New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:
Download: Firefox Beta 5 | 7.2 MB (English)
Link: What's New in Firefox 3
- Improvements to the user interface based on user feedback, including changes to the look and feel on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux.
- Changes and fixes for new features such as the location bar autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom, and others, based on feedback from our community.
- Fixes and improvements to platform features to improve security, web compatabilty and stability.
- Continued performance improvements: changes to our javascript engine as well as profile guided optimization continues to improve performance over previous releases as measured by the popular SunSpider test from Apple, and in the speed of web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office.
Download: Firefox Beta 5 | 7.2 MB (English) Link: What's New in Firefox 3
I think I read somewhere , June 2008
and yes, i think it was June 2008 to as far as the final FF3... cause according to what i read this is the last beta before the RC stages.
Back to beta 4, now working properly.
Also on acid3 beta 5 scores a little more than beta 4.
beta 4 was 67/100
beta 5 was 71/100
Not to mention there are actually decent themes for Firefox (though not many for FF3, granted it's still in beta though). I can't customize IE7, and Opera.. well, finding a decent theme for me was like finding a needle in a haystack honestly, but that's only my opinion and isn't the basis of why I would or wouldn't use Opera anyways. Overall functionality is what I enjoy. Opera for me only offers the performance.
[edit] - Nevermind. They totally just f**ked up the small icons with beta 5. Damn it...
[edit 2] - Whoa.. Neowin has ads...
as far as your extensions i can FORCE em to work
about:config (type that into firefox url and hit enter) then right click and select 'New > Boolean' (for each of em) and then add these...
"extensions.checkCompatibility" (without the " ) (set to false when it asks)
"extensions.checkUpdateSecurity" (without the " ) (set to false when it asks)
then exit the webbrowser and reload it.... that should take care of it
Last edited by ThaCrip on 03 Apr 2008 - 23:42
Not to mention there are actually decent themes for Firefox (though not many for FF3, granted it's still in beta though). I can't customize IE7, and Opera.. well, finding a decent theme for me was like finding a needle in a haystack honestly, but that's only my opinion and isn't the basis of why I would or wouldn't use Opera anyways. Overall functionality is what I enjoy. Opera for me only offers the performance.
[edit] - Nevermind. They totally just f**ked up the small icons with beta 5. Damn it...
[edit 2] - Whoa.. Neowin has ads...
what visual style is that? looks good.
Looks like there's gonna be a beta 6.
just some thoughts
This page every time crashes Firefox on my computer.
This page every time crashes Firefox on my computer.
It didn't crash on mine. In fact, Firefox 3 Beta 5 hasn't crashed at all.
Firefox is faster, snappier, lighter and cooler than ever! I'm on Vista, BTW...
Tho I have my version 2 set up beautifully to my liking, I've hardly opened it as i'm finding FF3 irresistable despite almost none of my addons working
First few things: very nice new functionality to the address bar - including bookmarking and its "smart" powers.
Then and probably most important is THEY FIXED THE F...ING MEMORY LEAKS - i mean REALLY fixed them. I run with a lot of tabs all the time, they now open quickly with only a small memory hit and CPU usage stays really small even hours later.
There's lots more but despite a lot of apprehension this looks like a winner from here.
The Moz FF crew seems to have been pretty conservative with changes but all the changes I've seen seem beautifully implemented and very much part of "the package" giving a very solid feel to the whole thing.
Happens on a few news sites.
I can't replicate the crashes, related to rotating ads? Hit the "wrong" ad and *BAM*
In fact most of the network connection defaults have been increased in beta 5, compared to Firefox 2. You can see them by typing �about:config� in the URL field and searching for �connect�:
network.http.max-connections = 30 (was 24)
network.http.max-connections-per-server = 15 (was 8 )
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy = 8 (was 4)
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 6 (was 2)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=565
but to me, i been a full time Firefox user since just before the 1.0 release a while back and with FF3 making memory usage much better... i dont see ANY reason to change plus it's extensions are great which are overall unmatched... plus i think IE7's interface changed for the worse as the layout changed and you had to relearn everything vs IE6's which is like Firefox so switching to Firefox was easy and straight forward.
I'm generally an Opera user but on OSX I feel that Firefox works better. I really had to download a lot of extensions to get basic Opera functionality into Firefox but it works great now. I still haven't moved to FF3 beta 5 because lots of extensions are totally broken. Hopefully they'll be fixed soon.
I'm generally an Opera user but on OSX I feel that Firefox works better. I really had to download a lot of extensions to get basic Opera functionality into Firefox but it works great now. I still haven't moved to FF3 beta 5 because lots of extensions are totally broken. Hopefully they'll be fixed soon.
dont get me wrong... i think 'overall' IE7 is better than IE6 cause of security etc etc.... i just think when speaking about interfaces alone... i prefered IE6's just cause it was easier to use since everyone knows where the options etc etc are where as with IE7 the layout changed quite a bit and you have to relearn stuff... thats why Firefox is still good cause it's basically like IE6's interface which everyone is familiar with.
However, I am getting behavior where a link opens a new tab that SHOULD be right, but there is nothing displayed. Bug reports filed.
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