FF3.6
 

Released today.

Been running it for a while as a beta and then the release candidate and got updated Monday to the full version. It's very stable and faster than 3.5, the only downside for me is that it has no IEtab add on as yet.

No tab but the drop-down in Tools is there (and working) and IE View add-on is still functioning.

I Skype-talked my pal in Ireland through a download today. He's a Luddite, so it will take some time for him to get to grips with it. He was on IE, and rejected Chrome, so all info about looking back into IE will be of interest.

He is still on XP Sp3.

It is soooooo hard doing this when one can't see the screen.:ugh:

At about the time he found he couldn't access his Outlook mail, both our batteries ran out, so didn't put any work into that. Can he still use a MS product for his mail while using a competing browser?

All his Favorites translated into Bookmarks okay.

Easily Loose, no problems there at all... although I'd suggest he takes a look at Thunderbird (by Mozilla) if you can cope with the anguish of another remote install support ;)

Gee I'm glad I got out of that and started to play with making software instead:ok:

running pretty fast on my pc.

Yes - I think it is 'better' at last, but I have not yet looked at memory usage with the new version.

I have it working on mine....Download the 'Nightly Tester Tool' from the Add on page and force the install. It's running with no problems....

I've discovered that the 'Coral IE tab' works with it. :ok: (I was relying on the auto update to tell me when the other IEtab was compatible as I just rename a copy of my profile and use that with betas.)

Got it.

Seems to work the same, except that when I open a new tab from an existing one, it now rearranges all the tabs to put the new one next to the one that opened it. Means I have to search the row, rather than just go to the one at the right hand end.

There's probably a switch somewhere to change that, but I can't find it.

And the "broom icon" to clear history etc has done a runner.

3.6 was released a couple of weeks ago, I installed it then. It still looses the plot and, when closed because it isn't connecting to the internet, does not tidy up behind itself. It won't relaunch because it is still running although it does not show up in the task manager or in Process Explorer. You have to reboot the machine before it will restart. The machine is running Vista though this may not be significant. My XP laptop is also running 3.6 and does not loose the plot.

Rans6....

It updated with "Always show the Tab Bar" ticked. Given my paranoia about things encroaching on the screen, I got rid of it - unconvinced that it did anything more than show the tabs that would come anyway, as required.

Or am I missing the point?

You may be, depends how you use things. If I'm looking at something and want to google a query I open a new tab (by clicking on the + sign in the tab bar) to do it, that way I can flip between the two. Since the tab bar comes back as soon as something opens in a new tab anyway you may as well have it there in the first place.

I have just reported to Santander that 3.6 will not access their online banking site and they confirm it is 'not supported' as it has 'not yet been tested' - I asked then to do so asap - a bit slow off the mark? Can still access in 3.5 and IE8.

Update: Abbey confirm they are still unable to resolve issues with secure site status on FF3.6.

BOAC:

My banking institution here in the States is Wachovia. I do 99% of my banking business on line. Since FF 3.6 I can not successfully access their web site. FF 3.5.x
and Safari work fine.

Thus, you are not alone!

RG - why not give me your a/c details etc and I'll try for you?

No probs. with Lloyds here in the UK, works fine with 3.6:ok:.

It appears to be only Abbey in the UK (for me) anyway. As you say, all the others I visit are ok - Abbey say they are 'working at it' an dthat they had issues with IE8 initially. I suspect it is an problem with mixed secure and insecure items.

Well, here we are on 10th Feb and Santander/Abbey 'boffins' still have not cracked it! Good, or what?:ugh: