Firefox 2.0

Also, I hope this launch goes better than Netscape 2.0 did

this extension will force yr old ones to be compatible:
http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/nightly

*quits firefox*

also adding a close button on every tab is retarded! i hope you can switch that off

*quits firefox*

*Install Preferential extension*

*Restart Firefox*

*Go to Tools -> Advanced Preferences*

*Go to browser -> browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing"

*Set boolean value to 'false'*

*Reminds everyone that this solution can be found by a simple web search*

Blame the Firefox user base

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"Put close buttons on the tabs. This makes it a lot easier to close tabs with the mouse. People weren't seeing the close box in the usability test. It's also out of the way and not connected with what's actually being closed. Mindful of stealing space from the tab strip when there are many tabs, the close boxes on inactive tabs are hidden when the tab width falls below a certain minimum value."
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i hope you can switch that off

No Tab Close Button extension

Also, auto-spellcheck? Feck off. I hate programs forever rudely telling me I dont spell in American. Grrrrr.

But for Gran, I can see the value I suppose (Ctrl + W is an even better idea for closing tabs!). That really shouldn't require an extension to turn off imo, but I guess the future of Firefox is inevitably going to be extensions to remove feature bloat. At least the option is there.

hmm. whadda ya know. Oh yeah I have no scroll wheel at work. So...there? Spellcheck is worthless to me always.

Ctrl + Click = open in new tab (background)
Ctrl + Shift + Click = open in new tab (focus on)
Ctrl + W = close tab

Ctrl + Shift + Click = open in new tab (focus on)

I'm totally happy about this. It was the one UI in Safari that I miss in Firefox.

ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=4881575 == http://ilx.thehold.net/thread.php?msgid=160

-- Euai Kapaui (tracerhan...), October 24th, 2006 6:48 PM. (tracerhand)

50MB?! Are you FUCKING KIDDING?!

-- Portable Dorkness (butt.dickas...), October 24th, 2006 9:10 PM. (Dick Butkus)

previous version was 46MB..OMG 4 MORE MB

Srsly though, back button histories and click-scroll tab stuff, even I know this shit.

Mac: 17 Mb
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/mac/en-US/

Linux: 9 Mb
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/linux-i686/en-US/

Win: 5.6 Mb
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/win32/en-US/

rather than using an extension, there's a value you can set in about:config that'll switch between one close button per tab, one button on the far right, a button on front tab etc.

ah, here:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.closeButtons

(middle click is better. except on linux version at home middle click on a tab makes it do something that requires web access, which i don't have, so i get an error. most annoying)

new version seems to make my usual customisations the defaults. and adds things i don't particularly need or want. think the new version number is mostly political. will wait a while, i think.

yeah it's ok. less trouble than i imagined, to their credit. i woulda made searchbar autosizer, stop or reload and paste&godefault but np.

there is a small issue no one's raised tho, namely AAAAGH CHRIST THIS IS FUGLY ARE THEY INSANE

... also er, no fasterfox compatibility yet?

1. download the .xpi file.
2. rename the .xpi file to .zip
3. unzip
4. edit the .rdf file: change maxversion=1.5.0.x to 2.0.x
5. zip again
6. rename the .zip file to .xpi
7. in Firefox: file - open - install
8. profit

I can see this getting people into a whole heap of trouble.

I imagine the Mac download would contain universal binaries (both ppc and x86 (intel) versions), so that'd account for it being much larger. As for the Linux one being bigger, who knows? Maybe elf data structures are less efficient (or, more plausably, more featureful)?

Can anyone come up with a compelling reason or extension for using Firefox over Safari?

