Mozilla Firefox 3 Features Screencast

An anonymous reader points to a mention at MozillaZine of "a screencast by Mozilla developer Mike Beltzner, demonstrating some of the new features in Mozilla Firefox 3, which is due out very soon. Weighing in at under four minutes, the screencast gives a concise overview of why you should be excited about Firefox 3. Due to its visual nature, the screencast shows Firefox's features far more clearly than the many written previews that have been published. A picture really is worth a thousand words."

Re:Grr sidebar history

[maxume]

Ctrl+H is shorter than Ctrl+Shift+H, and it opens the history in the sidebar on FF3 here. Of course, I don't remember what FF2 did.

Re:One of the most interesting new features

[diegocgteleline.es]

Guess what? It works fine here, and I bet that it also works for everyone using ff3, except you, for some reason (maybe your setup is broken?). I know because breaking gmail would be a very serious showstopper for ff3, and nobody has complained.

And not only it works, it works really well and the performance improvements in ff3 are so great that the speed different is noticeable.

The idiots amongst us

[tqft]

test this stuff for the rest of you

I haven't had any real problems and flash and gmail work well for me and more importantly my wife who if she can't get her jokes and animations gets cranky with me.

Those of a DBA bent or with frequent bookmarking habits may want to look at the SQLite extension to manage the SQLlite db.

When FF3 is released - am upgrading to 3.1 to make life hell for myself for a month or two.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008060222 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre ID:2008060222

Re:Addons

[WiFiBro]

Firebug works for me, check it's homepage.
There's a recipe for overriding the compatibility check for add-ons.

The way for to force FF3.0.pre to accept all your add-ons, EVEN if they may NOT BE GOOD for FF3:
I have no idea how this procedure could create havoc but since you're evading proper procedures, well.. better backup your profile and whatnot.
Download the *.xpi file from a reliable source.
Rename it to *.zip
Open the zipfile.
Edit file install.rdf so maxVersion reads 3.0pre

[em:maxVersion]3.0pre[/em:maxVersion]

To evade the security check for modifications to files in the packet, delete the META-INF directory. Yes. ugly.
Rezip the files. Rename to .xpi
Open in Firefox.

Another tip: to get rid of "awesome" with the "oldbar" add-on :). I am better at remembering urls.

Re:awesomebar

[WiFiBro]

You're so lucky, it's there already! Look for "oldbar".

Re:Grr sidebar history

[Anonymous Coward]

in that case you typing "sla" should be good for most of your needs. If you need more reliable method then I suggest you use "keywords." open bookmark manager, right-click on the bookmark and set its keyword. next time you type the keyword and hit enter it will take you to the bookmarked site.

I have set "/." as the keyword for slashdot. it is a quick one-hand operation. takes a fraction of a second.

I found the awesome bar annoying for about a week but now I can't live without it. The best part is that you don't have to remember the domain name. You can match by any part of URL or by page title. To me that is awesome.

Re:Addons

[Anonymous Coward]

um u do know there is an about:config override and the nightly tester tools addon does it to? a lot less effort i think

Re:Addons

[speilberg0]

I'd suggest you check the firebug releases page [getfirebug.com]. They appear to have released a version that supports firefox 3 (1.2b3 so far). Not sure how buggy it is at the moment, but from what i recall about firebug 1.0.5 under ff3, this can't be too bad.

Re:Google reporting

[Anonymous Coward]

The browser periodically downloads a list of known malware sites from Google (same source as the list of phishing sites). If you press the 'Why was this site blocked?' button, it takes you to the relevant report at StopBadware.org [stopbadware.org] (which is supported by Google). It doesn't send every URL you visit to Google (the phishing protection in Firefox 2 had an option to do that for real-time checking but it's been removed in version 3 because no-one used it and it was too resource intensive).

Re:Treadmill Kittens

[urcreepyneighbor]

watching treadmill kittens on You Tube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVjzd320gew [youtube.com]

Re:Wow, actually creates interest

[miro f]

it's called browser history, and every browser has it. You can, of course, quickly erase your tracks by pressing ctrl-shift-delete. The site info gives you information in the hopes of being able to identify the site you are visiting. If it looks like your usual site but firefox says you've never visited it before, then you might get suspicious.

Also telling you if it stores cookies and being able to quickly see those cookies is fantastic, imo.

Re:Grr sidebar history

[aussie_a]

Ctrl+H is shorter than Ctrl+Shift+H, and it opens the history in the sidebar on FF3 here. Of course, I don't remember what FF2 did.

Crtl+H opens up the history in the sidebar on FF2. Its hardly new.

Re:Grr sidebar history

[Tofflos]

Sticking to the theme (established above) of what happens when you type "sl" to get to Slashdot, the first suggestion for me is actually Slashdot, but the second suggestion is a porn page. This has been bothering me for weeks.

A little known trick: Pressing delete when the offending address is highlighted will remove it from the browsers' history.