Jun 17 2008
Firefox 3 Released
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Lemme know what you think.
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June 17th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
It works just fine… the only negative is the themes I liked to use are not available for FF3. I am sure a little time will correct that problem.
June 17th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Seems to work quickly, although still demanding on ram. I miss the themes also….
June 17th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Seems to be stable. Graphics seem crisper. Waiting for add-ons and themes.
June 18th, 2008 at 2:51 am
The coolest function so far I found is that I don’t have to look over 1000 of my Favourites… I can only write in the address bar first letters of that site name and it gives me ability to choose
cool thing
June 18th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
FireFox 3 is surely a big upgrade from FireFox 2! Much better multi-tab performance, and Silverlight functionality is growing, I’m glad that FireFox natively supports it. It performs more like IE in the sense that scrolling is smoother, and it doesn’t have a large footprint like versions in the past. It only gets better and better.
The “Awesome” bar is a very, very neat feature. As Dar0 says above me here, 1000’s of favorites become a few keystrokes away. Very easy way to keep things clean & clutter free.
I only see one drawback. F6 no longer highlights the URL bar, now I have to physically click the URL bar with the mouse, or TAB-over to it. I don’t like that. That’s a key function for people who browse the internet on a daily basis and visit multiple websites.
I am also hoping that more sites will adapt to FF3, and even IE8 for that matter. Some of the sites I visit say “Banned due to Unknown User-Agent” because it’s detecting the browser as something that isn’t in the list of allowed browsers (they do this to prevent spoofing & hacking related issues).
All around, I’ll use IE7 for the sites that do not yet support FireFox 3, and when it’s all fixed, no doubt you’ll see me with FF3 everywhere.
I was participating in the beta for FF3, as well as IE8. I am amazed that FireFox was released so quickly. A very nice job, compliments to the dev’s at Mozilla. Now we just need a Thunderbird 3 and we’ll all be happy.
Hey Hound, you planning on making an update to the XP guide, now that Service Pack 3 is announced? Would be nice to have the .reg files to go along with the settings, or at least just the actual .reg text below each one so we can make our own. Many of us don’t want to use any 3rd party programs to do it for us, we’re all super-tweakers (Not even once!) and I think we’re mostly all capable of doing it the manual way. Would make my life simpler. Double click vs. install, choose, apply, hope you don’t mess something up, and never know what it did. Great site though, I absolutely LOVE it!
Have a good one all.
Steve
June 18th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Firefox 3 works great, I’m running flock 2.0 beta which is based off Firefox 3.
June 19th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Was using Bon Echo 2.0.0.16 nightly’s. Very quick! This Firefox 3 feels a lot slower and more bloated. Will use for a couple of days then go back to Bon Echo. Never had any issues with it right from betas. Firefox 3 still feels like work in progress. Still feels light years better than IE 7.
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:40 pm
@Steve,
I believe Ctrl + L still highlights the URL bar in Firefox 3.