Firefox 3 Release Date June 17

[A_Traveller]

To be a bore and repeat, at present selecting updates doesn't work, either for RC's or series 2. This may be, as I noted to do with the 'download day'.

RC3 may well be the equivalent to Final I don't have the exes on hand to compare but I downloaded afresh.

Regards

PS Found both and checksummed them and they appear identical, so RC3 appears {stress} to be equivalent to Final

Edited June 18, 2008 by A_Traveller

[sjaak327]

Downloaded this yesterday evening,runs fine, but crashes each time when quitting the application under Leopard 10.5.3.

[Gary A]

I downloaded today and it is running perfectly the same as the beta and and the release candidates. I really like Firefox but eventually they have all developed glitches. I'll continue to use Firefox until the glitches start. I still have the Opera beta which is working great. Time will tell.

[The Vulcan]

Downloaded separately to both desktop and laptop without any problems. All add-ons and bookmarks as they should be.

Seems great. I haven't found the thousands of additions that they proclaim yet!

I would be interested to hear the more technically inclined members discovery's and where they feel the browser has been improved.

I don't want to miss anything!

[A_Traveller]

I like the new feature where one can open a set of tabs accumulatively,that's useful. I'm not so sure about the proclaimed memory efficiencies, though it is faster {True permitting} but I'm not seeing the memory creep {more memory being consumed as you work} which plagued FF 1 & 2 so I'll settle for that. The dynamic address bar is neat once you become accustomed to it, type in a letter and it looks for recent sites, then favourites.

Add-in missing, include the cookie manager, but that is because they reintroduced proper cookie control in 3 as in 1, which got lost in 2. Not <deleted> issue but I wonder how long it will take to get a Zend toolbar {development tool}

Few themes it seem as well,but that is to be expected given the rework of the user interface

On add-ins I do recommend Showcase which is really useful and faster in 3. Showcase creates a layer with clickable thumbnails of all your tabs, and in my case I do mean all...

Regards

Edited June 18, 2008 by A_Traveller

[JetsetBkk]

...Showcase which is really useful and faster in 3. Showcase creates a layer with clickable thumbnails of all your tabs, and in my case I do mean all...

Regards

Yes, I use Showcase. I also have "Speed Dial" at the top of my side bar to instantly display my favourite 12 web pages as a group of thumbnails - just click on one and it opens.

I just tried FF 3.0 but, as expected, a huge number (37) of my extensions aren't compatible, so I'll have to wait for the authors to update them.

[zzdocxx]

I'm gonna wait a while on this one, I am not enough of a computer expert to get myself out of glitches that may occur.

Sounds like it is great when it is hitting on all eight.

I DL'd Showcase quite a while ago but never ended up using it, go figure.

[ignis]

Can anyone help.PLEASE.......

I have been using Firefox for years..

I have the latest Firefox 2....... also have the Firefox 3 RC 3..

Now the Firefox 3 RC 2 has arrived I find that my Bookmarks on Firefox 2, years of bookmarks did not transfer..only the odd ones that I had on Firefox 3.RC 3

There must be an easier way than transferring them 1 by 1, must be at least 500

I have 3 Icons... Firefox 2, Firefox 3RC3 and now Firefox 3RC2

[Tywais]

Product Summary CNET Editors' Choice

The good: Firefox 3 touts faster rendering, vastly reduced use of system resources, clever new data-mining tools for your bookmarks and browser history, and more security features than any other browser.

The bad: Firefox 3 will no longer support Windows 95, 98, and Me; same with Mac OS X, versions 10.2 and earlier.

The bottom line: If only for the speed, lightness of being, and security alone, Firefox remains our Editors' Choice for best Internet browser.

Source and Review: CNET

[A_Traveller]

ignis take a look at Firefox Environment Backup Extension FF2 link. You need to go to the author's site for the FF3 version.

Regards

[A_Traveller]

Giving credit where it's due, Zend was updated today. Though not using 37! extensions, I'm left with just two site analysis tools awaiting update to 3. By the by some authors have not yet updated the Mozilla distribution, but have FF3 versions on their websites.

Regards

PS Note the Download Day claimed a result of over 8 million

Edited June 19, 2008 by A_Traveller

[webfact]

I found this workaround' in a news group

This might help but I am not responsible for any crash or damage if applied incorrect.

Open Firefox - type:

about:config

search for: extension.ceckCompatibility

right click in browser window

add "new boolean"

set to "false"

Some extensions might work if set to "false" - but No guarantee given.

In my case it did work except 1 add-on.

[toptuan]

Installed Firefox 3 yesterday. Now ThaiVisa loads two to three times more slowly.

[JetsetBkk]

Giving credit where it's due, Zend was updated today. Though not using 37! extensions....

37 was the number that didn't work. The other 65 worked fine . But I'm back on FF2 now.

