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- planksconstant, on 11/11/2007, -6/+82people need to calm down about firefox. mozilla will let everyone know when beta 1 is released. there's no reason to freak out when you see the file on their ftp sever and instantly submit it to digg.
just wait a while, we'll all get what we want in the end. - asuraci, on 11/09/2007, -5/+60Why the ***** does this have to happen with every alpha/beta/final release?
- MrFluffZ, on 11/08/2007, -1/+29We're all still doing alright with 2.0 so just be patient for 3
- kidcodea, on 11/08/2007, -5/+31reading this on 3b1 and works sweet.
- Newmaniese, on 11/08/2007, -1/+16Because real Web developers use Dreamweaver... As much as I would like compliant standards, development for firefox is a piece of cake with tools like Web developer and firebug. If you really want to complain about acid test compliance look at Internet Explorer (the browser that 70 of my public uses).
- BinaryFragger, on 11/08/2007, -1/+16Because diggers have a habit of jumping the gun:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Released_Firefox_3_Beta ...
http://digg.com/software/Firefox_2_is_NOT_released - Murdats, on 11/08/2007, -1/+16maybe you should fix your site then.
- andycr512, on 11/10/2007, -0/+13No, that's the biggest improvement I see in my use; Digg is smooth as silk. FF2 was slower than molasses on Digg; 3 is faster than IE. As soon as I saw how fast it was, I changed all my shortcuts and aliased firefox to the new version.
Another bonus is that it now uses native (or at least they look native) GTK widgets inside web pages on Linux where they used to have ugly Win98-esque icons. - iofthestorm, on 11/08/2007, -0/+12Well, firefox 3 uses a lot less memory and is more responsive than 2. I use the nightlies somewhat, but not extensively since some of my favorite extensions don't work with the new database bookmark system, which by the way owns. Searching bookmarks is great and now in the address bar instead of autocompleting only based on url it also does it based on web page titles (and searches for both of those instead of just going with direct matches), which makes it a lot easier to find that site you visited before but can't remember the URL.
- antdude, on 11/08/2007, -1/+11How's DIgg comment system? Still slow and hogs memory when rendering?
- luserspaz, on 11/08/2007, -0/+9It's a release candidate. It has to look like the real thing because if it passes all our QA, then it will become the real thing. If however, we discover some terrible regression or crash, then we could get a fix in for that and respin a new set of builds. Obviously we have nothing against people using our builds, we have quite a large community of people who test every nightly build. However, we want our betas to be accessible to a wider audience, so we hold them to a slightly higher standard in terms of QA.
- barakatx2, on 11/08/2007, -0/+9Because people posted that this has been released earlier today on Digg, and it needed to be corrected, asshat.
- inactive, on 11/08/2007, -0/+9no ***** dummy firefox 3 is almost all backend changes, there will be very little visual difference, you not going to see the changes
- Urusai, on 11/08/2007, -7/+16Do we really need to know every time a program isn't released? I'm like totally going to submit a story about Duke Nukem Forever not being released.
- srw777, on 11/08/2007, -0/+9You forgot: "The Hurd has NOT been released"
;-) - ajchavar, on 11/08/2007, -1/+10we don't know that yet, i heard that to beat the internet at "master" difficulty you need firefox 3, a pentagram and the necronomicon, and even then you don't get the alternate ending unless you have cookies enabled.
- SPThom, on 11/08/2007, -0/+9Fix your site.
Firefox tends to be fairly standards-compliant. Unless you're depending on ActiveX or you didn't test your site in multiple browsers in the first place, I don't see why you should be having any problems. - inactive, on 11/08/2007, -2/+9do a little ***** research idiot, it's been able to pass the acid test for a ***** year now
- Bamborzled, on 11/08/2007, -1/+7*****, because the latest version DOES pass:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid2
"December 8, 2006 | Firefox, Camino, SeaMonkey | public nightly build[17] | Firefox 3 reflow-refactoring branch lands on main Gecko trunk. Firefox/Camino/SeaMonkey trunk builds now pass Acid2, barring other regressions." - BinaryFragger, on 11/08/2007, -1/+7Internet Explorer 6 is a lot more difficult to develop for. Box model, anyone?
Besides, they're aren't many sites that Firefox fails to render properly. All of the Websites that I regularly use (including my online banking sites) work fine in Firefox. The only one that doesn't is an office Intranet application that only works with IE6 because it used IE-specific scripting. - Intangible360, on 11/08/2007, -0/+6Isn't it overly optimistic to assume we'll all get what we want?
- RobotBuddha, on 11/08/2007, -0/+6Just wanted to second andycr512's comment. Digg was a huge pain on my system with 2.0. For whatever reason, it'd choke on even fairly moderate sized pages. It was OK on 3.0, but with occasional problems. A couple weeks back though, it just started loading digg pages like they were nothing. I don't know if it was some optimizations for rendering on X, or just general improvements to the javascript interpreter, but it's just as fast as opera on here now.
