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Hope all of you are pumped up for 3.1b2 since it's just hours away from hitting the servers. Been waiting for this beta with finished and optimized Tracemonkey. Oh and let's not forget p0rn mode :rolleyes:

The second--and likely last--beta version of Firefox 3.1 is "due out very shortly," Mozilla programmer Ben Turner said Thursday.

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I've been keeping tabs on the Mozilla's 3.1b2 wiki that monitors the current status of the build. Seems like they are almost complete with the QA portion. From there it usually takes less than an hour or two to get it up on the mirrors. If everything goes smoothly, hopefully I will be surfing neowin a lot faster tomorrow morning.

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How do I turn it off? I keep accidentally tearing tabs out when I'm flicking between them.

Man, tab tearing has been testing my patience at times too. As it stands right now, they have not implemented any method that will allow you to disable it or reduce its sensitivity. It is marked as a Priority 1 (P1) blocker to be fixed for Beta 3, so at least that is some good news.

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I don't know about 3.1, but in 3.2 dragging a tab off and back onto itself is a "no-op", it doesn't do anything (where it used to put the tab in it's own window)

I've been using Shiretoko (3.1 nightly builds) and have not noticed any changes to it. Mozilla might have disabled tab tearing in Minefield is because it still being perfected or maybe it was interfering something else. Afterall, 3.2 is alpha, so they mess around with the code a lot.

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Making sure it doesn't break stuff.

Stuff gets landed on the main trunk (3.2), "bakes" for a while then it lands on the branch (3.1), then into the nightlies, then a beta, etc.

Edit: Actually, it apparently hasn't landed on trunk yet, strange how it's working for me then.

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