Firefox 3.0 Beta 1

[mancode20]

Ok, but I feel a little weird about downloading a program called Stroke It, especially from a person that I assume is a guy. Just kidding! Thanks! I heard about Stroke It awhile back, yet never tried it until my teen years. Thank you, I'll be here all week.

[Crayon]

For the Mac OS X users, you can now get a "beta" of the upcoming default Firefox design as an add-on.

but where do you get that theme... that, is the question. :p

[andrew_f]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6050 :)

[Crayon]

oh thanks, but it's not really the new default theme is it?

[chrisgeleven]

oh thanks, but it's not really the new default theme is it?

It will be the new default theme in Beta 2 for Mac users.

[tiagosilva29]

Requesting feedback on the MathML handling of the following pages: stress.xhtml, stress.xml, torture.xhtml, torture.xml, start.xhtml, texvsmml.xhtml.

Thank you!

[fred65]

I have only played with the new build for a short time, but so far, so good.

- Winamp will now behave (it had trouble staying On Top of FF2)

- I get horizontal lines through attached pictures in hotmail (FF2) - FF3 seems to fix this

- The address bar autocomplete shows favicons now (amongst other improvements) which is handy

A couple of things though:

- Hotmail doesn't seem to load for me, but the classic version works

- The "Remember password" feature is now a bar at the top of the page, instead of a prompt (meaning you need to press Alt-R instead of just R

I've always had a problem with FF 'losing focus' where the Home/End keys wont scroll the page, but the mouse will. It seems to appear randomly. Can anyone confirm if this still happens? It's not easy to replicate, thanks.

Another thing that I didn't check - have they changed the accelerator key for Copy/Copy Shortcut when clicking on a link? In FF2, they both use C as the key which kind of defeats the purpose (IE uses T for Copy Shortcut).

Just a few observations, I really need to put more time in to find its quirks.

Edited November 21, 2007 by fred65

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Requesting feedback on the MathML handling of the following pages: stress.xhtml, stress.xml, torture.xhtml, torture.xml, start.xhtml, texvsmml.xhtml.

Thank you!

MathML got broken with the move to Cairo, or the new text API (or something, i remember reading the Stix fonts would make the issue go away, but that might be wrong), they're looking to get it fixed for the final though (it's a major regression, but one that 1% or less of users will actually notice)

Here's hoping they get it fixed.

http://www.stixfonts.org/

Edit: Not even STIX Fonts can save it.

Edited November 21, 2007 by The_Decryptor

[tiagosilva29]

MathML got broken with the move to Cairo, or the new text API (or something, i remember reading the Stix fonts would make the issue go away, but that might be wrong), they're looking to get it fixed for the final though (it's a major regression, but one that 1% or less of users will actually notice)

Here's hoping they get it fixed.

http://www.stixfonts.org/

Thanks for the input, I just saw it in the release notes. Dumb me thought it was fixed by now. :p

Edit: thanks for the amazing screenshot

Edited November 21, 2007 by tiagosilva29

[osirisX]

For the Mac version:

Native everything please kthnx.

[Rahul]

excellent release , 10/10 for a beta

[Quillz]

For the Mac version:

Native everything please kthnx.

Is that even possible thought w/o making Firefox 3 a Cocoa application? As much as I'd like a Camino that supported extensions, I just can't see this happening.

[ViperAFK]

For the Mac version:

Native everything please kthnx.

Hopefully they accomplish that for Windows and Linux also :) Which is the goal.

I want native tabs back damnit!

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Hopefully they accomplish that for Windows and Linux also :) Which is the goal.

I want native tabs back damnit!

Work on a more native look for the Linux version is in progress: Click me.

The Windows version will supposedly be able to distinguish between XP and Vista, and adjust the icon theme accordingly.

[ViperAFK]

Work on a more native look for the Linux version is in progress: Click me.

The Windows version will supposedly be able to distinguish between XP and Vista, and adjust the icon theme accordingly.

Interesting, I though firefox 1.5's icon theme looked MUCH better in XP than the new one, I wish they would change it to something more like that

[Ayepecks]

Work on a more native look for the Linux version is in progress: Click me.

The Windows version will supposedly be able to distinguish between XP and Vista, and adjust the icon theme accordingly.

Can't wait for that :D

[Punio4]

Um. Hooray. I still use Vertigosity's tango patcher and want mah tango theme :)

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

MathML got broken with the move to Cairo, or the new text API (or something, i remember reading the Stix fonts would make the issue go away, but that might be wrong), they're looking to get it fixed for the final though (it's a major regression, but one that 1% or less of users will actually notice)

Here's hoping they get it fixed.

http://www.stixfonts.org/

Edit: Not even STIX Fonts can save it.

We're in business, still some bugs, but it's a hell of a lot better.