaks/

To show close button on the last tab, i copy/pasted the following lines to notepad & saved file as "userChrome.css". Then copied the file to the "chrome" subfolder in my profile directory.

Code:

.tabbrowser-tabs[closebuttons="alltabs"] > .tabbrowser-tab > .tab-close-button {
display: -moz-box !important;
}
.tabbrowser-tabs:not([closebuttons="noclose"]):not([closebuttons="closeatend"]) > .tabbrowser-tab[selected="true"] > .tab-close-button {
display: -moz-box !important;
}

 

Screenshot

 

Great ...............

 

Nice one, yeow! Thanks!

 

Koroush Ghazi has an in-depth guide to FF tweaks, including new features for 3.5, here:
http://www.tweakguides.com

 

Trying FF 3.5 until Opera 10 comes out.

 

I don't get it. Could someone explain to me how not being able to close the last tab is a problem since it just becomes blank?

 

I guess it's a control freak thing.

 

Maybe I am missing something here or I just don't get what you are wanting to do with the one tab but why not just set Firefox to where it doesn't even show the tab bar when you only have one website open. You get back a little more screen real estate that way and you can easily add a button for opening another tab alongside your other navigation buttons for when you are going from only one open website to two.

 

For what it is worth. Initially did the update to 3.5 via the built in updater.

Encountered some slight quirks. To numerous and odd to remember or get into.

Did a complete uninstall. Followed by a manual deletion of any remaining (hidden) files\profiles\reg entries.

A fresh install + add-ons, also reinstalled VLC and Flash. Working like a charm now. Seems a bit snappier as well. Perhaps due to the new build, perhaps just the clean install.

 

Hi


Re : Firefox 3.5

And for those of you that just hate having a New Tab open as a Blank Page .. Rather than your Home Page
I've Just Got This Great Add-On .. New Tab Homepage : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/777#reviews

Finally! ... I'm Blank Tab Free!

 

No need for an add-on if you've got a 3-button mouse: any page can be opened in a new tab using the middle button instead of the left button. Click on the Home Page icon on the Navigation Toolbar using the middle button and the home page will open in a new tab.

 

Heeehee it could be like wat twl845 said. Anyway, I/we just want to exit all opened pages but not the browser - then maybe leave the computer for awhile. So I just prefer a blank page with nothing loaded, loading or reloading.

With Opera it's similar, last opened page can be closed & leaving blank tab.

 

Firefox 3.5 uses 50% less memory than Firefox 3.0
It's also much faster. I'm happy.

 

I would like to always show tabbar.
Different people have different preferences.
There is no universal preference which can please anyone.

 

This is the best idea. I did it and I enjoy the extra space. Thanks Firebytes.

 

I like the tab bar to always show, so as I don't have to reach all the way up with the mouse to file new tab.