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Firefox 3 Release Candidate available
| From: | Mike Beltzner <beltzner-AT-mozilla.com> | |
| To: | "dev. planning" <dev-planning-AT-lists.mozilla.org>, announce-AT-lists.mozilla.org, support-firefox-AT-lists.mozilla.org | |
| Subject: | Firefox 3 Release Candidate is available for download! | |
| Date: | Sun, 18 May 2008 00:37:01 -0400 | |
| Message-ID: | <EA03AE7F-013A-449E-A6C2-8337C1DA9E95@mozilla.com> |
* follow-up / reply-to: mozilla.dev.planning or dev-planning@lists.mozilla.org
[Please note: The Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a public preview
release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It
includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance,
memory usage and speed. We recommend that you read the release notes
and known issues before installing this release.]
The first Firefox 3 Release Candidate is now available for download.
This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided
by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox
3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3
Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on
irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso.
New features and changes in this milestone:
* Improvements to the user interface based on user feedback,
including changes to the look and feel on Windows Vista, Windows XP,
Mac OS X and Linux.
* Changes and fixes for new features such as the location bar
autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom, and others,
based on feedback from our community.
* Fixes and improvements to platform features to improve security,
web compatibility and stability.
* Continued performance improvements: changes to our JavaScript
engine as well as profile guided optimization continues to improve
performance over previous releases as measured by the popular
SunSpider test from Apple, and in the speed of web applications like
Google Mail and Zoho Office.
You can find out more about all of these features in the "What's New"
section of the release notes.
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/3.0rc1/releasenotes
Testers can download the Firefox 3 Release Candidate builds for
Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in over 45 different languages from:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-rc.html
Developers should also read the Firefox 3 for Developers article on
the Mozilla Developer Center:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Firefox_3_for_develo...
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Note: Please do not link directly to the download site. Instead we
strongly encourage you to link to this Firefox 3 Release Candidate
announcement so that everyone will know what this milestone is, what
they should expect, and who should be downloading to participate in
testing at this stage of development:
http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/05/16...
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Firefox 3 Release Candidate available
Posted May 19, 2008 15:56 UTC (Mon) by cine (subscriber, #5597) [Link]
This has got to be the most unstable mozilla since the early 1.0's :( Been running with beta and alphas for a very long time, and this is the only one that insists crashing within 5 min of usage in a highly irregular fashion so that it is impossible to know what you shouldnt do.
Firefox 3 Release Candidate available
Posted May 19, 2008 17:55 UTC (Mon) by Thue (subscriber, #14277) [Link]
Do you happen to have the firebug beta plugin installed? I had lots of crashes until I disabled that.
Firefox 3 Release Candidate available
Posted May 19, 2008 18:48 UTC (Mon) by alspnost (subscriber, #2763) [Link]
Are you sure about that? I've had no problems with it since Beta 4, on both Ubuntu and WinXP. Problems must be down to plugins or extensions, with Flash being a prime candidate on Linux....
Firefox 3 Release Candidate available
Posted May 19, 2008 23:47 UTC (Mon) by pdewacht (subscriber, #47633) [Link]
Yes, firefox 3 (beta 5) on amd64 + nspluginwrapper + flash is quite unstable here. Same with gnash. But I never had a crash on a flash-free site.
Firefox 3 Release Candidate available
Posted May 20, 2008 15:08 UTC (Tue) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814) [Link]
I have more or less only positive experiences with FF3. It has been very stable for me. Furthermore it is much faster and uses less ressources.
Firefox 3 - be careful of embarrassing titles
Posted May 19, 2008 16:03 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]
Be careful about browsing in Firefox 3 in presence of others. Some sites use provocative titles (think youtube, blogs etc), and those titles will be prominently shown in the search box if any part of them matches what has been typed so far. Moreover, some webmail systems show the subject in the title, so prepare to see penis enlargement and fake Rolexes all over the place.I rarely needed to remove my browsing history with Firefox 2, but now I have to go if whenever I expect someone to stand behind me.
