A new version of Mozilla's popular Firefox Web browser is ready for download with improved security and memory use as the tiny company takes a stab at Microsoft Corp's dominant Internet Explorer.
The program's creators told Reuters on Thursday that the privately-held company's trial version of Firefox 3 browser is ready for the masses to use after months of development. Until now, the company has discouraged average Internet users from moving on from Firefox 2, which was launched in October 2006.
"In many ways it (Firefox 3) is much more stable than anything else out there," Mozilla Corp Vice President of Engineering Mike Schroepfer said in an interview. Key rivals to Firefox are market leader Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Apple Inc's Safari browser.
News Source: Reuters
The program's creators told Reuters on Thursday that the privately-held company's trial version of Firefox 3 browser is ready for the masses to use after months of development. Until now, the company has discouraged average Internet users from moving on from Firefox 2, which was launched in October 2006.
"In many ways it (Firefox 3) is much more stable than anything else out there," Mozilla Corp Vice President of Engineering Mike Schroepfer said in an interview. Key rivals to Firefox are market leader Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Apple Inc's Safari browser.
News Source: Reuters
- The size of the fonts used for the awesomebar is still being tweaked, but if you mean you actually dislike how the awesomebar works, then I guess you'll have to wait for an extension to implement the old behaviour. (Or there's oldbar extension to make it look like the old way, although it still searches the new way)
- Scroll zooming direction was changed to bring about parity with respect to what other apps do.
Last edited by Cryton on 21 Mar 2008 - 16:14
Anyway, the new location bar is still getting tweaked, and beta5's will hopefully make things a bit better compared to beta4 for those who are learning its power. I say give it a chance
And if you remain dead-set against it, there is an OldBar extension to return it to the old style.
I like it. It is useful to me! I can remember bits and pieces of a thread's title and then add "neowin" to it and go back to a thread that I forgot about. It is a lot more convenient than searching through the history for the right thread!
There not, there going to be fine tuning the theme. it should be better before the final release is out and if you still don't like it change it to another theme.
There's going to be one last beta, beta 5 after that on to RCs leading up to final.
Last edited by Sub_Zero_Alchemist on 21 Mar 2008 - 13:54
There's going to be one last beta, beta 5 after that on to RCs leading up to final.
There is already a nightly-build of beta 5. Search at google. I saw it few days ago.
FF changed the non-standard thinking of Microsoft with IE. IE8 is a proof for that.
Spaghetti-God bless FF.
No it's not out yet, not in the final version. there's one last beta before RCs then final.
They've done a ****ty job on the frontend with the broken interface that they're rushing to release.
They've done a ****ty job on the frontend with the broken interface that they're rushing to release.
You got to be kidding right decent job?? compare to FF2 i say they did a fantastic job.
They've done a ****ty job on the frontend with the broken interface that they're rushing to release.
SOMETHING needs to be buggy and broken, its the law of software
people cried it used to much memory? we can fix that, but first we need to compensate by breaking the interface
its the only way
... Quatto?
... Quatto?
quaid, start the reactor!
... Quatto?
quaid, start the reactor!
I got 5 kids to feed!
How is the interface broken? I like it all so far!
People are too stubborn and want to stay with what works - Mozilla has already proven that what works can be improved upon - so give it a chance and you'll see the improvements.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...y/latest-trunk/
Would you prefer the windows 9x look?
Yes.
Although I probably won't switch to it until ccleaner adds support for it.
It works after turning off compatibility checker.
