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Comments on ‘Firefox version 3 makes beta’New features for the brave, or foolhardyPublished Tuesday 20th November 2007 11:38 GMT
Let's hope...By Anonymous Coward
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 12:16 GMT
... that they can make it more stable than 2 has been of late, it's been absolute dross lately, I know no end of people who have the same problems - pauses, ignoring clicks on links, crashing. Firefox v OperaBy Anonymous Coward
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 12:57 GMT
"More than two million lines of code have been changed and 11,000 issues fixed" And how many thousand new features copied from Opera, I wonder... Looks like Firefox 2.5 to me...By Nigel
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 12:58 GMT
Just installed this on a test rig (I happened to have one running... Im not THAT much of a fanboy ;-) ) and it got to say that apart from a star at the end of the address bar there is SOD ALL difference in the GUI. So if there if no difference to the front end, and its all bug fixes / security updates then surely its just a point release? (note - not necessarily a bad thing) Mozilla - Dont go down the IE route of throwing in the kitchen sink for the hell of it. Performance Boosts!By Duncan Branley
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 13:08 GMT
Whoot. FF2 has gotten rather bloaty as the updates have rolled in, would've switched to opera ages ago but some extensions I just can't live without. Roll on stable(ish) beta! Hope the memory leaks are fixedBy Smell My Finger
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 13:17 GMT
Although I really like Firefox the memory leaks are cripplingly bad and this needs urgent attention. Web browsers really don't need any more features so I hope they focus as much attention on its resource usage as possible. TabsBy Richard Large
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 13:37 GMT
Generlaly, I've been quite happy with firefox... as long as I can switch off the tabs, I'll more than likely be happy with this one. 300 memory leaks fixed?By Tony Chandler
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 13:44 GMT
Now I'm no expert, but isn't that a lot of leaks to have had in the first place? Not slagging it off or anything, but are other browsers likely to have that many leaks? Sold ...... to the Quiet Fella Scanning the BarBy amanfromMars
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 13:47 GMT
Crikey Crumbs .... Goodies from Google and Such Sweet Sublime Temptation. :-) How could One possibly Resist. @Well EndowedBy b166er
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 14:51 GMT
Richard, how can you make a comment like that without explaining it? Why the hell would you want to turn off tabs? Do you still have a 2-button mouse without a scrollwheel? Get a grip man ;p MinefieldBy Jon Brindley
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 14:53 GMT
I've been using this for most of the year. It's had some ups and downs along the way, with some features being removed about an hour or two after being put in. Still seems to take up a lot of memory though. Oh, and it's gone onto second beta. CrapBy Anonymous Coward
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 15:40 GMT
Firefox has been crap lately, crashing on all sorts of things for me. I started using Internet Explorer again recently for some websites but the main thing I miss is the instant search when you start typing although I managed to find a plugin for IE7 which kind of emulates the same functionality. Reg Authors Make Me WonderBy Thorin
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 15:46 GMT
Do these guys really know anything about technology? "The Beta 1 is clearly marked for testing purposes only, but when installed will overwrite any existing Firefox installation (unless you're doing something clever with virtualisation or similar)." Ya because compared to virtualisation it is complete and utter rocket science for someone to do a custom install and place it in a different directory.....I know I'm break it out in sweat just thinking about it. crashing???By Andy
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 16:25 GMT
if your PC is crashing using firefox get a decent OS.... works fine on my macbook pro :oP er..By Dougal
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 19:59 GMT
well I do have a decent os - linux, and firefox crashes on there too... :-p Firefox crashingBy Bartelby
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 20:32 GMT
Don't go to the extreme measure of moving to IE - just stop using Yahoo! Mail @ ThorinBy KDogg
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 20:37 GMT
I'm not sure how the install works on linux but I can guarantee that on windows nt based o/s the data for your history, cookies, bookmarks, and passwords are stored in a specific spot in your user folder inside the doc and settings folder and a custom install does not give you the option to change that. Therefore, there is a pretty good chance that info would get written over even if you do a custom install. FF and TB ? No Problems hereBy Ian Emery
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 21:01 GMT
Not had a problem other than the memory leaks since before 2.001 came out, and that was cured by doing a fresh install instead of an overwrite,so what are you all whinning about? Its a first BETA FFS how can someone have been using if for a year without access to a time machine or been part of the development team?? Not had any site outside of microshits own give me any problems, trouble with a porn site perhaps?? I have had malicious code crash good old Naviscope, but nothing has affected anything beyond that; mind you I use NoScript and ABP all the time. get a grip people!!! I came, I saw, I could've cared less...By Anonymous Coward
Posted Tuesday 20th November 2007 22:53 GMT
>More than two million lines of code have been changed and 11,000 issues fixed Oooh, nice math. I guess that leaves the potential for there only being 1,989,000 lines that contain all new bugs. Lovely. V3? Really? Why? Do we need another pointless browser version war like the old IE/Netscape V2 vs. V3 vs. V4 vs. V5? I remember not even paying attention to new browser versions for a couple years when that happened. Funny, I seem to be doing it again. Am I the only person that could care less? The period for commenting on this story has finished
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