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- beltzner, on 03/11/2008, -3/+123We hope you like it. There's a pretty thorough review at http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/03/firefox-3-beta- ...
- willy1234x1, on 03/11/2008, -1/+83Looks wonderful, I've been using the betas exclusively and can't even imagine going back to Fx2 now.
- wmarcello, on 03/11/2008, -1/+57No kidding. The new theme on XP looks horrendous. Are there no graphic artists on the team?
- troye, on 03/11/2008, -1/+45Beta 3 was very much noticeably faster than FF2. You can have your Firefox 2 installed and the beta installed at the same time, and all your bookmarks and settings get transferred over also.
Try out the Beta; you will be amazed. - bjornski, on 03/11/2008, -2/+36That's why I'm still using FF2. Many of my plug-ins aren't supported in 3 yet.
- electromage, on 03/11/2008, -3/+35Dugg with Firefox 3 Beta 4! Can't wait for final, looking forward to it's inclusion in Ubuntu Hardy.
- murraj2, on 03/11/2008, -2/+304 Tabs and only 160 MB of RAM?
Sounds like they have been working on performance enhancements. - godzillaWax, on 03/11/2008, -2/+28It's unusable for me because of the text zooming. I've got good eyes, and text on most sites is too big for me. In Firefox 2, zooming out slightly decreased the text size. However, with v.3, the jump is pretty large from one size to the next: it goes straight from too big to too small.
I hope this is something that gets ironed out prior to release, as it makes the internets maddening for those of us that can't handle giganto-text. - slashbot, on 03/11/2008, -5/+28nomnomnom
- skyh, on 03/11/2008, -0/+21They weren't kidding when they said stuff like GMail was faster.... holy crap.
- Fergy, on 03/11/2008, -0/+19Firefox 3 got the Linux UI update it's just that it tries to look like a Linux browser. In the past Firefox would look the same on Windows and Linux.
- doshindude, on 03/11/2008, -1/+19rushed products=bad. they can take all the time they want.
- hungryduck, on 03/11/2008, -1/+19Do you have any idea how useless your comment was?
- jayleb, on 03/11/2008, -0/+17Is anyone facing an issue where (only) digg.com keeps loading endlessly even if the page is fully displayed unless you press stop? This started with me in Beta 3. I thought it would be fixed in Beta 4 but that is still not the case :(
- MikeCerm, on 03/11/2008, -2/+19It's definitely not. I'm currently using the pre-Beta 5 nightly.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nig ... - doshindude, on 03/11/2008, -1/+18um, no, that one is the duplicate. epic fail, spammer.
- MusicalGenius, on 03/11/2008, -1/+17I'm excited. I was a little disappointed with the 3rd beta. I had problems with it. I'm also seeing a lot of crap with Firefox 2 now. ASIDE from my ram usage... I'm more concerned with the browsers stability and freezes.
I have a lot of hope for FF3 - Kamael, on 03/11/2008, -0/+15It works much better than b3... but that theme still doesn't look right in XP (haven't tried it on Vista yet).
- slashbot, on 03/11/2008, -1/+16Does it work with ABP and other extensions?
If so, will update :). If not, will wait :( - grexeo, on 03/11/2008, -0/+14View -> Zoom -> Zoom Text Only
- praveenmarkandu, on 03/11/2008, -1/+15add this into userChrome.css to resize the location bar to a decent size:
.ac-comment {
font-size: 100%! important;
}
.ac-url-text {
font-size: 100% ! important;
} - tapeworm77, on 03/11/2008, -4/+18You need to upgrade your Pentium II
- Planets, on 03/11/2008, -1/+14I wish.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com ... - thepotter, on 03/11/2008, -3/+16Yes!! I'm glad to see this is coming along... There will be a beta 5 before the final release, where a few of the bugs I've noticed are blocking release. I was hoping that the Linux version would get the UI update, but no :-(
- djm101, on 03/11/2008, -0/+12Well obviously it depends on the tab doesn't it, thinking now, it was probably more the fact digg was open in every single one; causing it to get raped by flash ads.
