Firefox 3.5 - First impressions anyone?

[Platypus]

I'm regretting updating to v3.5. Read on another forum that it's glacially slow, and that's my experience too.

Also fails to start very regularly - caused by a failure to close down properly.

(Windows XP Pro SP3).

Perhaps I should get a mac ?

[NickFitz]

I'm regretting updating to v3.5. Read on another forum that it's glacially slow, and that's my experience too.

Also fails to start very regularly - caused by a failure to close down properly.

(Windows XP Pro SP3).

Perhaps I should get a mac ?

Working fine for me at ClientOrg (XP SP 3). I've been running the Betas since April, and the release version seems nice and fast. Haven't had any stability issues whatsoever.

What version were you upgrading from? As I've only ever run 3.5β and RC (or, for a little while, Shiretoko which is some kind of nightly build version) I've only ever had a 3.5 profile. Maybe there are problems if you have a profile from a previous version? (That's pure conjecture on my part.)

Overall I'm finding it to be fine. On the other hand, I'm posting this using Chrome, and am sticking with Safari 3 on my MacBook for the moment.

Still, using it for development including lots of stuff like SVG, MathML and WAI-ARIA, together with bleeding-edge JS/DOM stuff, I'd expect any crashing bugs to show up pretty quickly, and I haven't seen any so far.

[Fred Bloggs]

'sfine here on Vista SP2

[DSW]

Overall I'm finding it to be fine. On the other hand, I'm posting this using Chrome, and am sticking with Safari 3 on my MacBook for the moment.

exactly I use Chrome for normal stuff now and firefox/firebug just for testing and debugging. I might even go as far as to say that IE8 is at least as good as firefox now!

[Fred Bloggs]

I agree, IE8 is a very nice browser. I think I use FF more from habit than necessity to be honest now.

[Gonzo]

I'm regretting updating to v3.5. Read on another forum that it's glacially slow, and that's my experience too.

Also fails to start very regularly - caused by a failure to close down properly.

(Windows XP Pro SP3).

Perhaps I should get a mac ?

Working fine for me (Windows XP Pro SP3)

I was getting those issues with the old version.

[Svalbaard]

I've had a myriad of problems with Opera and all versions of FF crashing with stuck processes under Vista. Have now removed ZoneLabs firewall and all seems right and have had no reocurrences.

I like Firefox. Very quick. But I like Opera too.