Firefox 3.5 released - color mgmt on by default

jfriend

FYI, Firefox 3.5 was just released and it now has color management on by default so it will be on for everyone who uses it, not just those who figure out how to turn it on (like it was in Firefox 3.0).

Apparently, they were able to speed up the color managed rendering by 5x so they were comfortable turning it on for everyone without a browsing speed reduction.

Firefox 3.5 also has a lot faster javascript engine and some other significant speed improvements for general browsing.

Of interest to Smugmug (for video) might be that it has native support for HTML5 audio and video to enable plugin-free audio and video playback. It currently supports the Ogg Theora, Ogg Vorbis, and WAV formats.

More details here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_audio_and_video_in_Firefox.

Allen

Looks I'll lose Firebug, SmugBrowser and Web Developer. Can not do without all three so will wait.

jfriend

Allen wrote:

Looks I'll lose Firebug, SmugBrowser and Web Developer. Can not do without all three so will wait.

Updates for Firebug and Web Developer are available so they are compatible with 3.5 (I have them both working). SmugBrowser is not yet compatible and I've asked about that in the hacks forum.

Allen

jfriend wrote:

Updates for Firebug and Web Developer are available so they are compatible with 3.5 (I have them both working). SmugBrowser is not yet compatible and I've asked about that in the hacks forum.

Thanks John, but use SmugBrowser a lot so will wait.

jfriend

Allen wrote:

Thanks John, but use SmugBrowser a lot so will wait.

I decided to keep the older FF on my laptop so if I have to get to SmugBrowser I can do so there. I don't know who owns/maintains SmugBrowser anymore so I have no idea if anyone will update it anytime soon.

Andy

jfriend wrote:

I decided to keep the older FF on my laptop so if I have to get to SmugBrowser I can do so there. I don't know who owns/maintains SmugBrowser anymore so I have no idea if anyone will update it anytime soon.

We own it but a generous programmer made the FF3 update that's in use now

jfriend

Andy wrote:

We own it but a generous programmer made the FF3 update that's in use now

Will someone be making SmugBrowser compatible with FF 3.5 in the near future?

Andy

jfriend wrote:

Will someone be making SmugBrowser compatible with FF 3.5 in the near future?

Already asked in the SmugBrowser thread:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=1147372#post1147372

jfriend

Ars Technica summry of 3.5
Here's a good Ars Technica piece on Firefox 3.5.