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Firefox 3 Beta 3 Officially Released
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.'"
If you want fast, check out the latest build of Safari for Windows. I downloaded it a couple of days ago after hearing that WebKit is getting closer to a native Windows implementation being possible (their blog has more details on the progress; its quite interesting).
Safari/WebKit is really, really fast. I know, you always hear people talking about how their browser is better/faster/stronger/whatever, and you try it and the difference is negligible, if you can even notice it at all. I've had a few people try Safari though to make sure I'm not mad, and without fail they all notice a big speed increase over Firefox.
Once the WebKit guys finish their work on it (this other blog has more info on what is happening) I suspect we'll see some nice implementations of WebKit-based browsers on Windows - and if they can get it up to a decent base level of functionality without affecting speed, I'll definitely be checking it out.
Akk, I hate the new theme for Mac OS X. Is there an easy way to bring back the Firefox 2.0 one ? I can't even find my freaking home button ! Also I usually run safari side by side so this is actually super-confusing for me.
Although if you have a mac, you also should try the latest Webkit build too. Its ridiculously fast.
It's "ridiculously" fast on GNU+Linux too. I suggest building midori or epiphany trunk with it.
Neither. But closer to the second one.
The only allowed tags are listed at the bottom of the page when you are entering a comment. <font> is not on that short list. This is a Good Thing.
The teletype font, <tt>, is there so that code and other inclusions can be typographically set off from the comment text itself. But of course as soon as you do something like that, there will be people with less mature brains and juvenile ego structures who will misuse the convention. Usually in an effort to say to the world that "I am a unique individual, just like all you other guys". Generally speaking, these artifacts of juvenile thinking disappear as increases in experience are converted to wisdom points by the GameMaster.
However we are talking here on slashdot, where time and again it has been demonstrated that we need to make a distinction between coders who have ten years of experience, and codemonkeys who have one year of experience that they have repeated ten times.