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Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday
unkgoon writes "The Mozilla Developer News blog is reporting Firefox 3 will be released on Tuesday, June 17, 2008, and you're invited to the party! From the website: 'After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we're proud to announce that we're ready. It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th. Put on your party hats and get ready to download Firefox 3 — the best web browser, period.'" Update: 06/12 17:44 GMT by T : Dan100 was among several readers to write with news that, rather than just being announced, "Opera 9.5 has been released today after nearly two years of development. New features include increased speed (particularly in the Javascript engine), Opera Link (browser synchronisation), and a 'sharp' new theme." Dan100 also links to a full changelog from 9.27.
it was released today
I've been using the RC, and must say the memory issues that the Mozilla developers have tried to claim never existed, are almost nonexistent now. The only tiny thing I don't like is the Text Size function which is now called "zoom", and is sucky.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Last I checked, there were just over a million pledges, far off from the 5 million they were shooting for..
And I was unimpressed. I'm hoping the full release will be better.
In other news, Opera 9.5, the other best browser, released today.
I just released a brown trout in the 3rd floor men's room. The toilet seems to be broken (or "beta" as us googlers call it), so you might want to avoid the middle stall.
I mean...it was, like, RELEASED, today; not only announced to be released.
:/
But I guess that clears any doubts as to "/. pet-browser" that Firefox has...
One that hath name thou can not otter
Put on your party hats and get ready to download Firefox 3
I use Firefox, because I have no use for Party Hats!
Will it be fixed in 3.0, or will I have to wait for 3.1? See, I use Linux and my partitions are ext3. The fsync issue affects me.
So what do you want? A cookie?
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Firefox is the best browser out there and it is the only one I will ever allow in my house
I don't, it sheds hair all over the couch and chases my pet firehen.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
From what I can tell from using the beta, it seems a lot of the reduced memory footpring from Firefox 3 appears to be the result of it using the OS's native GUI widgets, as opposed to widgets supplied by Firefox itself. FF3 is coming along nicely, but still has a few annoyances that need addressing. Hopefully the release version will address those minor annoyances.
Any news on an aptitude build? This would make it more attractive to upgrade.
It's all very well releasing Firefox 3, but when is a compatible version of Tabmix Plus going to be available for it?
it's = it is
its = belonging to it
It was part of the Update Manager offerings...
(no conflicts with beta add-ons)
I'm waiting until flash is ready and all of my addons work with Firefox 3, it's only half a browser without them
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
I dont have a party hat.
All I have is a cloak and a wizard hat.
If you thought it was so good, wouldn't you have upgraded to the release candidate weeks ago instead of continuing to use the beta? :)
I've been using one of the release candidates that got installed by default when I updated ubuntu. It isn't doing much for me, frankly. The only thing they've fixed that I consider a big win is the memory leak issue from FF2. What's so exciting about this new release?
I wonder how they came up with the name Firefox? To me it brings to mind the story of Samson in Judges
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It always made me think of the novel and Clint Eastwood movie.
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Will 3.0-compatible versions be ready?
I'm not migrating without them.
...Mozilla cannot write every extension. A LOT of addons weren't updated for the Firefox 2 betas or RCs, but were updated within a few days for Firefox 2.0 final.
In the meantime, why don't you email the developer of your extension and ask?
Bully for you. Did you want a Blue Peter badge? I have Opera 9.5 and it is the only one I will ever allow in my house and I even have the thumb drive version. http://www.opera-usb.com/operausben.htm
NoScript, Adblock Plus (w. Filterset.G) and FlashBlock are supported in the current 3.0pre Firefox, so they'll work in the final build. Checking Mozilla's addons website isn't that hard, really.
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
I've been using the betas and RCs for a while now, and I've noticed that for some reason, Firefox is using an unusual amount of CPU cycles. When a Firefox window is open, FF uses 15-20% CPU (on my SantaRosa 2GHz MacBook Pro) continuously. When the window is closed (but FF is still running) the usage drops down to 1-2% I don't think this happened with FF2. Any idea why this might be so, and if there are any workarounds?
It was originally called Firebird, a reference to the Phoenix and the idea that the app was born from the ashes of Netscape. They changed it after receiving complaints from the Firebird database people, keeping the "fire" and swapping out the animal. I assume the fox was chosen for the alliteration and for the image of the fox as being scrappy and independent. Fireslug just doesn't have the same ring...
