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- mattgilberg, on 03/21/2008, -5/+229My God! It's from a credible news source too! Reuters! That's a ***** load better than somebody's blog.
- rey1867, on 03/21/2008, -5/+191If you read the article you would know that its set for a late june release.
So it isn't ready for prime-time - zerodaysoon, on 03/21/2008, -2/+99hhahahahhahahah....*catches breath*
hahhahhhhhahaahhaahhaahhahahahaa *catches breath*
hahahahahaahhhhaahaha....*passes out* - sockpuppets, on 03/21/2008, -3/+96June is not "ready for prime-time."
- Kriff, on 03/21/2008, -1/+64"A fifth round of changes, due to begin within the next few weeks, will involve 'tuning the visual look and feel of the program'"
Thank goodness. - tempusrob, on 03/21/2008, -0/+60Or go into about:config and add an entry for extensions.checkCompatibility and set it to False.
- Azerael, on 03/21/2008, -1/+46Microsoft has had "something to worry about" since Firefox 1.
- slippiefist, on 03/21/2008, -8/+52PROTIP: 90% of your extensions probably work with Firefox 3. Rename the .xpi to .zip, extract contents, open install.rdf in notepad, change the max ver to 3.0.0.*, re-zip the contents, rename .zip to .xpi, install.
- thomasprebble, on 03/21/2008, -0/+40Definitely works with Digg a lot better.
- Dropperbr, on 03/21/2008, -6/+44Ive been using firefox3 for about 2 weeks,what a can say is that Microsoft has something to worry about it!
Stable on Beta.(at least for me)Not even one crash so far
Great new Interface
Great New Add-on management!
Even the x64 version I've tested and its good! - Lixie, on 03/21/2008, -0/+32This leads to a tough choice. Do I upgrade immediately, or do I wait until at least some of my favorite extensions begin to be supported in the new version?
- slippiefist, on 03/21/2008, -4/+3490% of Mozilla's income comes from Google. It's only a matter of time until Mozilla Firefox becomes Google Firefox. And it will still be a great browser.
- greevar, on 03/21/2008, -3/+29Inaccurate: The browser isn't releasing until June.
- Tenoq, on 03/21/2008, -5/+30So... they shouldn't ship a product until everyone else makes products for an un-shipped product?
Riiiiight. - versionist, on 03/21/2008, -4/+27Oh, well that's not time consuming.
- Prombar, on 03/21/2008, -19/+41***** yeah after all of those betas finally get to see the real thing
Firefox 3 - brenthals, on 03/21/2008, -0/+21Beta 4 actually
- iggy2012, on 03/21/2008, -3/+24I lol'd
- srg13, on 03/21/2008, -1/+19Even the alphas passed Acid2... We're up to Beta 4
- musicbear, on 03/21/2008, -1/+19GoogleFox! GoogFox! GooFox! FireGoo!
- fsamuels, on 03/21/2008, -2/+19What a misleading article. Version 3 may be feature complete and have an acceptable level of outstanding bugs it will not be ready until there is a download available that isn't a beta.
- zantos420, on 03/21/2008, -0/+17actually if you read the article on page 2 it very clearly states,
As of Thursday afternoon, the Web site still stated: "We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 3 beta 4 milestone release. It is intended for testing purposes only."
try reading next time ;) - neognostic, on 03/21/2008, -1/+17People still go to yahoo?
- RomieZ, on 03/21/2008, -6/+22Digg needs to eliminate 4chan filth like Slippiefist..
- slippiefist, on 03/21/2008, -6/+21Am I the only one that thinks the new default theme is ugly? Also, the pic in the article is of Firefox 2, not 3.
- bjornski, on 03/21/2008, -1/+15Grab the beta. It's really solid, and performs very well. And add-on developers are rushing pretty quickly to get their stuff FF3 compatible. The only ones I'm really waiting on are "open in foreground tab" (not big deal, but I used it a LOT), and platypus. But with Greasemonkey already supported, I don't see Platypus taking too long to catch up.
And I really like the visual style they're using as a default. But that's only a personal preference, and can be easily changed with themes).
Seriously, dont' bother waiting. - seandfeeney, on 03/21/2008, -0/+14Single page: http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUS ...
- kevinmtu, on 03/21/2008, -0/+14Why does it need one?
- so1omon, on 03/21/2008, -2/+16Except that pages never finish loading....
- michaelGregoire, on 03/21/2008, -3/+15Just one look at firefox.com verifies that the writer of the article is an idiot... and the person who posted this to digg, didn't do even a minimum of verifying that it's true before wasting our time.
- commentbot, on 03/21/2008, -0/+11The screenshot is Firefox 2, not Firefox 3. And the Mozilla Corporation isn't a "tiny company". It makes 60 million dollars a year.
- mrdoogee, on 03/21/2008, -0/+10Foxxle?
- sremick, on 03/21/2008, -2/+12Agreed. I've been using the nightlies for a while on XP for the performance but god the new theme looks horrible.
- Maver1c, on 03/21/2008, -1/+11FoogleGox?
- ttrusk, on 03/21/2008, -0/+10Block http://ads1.msn.com/library/dap.js with adblock or change your UA-string to Firefox 2 in about:config (general.useragent.extra.firefox)
Bug report here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40356 ... - slippiefist, on 03/21/2008, -1/+10I'd probably just call it Gfox.
- mooninite, on 03/21/2008, -1/+10It's because they have a bunch of people who want that and are whining about it to get it. The best way to get it changed in your favor? Write a bug report on http://bugzilla.mozilla.org and engage in the mailing list discussions. Writing a comment on digg won't do a damn thing.
- kevnaca, on 03/21/2008, -0/+9Same here, the load circle is still going.
- Ancestor, on 03/21/2008, -1/+10Well, it certainly takes less time than waiting for the extension developers to do it themselves and release new versions.
- garreh, on 03/21/2008, -1/+10I personally love the new Royale theme. People say back button too big, I say I love it!
- aladrin, on 03/21/2008, -2/+10You mean wake up the add-on creators. Mozilla isn't responsible for making the add-ons compatible with a whole new version of firefox, the add-on creators are.
- tba2287, on 03/21/2008, -0/+8I think they have some sort of revenue deal with Google and get a cut of the ad revenue that comes from searches in the upper-right corner of the browser.
- beermad, on 03/21/2008, -0/+8Or, rather more simply, just install the Nightly Tester Tools extension.
I've found that most extensions i use work either 100% or at least 95% with the Beta. Themes are a different matter, but they're hardly important. - TheSwashbuckler, on 03/21/2008, -2/+10Maybe by then they'll have fixed all the crashes I experience on a regular basis, particularly anytime I visit Yahoo sports.
- kazamx, on 03/21/2008, -1/+9Bla, I was their when it was Phoenix
- inactive, on 03/21/2008, -0/+7The ad revenue from Google, Yahoo, and MSN searches in the upper-right hand corner constitute nearly 90% of their revenue.
- cornflakepirate, on 03/21/2008, -2/+9Exactly, we're up to Beta 4. Way, wayy to late to start changing the rendering engine to pass ACID3.
- blueandgreen24, on 03/21/2008, -0/+7seriously, what a ***** let down. never post something like this until its actually ready.
- starheart, on 03/21/2008, -0/+7Firefox 3 for Linux is most definitely NOT ready. They use sqlite for bookmarks, history, etc and they way they use it causes way too many fsyncs. This causes it to freeze for 30 seconds or more during heavy i/o.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42148 ... - flair1, on 03/21/2008, -0/+6until safari supports extensions I am not switching.
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