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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. im using it now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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    1. Re:im using it now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. First look? Hardly. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've known what Firefox 3 was going to be like for over a year now. I found out when I first ran Opera 9.

    If you want to know what Firefox 4 will be like, get Opera 9.5 when it comes out. If you want to know what Firefox 5 will be like, get Opera 10 when it comes out.

    1. Re:First look? Hardly. by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 0, Troll
      "If you want to know what Firefox 4 will be like, get Opera 9.5 when it comes out. If you want to know what Firefox 5 will be like, get Opera 10 when it comes out."

      UmmmMmm yeah, that's a troll. Here's a small patch to make it insightful:

      If you want to know what IE 8 will be like, get FireFox 3 when it comes out. If you want to know what IE 15 will be like, get FireFox 4 when it comes out.


      You've gotta phrase your posts with public opinion in mind or you're trolling.
      --

      "I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)

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