Firefox 3.0 Beta 1

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Not yet announced on the website, but available from releases.mozilla.org: Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 1. The real deal, not a release candidate of the beta.

No release notes or changelog are available at this time.

[Bawx]

Full features/looks?

[torrentthief]

apparently there are still 700 bugs ish that havent been fixed and 120 ish may still be left in 3.0 final:( they should just push the release date back, i dont wanna have to have for 3.02 to get a stable firefox3. im gunna hold off until rc3 or later to give it a whirl.

[speed3okie]

There's nothing in the directories!

[NienorGT]

Heh?

I'm using "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b1) Gecko/2007110904 Firefox/3.0b1" since something like a week, it wasn't officially the Beta 1?

(and directory are empty... :blink: )

[acedriver]

There's nothing in the directories!

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or...es/3.0b1/win32/

[Bawx]

When I opened it and went to Neowin.net, it looked like this. Like the old Neowin, I want Maxthon to do this, but it won't! Can anyone help?

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

There's nothing in the directories!

They're in the process of uploading the beta to all mirrors, so patience.

[NienorGT]

Well, other languages are there, but not en-us :p

[tunafish]

i just use the nightlys lol

[NienorGT]

When I opened it and went to Neowin.net, it looked like this. Like the old Neowin, I want Maxthon to do this, but it won't! Can anyone help?

What Maxton show to you :blink:

[Bawx]

I downloaded it from the EN-US. Whatchutalkinbout?

[torrentthief]

post it on sendspace.com for everyone else who cant wait.

[NienorGT]

Ok, it has shown up. Downloaded it and installed it. But it still "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b1) Gecko/2007110904 Firefox/3.0b1"......

[AmpCoder]

The Georgia Tech Software Library mirror has it available for download.

[giga Veteran]

The Georgia Tech Software Library mirror has it available for download.

:happy:

[Menge]

this beta has a LONG way to go, still....

(looks like crap on Leopard)

[Ayepecks]

this beta has a LONG way to go, still....

(looks like crap on Leopard)

They're working on that. They're trying to make it integrate its looks more into the operating system it's installed on. When they do that, I'll download it.

[Menge]

they already started. that's why it looks crap. cause they started. but haven't yet finished ;)

the toolbar is now unified. but it still doesn't paint in the proper shade of gray. the preferences dialog still doens't have the unified toolbar and the sizing is broken.

places seems like a nice thing, though :)

[GusValentine]

So far, the only differences from 2.0 that I've seen are, it zooms the entire page instead of just the text. Under Tools, Add-ons, Plugins are now listed, which you can disable. Under Tools, Options... Applications, I think I see more apps listed. Otherwise it looks more like a version 2.1 than 3.0... Of course, there may be major changes under the hood.

Oh, yes, and I forgot about the cooler FTP browser...

Edited November 20, 2007 by Gus.

[Simon Veteran]

So far, the only differences from 2.0 that I've seen are, it zooms the entire page instead of just the text. Under Tools, Add-ons, Plugins are now listed, which you can disable. Under Tools, Options... Applications, I think I see more apps listed. Otherwise it looks more like a version 2.1 than 3.0... Of course, there may be major changes under the hood.

Who decided that was a good idea? Did Microsoft or Mozilla even ask anyone who used the text zoom feature if that was better? If the text gets up to a size that's readable to me, I have to scroll sideways to read everything (yes, my eyes suck).

[1Frothy]

So where's the native UI? I'm running it under Vista and it still looks as gross as Firefox 2.x did.

[f0rbez]

All of my plugins work except for the most important one, Gmail Manager :cry:

Everything else looks good though.

[1Frothy]

Wasn't Firefox 3 the major new / uber leet version of Firefox? I don't see anything much new and what is new hardly amounts to a whole version number change.

[Simon Veteran]

Wasn't Firefox 3 the major new / uber leet version of Firefox? I don't see anything much new and what is new hardly amounts to a whole version number change.

It's a new version of Gecko, there's Places, and the new style is coming. It is, despite what it seems at the beta stage, a big update.