Aug 23 2007

Sneak Peak: Firefox 3

Category: Uncategorized — Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound) @ 2:47 pm

PC Mechanic takes a gander at Firefox 3 which is scheduled to be released about October 30th.

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One Response to “Sneak Peak: Firefox 3”

  1. Charles Langer says:
    September 1st, 2007 at 12:31 am

    I was an enthusiastic adopter of FF 3-4 years ago, but have since soured on all things Mozilla:
    they’re just not for enterprise / serious work. About the only Moz variant worthy of consideration for this has now become Netscape.

    1. They’re just too geeky with their naming conventions, exacerbated by the fact there’re just too many Moz flavors / projects out there: it’s very hard to associate version number with version name. Yes, others are guilty of this, from AMD to Ubuntu to ….. But if Moz goal is to increase browser share, how do they expect the non-techie masses to even remember / distinguish the proper version to download?

    2. Too many flavors, too many ongoing updates, too many independent extensions, too much reinventing the wheel / reworking of features lead to too many bugs / incompatibilities and confusion re features comparisons from update to update and Moz version vs Moz version.

    3. In the meantime, things that should be fixed / standardized like say, seamless Bookmark syncing across different installed Moz variants, lie unfixed. Try syncing / importing and see if you don’t wind up with multiple copies of each fave.

    Each new update brings a whole round of broken toolbars, extensions and even the browser itself at times.

    Plus, the web has now become so exponentially large and life-consuming that time-management is critical– there are just too many new & simultaneous things to do and see on a daily basis(minute by minute it seems at times)to be spending time testing & debugging utilities… especially the same repeatedly.