Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Firefox 3 Beta 3 Officially Released

Posted by kdawson on from the back-to-its-roots dept.

firefoxy writes "Mozilla has officially released Firefox 3 beta 3. This release includes new features, user interface enhancements, and theme improvements. Ars Technica has a review with screenshots. 'Firefox 3 is rapidly approaching completion and much of the work that remains to be done is primarily in the category of fit and finish. There will likely only be one more beta release after this one before Mozilla begins issuing final release candidates.'"

5 of 337 comments (clear)

  1. Extensions by Midnight+Thunder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Looks good. All we need now are for the extension developers to make their extensions Firefox 3.0 friendly.

    --
    Jumpstart the tartan drive.
    1. Re:Extensions by NickCatal · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Exactly! You would think there would be some 'legacy plugin support' for people to enable if they so desire. I don't know that all of my plugins are being actively developed, and I cannot stand this version of Firefox on OS X for much longer (the beta is much more stable, but no plugins work)

      --
      -nick
  2. Re:YAY! by Kinky+Bass+Junk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That's not a bug, it's a feature. I frequently grab text from the last known addresses without necessarily wanting to go to the page again (E.g. download heavy sites, buggy sites that crash the browser that I need to submit a bug report on.)

    --
    Anonymous Coward
  3. Re:YAY! by Kadin2048 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    immediately load urls I click on them from the address bar, instead of waiting for me to hit return No. That's a terrible idea, and would drive innumerable people (myself included) completely crazy. Text-entry fields shouldn't do anything when you click into them in order to edit. The return key is the proper way to actually cause an action to be taken on the entered text.

    That's a user interface paradigm that's decades old now, and just because the bunch of monkeys coding IE think it's fun to throw it out the window doesn't mean it's a good idea. Microsoft has the anti-Midas touch for interfaces these days anyway (cf. Vista generally, that new Office abomination generally, drop-down menus that hide half their contents for no particular reason, etc.). Emulating them would be a terrible idea.
    --
    "Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
  4. Re:YAY! by Vectronic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes I do, but how many average users are going to know that? I'd be willing to bet that the Parent didnt even know that...besides, thats only one of many features that its lacking in comparison to Opera, Avant, etc. There isnt much coding invlived to add a context menu on right-click, or even a tooltip saying "Yadda Yada for Yada!"