Extensions? Tabbing through forms works? (nb I still use Safari, but I don't use my mac for web surfing that much)

did see someone wearing a black firefox t-shirt just a couple of weeks ago. looked nice. like the greyscale version as well. bit geeky though.

http://intlstore.mozilla.org/index.php?cPath=2

(linux format, until recently, were giving t-shirts away to subscribers featuring the face of RMS done in the style of che. funny)

can't really comment about what's under the bonnet but certainly 2.0 is catchier than 1.8 just when ie7's out with new & possibly confused costumers coming into play. perhaps wiser to lay off preaching to the choir when said choir are quite happy to nerd themselves out of a problem eventually anyway - if the build is stabler than i guess that's all that counts. really is a pointless shame how ugly it is though.

My favoured browser, Galeon, includes this.

As for the Linux one being bigger, who knows? Maybe elf data structures are less efficient (or, more plausably, more featureful)?

Doesn't the x86 architecture have stricter alignment rules? That pushes size up a bit.

I saw someone touring Lincoln Castle in a Firefox tshirt, a few months ago.

There's a bad bug in the Mac version of this too: if you run a flash video like YouTube, then open a new window -- suddenly you can't type.

Type-ahead-find or find as you type or whatever they call it these days is my single compelling reason for using Firefox over any other browser ever. It's the ipod scrollwheel of browser usability for me.

?!?! What is it with all this WWF-style browser branding? I'm just waiting on "IE7: The Duck-Billed Platypus".

google browser sync / toolbar
adblock
book burro

I like safari a lot more, and having a .mac account means my safari bookmarks are accessible from any computer, BUT more and more I'm noticing websites that don't work with/don't like safari, so I have to switch to firefox to get them to be nice. Wordpress and Sendspace are two, for instance. I am glad Firefox added little close tab buttons though, for real.

and for all your other needs (i.e. Ed, your multiple search engines, feature-rich view source, etc.) - http://pimpmysafari.com/

-- like murderinging (mi...), October 25th, 2006 12:20 AM. (modestmickey)

afaik it was there if you held down the back button but the addition of the tiny down arrow allows a one-click? its not much really and i already rescinded the "dope" comment

do people like the sideways scrolling tab bar btw? i could get used to it but i'm missing scrolling thru tabs with the mousewheel already.

Although I do think it's dumb that I have to press "control" now every time I want to save a link.

Yes yes and yes again.

/jon

I'd actually prefer to get rid of that drop-down button on the right hand side (i.e. where the close button used to be) and return to how things were but I can't be bothered right now.

or, you can just use the file extension filter, pictured not more than an inch above!

these people are fucking retards.

If by "everything" you mean crashing at will, not displaying shit correctly, opening my PC up to endless viruses and being as slow as an arthritic tortoise then yeah it's GRATE.

examples?

??

xp, any of my archived pages on my blog site. It just shows the source code on my firefox browser, but IE views them quite happily.

please help, as i would like to continue using Firefox and i don't want to revert back to IE just to view my website. Yes my initial post was a stroppy bif.

http://www.ie7.com/

MS vs Mozilla FITE

(on preview) hmmm, there's something up with your code... maybe you just need to save the archives with a .html extension??

http://www.mullsports.com/archives/2005_06_01_

ta

^ some interesting notes about "standards"

-- ennui (...) (webmail), October 26th, 2006. (fandango)

for a page that loves to make constant reference to how EDGY they are by challenging copyright law and just daring someone to challenge them, yeah, they sure do suck at warez. they're like a group of kids figuring out how to transfer files over IRC for the first time.

haha mickey totally otm, those guys would get completely eaten alive in internet relay chat rooms. what a bunch of losers!!

(the whole site is brilliant)

It was just there, I swear!

http://209.85.129.104/search?q=cache:Y-cCsbiuFpgJ:www.msfirefox.com/+msfirefox.com

Although the only site I really have problems with is Ebay, it's still a pain in the arse to have to cut and paste into a new tab instead of clicking on the link. I assume that's probably more likely Microsoft deliberately writing the Hotmail page to not work properly in Firefox rather than any problems with Firefox itself though.

firefox in not supported proprietary microsoft protocols shocker.