.... or was this release canadate 3? I looked in the "about" box and unlike the previous version showing the release canidate number, this was simply version 3.0
I'm confused?
> I wonder how they came up with the name Firefox?
It used to be called Phoenix, which was to evoke the whole "rising from the ashes" imagery WRT the (at the time) moribund Mozilla project. The BIOS people didn't like that and asked them to change it, so they renamed it Firebird, which the database people weren't keen on. So finally they came up with Firefox, and it stuck. Better name anyway.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
is also my 21st birthday, we'll see how well Guinness and Firefox mix.
This sig is false.
It's a real shame that they are releasing it with so many serious bugs remaining.
I, and many others, have been experiencing multiple crashes on a daily basis in all betas and release candidates. I have filed a bug report (and I submit the problem every time it crashes) and yet they never really acknowledge it exists.
The problem is Mac OSX specific and is something to do with the native theme and Objective-C in the DrawCellWithScaling section. I'd try and fix it myself, but I don't know and don't want to know Objective-C.
Well, originally, the browser was called "Phoenix", for the obvious reason. However, I believe Phoenix was trademarked, so the Mozilla folk couldn't use it.
We all know what to do, but we don't know how to get re-elected once we have done it
Apache made a MapReduce implementation in Java that is quite extensively used.
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Me: Oh the great, all-knowing wikipedia, please enlighten me on the reason Mozilla Firefox chose such a glorious name!
Wikipedia: It was first named "Phoenix", because it arose from the ashes of Netscape. Then (due to international copyright laws and conflict with Phoenix Technologies) they chose to rename the great product as "Firebird," and all rejoiced! Alas, the great joy did not last long, as the wicked Firebird Database Server users started to complain. The great creators then finally settled on the name that is heard throughout the land: FIREFOX!
I did have to sacrifice a goat though...
Once clicked in the current version of Firefox on windows without a default mail client defined, (I will not touch outlook!), the system fires up 48 instances of Internet Explorer, which in turn says it does not know how to handle the URL!
My hope and expectation is for Firefox to give me an option of defining a mail client or fire-up my GMail. Can anyone whose tested it inform a slashdoter? Thank you.
It had to do with the real animal Fire Fox. I'm not sure if they meant the fox or the panda. Given the icon, I'm guessing the fox.
Nah, he probably set his Firefox to reject all cookies anyway.
Just wanted to add to the comments about Opera being a far better browser, and have just released 9.5. Judging by the comments so far, I gather I'm not the only one who sees it as the superior browser, it really deserves more attention here.
I.O.U One Sig.
Considering Mozilla gets millions of dollars of funding from Google I doubt you'll ever see a native ad blocker bundled with the distro.
Did they fix the worse than useless un-wonderful bar without a half-asses extension? No? Then I, and several hundred thousand users, will not bother to download it until then, and the rest will uninstall FF3 once they discover it.
No, the extensions will support Firefox 3. You realise they're written by people who aren't necessarily Mozilla devs, right?
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
I can finally use inline-block.. yey :) .. well .. that is not now, but in 2 months or so, everyone will use firefox 3.
It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th.
Are they actually mailing out CDs to anyone, then? Or do they still have a couple of last-minute changes to make from the release candidate you can download right now?
> I have Opera 9.5 and it is the only one I will ever allow in my house
When you live alone, no one really cares what you allow in your house.
Me, I'm not known to my household as a control freak. I set the default browser and that's it. About the only time I put my foot down on what I won't allow is installing QuickTime. Damn piece of junk breaks everything else.
~1% desktop market share=not news.
That pretty much covers it.
Adblock plus deprecated filterset.g. That filterset caused too many problems for users, so adblock plus introduced new subscriptions that cause fewer problems and don't require additional components.
http://adblockplus.org/en/faq_project#filterset.g
In short: don't use filterset.g. Use Adblock Plus.
They all work, but it's actually recommended you don't use Filterset.g. I used to use it but switched to EasyList about a year ago when I read the developer's comments on it.
http://adblockplus.org/en/faq_project
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
I'm almost ready to go back to opera.
Salut,
Jacques
you have a lot of redundancy in that set of plugins - i am using ff3 with "adblock plus" and noscript running fine. Adblock+filterset.g and flashblock are not necessary.
(1.21 gigawatts) / (88 miles per hour) = 30 757 874 newtons
I used the OSx86 optimized build... any idea how much between the official release and mine will be?
