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A First Look At Firefox 3 Alpha 5

Posted by Zonk on from the alpha-beta-awesome dept.

abhinav_pc writes "PC World is reporting that Mozilla today made an early testing release available from its Firefox 3 browser. This alpha version (code-named Gran Paradiso) for the first time adds the anticipated Places feature for bookmarks. Firefox 3 alpha 5 also features a new password manager. A new crash reporting system called Breakpad is also now available in some Mac OS X and Windows builds but is not yet supported on Linux. 'Places will also be less likely to lose data in the event of program or Windows crashes. In fact, according to Connor, "We haven't figured out how to make Places lose data." For backwards compatibility and manual backups, Firefox 3 will save bookmarks in the traditional bookmarks.htm file when it closes. For other bookmark upgrades, Mozilla is planning to enable bookmark tagging, and is considering building its own synchronization client into the browser capable of backing up and sharing bookmarks. '"

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  1. Places by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    "We haven't figured out how to make Places lose data."


    rm -rf .mozilla

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    1. Re:Places by WhyDoYouWantToKnow · · Score: 5, Funny

      Come on, that's hardly a cross platform solution.

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    2. Re:Places by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

      Sure it is. It works on Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD, AND OpenBSD!!!

      (For Mac OS X, rm -rf ~/Library/Mozilla)

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  2. Alpha? by FlyByPC · · Score: 2, Funny

    There's just something about hearing "Alpha" and "browser" in the same sentence that's scary. The *release* versions are dodgy enough, even in Firefox.

    I'll wait, thanks.

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  3. Losing Data by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "We haven't figured out how to make Places lose data."

    Call the Microsoft Office Design Team. They'll help you with that in a snap!

  4. Good idea... by eddan · · Score: 5, Funny
    Quote from the blog entry on the new password manager:

    The first part, a long slog of untangling and porting the old C++ code to JS, is now complete. Now, THAT sounds like something you want to do. I always mock up something quick in C++ and port it to JS afterwards.
  5. Re:bloat bloat code your bloat... by fullphaser · · Score: 3, Funny

    merrily merrily merrily, bug free is but a dream

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  6. Are you by any chance.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Paris Hilton?

  7. Re:Why doesn't anyone port Dillo to windows? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > You aren't going to be viewing YouTube with Dillo anytime soon.

    Bonus!

  8. Re:Memory Hog by bruno.fatia · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think 640k should be enough for any browser..