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Firefox 3 RC1 put out for fiddling with
FIREFOX 3 release candidate 1 has been released in to the wild. Mozzerella reckons it's seen some 14,000 updates including some major reworking on improving performance, stability and code simplification.
The preview release is really just really published to collect feedback from developers and the testing community, before advancing on to the next stage of the whole development process.
Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has undergone some serious development over the past 33 months.
Some of the key features spoken about in this iteration of the browser are: malware protection, new web forgery protection, new SSL error pages, add-ons and plugin version checker, greater anti-virus integration and Vista parental control accessibility.
Items that fall under the more “Easier to Use” category boast: easier password management, a new download manager, resumable downloading, full page zoom, tab scrolling and quickmenus, also better integration with Window, mac and Linux platforms.
Compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office can now run twice as fast in Firefox 3, or so they’ve stated. Several new technologies working together for better memory usage by the application reduce the amount of resources needed by Firefox 3 in a single browsing session, apparently.
Mozilla offers Firefox 3 for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X in a variety of languages all ready for you to try out right now. µ
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So far I haven't had any problems and it uses less system resources (as if it were a problem ,lol). The only thing is that I had to lose my theme but I've found another one. It also seems to be a little faster then Firefox 2. (It may just be me), ^_^

-Nick-
Seamonky is bigger program at 13 gb while firefox 3 is mere 8 gb. Also firefox3 is really 1.2.3 in numbering. In theory started about year ago, suiterunner is 2.0 yet silent.

Seamonkey is 1.1.9 yet it seems best mose for playback of media.(there are bunch more mozillia browser names,too)
drashek
I have no problems with FF3 b5 but 14000 bug fixes sound nice....even though I have not found any of them fF3b5 is rock solid have had no problems with it but ...for the same reason I tried 3b5 I will try rc1, Bcause I can.
I can't complain about FF3rc1. Does what it says on the tin.

But, the vast majority of my extensions are not supported under it. I didn't realise how reliant I was upon them, until I couldn't use them any more.
eg. Google Browser Sync, Google Search, SwitchProxy
>while firefox 3 is mere 8 gb

Sod that - 8gb will take ages to download.

;)
I Mean 13 mb & 8 Mb, Sorry, late night scribble, ditto: seamonky(sic)Hahaha.
I recently tried Beta seaMonkey & learned bit about FRAME BUFFER CORRUPTION, as original 1.1.9 wasn't completely in tune with ultimate till patched. Only real problem for moz is IE7 is 35 mb of software, which just makes it better, yet when IE7 starts to lag or be balkie, Seamonkey usually does job.
Just think, turn on computer, instead of bios splash, ta-da, ubantu or some Linux shortie like mepis. Hack at few add-ons once week & soon you'll be familar with Linux & Windows & How about Apple,too?
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drashek
because it requires newer gimp toolkit, or something...

( no I'm not going to re-attempt it just to find out what it was, gtk 2.10? g-something, with a "10" in it, anyhoo )
Firefox 3.0 is a great update from 2.0, looks much better (on Vista in particular) and I love some of the new features.

Getting a lot of crashes with RC1 though, from simple things such as posting comments on certain websites and using the back button. Hope these get fixed before the final release or it might force me to go to Opera.

Also missing some of my extensions as very few are compatible just yet, but I'm sure that most of the extension developers are working hard to get these done.