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Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-love-daft-punk dept.

ink writes "Mozilla has released the third beta for Firefox 3.1 (which may become Firefox 3.5). This beta includes the new location bar, Mozilla's new JavaScript engine Tracemonkey, new HTML5 features and many other enhancements. It looks the same on the surface, but there are many changes under the hood."

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  1. Re:Microsoft by twotailakitsune · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Stop WINE'ing about Linux!!!

  2. Hey Mark, How's It Feel To Be Humiliated By MS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not feeling so smug anymore are you Firefox devs?

    You had years to get your shit together and fix the stinking pile of shit that is the Firefox code base. Instead you clowns sat around in forums running your mouths off and flaming anyone who dared complain about the absurd resource leak and performance rot problems with Firefox.

    So while you sat on your asses, Microsoft has gotten their shit together and Google has come out with a technological masterpiece with Chrome.

    So now both Chrome and IE 8 have modern preemptively threaded and memory protected tab architectures and Firefox is the same stinking pile of monolithic shit it was years ago. One tab crashes, everything goes down. One tab sucking up performance, the entire UI degrades in performance, one tab leaves behind leftover memory and other resources and it never goes away until you quit the entire app.

    Congrats retards!

    Why don't you dimwits go grab the Chrome source and see how a modern browser is written. Dump the piece of shit Gecko layout engine that no one but you wants. And learn how a modern app implements threading and memory protection.

    Don't worry, the Google guys working on Chrome are very friendly and will help you out with the hard to understand bits you Firefox devs obviously are too incompetent to handle.

  3. Re:Great by Richard_at_work · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nah, I just switched to Safari, thankyou very much.

  4. PPL still use FF? by Sun.Jedi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1. Speed: Slowest browser on the planet.
    2. Reliability: 1 tab crashes, they all crash -- and they will crash, guaranteed.
    3. Coolness: FF is like a fat girl or a moped ... fun to ride until your friends see you on one.

    I do like the massive plugin support, themes and such, but eye candy doesn't make up for the reasons I don't use FF anymore. I'm using Chrome right now, and on my work PC I am stuck with Windows, but I was able to get IE8, which seems (very subjectively) more robust to me.

    Its a web browser, not the holy grail of computing. Its no more important, in the big picture, than an IM client.

    Yep, I fully expect to be modded down for stating my sure to be very unpopular opinion here.