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Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation
ReadWriteWeb writes "Information about the next versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer suggest that the two biggest browsers are heading in different directions. Mozilla has published a wiki page detailing its plans for the next version of Firefox, codenamed 'Gran Paradiso'. Among the mandatory requirements listed for FF3 are improving the add-on experience, providing an extensible bookmarks back-end platform, adding more support for web services "to act as content handlers" — all of which show that Firefox wants to be an independent information broker rather than a simple HTML renderer in its next version. Also in the works is Microsoft's IE8. According to ActiveWin.com, a Microsoft official at CES told them that work has already begun for IE 8 and it may be released as a final product 'within 18-24 months'. Looking ahead, it's obvious that IE will continue to hook into the advanced functionality that Vista offers."
"the next version of Firefox, codenamed 'Gran Paradiso'"
Why are they using code names?
I can understand how it could be necessary for things like the original Mac and Windows 95. But why for yet-another-version of an established product?
As I see it, either they might as well call it "the upcoming Firefox v3", or they should not (want to) discuss it publicly at all.
Or is it just to keep Marketing occupied with something harmless?
"Good news, everyone!"
Honestly with the issues I had with IE6 I moved to FF 1.5. Then when IE7 came out I upgraded, but found it almost as loose as IE6, just with tabs. Not to mention IE7 doesn't have extentions. I don't know what I would do if I didn't have half of the extensiosn I have for FF. I'm not even mentiioning the portable version I carry with all of my extensions on it.
Firefox 2 has ben extremely stable except with a few quirks, which stems from my computer being slow as hell. I look forward to what Firefox 3 bring to the table.
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Will they implement detachable (and attachable) tabs? Konqueror has had this forever, so Firefox has some catching up to do.
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I agree. I love firefox, _especially_ with adblock plus and filterset.g. It makes browsing the web so much better. However, I cannot use firefox when I'm using other applications. When I'm working with Visual Studio or Eclipse, the only option for me is Opera. Firefox takes up way too much memory.
I for one am very much looking forward to improvements in the Bookmarks department.
... probably why it was never deemed important enough to implement the store-your-bookmarks-on-an-FTP which has been discussed for so long.
How it was in Mozilla was actually better than Firefox now, the context menu in the app/toolbar menus were so good you'd hardly ever need to use "Manage Bookmarks".
Anyway, people are allegedly no longer using bookmarks in favour of tag clouds and what-have-you
"Good news, everyone!"
I think their main priority should be to make it lightweight. Smaller memory footprint. Pleeeeeease.
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... with no added features as long as it stopped crashing.
Granted, this only really happens when I have 50 or so tabs open across a few windows, but that is fairly normal usage for me and boy is it annoying.
Yes, my ram's good. No, it doesn't matter if I have any extensions. No, nothing on the "yeah, this problem really doesn't exist, but if it did, you could try these steps to fix it" problem denial page.
The built in session restore feature is nice (as long as your connection can handle 2500 outbound connections at "once" as the dozens of images and the like load up, but ff 2.0 crashes at least once a day for me.
I still use it over opera and ie, but...
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Is anyone working on the little things? Stuff like the URL bar not getting the focus half the time when creating a new tab, or the status bar not saying "Done" when a page is actually finished? The continuous minor irritations of things like that are what make up a large part of a user's general feelings about a product, and one of the reasons I"ll always prefer to use Safari when I can.
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Anyone know if this is in the pipeline for FF3? *sigh*
I had the same experience. For me it turned out that the Google Toolbar was causing the problem. I now use Googlebar instead and Firefox is solid and stable again.
I understand that Firefox wishes to be more than a web browser. But looking at the FFX 3 requirements page I find one very weird requirement:
P2/HIGHLY DESIRABLE features:
Honestly, WTF? Is this really a feature that should be in something that mainly is a web browser? I would understand if there was a need to add a general Kademlia DHT API to easy delivering information, but isn't a chat application something that should be covered as an extension. Typically a chat application runs constantly while a web browser (or "information broker") generally isn't running constantly. I fail to see the logic behind this.
Kazehakase is another Gecko-based browser to keep an eye on. Newsforge wrote an article about it back in 2005.
This is why I have my LCD monitor turned to portrait mode, seriously.
I have 2 20" Dell LCDs (1600x1200). One is in landscape, the other is in portrait mode.
Text applications (Word, Firefox, etc.) go to the portrait LCD. Non-text applications (games, Excel, VmWare) got to the landscape LCD.
This is also fairly easy to do with a laptop and an extra LCD. At work they give us a laptop, a docking station, and an LCD.
If I only had 1 LCD, I would go portrait.
I understand we have 4:3 monitors because we used to hook the Commodore up to the TV, but now with LCDs I going portrait mode.