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dearthian #1 · Aug 20, 2011 12:57 UTC

Firefox Aurora. If you want to live on the bleeding edge of browsers, it is nice and zippy, and actually seems fairly stable for something that is basically pre-Beta.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/

desertbluesman #2 · Aug 21, 2011 21:32 UTC

I'll wait until the have a release version. Right now, everything works great, so it ain't broke so I ain't fixin.

CraigB #3 · Aug 22, 2011 00:42 UTC

Not sure if you're referring to the same thing or not, but the latest version of FireFox (v6?) does not seem to work with some forums. Many are going back to a prior version. If the Aurora is something different, than consider the above simply an FYI! ;)

dearthian #4 · Aug 22, 2011 13:15 UTC

When I opened up the "About" menu selection for Aurora, it is marked as 8.0 A2. So it appears to be a v2 Alpha. It seems to work fine for me so far on the MacBook Pro. Nice and zippy; faster than Chrome on my machine.

desertbluesman #5 · Aug 23, 2011 22:28 UTC

I am on Firefox 6.0 it ain't that zippy, but I can sure wait until the new stuff comes out after Beta testing.

charger #6 · Aug 24, 2011 18:34 UTC

CraigBert — Aug 22, 2011Not sure if you're referring to the same thing or not, but the latest version of FireFox (v6?) does not seem to work with some forums. Many are going back to a prior version. If the Aurora is something different, than consider the above simply an FYI! ;)

That's interesting because 6 is basically 5 which is basically 4. Firefox is on a new release schedule where they go up by a version number just about every 3 months. So aurora, being 8, is what your Firefox will update to automatically around February...