Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 4

[Knife Party]

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

[Rob2687]

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

[shakey_snake]

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

[APH-Alex]

You can change that yourself in the customize toolbar mode.

[rpgfan]

That's where IE7 put the Home button, so I figure that is why they put it there - to allow a smoother transition for IE7 users.

[ckempo]

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.

[Wakers]

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.

[y2kboy23]

I've been trying to get RC2 for about 24 hours now for my mac. It seems that the files are there but just place holders. Arg!

[Commodore Max]

The Vista theme needs serious work ...

[EL1TE]

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:

[Wakers]

eh guys..if you go to the ftp folder given in the first page, then go into rc2, all the files are there, and downloadable. I literally installed it like 2 hours ago..which is way after some of you were saying the files were gone.

[rpgfan]

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[Harlem39s Finest]

so when we will see firefox 3 released ?

[EL1TE]

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. :|

[APH-Alex]

so when we will see firefox 3 released ?

Hopefully when the headlines say, "Firefox 3, first browser to pass Acid3!"

[Wakers]

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.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

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:

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?

[MGS4-SS]

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

I would also like to know this. Its annoying to see the bookmarks when I type something in the address bar.

[APH-Alex]

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.

[Corris Veteran]

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

Just drag the bookmarks toolbar icon up there when you customize the layout.

[MGS4-SS]

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!

[APH-Alex]

WOAH! Firefox is so customizable, I never even noticed!

I call it,

SlimFox?b>

[psyko_x]

WOAH! Firefox is so customizable, I never even noticed!

I call it,

SlimFox?b>

it's better if you just go to "view", "fullscreen". then you won't have the "File", "Edit", etc on the left which i'm people don't use much anyways during normal browsing

[APH-Alex]

Yeah, but in fullscreen you can never really access all of your other apps very quickly so I like to keep it windowed.

[JustGeorge]

Whats the link to FF3b4 in zip format? I don't want to mess with my standard FF2 install.