Here is my list:
Generated: Sun Mar 23 2008 16:17:38 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030317 Firefox/3.0b4
Build ID: 2008030317
Enabled Extensions: [40]
- Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.1.3: http://www.pierceive.com/
- Adblock Plus 0.7.5.3: http://adblockplus.org/
- Auto Copy 0.6.4: http://autocopy.mozdev.org
- Back to Top 5.0: http://customsoftwareconsult.com/extensions
- BBCodeXtra 0.2.5.6: http://bbcodextra.extenzilla.org
- Better Gmail 2 0.3.4: http://www.ginatrapani.org/workshop/firefox/bettergmail2/
- CacheViewer 0.4.5: http://tinybenki.sblo.jp/
- Cooliris Previews 2.6: http://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox%20Cooliris%20Previews
- CustomizeGoogle 0.71: http://www.customizegoogle.com/
- Dictionary Tooltip 1.1.2: http://www.rjonna.com/ext/dictionarytip.php
- Download Statusbar 0.9.6.1: http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/
- DownloadHelper 3.0.3: http://www.downloadhelper.net
- DownThemAll! 1.0: http://downthemall.net/
- Drag de Go 0.2.5.1: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=440259
- FEBE 5.3.1: http://customsoftwareconsult.com/extensions
- FireFTP 0.97.1: http://fireftp.mozdev.org
- Fotofox 1.0.9.2: http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/add-ons/fotofox/firstrun/
- FreeShare Image Uploader 1.0.2: http://www.freeshare.us
- Gmail Space 0.5.92: http://www.getgspace.com/
- Grab and Drag 2.5.0.3: http://grabanddrag.mozdev.org/index.html
- Greasemonkey 0.7.20080121.0: http://www.greasespot.net/
- IE Tab 1.5.20080310: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/1419/
- Image Assistant 0.2.4: https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/morei...sing&id=790
- ImageBot 3.5.4: http://pimpsofpain.com/imagebot.html
- Menu Editor 1.2.3.3: http://menueditor.mozdev.org/
- Minimap Sidebar Extension 0.2.3: http://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox%20M...bar%20Extension
- Mouse Gestures 1.5.2: http://www.mousegestures.org/
- MR Tech Local Install 5.3.2.6: http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/local_install/
- MultirowBookmarksToolbar 1.3: http://space.geocities.yahoo.co.jp/gl/alice0775
- Organize Search Engines 1.1.2: http://maltekraus.de/Firefox/search-tools/
- Organize Status Bar 0.5.2: http://yellow5.us/firefox/osb/
- Password Exporter 1.1: http://passwordexporter.fligtar.com
- Resizeable Textarea 0.1d: http://www.google.com/search?q=Firefox%20R...able%20Textarea
- Resurrect Pages 1.0.8: http://trac.arantius.com/wiki/Extensions/Resurrect
- ScrapBook 1.3.3.1: http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/
- Stylish 0.5.5: http://userstyles.org/stylish/
- Tab Mix Plus 0.3.6.1.080302: http://tmp.garyr.net
- UnPlug 1.6.06: http://unplug.mozdev.org/
- VideoDownloader 1.1.1: http://videodownloader.net/
- Wizz RSS News Reader 2.1.9.8: http://www.wizzrss.com/WizzRss.php
Disabled Extensions: [10]
- Fasterfox 2.0.0: http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/
- Firebug 1.05: http://www.getfirebug.com/
- Fireflix 0.0.6.1: http://kin.klever.net/fireflix/
- Image Zoom 0.3.1: http://imagezoom.yellowgorilla.net/
- McAfee SiteAdvisor 26.5: http://www.siteadvisor.com/
- PicLens 1.6.2.1605: http://www.piclens.com/
- Searchbar Autosizer 1.3.7: http://searchbarautosizer.mozdev.org
- SeoQuake 2.0.11: http://ff.seoquake.com/
- Text to Image 1.3.0: https://sourceforge.net/projects/txt2img/
- Web Developer 1.1.4: http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/
Total Extensions: 50
Installed Themes: [1]
- Firefox (default): http://www.mozilla.org/
Installed Plugins: (13)
- 2007 Microsoft Office system
- AOL Media Playback Plugin
- DivX Player Netscape Plugin
- DivX Web Player
- DivX® Content Upload Plugin
- IE Tab Plug-in
- Java™ Platform SE 6 U3
- JoostPlugin
- MetaStream 3 Plugin
- Microsoft® Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin
- Mozilla Default Plug-in
- Shockwave Flash
- Silverlight Plug-In
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