Firefox 3.0 Beta 1

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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.

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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 :)

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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...

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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).

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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.

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