EL1TE Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser that makes browsing more efficient than ever before. Firefox includes pop-up blocking; a tab-browsing; integrated Google searching; simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively; a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser; and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online. Features: Improved Tabbed Browsing Spell Checking Search Suggestions Session Restore Web Feeds (RSS) Live Titles Live Bookmarks Pop-up Blocker Streamlined Interface Phishing Protection Automated Update Protection from Spyware and more.... Download: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or...es/3.0b5/win32/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmmay Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 FYI http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b5/releasenotes/ It seems this beta is being marked as an RC.. edit: so as it turns out it's an rc of beta 5.. This is not the official beta 5. Don't waste your time with it yet.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalE Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 So is the nightly build 3.0b6pre now, or is Beta 5 the last? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazog Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 So is the nightly build 3.0b6pre now, or is Beta 5 the last? 3.0pre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venejo Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 It's an RC2 of beta 5 dated 3/26/08. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rappy Veteran Posted April 1, 2008 Veteran Share Posted April 1, 2008 Thats probably why update isn't picking it up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximum Error Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Does anyone know of any response by the firefox team to Acid 3? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creamy Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Was there a pre-alpha of beta 2 for 3.0b6pre RC3? This is getting bizarre...:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rigby Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 They should just call them nightly builds and be done with it, enough with the pre-alpha-beta-pre-RC almost beta but not quite yet stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazog Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Does anyone know of any response by the firefox team to Acid 3? What response are you looking for? Firefox 3.0 will not fully pass acid3. Since its too far in development to add the remaining support. That doesn't mean a 3.1 can't come out in a few months with complete support though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creamy Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 They should just call them nightly builds and be done with it, enough with the pre-alpha-beta-pre-RC almost beta but not quite yet stuff. (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamael Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 It seems the real deal, it's on the release directory of the FTP, also: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.0b5 The QA has ended, only remains to modify the sites to reflect this release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Slightly off topic, but does anyone else hate what mozilla did to the addons site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toadeater Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Slightly off topic, but does anyone else hate what mozilla did to the addons site? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted April 1, 2008 Subscriber² Share Posted April 1, 2008 This crashes all the time for me :/ Going back to beta 4 I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazog Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 This crashes all the time for me :/Going back to beta 4 I think. probably your addon's causing the problems. not many support the beta builds of firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malisk Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 (edited) Was there a pre-alpha of beta 2 for 3.0b6pre RC3? This is getting bizarre...:p No, none of that. I'm not sure if you're just joking, but since you think this is bizarre, you perhaps just don't understand it -- it's actually simple. There is no "beta 6". There are also no "pre-alphas" for milestone releases. There are the nightly builds on the trunk, and the milestone builds (labelled "alpha 3", "beta 1", "RC", etc). There can be prereleases of the milestone builds, and then you usually just prefix the milestone with "pre-". Milestone builds are those that are released. Example of possible builds would be: Fx 3 pre-beta 5 that is a pre-release of Fx 3 beta 5. There is no concept such as "Fx 3 pre-alpha beta 5" at all. The only time you get a "pre-alpha" would be if it would lead up to an alpha that is actually released. For example, Fx 3 pre-alpha 1 would be possible and in that case the pre-release of Fx 3 alpha 1. That release was made a pretty long time ago by now. If one speaks of a "pre-alpha of a beta" (???), then you probably just mean a pre-beta build. Right before milestones are released, they can go through a few release candidate stages, so you might get Fx 3 beta 5 RC2, for example. However, in the build tag, that will still just show up as Fx 3 pre-beta 5, which is an equally correct naming, as a RC is still a prerelease version of the final one. Edited April 1, 2008 by Jugalator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evolution Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Todays nightly build for some reason is just called 3.0pre and is by far the buggiest version yet... it crashes frequently and has a few glitches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted April 1, 2008 Subscriber² Share Posted April 1, 2008 probably your addon's causing the problems.not many support the beta builds of firefox. I'm using the nightly tester tools, so yeah, could be addons. But everything worked on beta 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakey_snake Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 (edited) They should just call them nightly builds and be done with it, enough with the pre-alpha-beta-pre-RC almost beta but not quite yet stuff. I doubt having a a year long (or longer) development cycle without any milestones is actually a good idea. Maybe you just don't have a firm grasp of their naming scheme? ----------------------------------- BTW Elite, linking to the main Mozilla server makes baby Jesus cry. Anyone looking for a beta5 build who can't wait for the page to update should go to that page and replace your DL link's b4 with b5 for example this is the tlink you should use for en-us win builds: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0b5&os=win〈=en-US ...that way server load can be distributed among mozilla's mirrors. Edited April 1, 2008 by shakey_snake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeeperOfThePizza Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 Tab bars in Beta 5 look so much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakey_snake Posted April 1, 2008 Share Posted April 1, 2008 2 of my favorite changes for beta 5 from beta 4 are #240859: Full Screen Navigation Bar Should Have Auto Hide and #412862: Change the 'allow scripts to move or resize existing windows' pref to a whitelist being removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kushan Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 I've been using the beta for nearly a week now (I think I installed it on friday, or at least it was a pre-beta, I'm not sure, don't really care because I just wanted to use FF3 as FF2 was giving me trouble) and I never even noticed the auto hide in fullscreen. It's AWESOME! As for the second change, I'm definitely all for that, although I modified my userchrome thingy to stop sites from messing with the browser too much anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 Tab bars in Beta 5 look so much better. Yeah any vista users should appreciate this change : Now they just need to fix the ugly address bar (the favicon holder/ search engine icon) Put a door on the house icon, and fix the hideous blue blob of a go button and it'll look pretty good imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambiance Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 The interface is improved a bit and I preferred it when the bookmark folders opened and closed. The only thing I've noticed is that Adblock Plus isn't working all the time for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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