Firefox 3 Release

[Steel_Tomb]

Hey guys, I thought FF3 was coming out today? All I can find is the BETA release candidate, not the full public release. Has it been delayed? Or am I just really impatient lol.:damn:

[danlisa]

http://twitter.com/mozillafirefox

That's 6pm for us Limeys.:D

[Steel_Tomb]

Ah, rightio. Cheers, I just downloaded the beta anyway to see what its like, I like what I see! Loading times are pretty much instant performance is vastly increased over FF2 in my opinion. I think you guys will agree its one of, if not the best browsers out there.

[rifleman13]

As of this posting... in ETA: 45 min.

1700H (5 PM) GMT/UTC - 1000H (10 AM) PDT

Click here to know more! (http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/06/11/coming-tuesday-june-17th-firefox-3/)

Firefox is coming! Firefox is coming!:arrgh!:

[Steel_Tomb]

woooot! :rock:

[Officerpuppy]

That's if you can log on, the website seems to go up and down, I finally got in and I THINK I'm downloading the new version for Linux on my laptop but I guess I'll find out soon enough, its going slooooow.:doh:

[SUBMAN1]

The website is down last I checked! Good luck to them!

-S

[Syxx_Killer]

I just downloaded FF3. So far I really like it. You can get it off the main page.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

[rifleman13]

Just spent 2 hours trying to download this magnificent piece of software...

... and I say...

It's worth the trouble!

[Dowly]

Aye, I like it. :up:

[Letum]

I miss a few add-ons from the old fox, but this is much nicer.

Much smoother on my old low-spec PC.
I can scroll down before web pages load now.

It keeps doing tiny white flashes tho. Wich is annoying.

And I've lost my spell check wich explains why I'm spelling wich like this.

[Linton]

Spell check -options advanced general tab-tick the box.

[jumpy]

All any of the links I see show either the beta sneek peek release, or the old v2.0.0.14 links. Seems they've not updated the webpages yet to show the correct signage.

I'm in no hurry :cool:

[JSLTIGER]

Using it and love it...memory use is pretty low...63-100MB.

[Officerpuppy]

Blah...I need GTK 2.10 or better and my laptop has GTK 2.8, I'll have to figure out how to upgrade now :-?

[jumpy]

fine so far except it has borked my considerably large list of bookmarks... I have the backup from the previous version, but it don't like it at all.

no dice

[jumpy]

all better now

[darius359au]

Just got it , haven't had time yet to really get into it, (the visit here is part of the test run ;)), but what Ive seen so far is pretty impressive , the speed increase alone has been worth it :up:

Now I just need my favourite theme's to be up dated and I'm happy!

[stabiz]

fine so far except it has borked my considerably large list of bookmarks... I have the backup from the previous version, but it don't like it at all.

no dice

Wierd, all my bookmarks are still here, with cookies and all.

[August]

I just downloaded FF3. So far I really like it. You can get it off the main page.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

The page must be swamped as i get a time out when i try to load it. Will try tomorrow.

[Letum]

Spell check -options advanced general tab-tick the box.

Yes, yes, but it doesn't correct them.

Oh...wait! it does!

:D

[danlisa]

FF3 is a huge improvement. Just gotta wait for the addons to catch up.

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s64/danlisa_photo/FFox.gif

[kiwi_2005]

I couldn't upgrade ff2 to ff3, firefox would just crash during the install everytime, I had to uninstall ff2 first. Finally got ff3 running. :rock:

[jumpy]

fine so far except it has borked my considerably large list of bookmarks... I have the backup from the previous version, but it don't like it at all.

no dice
Wierd, all my bookmarks are still here, with cookies and all.
To avoid the issues Kiwi_2005 had I uninstalled FF2, so after installing v3 I copied my saved bookmarks.html into the appropriate firefox profile folder (like I've done in the past). This failed to show my saved bookmarks from FF2 - instead I had to import from html file using the bookmark manager window. It all works ok now.

[Skybird]

After having evaded it since the version 1, I am now giving it a new try. So far it is not faster or slower than IE7. Handling differences are not too huge. I tightened the security options were possible. Whether or not it works better than years ago in keeping my HD clean and tidy, the scanner battery at weekend will show me. In the past, my experience was that a tightened IE6 did a better job in saving me from security alerts, than Firefox1. Handling of cookies and setting their options I like better how it is done in IE7.

P.S. I could imagine that people are thankful for Firefox offering me an inbuild spelling check... :D

[Skybird]

Automatic spell checking works great indeed! :lol:

[XabbaRus]

teh Firefox doesn't check my spelling......as seen by my misspelling "the"
The spellchocker is a bonch of crick. I om troing to break it.

[Skybird]

teh Firefox doesn't check my spelling......as seen by my misspelling "the"

By default I had German installed only, English (EN) I had to install separately, via Firefox option. there are more than half a dozen English language downloads available (US, UK, AUS, etc). After downloading it, I had not to do anything additional, just admire the plenty of red lines under my typos! :D Works better than ispell.

[XabbaRus]

Well I must be thick as I have ticked check spelling as I type option and can't see anywhere to load extra languages.

