Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 5


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auto update still doesn't detect the new beta :(

edit: download and installed fx :p. now if only they could get ietab working it'd be perfect

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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?

I didn't say do away with Betas, but all the pre-beta, alpha, pre-alpha stuff is getting silly. Anyway it certainly doesn't take a year to go from Beta 4 to Beta 5. :D

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I didn't say do away with Betas, but all the pre-beta, alpha, pre-alpha stuff is getting silly. Anyway it certainly doesn't take a year to go from Beta 4 to Beta 5. :D

But that's just for the nightly builds.

e.g. Any nightly that occurs after beta4 and before beta 5 is called beta 5 pre.

And "Alpha builds" are milestone builds that occur before the trunk has become "feature complete".

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It isn't done quite yet from what I can see. Consider the fact that the firstrun pages aren't live yet:

http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b5/firstrun/

It is almost ready, however. ^_^

Whoever posted the link to http://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_3.0b5 was right in doing so. Currently, the pages say "1 hour" for the "Build enables updates", "QA tests live website changes, stage download links, mirrored installers", and "QA tests live snippets & download links" sections at the bottom. However, there isn't any time given for the other four that are "not started" at the moment (the last seven are "not started", though the three I mentioned have a time of "1 hour" according to that page).

This was a very early heads-up...

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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.

Don't use nightly's.

And you won't have anything to complain about.

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Auto update finally caught it. Lookin' good and runnin' smooth so far. I got a question. It could be Firefox related or maybe Opera. I'm not 100% sure. I remember one of the browsers having a very useful feature that allowed you to auto-refresh individual sites by time intervals. Like refresh this page every 5 seconds or so. Does anyone know which browser that was in and why they took it out? Also, is there an extension or program that could do that for Firefox, Opera, or even IE? Let me know. Thanks! Nevermind. I found it. It's in Opera. It's when you right click on a part of the site. I can't believe I forgot about that! It's cause I switched to Firefox. Now I just need to find an extension for Firefox.

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I just updated my beta 4 to beta 5....when you right click in the bookmarks menu 'Sort by Name' is now grayed-out. Any ideas why?

You need to click on the books folder instead, I have this problem as well.

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I'm trying to grab some report files from a website i work on when i click on the link all i see is java script:if(w=window.open('ReportByContractorDate.aspx?ReportID=24')) doesnt actually pop open the window. I search google and reinstalled java SE but still nothing. This happen to anyone else?

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