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Title: Firefox 13 Released
Post by: Allan on June 06, 2012, 10:40:07 AM

Mozilla Firefox 13.0 released.
  June 5, 2012
 
  Release Notes:
  http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/13.0/releasenotes/ (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/13.0/releasenotes/)
 
  Download a Firefox that speaks your language:
  http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html)
              

Title: Re: Firefox 13 Released
Post by: johhny-marshal on June 07, 2012, 05:23:51 AM

Hey Allan..
Has it been officially launched or just the beta version?? When is it launching officially???

Title: Re: Firefox 13 Released
Post by: quaxo on June 08, 2012, 12:11:59 AM

It is the official launch of 13.

Title: Re: Firefox 13 Released
Post by: Computer_Commando on June 08, 2012, 01:02:15 PM

FF 13 will disable full Google Toolbar (not the integrated one).
Allan & I use it because it keeps your search history.  Googlebar Lite toolbar appears to work.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/googlebar-lite/

Title: Re: Firefox 13 Released
Post by: Salmon Trout on June 08, 2012, 01:19:18 PM

I had a problem when Firefox upgraded itself from 12 to 13, namely that certain sites wouldn't open, Gmail and Google Groups, Facebook and Amazon. Same in safe mode. I did a search and found that quite a few people were having the same problem. I went back to 12 and disabled automatic update and waited for a fix to become known. Today I saw on the Mozilla forums that it seems to affect Windows 64 bit systems, and the problem happens if SPDY is enabled. It was disabled by default in previous versions, and FF 13 switched to SPDY enabled by default. Thus encouraged, I re-upgraded to 13 and did this: went to about:config and toggled network.http.spdy.enabled from TRUE to FALSE, then restarted Firefox. Now it's fine. I read that some people needed to toggle network.http.keep-alive to false, too.

Title: Re: Firefox 13 Released
Post by: Allan on June 08, 2012, 03:38:23 PM

Thanks for that ST. I haven't had any issues, but I guess others do / will.

Title: Re: Firefox 13 Released
Post by: Computer_Commando on June 08, 2012, 04:04:03 PM

I've seen no special issues with Win7-64.

Title: Re: Firefox 13 Released
Post by: Salmon Trout on June 08, 2012, 04:38:41 PM

Quote from: Computer_Commando on June 08, 2012, 04:04:03 PM

I've seen no special issues with Win7-64.

Have you tried going to Gmail woth SPDY enabled?

Title: Re: Firefox 13 Released
Post by: Computer_Commando on June 08, 2012, 05:48:52 PM

I don't have Gmail & don't know what SPDY is.

Title: Re: Firefox 13 Released
Post by: Salmon Trout on June 08, 2012, 11:16:10 PM

Quote from: Computer_Commando on June 08, 2012, 05:48:52 PM

I don't know what SPDY is.

Having it enabled by default is one of the big features of the Firefox 13 release. How to view or change the setting is described in my post above, reply no. 4. You may have missed this.

Title: Re: Firefox 13 Released
Post by: soybean on June 09, 2012, 05:34:24 AM

Quote from: Computer_Commando on June 08, 2012, 05:48:52 PM

I ... don't know what SPDY is.

Me either, so I searched and found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY

Title: Re: Firefox 13 Released
Post by: Computer_Commando on June 15, 2012, 04:00:54 PM

Quote from: Salmon Trout on June 08, 2012, 11:16:10 PM

Having it enabled by default is one of the big features of the Firefox 13 release. How to view or change the setting is described in my post above, reply no. 4. You may have missed this.

Quote from: Salmon Trout on June 08, 2012, 01:19:18 PM

...It was disabled by default in previous versions, and FF 13 switched to SPDY enabled by default. Thus encouraged, I re-upgraded to 13 and did this: went to about:config and toggled network.http.spdy.enabled from TRUE to FALSE, then restarted Firefox. Now it's fine. I read that some people needed to toggle network.http.keep-alive to false, too.

Mine is set to TRUE.  I do use Amazon & have no issues there.

Title: Re: Firefox 13 Released
Post by: evilfantasy on June 15, 2012, 05:56:11 PM

Mozilla Firefox 13.0.1 (http://www.majorgeeks.com/Mozilla_Firefox_13.0.1_Final_d7524.html)

Release Notes (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/13.0.1/releasenotes/)

I have updated. No issues to report.