[Skybird]

Ah, I think i know it - I downloaded it yesterday, not being aware that it was not the promised version 3 yesterday. I downloaded v3 today and installed it over the version from yesterday. Yesterday I was asked if I want to install additional languages, but that was during installion of v2.x. V3 maybe currently installs it differently, assuming you do a clean install.

[bookworm_020]

Have just downloaded it on my laptop (the home computer will be done later!) Seems to be quicker than before.

[jumpy]

Well I must be thick as I have ticked check spelling as I type option and can't see anywhere to load extra languages.
Tools > Addons > Browse all addons (this last should open a window: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox) use LHS nav bar to locate dictionaries and language packs. Then look for the English (British) section and install it. Listed as "This extension packages David Bartlett's British English Dictionary R1.19 for Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey."
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3366

:up:

[Skybird]

While the browser runs smooth, it nevertheless causes occasionally EXCESSIVE HD activity, and I wonder why. the drive starts spinning for minutes as if wanting to reformat the complete partition.

All partitions are clean and tidy and get defragged once or twice a week. Plenty of space, 2 GB RAM, winXP. The Windows partition after the drive stops spinning, is 20% red afterwards. Does not happen with IE7. to me it looks as if Windows and Firefox do not like each other!?

[jumpy]

Noticed this a little myself yesterday, can't say if it was 'cause of FF. I usually run several programs at once anyway, so it's hard to tell. Must check task manager...

[Skybird]

Noticed this a little myself yesterday, can't say if it was 'cause of FF. I usually run several programs at once anyway, so it's hard to tell. Must check task manager...
Did that myself, it says processor occupation is 30-40% during HD spinning and Firefox active. The symptom does not show up when FF is not active, although I have several background tasks rnning, too - they alltogether make up for not more than 1% of CPU occupation.

[jumpy]

I currently have 41 processes running which equate to an average of 2 ~ 10% of cpu usage. FF having the largest at 75,336k.
Maybe FF uses less virtual memory by caching to the HD more? Don't really know what it does or how, just guessing. :-?

[Raptor1]

Hmm, Yeah, Firefox takes hardly any CPU on my system, but very large memory usage...

[Skybird]

For the time being I' ll stay with it (although adAware and Spybot scans gave me 13 alarms (spamware) yesterday when scanning the HD after 1,5 days! - usually I have 1-2 alarms in half a year, and this although I have switched off Javascript and changed some options to what seem to be more restrictive setting for FF, and deactivated cookies. IE8 is not too far away, and it is possible that I will switch back to IE when checking that one. You simply have more option to manually tighten the security options in IE, and a tightly adjusted IE is better than it's reputation - most people just run it with just medium settings - that is the real problem with it. But then the problem is not the browser, but the user.

[peterloo]

Just installed that, so far, the browser runs smoothly and no major problems are encountered

The only stuff that I hate is the increased size of installer, but it is still very light when compared to IE7

[kiwi_2005]

I like the option how you get to save now when you go out of FF.

[Skybird]

I just realised that FF does not let me download pictures, richtclick and save doe snot work ("...due to your security zone settings"). I have checked, tried and ticked the options under "Extras/Einstellungen" repeatedly now, and I do not get it working. It is not the firewall or another application. I have only two speech packages installed, no more addons.

Anyone having an idea where I have to look and make a setting? the FF online help, keyword "download" mentioned problems, but none of the remedies worked.

[HunterICX]

I'm still on FF2

it does wat it needs to do for me, I leave it with that

HunterICX

[rifleman13]

Noticed this smiley and I thought this was blasphemous to Firefox?:nope:

:fff:

How did it start, I wonder?:hmm:

NB: Just asking... no harm intended!:lol:

[em2nought]

Noticed this smiley and I thought this was blasphemous to Firefox?:nope:

:fff:

How did it start, I wonder?:hmm:

NB: Just asking... no harm intended!:lol:

Probably from somebody that hated the new predictive url awesomebar in FF3. I hated it until I found the about:config fix for it.

[Skybird]

Over the past two days several hours, and most of this morning I was reading their forum, a dedicated readme, and was searching Google to find out how to get download working, but all in vein. The what-to-do's in the dedicated readme from the official FAQ do not do anything, and a forum entry leading towards manually searching almost one dozen integral parts of the browser and manually delete them, also did no good. From the forum I know that I am not the only one having this problem, although a majority does not report it. However, if such a basic function like saving files or images are known to be a problem that they dedicated a special readme to it and demand to manually alter installation files the browser is equipped with by default, when they know all this but since longer time (already present in FF2, if I understood that correctly) don't do anything about it in fixing it, then this does not leave me impressed.

Add to it the increased rate of spamware FF lets through and that manually needs to be scanned and find by severals canners I use.

Must say I never could and still cannot understand the hype about Firefox. Maybe it is more a symptom of the usual anti-Microsoft-mania. I just went back to IE with tight settings, that does what I want it to do without complications, and doesn't keep my scanner so busy. Only the live-typo-checking i will miss - although that worked faulty only, too, and sometimes marked and sometime marked not the same mistake.

Schoolnote 3-4 from me.