Firefox Fights Back - Firefox 57

I am on RC3 and it fixed many of the minor quirks that the beta had. Should I reinstall when 57 comes out officially or is it better to do the in browser update.

Josey Wales said:

You mean 57 . Only 4 more days till this goes final.

Yup Josey and then it will be time for me to move onto 58 beta :)

reddice said:

I am on RC3 and it fixed many of the minor quirks that the beta had. Should I reinstall when 57 comes out officially or is it better to do the in browser update.

You will have to install the Official Release because it is still in The Beta Channel and if you let it upgrade, it will to Fx 58 Beta 1

DooGie said:

Yup Josey and then it will be time for me to move onto 58 beta :)

I may wait a tad maybe till 58 Beta 2

Josey Wales said:

I may wait a tad maybe till 58 Beta 2

No I'll go straight in Josey :)
I think I stick with the FF betas through force of habit as all I've ever used for the past five years are beta releases. Originally it was down to the fact that FF 64-bit versions were only ever released in the betas for Windows. As soon as they went final they were only available in 32-bit.

Josey Wales said:

You will have to install the Official Release because it is still in The Beta Channel and if you let it upgrade, it will to Fx 58 Beta 1

Thanks. So I will uninstall then reinstall.

reddice said:

Thanks. So I will uninstall then reinstall.

Or you can just install the final over the top of the RC. It causes no problems :)

DooGie said:

Or you can just install the final over the top of the RC. It causes no problems :)

Yep just did that. I am now on release version.

DooGie said:

No I'll go straight in Josey :)
I think I stick with the FF betas through force of habit as all I've ever used for the past five years are beta releases. Originally it was down to the fact that FF 64-bit versions were only ever released in the betas for Windows. As soon as they went final they were only available in 32-bit.

I hope those ridiculous release rituals are way over by now. I left FF once upon a time because there was no 64-bit stable Windows release. But now that seems to be fixed.

I use multiple browsers regularly for web development purposes.
v56 is already pretty good in performance compared to older versions. But v57 looks interesting.

As for the logo....
Firedoge or even FFoxman

would do just fine; as long as the multithreading and overal performance is what we expect to be.