Firefox 3 today, and a world record attempt:

http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/06/17/firefox-3-available-today-at-1700-utc-10am-pdt/

(18:00 in London)

Rah!

lol website not working

we've got 24 hours

Hmmm.

First weird thing I'll need to get over is the menu bar. Instead of just the URL's I've gone to recently, it gives me the page names too.

And I guess clicking a little star is easier than pressing CTRL + D. Still looking it over.

I know everyone loves Firefox but it fucked me over and I'm back using Internet Explorer so I'm not too happy. Well my only real damage is that I can't get tabs as easily!

and the russian mafia have yr credit card details

American English OS X version downloads from Korea.

I'm still getting nothing from the website.

Firefox 3 for OS X looks tremendously better than 2. If you don't use any cool cocoa tricks on it, it's almost indistinguishable from a cocoa app.

I've been on FFX 3 since alpha, and it's improved tremendously since even then.

I'm still getting nothing from the website.

-- Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, June 17, 2008 3:50 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

downloading 3 now!

Yer bastid, that's mine!

What site are you using?

Top is FFX 3, bottom Safari 3.1.1:

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/5484/buttonszq0.png

yah shit looks differnt now

The halo around the buttons isn't right and the sizes are a bit off, but otherwise it's very good.

it's almost indistinguishable from a cocoa app.
The gradient on the toolbar is totally fucked

noticeably faster so far

toolbar etc looks kinda poopy

What site are you using?

-- Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, June 17, 2008 3:57 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

firefox.com

they must've thought everybody likes poopy :-(

(xpost)

I got it from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ (which sometimes shows Firefox 2 and when I reload it sometimes shows Firefox 3)

Vv happy with the previous release candidates, and since 3.0 is RC3 renamed I don't expect that to change

text looks crazily different - new aliasing action or something - pretty nice not bad

also: http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox/

That's a big "back" button.

and why are stop and reload different buttons now?

Thanks mookieproof. Got it now.

holy shit this looks WAY different!

3.0 is RC3 renamed

Hmm, just installed this, and it claims it's still RC3?

not so good with loading twenty tabs...

really small text seems a bit overaliased.

When I upgraded to the first 3.0 RC before, the Return key no longer carried out the Submit function on certain (java-based?) text boxes. I reverted my previous beta build and it was fine again. Can't really be bothered to try out the final release, as Beta 5 is stable enough for me.

The pulldown URL history bar is pretty shitty now. Big text, a limited number of entries. Any way to fix that?

That's a big "back" button.

Baby got back buttons.

I hardly ever use the pulldown history bar now because if you just start typing the title (or url) into the address bar, it matches stuff that way.

Mookieproof's link doesn't count towards the world record. Just wait until you can download it from Mozilla's sites if you want to help them out with that attempt.

The pulldown URL history bar is pretty shitty now. Big text, a limited number of entries. Any way to fix that?

-- jeff, Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:39 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I know how, but then I remembered you're a fucking ponce.

scramblehurt

ponce??

The pulldown URL history bar is pretty shitty now. Big text, a limited number of entries. Any way to fix that?

-- jeff, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 20:39 (39 minutes ago) Link

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

OK so Ive had this since a beta from a week or 2 ago, and it's done somethin' funky to my character sets, I've jumped from 1.5 to this (lol old) but at least in that, japanese/cyryllic etc would display.

Now I just get these weirdass boxes. Like this (sorry to use you as an exmple Jon)

http://www.memorygongs.com/mozchar.jpg

And it keeps defaulting back to unicode no matter what I select otherwise (western etc) AND I have auto-detect Japanese on. WTF?

I see Jon's username Japanese characters fine...?

Yeah thats the thing I'm not, and I used to I'm using XP SP2. I wonder if its because I've gone from 1.5 and not from 2 when I upgraded.

There's a full stop missing after "used to", sorry.

thanks Pleasant Plains

you are a kind person with a full head of hair

Now, now. No need to get poncey.

about:robots

Trayce, even though the chars are Japanese, it's still UTF-8 on ILX.