Firefox basically can't do SOCKS proxying and connect to IPv6 sites, even if you configure a SOCKS5 proxy which can handle IPv6.
Need a Python, C++, Unix, Linux develop
much better to use one browser for 'professional' material, the other for... the more base side of things. even better to set the cache and history for the 'base' browser to minimum.
(T>t && O(n)--) == sqrt(666)
I continue to be disappointed in the GNU people calling their branding package Iceweasel. First, it is weaselly, and second, they could have used Ireox, at the very least until Mozilla told them to cut it out.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Windows 3.1x calc: 3.11 - 3.10 = 0.00
IIRC, the BIOS maker Phoenix had an embedded browser, so Mozilla's "Phoenix Browser" was considered misleading.
Given that kind of a premise, how stupid was it to rename it Firebird, given the bazillion products with that name already?
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
exciting news!
Seriously, at least half a dozen times a day I will type in a an address into the address bar, hit enter, and then Firefox tacks a ".net" to the end of it. It directs me to some spammer squatter site, and I have to go back up to the address bar and delete the .net. I have no idea why it will happen sometimes and other times it won't. However, I was curious if other Slashdot users have experienced such an annoyance.
Thereby ensuring that websites are going to try to insert even more obnoxious ads that do not get blocked by the default install ? No thanks.
Here's an example of the old address bar algorithm:
* Clear the address bar
* Type the letter "c"
* The sites listed are your most frequently visited sites beginning with "c"
Here's an example of the new one:
* Clear the address bar
* Type the letter "c"
* The sites listed are your most frequently visited sites with words beginning with "c", and ".com" counts as a word
There really needs to be a way to restore the old matching behavior, and as Richard_at_work says, the oldbar extension doesn't accomplish that.
It's more like an "AwfulBar" than an "AwesomeBar".
For what reason do you need both flashblock AND noscript?
This is when a 'fanboi' mod would come in handy.
It sounds even better when you say it in a Ralph Wiggum voice.
AdBlock Plus and NoScript are already updated and working on RC2. I'd like to get Tab Mix Plus, but other than that many of the more popular ones are already up to date.
Can't... resist...
In Soviet Russia, a thought can get YOU killed!
However, "firebananaslug" might be apropos due to current events in the dry Santa Cruz mountains
People still use Flashblock? I thought newer versions of NoScript made Flashblock obsolete.
Those are about the only things that make FF better than Opera
Opera has these things built in. My personal assessment:
Opera > NoScript
Adblock Plus > Opera
Opera > Flashblock
YMMV
You're right it isn't a bug, its a feature! I have been hitting at the very bottom end of the Enter key, so I've been simultaneously striking the top of the Shift key at the same time. I'll just make sure its more in the center next time.
I was trying out Firefox 3.0 RC2 on my main windows XP PC, and after a couple of days Firefox lost the ability to remember passwords between sessions. I could have probably fixed the problem by blowing away my Firefox profile and recreating it, but the whole point of upgrading to 3.0 with an existing user profile in place was to keep important things like passwords. I ended up restoring a copy of my Firefox user profile that I had made before upgrading, uninstalling Firefox 3.0 RC2, and reinstalling the most recent Firefox 2.x. That fixed my problems for now. I'll try Firefox 3 again later.
No mention of a cake this time? http://digg.com/software/Microsoft_sends_congratulation_cake_to_Mozilla
[Insert generic "I hate the Awesomebar, why can't it be like the FF2 bar, takes up too many resources, waaah waaah" whine here]
jump back a few years
[Insert generic "I hate the dropdown that shows you the sites you've been to recently, it's a security violation for my pr0n stashes, takes up too many resources, waaah waaah" whine here]
jump back a few years
[Insert generic "I hate the destination bar, it clutters up the interface where a Lynx-style hotkey would do much better, why does change have to happen, waaah waah" whine here]
jump back a few years
[Insert generic "Web browser? What's wrong with Gopher?" whine here]
Using RC2 myself, and NoScript and AdBlock (with filterset.g) are working fine. And from Mozilla's site, it looks like FlashBlock should run too.
So how are they going to count total downloads ?
Will it be restricted by IP ?
Whats stopping a group of people from scripting non stop downloads for 24 hours ?
Whats to stop the next "big release of (brand X software)" from doing this as well..
Why is it even a Guinness World Record ?
