Firefox 3 Hits Release Candidate 2

Barence noted that Firefox has announced release candidate 2 of their highly popular web browser. You can read the release notes while you download. And since my copy just finished downloading, I guess I'll go install it. I hope I don't have any

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Firefox is starting to give me the shits

[syousef]

- New versions break older extensions. Until the extension is updated, bye bye extension. I don't enjoy that hassle and it makes me think twice about upgrading.

- Old versions constantly redirect to a page suggesting you upgrade. I don't want my software to nag me into submission thanks. I don't need to be babysat.

- New versions force you to use new features without providing functionality to back it out even when the user wants it. Eg. The new supercoolsearchbar garbage. I don't want my browser looking though my bookmarks when I type a URL but I don't mind it searching history that clears itself regularly.

- Firefox is the one application i use regularly that I find myself killing using task manager regularly. It either hangs or hogs memory which is only released by restarting. Don't deny or try to explain in excruciating technical detail why the browser slowly saps all your memory if left on a page that refreshes itself regularly. It's a bug. Deal with it. Fix it. Even refuse to fix it. But stop denying there are memory management issues.

- There's no graceful way to exit that doesn't pop up a thousand confirmations if you do keep the close tab confirmation active.

- I can't download and keep my extensions for future install. I really don't like using up bandwidth downloading the same extensions each time I install Firefox.

Firefox USE to be a better user experience than IE. I can't say that anymore and it stinks that I can't. I want my Firefox browser back!

Re:Firefox is starting to give me the shits

[syousef]

What's your solution here?

A little thing called backward compatibility. That means you add new features but don't break existing ones.

See, there's this great new search engine called Google.com, and if you go there and type "Firefox 3 disable awesomebar", the very first link describes exactly how to do that.

Another idiot that insists I'm a troll without doing their homework. Oldbar does not restore old functionality. It simply makes awesomebar look like the old toolbar. However when you start typing a URL it still pulls things up from your bookmarks, and the firefox devs have no intention of changing how the search behaves. I don't want my bookmarks displayed to all and sundry when I simply type a URL into the search bar. They don't need to get glimpses of my political views, or what torrent sites I use!

OK, now it's painfully obvious you're either a troll or haven't been paying attention at all. Every Firefox 3 article I've read since the betas started coming out gushed over how memory management was so much better than in 2, how faster it is, etc

Okay now it's painfully obvious you're either a fanboi or haven't been paying attention at all. This happened when version 2 was released as well and it didn't fix things. It just took months for people to prove there was still a problem.

I can't even parse this one. You leave the tab-close confirmation on, but don't want it to confirm when you close tabs?

I'm glad you're not my parser then. I open 15 windows and more than one tab on each. Now to exit firefox, when I click close tabs on each one. There is no way to confirm I wish to close tabs on all windows. What's so fucking hard to parse?

Right-click, Save Link As...

Doesn't always work, and then how do I install the saved link. Create a HTML page to download it back from?

And how does drivel like this get modded "Insightful"?!

It got modded -1 troll actually. One person had the fucking sense to mod it insightful because obviously they've had the same experience. Yours remains at +4 informative despite the fact that you can't "parse" shit, and that you don't know how fucking oldbar works (but are happy to assume I've never come across it). You're the troll buddy.

Re:To late?

[Smidge207]

No, partner, you suck as a grammar Nazi.

=Smidge=

Re:ooh-ooh-ooh where is my individual tab threadin

[Anonymous Coward]

Or get a decent browser.

May I suggest IE or Opera?