Firefox 3 - be careful of embarrassing titles
Posted May 19, 2008 17:48 UTC (Mon) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]
Go to about:config and set browser.urlbar.matchonlytyped to true. Unless you've typed in URLs of pages whose titles are embarrassing, rather than following links to get there, or you want to get to a URL you've visited but have never typed, and you want to get there by typing it for the first time, this should solve the problem perfectly (and it works on Firefox 2, and improves the behavior there, too, even without embarrassment to avoid). Note that, if you're on a page that you want to be able to get to again by starting to type the URL and auto-completing, you can go to the URL bar and hit return. Sometimes I think that it would be helpful to have a quick command to set all of the boolean options to the opposite of their default values. It seems like the normal pattern is that, whenever there's a usability flaw in Firefox, someone will fix it, but make the fix require flipping a new option, so that people who are used to the old behavior will not be affected. And options don't get publicized, so people tend not to know how to make the browser behave. Of course, if it's a controversial change, they'll default to the new behavior, so that everybody who hates it has to find the option to get the old behavior back.
Firefox 3 - be careful of embarrassing titles
Posted May 22, 2008 17:13 UTC (Thu) by obrakmann (subscriber, #38108) [Link]
> Go to about:config and set browser.urlbar.matchonlytyped to true. also, install the oldbar extension, which basically returns the location bar to the state of FF2, to get rid of the annoying, useless rich results "feature".
Firefox 3 - be careful of embarrassing titles
Posted May 19, 2008 18:23 UTC (Mon) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]
In about:config, setting browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to zero (0) works for me... I hate autocompletion in almost any form. (Tab completion is another thing entirely. If I *ask* for completion, that's one thing, but to have a piece of code interrupt me because it thinks it knows what I want is really annoying. Especially when it's more often wrong than not.)
Firefox 3 - be careful of embarrassing titles
Posted May 19, 2008 19:53 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]
Autocompletion is not supposed to interrupt you. You should be able to type what you want as if there is no autocompletion. If it doesn't work that way, it's a bug. I've seen that bug in Internet Explorer, but not in any version of Mozilla Firefox.
Firefox 3 - be careful of embarrassing titles
Posted May 19, 2008 20:28 UTC (Mon) by jwb (subscriber, #15467) [Link]
It interrupts you because it runs a SQL query on every keystroke.
Firefox 3 - be careful of embarrassing titles
Posted May 19, 2008 21:42 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Shades of that most misguided of products, Oracle*Mail... ;)
Firefox 3 - be careful of embarrassing titles
Posted May 19, 2008 21:25 UTC (Mon) by mikachu (subscriber, #5333) [Link]
If you disable the dropdown, it seems tabcompletion is completely disabled as well... In fact even with the dropdown enabled if you press tab before it appears, it just switches focus away from the location entry...
Firefox 3 - be careful of embarrassing titles
Posted May 19, 2008 21:31 UTC (Mon) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]
I was actually meaning tab completion in e.g., bash. (shooting for a more general case than
just URL entry.) In addition, the "interruption" I notice is mental--when the completion list
pops up, my brain screeches to a momentary halt ("ah, what's this then?"), and has to rebuild
some context before continuing. It probably has more to do with mild symptoms of attention
deficit than anything else, but since that seems to be fairly common these days, I'm probably
not the only one...
Ubuntu 8.04 Firefox 3.0b5 WORKS GOOD
Posted May 20, 2008 22:28 UTC (Tue) by dulles (guest, #45450) [Link]
Ubuntu 8.04 Firefox 3.0b5 WORKS GOOD I'm amazed after using Mozilla browsers since Redhat 8 (all with major bugs), but the default Firefox 3.0b5 works good on my new Ubuntu 8.04 install. I quit filing bug reports to Mozilla (the bugs are never fixed), but this version works good so far. It doesn't crash (unlike Firefox 2), and the drop-down add password feature is nice.