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- wgrzywacz, on 11/13/2007, -8/+193Bug test day for the first release candidate of Beta1 is on Friday, Nov 9.
Don't rush.
Burried as inaccurate. - inactive, on 11/13/2007, -0/+115From the readme:
These files are not release versions, they are just potential release
versions. Use them at your own risk, without any of the warnings that we
will be putting in the release notes.
To be honest, if you're here from Digg or something similar, we'd really
rather you waited until 3.0b1 was officially announced, so the servers
don't get overloaded and we don't have a bunch of extra work to do. - gtluke, on 11/13/2007, -0/+79i've been running the windows one (minefield) for about a month now. it seriously consumes 20% of the ram that firefox 2 did.
- surian, on 11/13/2007, -1/+41This made me laugh, it's the "IMPORTANT NOTE" file from the link:
"To be honest, if you're here from Digg or something similar, we'd really
rather you waited until 3.0b1 was officially announced, so the servers
don't get overloaded and we don't have a bunch of extra work to do." - jpaolini, on 11/11/2007, -1/+38That's honestly the best news I've heard all week - and you've convinced me to install to see for myself. That's always been my one big complaint with Firefox - it's a resource hog.
Let's hope they keep it nice and light for the final release.
Edit: Windows one is just in another folder, it's here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nig ... - pyrox420, on 11/08/2007, -15/+50Here is a link that has the windows version:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nig ... - ginestony, on 11/07/2007, -1/+33Here's a screenshot from the windows version...
http://img403.imageshack.us/my.php?image=firefox3g ...
so far (only playing with it for 4 minutes) there isn't anything significantly different. The favicon has a little home now, there's a star editor next to the "go" arrow, and a new "places" folder. A couple things to note of importance... the memory hogging has gone down considerably. Right now, with a few tabs open its only eating about 48mb of ram, and when I minimize it it goes down to an incredible 3mb! Also, a cool feature is when you close firefox it asks you if you want to save the tabs you had open on the next start of firefox. So far so good... especially for a beta. Now we just have to wait for the design team to make some minor updates I'm sure. - belorion, on 11/10/2007, -0/+28The location of the increment actually has meaning. For most software, 2.0 -> 2.0.0.1 means a very minor patch (sometimes it is an *important* patch, say for security, just a minor change in code). 2.0 -> 2.0.1 is usually a collection of patches, security fixes, etc. 2.0 -> 2.1 would mean new minor features or modifications to existing features such that there is a noticeable difference, and usually include bug fixes as well. 2.0 -> 3.0 would mean brand new features that did not exist before, often accompanied by significant changes to the underlying codebase
- Alphab, on 11/08/2007, -2/+30From http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nig ...
These files are not release versions, they are just potential release
versions. Use them at your own risk, without any of the warnings that we
will be putting in the release notes.
To be honest, if you're here from Digg or something similar, we'd really
rather you waited until 3.0b1 was officially announced, so the servers
don't get overloaded and we don't have a bunch of extra work to do. - bakerster, on 11/07/2007, -0/+22confirmed : firefox 3 beta (stock) is fast as ***** compared to safari 3 (stock) on leopard!
- cawfee, on 11/07/2007, -2/+21Are these builds compatible with AdBlock Plus? Their site doesn't state the version span it works with. No surfing for me without everyone's most hated controversial ad blocker.
- MWeather, on 11/13/2007, -1/+20When you say it runs faster, that's with all the same plugins installed, right?
- lazzerous, on 11/07/2007, -3/+20anyone have screen shots?
- trunkster, on 11/11/2007, -1/+18Buried, sense they don't want the servers overloaded.
- postalblowfish7, on 11/10/2007, -2/+19Tell the admins to ban spammers such as:
schestowitz - justdave, on 11/08/2007, -1/+17buried as innacurate, it hasn't actually been released yet (not even as 3.0b1), it's a QA version that hasn't been signed off on yet.
- deadsquid, on 11/13/2007, -2/+16having to create a build for both ppc/intel might have something to do with that :)
- dagamer34, on 11/07/2007, -1/+15Someone list the expected features of Firefox 3?
- BinaryFragger, on 11/13/2007, -2/+16Gran Paradiso is the code name for Firefox 3.0 (for reference, Firefox 2 was known as Bon Echo during development).
Minefield is what they call the trunk nightly builds.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minefield/ - trenchfever, on 11/10/2007, -0/+13Gimme adblock plus for opera and I'm in. I know I know. It has a content blocker and filtering system. But these are all half assed solutions. Thank you but no thank you.
- nirav72, on 11/07/2007, -0/+13Memory footprint has definitely gone down. I just tried out the windows version. I did a comparision with 2 tabs open on FF3 and FF2. FF3 was taking up a lot less memory with the same number of tabs and same sites opened. Haven't noticed anything else that is different. Just some minor cosmetic changes. Oh..the page rendering seems a lot more snappier. But that could be just my own perception.
- ZachSka87, on 11/13/2007, -2/+15AHEM!!!
"These files are not release versions, they are just potential release
versions. Use them at your own risk, without any of the warnings that we
will be putting in the release notes.
