Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday 554
unkgoon writes "The Mozilla Developer News blog is reporting Firefox 3 will be released on Tuesday, June 17, 2008, and you're invited to the party! From the website: 'After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we're proud to announce that we're ready. It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th. Put on your party hats and get ready to download Firefox 3 — the best web browser, period.'" Update: 06/12 17:44 GMT by T : Dan100 was among several readers to write with news that, rather than just being announced, "Opera 9.5 has been released today after nearly two years of development. New features include increased speed (particularly in the Javascript engine), Opera Link (browser synchronisation), and a 'sharp' new theme." Dan100 also links to a full changelog from 9.27.
Opera 9.5 released today (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Zoom (Score:5, Informative)
Check off "text zoom only"
Re:Zoom (Score:5, Informative)
8.04 Hardy Heron users got it today (Score:4, Informative)
(no conflicts with beta add-ons)
Re:What about the fsync problem? (Score:5, Informative)
This is probably it.
Re:8.04 Hardy Heron users got it today (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Zoom (Score:3, Informative)
Re:smaller memory footprint (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I'm waiting. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:What about Tabmix Plus? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Addons (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I have firefox 3.0 beta (Score:5, Informative)
It used to be called Phoenix, which was to evoke the whole "rising from the ashes" imagery WRT the (at the time) moribund Mozilla project. The BIOS people didn't like that and asked them to change it, so they renamed it Firebird, which the database people weren't keen on. So finally they came up with Firefox, and it stuck. Better name anyway.
Re:Zoom (Score:5, Informative)
Re:8.04 Hardy Heron users got it today (Score:5, Informative)
Re:smaller memory footprint (Score:4, Informative)
Re:I have firefox 3.0 beta (Score:1, Informative)
Re:8.04 Hardy Heron users got it today (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Addons (Score:3, Informative)
Re:opera is faster (Score:5, Informative)
-AC
Re:Addons (Score:3, Informative)
http://adblockplus.org/en/faq_project#filterset.g [adblockplus.org]
In short: don't use filterset.g. Use Adblock Plus.
Re:Opera 9.5 released today (Score:3, Informative)
Hardly. Firefox has larger market share, is more popular, has more add-ons, is supported more widely even by mainstream non-nerdy websites etc. I use Opera Mini on my phone nearly every day, largely because it's free but also because it's pretty good, but when I decided, years ago, to experiment with a non Internet Explorer browser, I discovered that Opera had ads all over it, and to get rid of them I had to pay. I googled for another one and within seconds had started to download what is now Firefox. Things might have been a little different for Opera if they'd been more realistic about what an acceptable cost for a browser is, but that's just speculation nowadays.
anonymous surfing (Score:1, Informative)
Re:opera is faster (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Can it [properly] handle mailto:? (Score:3, Informative)
IMO getting the handler set up properly shouldn't be nearly this fussy, but it does work; I use it myself.
HTH...
Re:opera is faster (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Zoom (Score:5, Informative)
Re:What about the fsync problem? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:I was expecting more to see Opera 9.5 news... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Will Firefox 3 fix the annoying .net bug? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Opera 9.5 released today (Score:4, Informative)
Pledge map: Can someone explain Poland? (Score:2, Informative)
Gives some fascinating insights on which countries care about Firefox the most... and which countries are playing catch-up with the tubes (well done South America, gogogo Africa!)
Also interesting is the difference between Korea (4000+ pledges) and Japan (43000+) which are both IMHO, two Internet savvy countries. Even without accounting for the difference in size, from my experience, Korea just doesn't seem to care about Firefox (Korean sites are pretty much IE only).
However, the one I don't understand is Poland. Of all the countries in eastern Europe, how come so many pledges come from there? Say even compared to France or the UK?
So, any IT work to be found in Poland? Fast tubes? Yummy zubrovka and women? Can't go wrong with that, really...
Re:Download Record (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Thank you. (Score:3, Informative)
Feature: Re:Will Firefox 3 fix the annoying .net? (Score:4, Informative)
[enter] Takes what you typed in, will assume http:// if not provided
[ctrl+enter] http://www.url.com
[shift+enter] http://www.url.net
[ctrl+shift+enter] http://www.url.org
It's not a bug.
Re:Zoom (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Memory issues (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Will Firefox 3 fix the annoying .net bug? (Score:3, Informative)
I personally really like this feature.
Re:Opera 9.5 released today (Score:4, Informative)
Doesn't work for me either (Score:3, Informative)
However, I'm still on the hunt for a simple about:config setting.
Re:Zoom (Score:3, Informative)
Actually: is Microsoft friends with anybody?
Re:opera is faster (Score:5, Informative)
Re:opera is faster (Score:5, Informative)
http://flickr.com/photos/nitot/2410514595/sizes/o/ [flickr.com]
When is google toolbar going to work with Firefox3 (Score:2, Informative)
Re:opera is faster (Score:3, Informative)
How to get it almost like the FF2 Adress Bar (Score:3, Informative)
1) Edit this key: browser.urlbar.maxRichResults and set the value to 5 or 6 (or even 0).
2) Most importantly create this key: browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped Type: Boolean Value: trueThe Awesomebar will now behave almost like the FF2 addressbar.
Re:I'm waiting. (Score:3, Informative)
Address Bar gTLD Shortcuts (Score:2, Informative)
SHFT + ENTER => appends
CTRL + SHFT + ENTER => appends
I wonder where this is configurable? I might want to map one of these to
BTW, I do like this for fast browsing:
CTRL L
CTRL + ENTER => appends
Re:I have firefox 3.0 beta (Score:2, Informative)
Re:opera is faster (Score:1, Informative)
I hope that Firefox 3 will make this behavior configurable, I don't really like wasting my bandwidth on prefetching, nor do I want to risk "visiting" a bad site without my having actually clicked on it.
Opera 9.5 - Heads Up (Score:2, Informative)
For some reason I decided to uninstall Opera, remove my profile and try again. This this time it started to work and WORKS GREAT. I guess there's something in my profile that's been there for years (it's my original config going back years...) that somehow messed up 9.5
So heads up. If Opera 9.5 works weird for you, try running on a clean profile.
-E
Re:Pledge map: Can someone explain Poland? (Score:4, Informative)
They use it to this day, with an ActiveX control to handle the encryption. Which means you can't use any serious bank site (and can't use a lot of e-commerce sites) in South Korea unless you're using IE on Windows. There is basically no marketshare for Macs or non-IE browsers as a result.