Home Computing, Webmasters - by Yen on Monday, July 27, 2009 17:03 - 0 Comments
My Firefox 3.5.1 Review
This is actually the second part of my previous article on Firefox 3.5.
According to the Firefox 3.5 page on Wikipedia, Firefox 3.5.1 was released July 16, 2009. A mere 16 days prior to that (Jun 30, 2009), Firefox 3.5 was released. I was hopeful that this new version would had fixed the tab tearing bug on version 3.5.
For those who are not familiar with the tab tearing bug (or maybe I’m using the wrong terms here), tab tear is actually a new feature introduced in Firefox 3.5. By holding the primary mouse button on a tab and dragging it away from the tab bar, the dragged away tab will be moved to a new Firefox window. This is actually a great feature. But the problem is that users will change tabs by clicking on the tab and Firefox sometimes translates this as a tab tearing attempt. So this bug is also know as a ’sometimes open tabs in multiple Windows’ bug.
And so was the bug fixed? After using version 3.5.1 for more than a week, my own experience is the bug is still there. Just not that frequent. I don’t know if I’m the only one facing this problem. Maybe it is my trembling hand when clicking on a tab. Could also be cause by my wireless Microsoft mouse. Maybe even my mouse pad? But there’s always a solution. An extension to disable the tab detach and tear feature.
Yeah, I like to complain on the shortcomings of Firefox. It is because we are all suppose to already know the great features of Firefox. My conclusion, Firefox is still one of the greatest browsers available today. And it is provided free! So download it here:
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