And the wigets! It's so nice to have actual system wigets on forms now! Even if it's getting pushed from gtk-qt, it's still a million times better than it's been since phoenix first burst on the scene. - daftman, on 11/08/2007, -1/+6You have issues. You need some medication?
- inactive, on 11/08/2007, -1/+6Photoshop CS5 has NOT been released!
- AdHaR, on 11/08/2007, -0/+5We were wondering if you would...
- xxdeetsxx, on 11/08/2007, -0/+4http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Schedule
Hope this is helpful :) - surfing, on 11/08/2007, -0/+4Not sure if this is some lame attempt to pimp your site or not... What's the specific problem? I can load this site.
- mahler, on 11/12/2007, -3/+7But somehow people like my comment...
- inactive, on 11/08/2007, -0/+4I've been using firefox 3 alpha for a whole year now, you can download it at any time they always offer the latest version and they update it twice a day. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nig ... that is the latest version, if they were to release a beta today it would be the exact same thing only instead of being called minefield alpha it will be called firefox 3 beta
- Ibox, on 11/08/2007, -1/+5Yes, thank you... and I'm not retarded, I'm special!
- ButchersBoy, on 11/08/2007, -0/+3Well I've installed it (whatever it is) and I'm using it and as of yet it hasn't done it's usual hang on Digg. All my plugins have been disabled and there is a small bug with remembering passwords but apart from that seems pretty stable so far.
- inactive, on 11/08/2007, -0/+3You only joined last December...
- MrViklund, on 11/08/2007, -0/+3I disagree. It's the geeks who use the Alphas, betas and RC-candidates.
- MrViklund, on 11/08/2007, -0/+3I can't wait until the first Beta will come for real! :D
Go Firefox! - Ibox, on 11/08/2007, -2/+5works fine for me... (((shrug)))
- Teh_Shiz, on 11/12/2007, -0/+3I think we just digg down idiots...
- andycr512, on 11/08/2007, -0/+2It's stable for me on Linux, but very slow on Digg. 3 fixes that, at least the beta I'm running does.
- b3nj4m, on 11/08/2007, -0/+2On my Mac, 3b1 is much slower than 2.0 in terms of javascript animations and such. =(
- cwgannon, on 11/08/2007, -0/+2I second your Firefox on Linux sentiments.
Digg and Bungie.net, especially, are so slow it hurts. Opening multiple tabs of either is the easiest way I've found to make Firefox devour my notebook's CPU for half of a minute. Hell, my desktop's dual core essentially stumbles through these sites, as well. - SteveMax, on 11/08/2007, -0/+2Well, looking at Linux's and Hurd's development, I'd guess that the 2.26.24 Linux kernel will be released before Hurd 1.0 ;)
- DroidBlender, on 09/18/2008, -2/+4Too bad the "Spaces" bookmark UI is not being included in Beta 1. I've tested 3.alpha5-9 and the performance upgrades are stunning. Much more responsive. I can only hope that extension authors will finally get their extensions up to snuff and try to reduce memory usage. The big misconception that I've learned is that firefox is a memory hog. The developers have done everything possible to reduce resource use, but there are limitations with Java and the extension developers aren't helping by not optimizing their code.
All in all, I'll wait for Beta 2, because I want to start tagging my massive bookmark library! - Bamborzled, on 11/08/2007, -0/+2I just beat the Internet. There's this ultra-sweet cutscene at the end, but you have to defeat it in under 3 hours with a low item collection percentage.
- ndiderrich, on 11/08/2007, -1/+3words and rumors spread around fast like flies on *****.
- jdhore1, on 11/08/2007, -0/+2Do you mean 2.6.24? Cuz i may not know much about Kernel development, but i'd think 2.26.24 is quite a ways off.
- TheDreadDiggerD, on 11/08/2007, -1/+3The necronomicon is a lie
- tjkisst, on 11/08/2007, -1/+3NEVER do that! When it's not ready to be released it's NOT ready.
- comrade693, on 11/08/2007, -0/+2Clearly you aren't using the latest version. Works for me on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007110607 Minefield/3.0a9pre
- Morality, on 11/08/2007, -1/+2Yeah this site has gone retarded. But for all we know Mozilla purposely did that to drum up interest in their product.
- comrade693, on 11/08/2007, -0/+1Um, why would mozilla need to drum up interest in digg? I mean seriously, think about this for a second...
- comrade693, on 11/08/2007, -0/+1Spaces? I think that's a Leopard thing.... I'm pretty sure you mean Places. And for that matter, the UI is there - it's the star to the right of the url bar.
And Firefox doesn't use Java, it uses JavaScript (yes, there is a very big difference). -
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