... I'm left with just two site analysis tools awaiting update to 3. By the by some authors have not yet updated the Mozilla distribution, but have FF3 versions on their websites....

Yes, FF found 7 compatible versions, leaving the 37 that didn't work, and I found a couple, e.g. "All-in-one Sidebar" - can't live without that .

Hopefully the authors will be rushing out their FF3 compatible versions soon.

I just noticed I have 6 more updated extensions waiting for me. Yippee . 31 to go...

[A_Traveller]

I found this workaround' in a news group

This might help but I am not responsible for any crash or damage if applied incorrect.

Open Firefox - type:

about:config

search for: extension.ceckCompatibility

right click in browser window

add "new boolean"

set to "false"

Some extensions might work if set to "false" - but No guarantee given.

In my case it did work except 1 add-on.

Must just add that there are major internal differences between 2 & 3, more so then 1 to 2, with, at last, a rewrite of the user interface code. This is where add-ins will fail if compatibility is set to false. Any add-ins that do not use the UI for interactions may be OK with this but it should be treated with caution. During testing of 3 this setting did cause the browser to crash with some UI centric extensions.

Regards

PS Just checking on my fresh FF3 final and the standard config doesn't expose this option, which I must say I'd understood to be the default position for final.

Edited June 19, 2008 by A_Traveller

[onethailand]

For the record - I did a download and the release version was the same as RC2. Didn't take me but an extra couple of minutes, in a way it's good to know because everything was working much better in my RC2 anyhow

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

[Taijitu]

I've downloaded the Firefox 3.exe file but I haven't installed it yet. Do I have to uninstall previous versions first before I install this new release? Thank you.

[webfact]

I've downloaded the Firefox 3.exe file but I haven't installed it yet. Do I have to uninstall previous versions first before I install this new release? Thank you.

No need, FF3 will do that for you

[Taijitu]

I've downloaded the Firefox 3.exe file but I haven't installed it yet. Do I have to uninstall previous versions first before I install this new release? Thank you.

No need, FF3 will do that for you

Thank you for your prompt reply webfact. I'm obliged to you.

Here I go!!!

[zzdocxx]

Still using FF2, already my "new tab homepage" add-on doesn't work anymore for FF2.

Guess I am going to have to bit the bullet soon here.

[bazmlb]

A few things don't work anymore

Google Analytics only loads a text page instead of the GUI

a lot of the firefox ad ons, like new tab, fastdial works but is very slow to open a new tab

some toolbars dont work anymore such as smartpagerank

Kasikorn banks biznet login page doesn't work, its all overlapped and cant get past login screen

The way it sorts url's as you start typing them is completely different to ff2, also the way it displays them is hard to get use to.

[zzdocxx]

Thanks for the update, I'm still holding off.

[nikster]

The way it sorts url's as you start typing them is completely different to ff2, also the way it displays them is hard to get use to.

That annoys me too. This used to be the best feature in FF2 and they changed it in FF3. I mean, every browser has this but the FF2 implementation was perfect for me. I never had to think, it just "did the right thing" - I don't even know which order it was in but I think it went by last visited. In FF3 it seems off... how did they change it?

[bazmlb]

The way it sorts url's as you start typing them is completely different to ff2, also the way it displays them is hard to get use to.

That annoys me too. This used to be the best feature in FF2 and they changed it in FF3. I mean, every browser has this but the FF2 implementation was perfect for me. I never had to think, it just "did the right thing" - I don't even know which order it was in but I think it went by last visited. In FF3 it seems off... how did they change it?

FF3 Its like my ex wife, it gives you the opposite of what you ask for

[A_Traveller]

Address bar:- the key change is the addition of auto scanning the contents of Bookmarks and cookies, as well as history, it also checks the string not just the first letter. End result is that typing a single character FF3 will offer possible matches from these sources. As you type more, naturally, the selection narrows. However it can mean that typing a letter can say more about you then you might want, in that if you have a set of 'interesting' sites tucked away in Bookmarks they may well appear on the list for any shoulderer {or SO} to see.

By the by for tweakers there is some ability to configure it {a rumour is that 3.1 will include an option to manage the sources, this existed in an early alpha but wasn't considered ready for full release}.

Old Bar Add-on still uses the FF3 algorithm but simplifies the results

For those who want to venture into the configuration:-

Enter about:config then search for browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped set to True which will hide visited sites {history} and Bookmarks

HTH

Regards

PS Old Location Bar Experimental

Edited June 25, 2008 by A_Traveller

[chiliwasabi]

For any Live Mail (Hotmail) users, as of a few days ago the full version now works in FF3

[ignis]

Deleted Firefox, and did a new install a couple of weeks ago, also use Foxmark = got all my bookmarks back.

The new 3.1 is very good and runs faster than 2 ever did.. and no problems as with the test version of 3 I was running