You're not telling it subtlely enough:
My 0.02 cents
Gives some fascinating insights on which countries care about Firefox the most... and which countries are playing catch-up with the tubes (well done South America, gogogo Africa!)
Also interesting is the difference between Korea (4000+ pledges) and Japan (43000+) which are both IMHO, two Internet savvy countries. Even without accounting for the difference in size, from my experience, Korea just doesn't seem to care about Firefox (Korean sites are pretty much IE only).
However, the one I don't understand is Poland. Of all the countries in eastern Europe, how come so many pledges come from there? Say even compared to France or the UK?
So, any IT work to be found in Poland? Fast tubes? Yummy zubrovka and women? Can't go wrong with that, really...
Takeshima? Dokdo? Who cares! Liancourt rocks!
I've been using Firefox 3 on my linux partition since I upgraded to Ubuntu Hardy a few months ago. Honestly, I've found the new version to be more of an annoyance than anything else, although it's been hard for me to figure out how many of these annoyances were due to Firefox itself, and how many were due to Ubuntu.
1) Font rendering problems. Any font sizes specified in points were about 2-3 times the size they were supposed to be relative to anything else on the page. I eventually figured out that to fix this I had to manually set layout.css.dpi in about:config.
2) It feels significantly more sluggish than 2.0, although this has gradually been getting better lately. Maybe by the time it's actually released they will have this all worked out.
3) URL bar #1: I do find the new algorithm of the "awesomebar" to be annoying, although I can see how it might be a better experience once I get used to it. I'm going to hold off judgement on this until I've had a bit more time to get used to it, but regardless of the sorting matching algorithm, it just looks way too cluttered.
4) URL bar #2: They have changed the selection behavior in the URL bar to always select the entire url. There doesn't seem to be any way to quickly select a single portion of the URL for example to change from http://games.slashdot.org/ to http://hardware.slashdot.org/. I have found this to be the single most annoying feature of the new Firefox by far. In fact that alone is probably enough to keep me from upgrading on my other computers.
While none of these annoyances by themselves are deal breakers, I have yet to notice any changes (from an end-user standpoint - I understand the rendering engine has been significantly improved, which is great, but doesn't really help me all that much) that really make me want to upgrade.
If I don't put anything here, will anyone recognize me anymore?
Thanks to you and WolverineOfLove. I stand corrected, having followed WOL's link, and examined the downloadable versions, all of which included +RC1 in the package name. Appreciate the info, all.
when typing in the url in the address bar:
[enter] Takes what you typed in, will assume http:// if not provided
[ctrl+enter] http://www.url.com
[shift+enter] http://www.url.net
[ctrl+shift+enter] http://www.url.org
It's not a bug.
But to answer the question, adblock and filterset work fine, not sure about the other two. Since they seem to be popular I'd imagine that they'll be compatible already.
You can download Firefox for free, but you have to fight for your right to party.
Currently I'm 'browsing around with no particular purpose' only because the new Opera is so damn fast and I'm just enjoying the ride. It's a browsing revelation, really :).
./ .
Too bad this is not considered newsworthy for a separate article on
I know it's not OSS and FF 3 is about to be released and all, but still, I don't think it's OK to act like nothing happened.
I'd like to test it but don't want to screw up my 2.0 config before I know it is worth upgrading.
Actually, most extensions have been updated for FF3, and one of the changes made in the allocator allows for automatic cycle collection. Previously, extensions had to break cycles themselves, making it relatively easy for them to leak memory, but with automatic cycle collection, it's easier to write a leak free extension. See this article on memory improvements
$_ = "wftedskaebjgdpjgidbsmnjgcdwatb"; tr/a-z/oh, turtleneck Phrase Jar!/; print
You forgot about Firebug. Web development is so much easier with Firebug, but it FF3 has disabled the plugin. As beautiful as FF3 is, I dreadfully miss Firebug. The Web Developer Toolbar is largely inferior.
I use SeaMonkey as my primary Web browser, e-mails, and newsgroup all together. Firefox is OK. I hope v2 is coming soon. :)
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Does Adblock Plus work in Linux that doesn't require superuser/root? Basically, does it install in local profiles? I had problems with this with Mozilla v1.x and SeaMonkey v1.x. :(
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...the "free" version of Opera will have Firefox advertisements that users will be forced to watch so they don't have to pay for it?
