August 18, 2011, 12:08 PM —
flickr/aretadobem
Firefox, the little browser that could, and did, wrench all the attention away from Microsoft's Internet Explorer, uses what they call an "aggressive" update schedule. If you have Firefox, you know what I mean. Seems like every other day the program downloads an update in the background and demands to be restarted to install it. In my case, everything always works because I don't add a batch of exotic extensions. However, many others aren't so lucky.
Now that Firefox 6 has hit the streets, people are taking their chance to cheer or jeer Firefox in general, or state publicly they couldn't care less. And the stories themselves show the same ambivalence. PCWorld says "Firefox 6: 4 Reasons to Upgrade" while Ars Technica says "Firefox 6 ships, but we shouldn't really pay attention."
Since the browser is the window to the world for most personal computer functions, browser problems hit us hard: no Facebook, no fantasy football league, no NSFW sites. So we care, if only because we're forced to browse to the Web in order to do almost all computer-based functions today.
Cheers
Been using it for the past few days. It's "snappier", that's for sure. Yes, it does feel quicker than FF 5.
Goofball_Jones on arstechnica.com
the latest firefox builds have extremely low footprint, better than competitors
TAFAKENAME000 on informationweek.com
Personally, I am *very* happy with the change of direction and the rapid release schedule in Firefox. The 3.6->4.0 delays are what hurt Firefox, not the rapid 4.0->5.0->6.0 releases.
GrowMaster on arstechnica.com
Jeers
Um, yeah, IGNORE. What a farce, this a great way to damage a name brand with a good reputation. Way to go Mozilla.
JRod on arstechnica.com
Firefox is worth what you pay for it.
Julianvn5k on pcworld.com
There's only one single reason why you not only should, but practically must upgrade to Firefox 6 (that is, if you want to stick to the one browser lagging in all alreas behind all their competitors): and that is, that it fixes 10 (yes, you've read it right: ten) highly critical vulnerabilities; and none of them will get fixed in any previous versions.
FF22 on pcworld.com
The problem with firefox is that they often throw common sense out of the window in pursuit of a higher idea. The worst one being the unsigned certificates insanity that essentially punishes users for the faults of website developers. Which brought me to chrome which is thankfully a better browser anyway.
JPan on arstechnica.com
firefox 6 is using a lot of more memory than 5.0, an i only have this tab open.
marcel fernandez on pcmag.com
Apathy
I read through the list of new features, and all I can say is meh.
LoneBagel on arstechnica.com
Firefox 5 isn't ready yet, but they do release version 6? What's next? Firefox 7 in about a week?
TPetrovx21b on pcworld.com
Do you get all wound up when talking about Firefox? If not, what browser do you use?