Seems around half that for 4 non-flash sites. - MikeCerm, on 03/11/2008, -0/+12I've been using the betas for a few months now, and while many have been updated, there are still a few extensions that I miss from my Fx2 install.
- djm101, on 03/11/2008, -0/+12Technically they're not supported; in reality they probably run fine. Get the Nightly Tester Tools extension and disable compatibility checking.
I have ABP and Greasemonkey plus a few others all working fine doing this. - Darkhacker, on 03/11/2008, -1/+12This story was submitted an hour before the one you linked to.
- IEatHamburgers, on 03/11/2008, -0/+11Still never stops loading though. At least it doesn't crash the browser like it does on my iPod...
- luchid, on 03/11/2008, -1/+12Something weird has been happening to me using this and b3. Digg pages never finish loading. The throbber and the status bar progress bar never stop, even when it's been fully loaded. Am I the only one with this issue?
- sremick, on 03/11/2008, -4/+14I've been running the nightlies. They run a LOT better than FF2, but this new theme makes me want to drill holes in my skull to distract me from the ugliness.
I do not look forward to having to put a custom theme on every install of FF3 I do just to prevent user backlash. FF2 was actually beautiful and polished. What the hell happened with FF3? - Callaway7, on 03/11/2008, -0/+10any suggestions on how to set the new address bar to not search through my bookmarks? i can see how this could be a really helpful feature, but i really don't want my bookmarked porn sites being displayed. i
- Zaggynl, on 03/11/2008, -2/+12Uhm, how is a new PC going to change the fact that his Firefox takes 160mb with 4 tabs?
- Raian, on 03/11/2008, -2/+12The new mac theme is about as beautiful as a squid making love to a squirrel...
- onedigg, on 03/11/2008, -0/+10Luckily for us, there's a beta version of firebug that works great with FF3
http://getfirebug.com/releases/
and navigate to beta 1.1 - don't worry, it's just as stable as FF3 itself - estvir, on 03/11/2008, -7/+17Extremely welcome aside from them forcing the horrible new theme even when using small icons. Does anyone know a way to get the old ones back? The new ones are as I said, horrible but the small versions aren't nearly as bad as the large ones.
- Darkhacker, on 03/11/2008, -2/+12Although the release notes talk about performance, they don't say anything about start up time. I'm on Linux and I would swear that Beta 4 starts up a lot faster than Beta 3 did. It could just be my imagination or a placebo effect.
- benjipenguin, on 03/11/2008, -1/+11Looks like some great new enhancements... Just making the good only better, and giving more reasons not to look back to the last-gen browsers...
- inactive, on 03/11/2008, -0/+9FF2 freezes for me on certain websites on my Linux box.
- i4mt3hwin, on 03/11/2008, -0/+9Why the hell would I want a beta to replace my stable browser? What if something I need to do doesn't work in the beta version? Also IE blows in general -- personally I like Opera but you cannot even seriously use > sign with IE on the left.
- ukblacknight, on 03/11/2008, -0/+9I've got ABP and IETab running ok on it.
- jecruzs, on 03/11/2008, -4/+13"We've done four already, but now we're steady..."
Let's hope this is the final beta iteration! - pltnz64, on 03/11/2008, -0/+9there is no linux skin. it uses whatever gtk theme you are using
- customer, on 03/11/2008, -6/+14Proto theme is freakin ugly.
- comrade693, on 03/11/2008, -0/+8It's a known issue. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40356 ... for the details. Basically, it's Microsoft's fault for only checking for Firefox 2 or less.
- palmerized, on 03/11/2008, -0/+8Using it now. Seems good on OS X. The interface has changed a bit. Looks all good, except the back button is MASSIVE. Hmm, not sure I like that, but otherwise, looks OK.
- grexeo, on 03/11/2008, -1/+9Either you want a fast browser that caches as much as possible (using more memory...) or you don't. Firefox won't use much memory if other programs need it. Otherwise it's just a waste.
- theaceoffire, on 03/11/2008, -0/+7Not to mention Digg...
- MWeather, on 03/11/2008, -2/+9One man's memory leak is another man's tab history.
- WWWoody, on 03/11/2008, -1/+8You mean the gigantic green (grey on launch before you browse) back button?
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