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Or perhaps a "homo" mod for anyone who spells "boy" with an i.
However, I'm still on the hunt for a simple about:config setting.
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A goat! No wonder Firefox is bloated; you're supposed to sacrifice a rabbit! There's far too much meat on a goat ... !
Thanks for the news. I setup a FF party for the forums I visit. Cool stuff!
Downloaded Opera 9.5. Great browser, terrible new theme. They should've at least included the classic theme to go back to. Oh well, I use D.T.A anyway.
Opera needs to get a new PR team, as Mozilla is generating so much hype it's not funny. Almost like the 9.5 release was a bugfix release, as far as hype goes.
Need an automatic screenshot taker? Try here.
I'm using all three of them right now.
And here I thought Firebird and Thunderbird were related to the cars. Maybe it's just my slashdot nature of trying to find car analogies for everything...
I fail to see how milk comes into this.
Easiest thing to do: locate your profile folder. Make a copy of it (or zip file, or tar archive, etc.) Upgrade to Firefox 3, and then if you don't like it, you can copy the original profile back after you uninstall.
and what about the memory management problems .. :)
davecb5620@gmail.com
"Whenever we're asked "when is Firefox going to be released" we endeavor to answer to the best of our abilities, but the truth of the matter is that we'll only ever ship "when it's ready". We have a lot of indicators that help us understand when the product is ready for release: feedback from our pre-release milestones, excitement in the community and the press, availability of compatible Add-Ons, and a large active beta community helping us ensure that the release is compatible with all the various sites on the Internet."
C'mon. We have a new admin who is of the steadfast belief that NO beta-ware should be on machines except for compatibility testing. Anyone else should not be using beta-ware. That bugs me, as we ALL know that marketing deadlines make profit-drive/investor-backed companies release SHITWARE under a 1.0 or 1.1 or some moniker of "READY".
Mozilla, if you want to avert CIOs and IT admins who GENERALLY WOULD accept or permit use of FF in the office, you NEED to release more frequently and in batches that cover he easy bug kills. Making 3.x wait for SOOOOO long after 2.xx is crippling to those of us who want a blessed, ready incremental release we can feel safe (and be permitted) using. The diffs tween 2.x and 3.x are too tempting to ignore. If FF were to be non-released for, say 6 more months, it would be QUITE demoralizing to me to be denied using it at work.
Please, please consider modifying your release definition and make FF release more palatable as far as security and IT policies go.
Thanks!
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
Close -- the BIOS maker was planning an embedded browser, which was pretty much vaporware at the time, but they insisted that Mozilla change the name anyway.IIRC, the BIOS maker Phoenix had an embedded browser, so Mozilla's "Phoenix Browser" was considered misleading.
The funny thing is that by the time they actually shipped a product (5 years later), it ended up being an embedded Linux environment... running Firefox.
So, will it support NoScript, AdBlock (with filterset.g) and FlashBlock? If not then I'll be waiting. Those are about the only things that make FF better than Opera or IE, IMO. In fact, I think they should be built right into FF.
Except that the whole point of add-ons is to allow you to have a lightweight browser, with the user deciding what features he wants.
what a shame. The browser is faster but I want my Google toolbar.
How can a question about the subject of the story be offtopic?
I've been loving Firefox 3 but all my bookmarks are in google toolbar. I can't convert at work until google toolbar works with Firefox 3. Shouldn't Google, who invests plenty with Mozilla, already have a working toolbar?
I think it's sad that in the USA only 183,614 people have pledged to download FF3 when the population is well over 300,000,000... Or are you too busy with the Elections?
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
It may be great for Microsoft, but on Linux FF3 suffers from horrible font rendering. This is because of Cairo, and my impression (although I am not a programmer) is that this problem is not going to be fixed any time soon.
But firefox broke the birds theme. Firebird, Thunderbird, Sunbird. They should have called it something consistent.
Not a sentence!
http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/flashblock-for-opera-9
NoScript is built in, as far as I can tell what it does. You can turn off javascript and such globally, and allow particular domains. However, this conflicts with the opera flashblock, because it uses userjs, and if it's blocked...
Subscribable adblock lists are not available as far as I know, though. At least not in an easily-done form.
You just need the development build of Tab Mix Plus. Go to the Firefox Add-on page for Tab Mix Plus, click on all comments, and look at the first few. A link to the dev version should be there. I have been using it for a while, works great.
