Firefox 3 Release

[bookworm_020]

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

[jumpy]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[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]

Originally Posted by 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...

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?



How did it start, I wonder?:hmm:

NB: Just asking... no harm intended!

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by rifleman13

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



How did it start, I wonder?:hmm:

NB: Just asking... no harm intended!

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.