Firefox 3.0 Preview

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday March 30, 2007 @08:32AM from the hey-there-paradiso dept.

Brian Heater passed us a link to a PC World preview of the upcoming Firefox 3.0 release. In addition to the usual smoother UI, bug fixes, and feature updates, Firefox 3.0 will introduce several new components that should expand offline Web application functionality. The inclusion of DOM Storage, an offline execution model, and synchronization should all work together to allow for wider adoption of software like Google Apps at the end-user level. "As the breadth and depth of the competing applications expand, perhaps Microsoft's 90-percent stranglehold on the preinstalled and post-PC-purchase installation suite market will loosen, if only a bit. Then, too, if Windows Vista is any indication of what lies ahead, the company's software will continue to require ever more awe-inspiring hardware--a far cry from the light and nimble Web-based applications Mozilla engineers envision." The piece covers more than just the new functionality, of course, and should be of interest to anyone looking forward to 'Gran Paradiso.'

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I wish to make a complaint. by jd · 2007-03-30 08:57 · Score: 2, Funny

The screenshots aren't pink and don't mention ponies. How am I supposed to use it on Saturday if there aren't any ponies?

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1. Re:I wish to make a complaint. by eln · 2007-03-30 09:16 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Just wait until Sunday, and Slashdot will provide the ponies for you.
2. Re:I wish to make a complaint. by h2g2bob · 2007-03-30 09:45 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Just wait until Monday, and Slashdot will provide a dupe of the ponies for you.
Re:What I hope it has by shurikt · 2007-03-30 09:49 · Score: 5, Funny

Thanks, now I'm stuck in an endless loop.
Re:What I hope it has by matt+me · 2007-03-30 09:55 · Score: 4, Funny

1. Let me stop the damn animated gifs and flash things
2. Smaller memory footprint.
3. Let me stop sounds/music with the stop button. Consider lynx?
Re:Stupid comparison after stupid comparison.... by Bacon+Bits · 2007-03-30 10:34 · Score: 4, Funny

I could swear Sun Tzu turns a full rotation with every other post here.

Sun Tzu + Slashdot + magnets & wire = new source for renewable energy?

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Re:You don't think Firefox is bloated? by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-30 10:37 · Score: 5, Funny

3/2 is a fraction.
Re:What I hope it has by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-30 11:03 · Score: 1, Funny

I suppose you don't want to see my rabbit with a pancake on his head either. Hmph! /stomps away
Re:What I hope it has by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-30 11:14 · Score: 2, Funny

Yes, for I am the most important user of Firefox. The developers shall implement their application to exactly match my usage patterns!

Holy crap are you ever full of yourself.
Nice trolls by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-30 11:32 · Score: 3, Funny
Noez mah firefox uses 5 more MB than Opera!
Stop the Fucking trolling, firefox does not ever use more than 100 MB, you may wish to friging update yourself

Also whatever bad thing you have to say about firefox consider:
- You are not a FUCKING WEB SPIDER, you do not need to open 100 tabs at once, the internet is made to be read so it doesn't make any sense to ever have more than 5 tabs open, seriously. If you are used to 10 tabs, you are not a 1337 HAXORz you are a MORON!
- Opera is still a gay browser with no real life functionality that is not truly free
- Konqueror is still useless and no cross platform
- Safari and IE are still shit
- If you want light weight browsing do the world a favor and : Kill yourself or use a text-mode browser
Re:What I hope it has by bconway · 2007-03-30 11:33 · Score: 1, Funny

Are you a KDE user? Some people prefer not to have every obscure, configurable option in an enormous preferences window.

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Re:What I hope it has by ReptilianSamurai · 2007-03-30 12:08 · Score: 5, Funny

His hand is already on the mouse and he doesn't want to remove it to reach for the escape key.
He could just use his other hand.

Oh... nevermind

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All Those Memory Complaints by aliens · 2007-03-30 12:56 · Score: 4, Funny

What exactly are you saving that RAM for? True love?

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First to include the other as a plugin: by smittyoneeach · 2007-03-30 13:26 · Score: 2, Funny

Firefox, or Eclipse?

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Re:What I hope it has by MattPat · 2007-03-30 15:35 · Score: 2, Funny

He could just use his other hand.

Oh... nevermind

Strange, I was under the impression that the porn industry had favored MPEG-2 over Animated GIF for their video format...
no shit! by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-31 02:51 · Score: 1, Funny

It looks like a lot of people will support a fork. Firefox 3 will only support 2000/cp or better. There are quit a few people still using 98 and I have no plans on upgrading my computers because of firefox. I'm right there with ya, bud. It steams my clams that Mozilla continues this ridiculous minimum system requirement nonsense. FireFox 3 won't work on a Microsoft OS from 10 years ago? That means you'll have suffer from the horrid FireFox 2 you currently have without upgrading. Just part of a continuing pattern of dismissal, if you ask me; FireFox 1 didn't support my MS-DOS 4.1 from 1988 either!