Havoc Penington, the bane of my Linux desktop.
The OS X interface is pretty awful with respect to conforming to Macintosh interface standards. I would guess that I noticed at least a dozen errors within four minutes of use.
Judging from NoScript's behavior and the description of Flashblock, NoScript will enable all flash objects when scripting is allowed from a site, but Flashblock allows selective enabling of flash objects.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
1) Edit this key: browser.urlbar.maxRichResults and set the value to 5 or 6 (or even 0).
2) Most importantly create this key: browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped Type: Boolean Value: trueThe Awesomebar will now behave almost like the FF2 addressbar.
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They should have spent 30 seconds Googling the potential name before renaming it, therefore picking a name originally that didn't conflict with any other software projects. Instead of just fumbling around and renaming it twice in a few months.
But water under the bridge.
Comment of the year
~1% desktop market share=not news.
That pretty much covers it.
Yeah, if they can't figure out how to start with at least 50% market share then don't bother trying at all!!
Long live IE!!
To the people who claim Adblock/Flashblock are deal-breakers, I've found a combination of the F12 quick menu to disable plug-ins/java/gif-animation, plus a custom hosts file that redirects doubleclick and the like, works quite nicely.
I mostly like Opera because navigating forward/back pages and between tabs is near-instant and can be done with simple keystrokes (Z&X, 1&2). There are tons of other shortcuts that help as well. I'm a madman on eBay and forum sites, plowing through stuff faster and more easily than I could with anything else. My Slashdot un-productivity is fantastic.
I also like that I don't have to deal with finding/installing/updating all sort of plugins on every machine I use. Opera has most, though not all, admittedly, of what I want built in.
To each his/her own, naturally, but Opera is well worth, er, exploring...
FIXME: Add a sig here
Been using it without problems on Ubuntu. I installed it via Firefox and not apt-get.
It does. Actually, it didn't work for me when I installed ABP using synaptic, but did when I went to the add-on site.
Those who would give up liberty to obtain working drivers, deserve neither liberty nor working drivers.
Interesting. I recalled for suite products, it needed /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. :(
...
"Why is it impossible to install Adblock Plus into a SeaMonkey profile?
Unfortunately, Adblock Plus requires an XPCOM component to function and as of now SeaMonkey does not support installing these components into profile directory (bug 45701). Profile installation is only possible for extensions that don't need to install an XPCOM component. This will change with SeaMonkey 2.0 when the extension installation system from Firefox will be ported over to SeaMonkey..." from http://adblockplus.org/en/faq_install
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You might like this extension.
Unfortunately, not updated for 3.0, but it might work anyway if you force it, but I haven't tried it.
upon the advice of my lawyer, i have no sig at this time
I very much wonder how many people here get this joke.
upon the advice of my lawyer, i have no sig at this time
Were you using Firefox or a Mozilla suite product like SeaMonkey?
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"Mirror Mirror," in the rehabilitation chamber alternate Spock's orders put him into? That was one of them most eery, unnerving, realistic performances of pain in ST:TOS...
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
Alas, the great joy did not last long, as the wicked Firebird Database Server users started to complain.
The amusing thing is the firebird database server had also previously been called phoenix.
note: i'm known as plugwash most places but i screwd up registering that here somehow in the past and now can't register
Sorry to burst the bubble, but I've been living with the Firefox RC on Fedora 9. It has this habit of saturating the harddrive regularly and locking up until whatever it is doing has finished. Like for a minute or more. Often. It is so bad as to be almost unusable.
This is the least usable version of Mozilla since, well, forever.
I think the Firefox guys need to stop the press releases and actually fix these kind of show stoppers before shipping.
CTRL + ENTER => appends .COM .NET .ORG
.CX instead.
.COM <----------<<<< This is your choice obviously.
SHFT + ENTER => appends
CTRL + SHFT + ENTER => appends
I wonder where this is configurable? I might want to map one of these to
BTW, I do like this for fast browsing:
CTRL L
CTRL + ENTER => appends
so.. why do I have it right now? http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/6682/ff3gb5.png it's mine the real 3?
Ubuntu hasn't updated to the RCs.
Cool. I will have to try again later on. It didn't for me over a year ago.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
NoScript?
I have that feature in Opera just by pressing F12!
We are Turing O-Machines. The Oracle is out there.
