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Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the let's-get-ready-to-downlooooooad dept.

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.

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  1. Opera 9.5 released today by wile_e_wonka · · Score: 4, Informative

    In other news, Opera 9.5, the other best browser, released today.

    1. Re:Opera 9.5 released today by csimpkin · · Score: 4, Informative

      I think the general idea is that Opera makes money by selling a version for mobile uses. If they release the desktop version as open source, then someone else can port it to mobile platforms and eat into their revenue.

  2. Re:Zoom by Derek+Pomery · · Score: 5, Informative

    View->Zoom
    Check off "text zoom only"

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  3. Re:Zoom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's because now it really acts as zoom: it doesn't resize only the text, but the images too (though this can be configured), as opposed in FF2 where only the text would change size, and thus the "Text size" terminology made more sense.

  4. Re:What about the fsync problem? by Daimanta · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421482

    This is probably it.

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  5. Re:smaller memory footprint by diegocgteleline.es · · Score: 5, Informative

    It doesnt use the native widgets. It uses its own widgets and then it paints them so that they look like they were native (other browsers also do this)

  6. Re:I'm waiting. by Rurik · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't wait, contact the developers! Each add-on developer works independently from the rest of the system. I assumed my extension worked fine in 3.0 and was going to wait until FF3 became finalized, but I received enough comments and issues from beta users that I went and updated mine and continued to update the versions so that it would work with all of the betas and RCs. If there's an extension you need, email the authors and hound them to update it asap.

  7. Re:Addons by tuffy · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  8. Re:I have firefox 3.0 beta by nuzak · · Score: 4, Informative

    > 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.

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  9. Re:Zoom by deroby · · Score: 4, Informative

    ctrl-shift-del is your friend ?

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  10. Re:8.04 Hardy Heron users got it today by MooseMuffin · · Score: 4, Informative

    None of the release candidates identify themselves as release candidates in help/about. You're running RC1.

  11. Re:opera is faster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The problem is, "faster" is absolutely not a value judgment. It's testable and quantifiable, and the claim that Opera is "faster," at least according to one benchmark, doesn't seem to be true. In context, I think maybe he meant "faster to the market" ... in that they got their update out "faster" than the Mozilla foundation did...

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  12. Re:opera is faster by DiarmuidBourke · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, this is somewhat true. With Opera speeddial, my 9 most viewed websites,are loaded before I request them.

  13. Re:opera is faster by bishiraver · · Score: 5, Informative
    That's the HTML rendering engine. That only happens when:
    • The page is loaded
    • The DOM structure is changed
    • A previously visible element is hidden, or vice versa
    • Size of an element changes
    The more important benchmark, especially for applications like google docs and other pseudo-application applications is the rewritten JavaScript engine in Opera 9.5, which is indeed extremely fast.
  14. Re:Zoom by SEMW · · Score: 4, Informative

    IE7 had it first. Actually, I think you'll find that Opera had it several years before either IE7 or Firefox.
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  15. Re:I was expecting more to see Opera 9.5 news... by Zwicky · · Score: 5, Informative

    Create a Slashdot bookmark and set its keyword to '/.' (sans quotes).

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  16. Re:Will Firefox 3 fix the annoying .net bug? by MP3Chuck · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you SHIFT+Enter in the address bar it'll tack a http://www on the front and a .net on the end. It has happened to me accidentally before, but nothing consistent or even remotely frequent...

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  17. Feature: Re:Will Firefox 3 fix the annoying .net? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  18. Re:opera is faster by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Informative

    Coincidentally, Firefox 3 also has a new extremely fast JavaScript engine since beta 5. I'm not sure if it was rewritten from scratch, but it's winning some tests at least.

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  19. Re:opera is faster by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's one of those tests:
    http://flickr.com/photos/nitot/2410514595/sizes/o/

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