Firefox 3.5 Released – Upgraded Yet?

Firefox 3.5 was released with a long list of new features, functions, updates and tweaks. I’ve been taking the new version for a spin for the past day and I love it so far. The upgrade process was nice and easy but a few plugins were not supported yet.

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While checking the stats for this blog recently I realized that Firefox is now the browser most used to visit this site. Not surprising as most of my visitors young tech savvy persons. There is a breakdown of theΒ  browsers used to access Jamaipanese.com further down in this post. So if you are a Firefox user reading this and have yet to upgrade to Firefox 3.5 do so now. It’s faster, now offers private browsing and a host of security features. Check out the video below for a quick overview on what’s new in Firefox 3.5.

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Browsers used to Access Jamaipanese.com January 1 – June 30 2009

  • Firefox – 54.3%
  • Internet Explorer – 35.7%
  • Safari – 4.4%
  • Google Chrome – 2.6%
  • Opera – 1.4%
  • Mobile devices including cellphones – 1.3%
  • Game consoles (PS3, PSP and Wii) – 0.3%

The stats above are from the nifty premium website statistics service I use called Clicky, it has improved even further since my review a year ago, check it out for free and then decide if you want to become a paid user like me. Upgraded to Firefox 3.5 yet? Having any problems? Or are you using another browser? Comments welcome below.

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7 thoughts on “Firefox 3.5 Released – Upgraded Yet?

  1. One great thing about having so much Firefox visitors, is that you know 90% of them will upgrade to the latest version within a month, as opposed to IE users which update once a decade :p

    1. I chuckled reading that. Yea, IE users are terribly slow at upgrading – most of them are either under the tight binds of corporate inefficiency (usually they’ll just wait it out until the ‘tech’ guys upgrade their browsers for them) or are too unfamiliar with how a computer/browser works that they think IE6 is good enough.

      What I really love about Firefox 3.5 is that it comes with private browsing mode – I always had to switch over to Chrome for private (or in Chrome’s term, ‘incognito mode’) browsing to hide my trails when I felt I needed to. I had to shuttle constantly between Chrome and Firefox, which kind of makes it ridiculous.

      Oh, and one new lovely feature of Firefox 3.5 – it allows you to selectively restore tabs after the browser had crashed or was terminated (e.g. by DEP in Vista). Most of the crashes I get was erroneously coded javascript, and with the old Firefox what I get is a never-ending circuit of battling to close that problematic tab before it loads and then Firefox crashes again, lol.

  2. a me one a use chrome or wat…2.6% damn. anyway mi give up on IE even tho mi end up with the new IE8 which took a decade to download and install and blah and blah….ok so i will now get the new firefox. i don’t know why i have so many browsers u know.

  3. I upgraded to 3.5 several hours after the launch, but unfortunately it had some quirks and I decided to fall back on the 3 and wait for 3.5.1… [eek]

  4. I’m still waiting to see what Google will do with Chrome. Firefox’s success is largely thanks to Google’s financing, loaned staff and Adsense promotion. So what of Chrome? Will they drop it like Lively, let it go stale like Friend Connect, or really, and I mean REALLY start stealing market share from Firefox?

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