The easiest thing to do is download the PortableApps installation of FF3
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test
I am a big fan of Opera and was initially very disappointed with the 9.5 version that came out today. Much of non-trivial rendering was broken (for example, the chats in Gmail Chat were totally messed up.) I couldn't believe that my beloved Opera delivered such a turd. It was very very disappointing.
For some reason I decided to uninstall Opera, remove my profile and try again. This this time it started to work and WORKS GREAT. I guess there's something in my profile that's been there for years (it's my original config going back years...) that somehow messed up 9.5
So heads up. If Opera 9.5 works weird for you, try running on a clean profile.
-E
http://ed.markovich.googlepages.com
Firefox 3 Is DABOMB folks. Download it, USE it.
JT
http://www.FireMe.To/udi
Hey, when I found out I had to throw my fox onto the fire! (Argh argh argh!)
How many months of active development and it still cannot copy styled text on OS X. Yawn.
Be as you would have the world become.
Why the urge to hijack this? Could have just made another news bit. Also has Opera stopped being proprietary yet? If not, I don't really care.
Copyright infringement is "piracy" in the same way DRM is "consumer rape"
Additionally, "Firefox" is a neat play on "foxfire", which is a ghostly luminescence in the forest at night, and has also become associated with grassroots efforts to preserve and enhance Appalachian folk craft. Whether this was intentional or not, it adds another layer of nuance to the name.
All these people whining about speed. It's down to really small amounts now, does it really matter that much? Also, does Opera have quite the same userbase and community when it comes to extensions or plugins, which most people get Firefox for. *cricket* *cricket* No, I didn't think so. Adblock? Greasemonkey? ... No?
Ignore these two fools, who try to say that the "easiest thing to do" is to dig around your directory structure and otherwise manipulate files by hand, and to download some third-party version.
Easiest thing to do, no shit, is to use Firefox's built-in profile manager, which is already present in the Firefox binary you have on disk. Just start Firefox with the -profilemanager argument.
Download portable firefox if you want to try it out without any risk. But you'll need to configure it from scratch.
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test
The other method would be to back up all your settings (one folder C:\Documents and Settings\$USER\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\$random.default IIRC). Then install the regular RC.
My cat's name is mittens....
There are some nice graphics for the launch. Where can I get SVG versions for making my own fliers and posters? No. JPEG does not count.
Or else, where are some official A6, A4 or A3 sized posters?
Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.
I'm getting a blazingly fast 0.01KB/s download speed from their site right now, when I'm not constantly getting disconnected, over our T1.
/sarcasm
I'm impressed already.
If I can't get this thing soon, I'm going to give up trying. I was only downloading it to see what all the fuss was about.
Move all sig!
Still no Google love for Firefox 3 but I found a cool addon toolbar name Groowe. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/534 it has all the known toolbar's in one and you can add more if needed. It has a drop down menu to change between toolbar's.
Was it a firegoat?
2.0 was a real memory pig, and my 512MB system was paging all the time. 3.0beta5 seemed to be much tighter, and my system behaved a lot better. Then I did two things - updated to 3.0rc1, and added gig of memory. FF is now using a lot more memory than it did under beta5. Not sure if it's a change in usage between the two versions, or if it's simply using more memory because more is available.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
They do have a working toolbar, and they released it this weekend! Note that the new version seems to require firefox 3.0, as it works fine under rc3 on windows, but does not install (and messes up the extensions window if forced to install) under beta5 on fedora 9.
god knows why I'm reading a 3 day old post, let alone replying to it, but Opera has an excellent content blocker that's exeptionally easy to use and plugins and scripts can be disabled with menu options no more than a press of f12 and a mouseclick away.
Although the installer caused me some hassles because of user access priviledges (or lack thereof) at work I am totally blown away by how great some of the features in Opera 9.5 are. The history search is incredibly useful and fast, and although Opera has had search shortcuts from the address bar for ages, I love them even more now I can just type words or phrases that I remember from reading a page and get back to that page pretty fast. No more trawling through a list of pages.
Still, I'm looking forward to seeing what FF3 has in store. It's going to have to do a lot to make me switch, but I have several browsers installed at once and use FF a bit too, though I can't be bothered at all with the plugins since Opera supports most of the stuff I'd want to use natively and still manages to come in a 6mb package.
It's June 17th and it doesn't seem to be released.
Well, it's 10:20AM (2AM GMT) and firefox 3 still isn't available for download.
This link, however, exists: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US