Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 4

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Grand Master

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whoever proposed to put the Home button in the bookmarks bar should be hung. also, the fact that the GUI devs all agreed that it was a good idea and actually implemented it is REALLY disappointing. what in the world were/are they thinking. they better change that

btw, I know you can add the Home button to the main toolbar. I'm just saying it was a terrible decision to make the default as having it only on the bookmarks bar

haha yeh, i was looking for it when i tried out beta 3, and couldnt find it. i have to agree, its in a very awkard place

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shakey_snake

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whoever proposed to put the Home button in the bookmarks bar should be hung. also, the fact that the GUI devs all agreed that it was a good idea and actually implemented it is REALLY disappointing. what in the world were/are they thinking. they better change that

btw, I know you can add the Home button to the main toolbar. I'm just saying it was a terrible decision to make the default as having it only on the bookmarks bar

lol.

That change was made in beta 3, and some of us already had much too long of a conversation about it.

Please don't make us relive that. :p

How do you stop it from showing bookmarks in the drop down menu on the url bar?

about:config -> browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped -> true

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ckempo

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Download:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0b4/win32/

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or...es/3.0b4/win32/

Yes, i know it's the download trough the FTP, but i only post the links to it because there is NO links on the releases folder at this time.

I'll edit the post as soon as it will become available on the releases folder.

Also i've "coded" the link so this won't be like click'n'go, to prevent more server overload.

Does the fact there's nothing in the releases folder not kind of indicate the obvious - that it's not actually released?

Am off to create a "Windows 7 released" thread now - I'll edit the post when the OS is released.

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Wakers

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Arguing about releases aside, I'm using the beta 4 rc2 now..

OH MY GOD IT FLIES!!

each firefox beta release gets faster and faster and faster, they're doing great work!

I used the opera nightlies for a bit, but they fell way behind at around beta 2 of ff3..

now if only my stupid bank would let me use a different browser than IE, I think i would be running a pc with just one browser for the first time in years.

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EL1TE

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Does the fact there's nothing in the releases folder not kind of indicate the obvious - that it's not actually released?

Am off to create a "Windows 7 released" thread now - I'll edit the post when the OS is released.

There's nothing there because Mozilla removed the files and the folders, but don't cry, they will announce it soon and you can then download the files again... Believe if you want, i dont' care, the people which downloaded it in time know that the files where there when i've posted this, so you fail.

Go ahead, create the threads you want, who cares? But at least post something that is true, even when the developer decides to remove the files. :rolleyes:

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EL1TE

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Do you mean this one:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0b4/win32/

?

If so, I get a "550 Failed to change directory." error every time. I'm assuming you're referring to the nightlies (which aren't on the first page). They're not the same as 3.0b4. They are release candidates for 3.0b4. That is why the path contains "nightly/3.0b4-candidates/rc2/". The official 3.0b4 will be found in the releases directory, not the nightly directory.

No, he means this one:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/3.0b4-candidates/

I've edited the first post and replaced the link. :|

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Andrew Lyle Global Moderator

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One of the major new features of fx3 beta 4 is the PGO which should improve JavaScript speeds.

A quick comparison of JavaScript benchmark results on my system:

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  1. Firefox3 beta 4: 6775.4 ms
  2. Opera 9.5 beta build 9815: 10957.4 ms
  3. IE8 Beta 1: 15095.2 ms
  4. Firefox 2.0.0.11: 29346.0 ms

That's pretty much Blazing!

How did you get folders at the top toolbar like that?

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APH-Alex

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Acid3 was developed to test the next generation of web browsers in development wasn't it? i.e firefox 4 and the like, ACID 2 is the one to judge FF3 and IE8 by, according to what i've read around these forums.

Acid3 is based off of 2004 web standards. So no, the newest browsers should be passing with flying colours. Webkit is doing good and at 90 so far.

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MGS4-SS

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How do you stop it from showing bookmarks in the drop down menu on the url bar?

Found a solution. Take all the bookmarks from your Bookmark Toolbar, copy them to a new Bookmark Folder. Then delete all the bookmarks from the Bookmark toolbar, and walla!

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