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Mozilla Releases Firefox 3 Beta 4

Posted by Zonk on from the tuesday-toys dept.

Somecallmechief writes "Firefox 3 Beta 4 is now available for download. This is the twelfth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso."

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  1. first memory leak post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    did they fix THE memory leak?

    1. Re:first memory leak post by jamstar7 · · Score: 4, Funny
      You must be old here...

      Oh, wait...

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  2. Re:Anti Virus by pdragon04 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's called "being considerate" and "playing nice with others". I know... novel concepts around these parts.

  3. Re:first post by XenoPhage · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sorry, no FP. But Firefox 3 is da bomb! Oh, wonderful.. Now how am I going to get through airport security?
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  4. Re:First question by fmangeant · · Score: 5, Funny
    I totally agree : on my 32 bit PC, Firefox uses only 2 Gb RAM !

    With a 64 bit version of Firefox, it could use a lot more.

  5. Division of responsibility by xant · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is good, but can't we put the responsibility on the system where it *really* belongs? Viruses, not Firefox, should inform the AV system when malicious code is about to executed.

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