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Firefox 3
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:27 pm
by robbage
If you use Firefox, like it, but don't follow the news, read this
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=23871
Essentially, Firefox 3.0 release version official availability date is 17th. That's today. It isn't there yet, but it's only 5.30 am USA time as I type.
My personal opinion is that it rocks my socks (although I think the new toolbar style is fugly.. but that's what skins are for). If you use some obscure add-ons that you can't do without, you might want to check if they have been updated to be compatible first.
Also, read the bit about Guinness World record. Maybe you want to help out.
If you're
still using Internet Exploder then Firefox is the cure
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:01 pm
by yorky
2nd'ed. ANYTHING but IE.
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:15 pm
by vk6hgr
Firefox is all I use
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:13 pm
by Bonez
Same with me. I did away with windows and IE a long time ago. I use Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (64 bit) and have been running the Firefox 3 beta for quite some time. Can't wait for the final release to come out, and hopefully more addons will be supported and I won't be forced to use the nightly tester tools
I've made my pledge to download, and I don't see why they will fail on a world record!
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:51 pm
by robbage
Release candidate 3 is very stable. The only bug I've noticed is artefacts in the status bar some times. In the meantime, here's an update:
http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/in ... -10am-pdt/
Available at 1700 UTC which is 1am our time I believe. I won't be waiting up
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:01 pm
by Turbo
I will be up all night
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:22 am
by robbage
OpenOffice.org 3 is in beta and due out in Sept as well. With a proper OSX version WOO
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:40 pm
by Smithy
ive been using firefox 3.0 for weeks now
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:21 pm
by Tyranus
First thing I did this morning apart from sleeping in to hopefully get rid of this cold before it sets in was download FF3...working sweet! displaying everything 100% except for the work portal but meh it's only a little stretched! No problems at yet though with the display of WARSUG or facebook
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:03 pm
by robbage
Working well on XP. Looks damned fine on OSX. About to find out on KDE.
(That would be a beta version or release candidate, Smithy)
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:54 pm
by Toottoot
Bookmarks toolbar still doesn't break to make multiple rows. Hopefully the old hack still works.
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:22 pm
by Bonez
Some FF plugins that are most certainly worth a mention:
DownThemAll!
Foxmarks Bookmark Syncronizer
Adblock Plus
I use all of these daily and they are awesome.
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:24 pm
by Smithy
robbage wrote:Working well on XP. Looks damned fine on OSX. About to find out on KDE.
(That would be a beta version or release candidate, Smithy)
rito its clear i know nothing bout computer software haha
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:25 pm
by Toottoot
Tab Mix Plus used to be worthwhile. CA made a link detective thing which was utter crap. It gives you the address of the website owner but would stick on the screen so when you switched to another program the address was always in front of everything.
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:26 pm
by Turbo
Get PicLens, its awesome for viewing pictures and videos