Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday

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 is faster

it was released today

Re:opera is faster

I don't know why this was modded troll, Opera is faster and it was released today. "Faster" is a value judgment I suppose, but can I mod the article troll because it called Firefox "the best browser, period"?

Re:opera is faster

Opera is faster, but my computer is so fast that you really can't tell the difference much...

Yeah? Well my computer is so fast that it loads pages before I request them.

Oh, who am I kidding? [sobs]

Zoom

I've been using the RC, and must say the memory issues that the Mozilla developers have tried to claim never existed, are almost nonexistent now. The only tiny thing I don't like is the Text Size function which is now called "zoom", and is sucky.

Re:Zoom

View->Zoom
Check off "text zoom only"

Re:Zoom

Check off: We are looking for Nuclear wessels...

Re:Zoom

That's because now it really acts as zoom: it doesn't resize only the text, but the images too (though this can be configured), as opposed in FF2 where only the text would change size, and thus the "Text size" terminology made more sense.

Re:Zoom

Yes. Apparently it's especially annoying when you are demonstrating something to a client and they get to see all the websites you were exploring the night before...

Re:Zoom

I just wish there was a way to revert the 'Awesome Bar' to the standard address bar that FF2 had (with no automatic searching, just url matching), because I hate the new functionality.

Of course there's a way. There's an extension. :) [mozilla.org]

From that page:

Note that the underlying autocomplete algorithm is the Firefox 3 algorithm, not the Firefox 2 algorithm. oldbar only affects the presentation of the results.

Its the algorithm that I want to disable completely.

speaking of releases

I just released a brown trout in the 3rd floor men's room. The toilet seems to be broken (or "beta" as us googlers call it), so you might want to avoid the middle stall.

What about the fsync problem?

Will it be fixed in 3.0, or will I have to wait for 3.1? See, I use Linux and my partitions are ext3. The fsync issue affects me.

Re:What about the fsync problem?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421482 [mozilla.org]

This is probably it.

I'm waiting.

I'm waiting until flash is ready and all of my addons work with Firefox 3, it's only half a browser without them

Re:I'm waiting.

Don't wait, contact the developers! Each add-on developer works independently from the rest of the system. I assumed my extension worked fine in 3.0 and was going to wait until FF3 became finalized, but I received enough comments and issues from beta users that I went and updated mine and continued to update the versions so that it would work with all of the betas and RCs. If there's an extension you need, email the authors and hound them to update it asap.

Re:I have firefox 3.0 beta

So what do you want? A cookie?

Re:I have firefox 3.0 beta

So what do you want? A cookie?

Free cookie, visit Google [google.com]

Re:I have firefox 3.0 beta

Firefox is the best browser out there and it is the only one I will ever allow in my house

I don't, it sheds hair all over the couch and chases my pet firehen.

Re:I have firefox 3.0 beta

It was originally called Firebird, a reference to the Phoenix [wikipedia.org] and the idea that the app was born from the ashes of Netscape. They changed it after receiving complaints from the Firebird database [firebirdsql.org] people, keeping the "fire" and swapping out the animal. I assume the fox was chosen for the alliteration and for the image of the fox as being scrappy and independent. Fireslug just doesn't have the same ring...

Re:I have firefox 3.0 beta

> I wonder how they came up with the name Firefox?

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:I have firefox 3.0 beta

If you thought it was so good, wouldn't you have upgraded to the release candidate weeks ago instead of continuing to use the beta? :)

Re:I have firefox 3.0 beta

Firefox is the best browser out there and it is the only one I will ever allow in my house and I even have the thumb drive version.

This is when a 'fanboi' mod would come in handy.

Re:smaller memory footprint

It doesnt use the native widgets. It uses its own widgets and then it paints them so that they look like they were native (other browsers also do this)

Re:Opera 9.5 released today

Opera 9.5 was just released today, however on slashdot we have an article about how Firefox will release on Tuesday... nice...

Re:I was expecting more to see Opera 9.5 news...

Funny thing is, only opera has the /. easter egg in it... Yep, type /. in the address bar to come here. Talk about cool easter eggs...

Re:Addons

NoScript, Adblock Plus (w. Filterset.G) and FlashBlock are supported in the current 3.0pre Firefox, so they'll work in the final build. Checking Mozilla's addons [mozilla.org] website isn't that hard, really.