To be honest, if you're here from Digg or something similar, we'd really
rather you waited until 3.0b1 was officially announced, so the servers
don't get overloaded and we don't have a bunch of extra work to do." - inactive, on 11/07/2007, -3/+16addons don't work.
(renders faster digg!) - Godel, on 11/08/2007, -2/+14They save the tenths place for major updates that are not quite major enough for a new version number, like the 1.5 release.
- Baku, on 11/13/2007, -0/+12Opera is an awesome browser, but their widget system is terrible. Firefox's Extension system is so much better! If someone could do that for opera so I could use the del.icio.us extension... I'd swap permanently.
- BackwardsPanda, on 11/13/2007, -8/+20http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nig ...
Windows - DemonWasp, on 11/07/2007, -1/+13Hooray for it asking to save your opened tabs! I've been killing the firefox.exe process to preserve my tabs until now.
- nnagflar, on 11/11/2007, -1/+12You can sense it?
- lcarsdeveloper, on 11/11/2007, -0/+11Ok...this really impressed me: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38949 ...
I hate it when I want to go back to a site but I can only remember the title, great work Mozilla!!!! (saves having to open the History toolbar) - dimplemonkey, on 11/12/2007, -0/+11Dude, you got politely pimp slapped by Mozilla! LOL!
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At around 4am PST today, the last of the Firefox 3 Beta 1 release candidate builds appeared on our public FTP today. This was inaccurately reported on Digg as the official release of the first Firefox 3 Beta. - init100, on 11/10/2007, -0/+10"The favicon has a little home now"
This "home" also contains the hostname when visiting a secure site. Hovering the mouse over the hostname shows information about the signer of the certificate.
"there's a star editor next to the "go" arrow"
This one lights up when I go to my home page (as set in the browser preferences). I'm not sure what that is supposed to mean yet. - franksands, on 11/10/2007, -0/+10I would like to use Opera very much, but it doesn't work properly with the sites I use, google maps for example
- victorycig, on 11/08/2007, -1/+11Go tell it on the bugzilla mountain.
- trenchfever, on 11/07/2007, -1/+11Never knew digg has ads :-P
- init100, on 11/07/2007, -1/+11And 32/64 bit.
- inactive, on 11/13/2007, -3/+12@schestowitz
You are feeding trolls, just don't care about those ass hats. - warlord, on 11/07/2007, -1/+10Seems to be faster at loading and displaying webpages than firefox 2 but this may be down to it being a virgin install with no extensions working at the moment.
- blooby, on 11/08/2007, -2/+11"To be honest, if you're here from Digg or something similar, we'd really rather you waited until 3.0b1 was officially announced, so the servers don't get overloaded and we don't have a bunch of extra work to do."
Ha - marlinspike, on 11/07/2007, -2/+11Does it solve the memory leak issue on Windows? I'm tired of having to re-start my browser every so often when it starts to hog over 150MB of memory and slows to a crawl.
- op12, on 11/13/2007, -0/+9High-level feature plan:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Firefox_Requireme ...
The complete feature list:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Product_Requireme ... - dacjames, on 11/10/2007, -0/+9"Only ask the user to save the password after they know the login has succeeded."
Simple but amazing! - kevyn, on 11/07/2007, -1/+9Has there been any mention of an actual release date for FF3?
- mooninite, on 11/08/2007, -0/+8Holy smokes! Native buttons on Linux and super fast rendering speed! Digg comments go up and down in a blink of an eye! It's all good. :)
- drunkmuppet, on 11/07/2007, -0/+8So far the biggest difference i've noticed is the lack of pop-up warnings. Ie. "Do you want to save this password" is no longer a popup but a drop down tool bar.
It runs pretty snippy. - jbaez, on 11/07/2007, -1/+9ive been using the mac version and its been running so much better. it opens much faster now and it really hasnt crashed on me as much as firefox 2 did before. i guess they are better job at optimizing and cleaning up the bugs.
- FreakyT, on 11/07/2007, -1/+9You can always Install the nightly tester tools extension:
http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly
That will force add-ons to run, though they don't always work properly. - inactive, on 11/10/2007, -4/+12I guess those four people in your little list buried you a grand total of seventy six times? Oh noes, the Digg system has been subverted!
Oh, wait. You're just a troll. Never mind. - lcarsdeveloper, on 11/07/2007, -0/+8No, I'm noticing the exact same thing! Rendering time seems drastically reduced, and the AJAX pause when you post a Digg comment is completely gone!
- acidbass, on 11/13/2007, -15/+23i see it goes 2.0 - > 2.0.0.1 > 2.0.0.2 > 2.0.0.3 > 2.0.0.4 > 2.0.0.5 > 2.0.0.6 > 2.0.0.7 > 2.0.0.8 > 2.0.0.9 > 3.0
Makes sense to me.
I got an idea, why not just do it like: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 ....... 2.9 , 2.10 , 2.11........ then 3.0 - hankydysplasia, on 11/07/2007, -0/+8Biggest thing for me as a photographer is color profile management. Previously only Safari had them.
make sure you enable it in about:config. gfx.color_management.enabled set to true. -
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