It took me years to finally upgrade from Firefox 3.x (to 6) Then it only took me...

rkudeshi · on Sept 27, 2011

I'm a big fan of the WhatFont bookmarklet, which seems to do the same thing in a simpler, more user-friendly way.

joelmichael · on Sept 27, 2011

It couldn't have taken you years. Firefox 4 was only released in March of this year. Firefox 5 came three months later in June. Firefox 6 was two months later in August, and Firefox 7 now comes a little over a month afterwards.

erickhill · on Sept 27, 2011

Actually, it could. If he was on 3.6, he could have waited years to make the leap to 6.

3.6 doesn't force you to auto-upgrade. You're encouraged, but never forced.

philf · on Sept 27, 2011

I guess his point was that 3.6 was only released 1.5 years ago.

Roboprog · on Sept 28, 2011

I didn't even know that there was a 5 and 6 :-(

(still on 3.6 at home and at work for reasons of inertia -- not broke, won't fix, yet)

pbhjpbhj · on Sept 28, 2011

>not broke, won't fix, yet //

I'm a great believer in that. However, bugs have been fixed, memory leaks plugged, rendering times improved. Personally the promise of more effcicient memory use has me chomping at the bit - FF runs like molasses on my 768MB Athlon 1.1GHz.

Roboprog · on Sept 29, 2011

Thanks for the info. Perhaps it will soon be time to upgrade on my Ubuntu netbook (roughly the same RAM/CPU specs).

nl · on Sept 28, 2011

It couldn't have taken you years.

Sure it could. Firefox 3.0 was released in June 2008, 3.5 in June 2009 and 3.6 January 2010. If he just upgraded then he could have been on Firefox 3.x for over 3 years.