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No, parent is saying that browsers will have an option to "fullscreen the video" specifically, not the whole page. Firefox already has it, just right-click the video and click fullscreen. No need to fill the browser.

no one is going to pick your stupid theora code

http://www.neowin.net/news/google-investing-in-theora-for-mobile-devices
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/07/native-ogg-vorbis-and-theora-support-added-for-firefox-31/
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/167167

Please provide sources to backup your statements. Thanks.

It would have been more useful to cover new features and things that would interest the end-user.

Here you go. It's for beta 1, so it's a bit old though.

You type slashdot in your search box?

Look! It caches the URL. And auto-completes from URLs, page titles and bookmark keywords. And it gets it right, 90% of the time. Leave google alone for christ's sake.

Well, you could check for known problems first.

http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/07/workaround-for-firefox-3-5-slow-startups-on-windows/

If that doesn't fix it for you, post a bug report with the firefox devs (instead of on slashdot).

In chrome downloads are per tab

You Fail!

Also, closing the tab does not stop the download, it just closes the tab. The download continues in the download manager.

Thats double fail.

> But have you anything to play Theora video that isn't a PC?

The next version of Firefox will natively support OGG codecs Theora (video) and Vorbis (audio).

http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/07/native-ogg-vorbis-and-theora-support-added-for-firefox-31/

Firefox, and its embedded version Fennec, runs on many devices that aren't PCs.

VLC supports Theora.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player

"It is one of the most platform-independent players available, with versions for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BeOS, Syllable, BSD, MorphOS, Solaris and Zaurus, and is widely used with over 100 million downloads for version 0.8.6".

Most of those platforms aren't PCs.

The next Firefox release will be called 3.5 not 3.1 according to Mozillalinks.

You're in luck! Firefox 3.1 will have native ogg theora rendering

That's a step in the right direction.

There is a good article at Mozilla Links, about 3.1 beta 2.

Don't know what the hell they were thinking with that. I hope there's still some method of switching between tabs without reaching for the mouse.

You can still switch tabs with Ctrl+Tab, it's just the fancy effects to go along with it are gone, as well as it switching based on recency instead of order. It'll work the same way it does in Firefox 3. You can also switch between tabs with Ctrl+PageUp and Ctrl+PageDown.

Uh, I know CWmike wants to promote Computerworld and all, but really a link to at least one of the "notes posted on its website" would have also been helpful..

'cuz it would have required too much testing or something. I'd guess old code didn't work too well w/ new code.

http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/06/9-tweaks-for-firefox-3s-location-bar/

The bleeding-edge browser is part of a new Mozilla Labs initiative, in which the open-source foundation is encouraging people to contribute ideas and designs for the browser of the future.

Labs is more than that. Back in ought six, Slashdot covered their first extend Firefox contest where people were bated with Alienware swag and developer conference passes to develop extensions & plug-ins for Firefox. The second year saw Shareaholic come out as a winning plug-in. The third year just finished judging and I'm excited to see what Mozilla finds as the best Firefox 3 add ons.

It's nice to see a foundation aiding, encouraging and rewarding the average developer off the street for their work. Even better than that is when Mozilla backs a plug-in or add-on it's usually solid and reliable (unlike the many WinAmp plug-ins that plagued my college machine).

Of course, at one time, Firefox 3 was targeted for a Q3 2007 release.

native support for video (in the form of the tag and a Free codec such as Ogg Theora). The latter is actually already written, but Mozilla isn't going live with it yet because of patent fears from certain large companies.

I thought that was because it just wasn't finished in time for Firefox 3.0, hence why they're implementing it in Firefox 3.1 instead. If Mozilla are worried about submarine patents, they've kept that very quiet. Apple have been quite vocal of their worries about submarine patents in Theora, while Nokia seem to have objected without knowing quite what it is they're objecting to, but Mozilla supported making it a part of the HTML 5 spec.

Because page titles are HUGE , for one. The bookmark icon and favicon are an eyesore, too. Also, matching by title is silly. I'm far more likely to remember something I typed than text on a bar I rarely even look at (which could just be up there for the sake of having a title). If I want titles, I can easily open the history bar.

OMG, the new version of Firefox identifies Mozilla.org as a malicious site!
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/ff3_malwarereal.png

Some changes are summarised here: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/05/firefox-3-release-candidate-1-is-here/ . A new version of Cairo (1.6) is used under the hood.

Reduced memory usage is great, but if you're more interested in speed you should take a look at Firefox 3b4's results on the Sunspider JavaScript benchmark, where testers commonly found that it performed twice as well as the latest Opera beta, and nearly three times as fast as Firefox 2.

I haven't yet heard anything definitive about Gecko's performance in FF3 with respect to FF2 or the rendering engines in other major web browsers, but from my own experience with the betas I can subjectively say "it's fast"; if I'm missing out on speed using FF3b4 instead of the latest WebKit, I can't tell the difference myself.

And Beta 4 is quite stable, to boot. Mozilla really pulled out all the stops on this one... unless you have incompatible extensions holding you back, do yourself a favor and upgrade now.

Out with the old, in with the new. Perhaps that leaves some room for new entries Spicebird and SupraSphere:

http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/12/spicebird-brings-mozilla-based-collaboration/

http://www.suprasphere.com/

It seems like anything to start earning market share has to do something different than just being a clone. Even though Netscape was the original and cloned into oblivion, it lost the leadership position and wasn't able ever to establish itself as doing anything innovative that others would want to clone.

I don't think so

(This was posted on Firefox 2.0 on an IBM Thinkpad, standard at the firm I work for)

Screenshots available here.

From the review of FF2: Tab Tweaks.

I've also found that this extension works fine with FF2: Tab Minus.

Small,and does the job perfectly. This was my single-biggest hassle with FF2. I do not understand how quasi-randomly moving the location of an item I use ALL the time is supposed to make things more efficient. Especially when you've opened up a bunch of images or documents in separate tabs and want to quickly scan through them looking for someting. Your eyes have to bounce around the screen, finding the stupid close button.

The old mechanism seemed to work better for that: put your mouse on the close button, and now you can focus on the *data*, not finding the button over and over... With the extension, you don't have to choose: they're both avaiable. Works for me.