Firefox 21 Arrives 246
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 21 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Improvements include the addition of multiple social providers on the desktop as well as open source fonts on Android. In the changelog, the company included an interesting point that's worth elaborating on: 'Preliminary implementation of Firefox Health Report.' Mozilla has revealed that FHR so far logs 'basic health information' about Firefox: time to start up, total running time, and number of crashes. Mozilla says the initial report is pretty simple but will grow 'in the coming months.' You can get it now from Mozilla."
Re:Meh (Score:1, Informative)
Mine went painlessly quick.
Firebug is awesome (Score:5, Informative)
Re:multiple social providers on the desktop (Score:2, Informative)
I updated after reading this, and I have no idea what a "social provider on the desktop" means. I see no change in Firefox.
Re:Oookkkaaayyy.... (Score:4, Informative)
FF20 added that horrendous download box, for starters...
Of course, you can revert it back to the more sane old download list by setting browser.download.useToolkitUI to TRUE.
It isn't that hard to miss in FF20. Not sure what UI breakage they did in 21, though.
Re:Oookkkaaayyy.... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:We need an alternative/fork (Score:5, Informative)
I am seriously tired of all the new crap that they keep adding to FF. On new installations I must spend a good amount of time turning stuff off. Most of the features I turn off would be better in an extension or at leasr off by default.
That's the irony of Firefox. They remove features that people actually find useful, forcing people to create extensions to get the feature back, while at the same time add new useless features that should be implemented as extensions.
Re: (Score:2, Informative)
You should consider installing the ESR version if you don't want to deal with the rapid upgrades. It is currently version 17.0.6. The "ESR channel" gets only security patches, no new features, until it reaches end of life after about a year, at which point you upgrade to the next ESR (Extended Support Release). Firefox version 3, 10, 17 (and future 24) are ESRs.
See http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq
Revert to old download window (Score:5, Informative)