developer.mozilla.org — At around 4am PST today, the last of the Firefox 3 Beta 1 release candidate builds appeared on our public FTP. This was mistakenly reported on Digg as the official release of the first Firefox 3 Beta. It?s extremely flattering to get this sort of attention, and we know that it?s motivated by the very best of intentions, but it does cause us three m
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binaryfraggerNov 8, 2007
Internet 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.
luserspazNov 8, 2007
Maybe you should give this Firefox beta a shot. It's vastly improved on Mac, and we've also done tons of optimization and bugfixing. I agree that Firefox 2 on Mac is not a great browser, but it's come a long way.
butchersboyNov 8, 2007
Well 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.
Closed AccountNov 8, 2007
You only joined last December...
darkjesusNov 8, 2007
Of course, my mistake.
gmorganNov 8, 2007
No the JS engine is greatly improved in FF3. Who knows, Digg might actually run reasonably quick.
comrade693Nov 8, 2007
Um, why would mozilla need to drum up interest in digg? I mean seriously, think about this for a second...
garys278Nov 8, 2007
This is the linux section. Firefox stuff belongs in software.