Those numbers in the boxes are the correct Unicode numbers for the chars in Jon's username. This means that the encoding has been detected correctly by Firefox, but for some reason, it doesn't think it has an available font to render those characters. After you've done the usual stuff like emptying cache, restarting, etc., you might try installing a(nother) font that contains characters at those code points.

lol get a mac

And it's chinese fwiw

Point being that the reverse-reading direction chars were removed.

WOW. YOU WERE ALL RIGHT ABOUT FIREFOX ITS AMAZING. Everything just *pops* I love it. I LOVE it. I think the air is clearer...
http://www.tornlightgallery.com/images/photo-galleries/portraits/high-res/Gasp.jpg
Obviously I'm sure the honeymoon will not last but GEEEEE

guys all i have to do is type "77" or "40" or "60" in the address bar and i go there :D

crazy!!!

that is kind of awesome that it knows that

Looks pretty great!

[This means that the encoding has been detected correctly by Firefox, but for some reason, it doesn't think it has an available font to render those characters. After you've done the usual stuff like emptying cache, restarting, etc., you might try installing a(nother) font that contains characters at those code points.

Thanks lib that makes a lot of sense, I'll have a poke around. Obv I've restarted but I may try a cache flush and then look into my fonts.

Four and a half million copies downloaded and counting, fast!

Live counter here: http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com

What do they need to get the world record?

RTFM! The answer to my question is in their FAQ:

Do we have to reach a specific number of downloads in order to set the record?

This is the first record attempt of its kind so there is no set number. We'd really like to outdo the number of Firefox 2 downloads on its launch day, which was 1.6 million. Let's shoot for 5 million--the sky is the limit!

Good question. Anything above their previous version, I'd imagine. There's no actual number they have to break, I believe.

(Hey, no xpost warning, ILX System?)

This is such a stupid world record attempt.

It kind of is, in the sense theyve said "please dont download multiple copies" as if they're gonna be able to police such a thing, so the numbers'll be pretty skewed anwyay. Clever marketing is what it is tho.

I've been on beta 5 (Gnome) for a couple of months and it's glorious. Cache flushing is a bit excessive but I believe they're fixing that, if they haven't already.

Of course that record thing is stupid, but it's also amazing. (Cue xkcd cartoon about being all enthusiastic about a program that displays web pages) (can't link it at the mo, am browsing on phone without clipboard)

I've been on beta 5 (Gnome) for a couple of months and it's glorious.

This. Also on Mac.

Cache flushing is a bit excessive but I believe they're fixing that

nah fuck it. No half steppin. Flush that summbitch.

apart from the multiple downloads from single people you have to consider all the people who downloaded directly from the ftp site rather than via getfirefox.com

am having the same font problem as trayce but given that we still have the same fonts on our systems as before it means they've changed something.

it also told me firebug was incompatible but a new version was available when i updated manually.

5000 a minute!

Haha, check out the 10.1-style tabs in the preferences!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v694/adnaus23/loltabs.png

It's already been as high as 11,000 a minute when the Mericans were awake. Xpost

Well I cleared my cache and I still have no foreign character sets working right, so I dunno wtf. My fonts havent changed! Weird.

ah boo it crashed already. prob not its fault, prob my shitty system. still, was hoping this version would be immune.

Eyyy I fixed my problem! bf suggested I need to install the asian/cyrillic etc character sets in regional and language settings in control panel, duhhh obvious. I realise now this pc has NEVER displayed chinese/japanese etc properly so it wasntg FFs fault to start with. Silly me.

This looks much much better (=more like Safari...) in OSX then 2.0 did.

Oh one thing I have to say is a massive improvement over what I had before (which was 1.5 in all fairness, never tried 2) is the memory management, which is the main reason Ive upgraded. The ridic memory leak (leave it running for a few hours and it is using 400nb of RAM, wtf?) seems to have been well and truly fixed, on initial use. Its faster at rendering too.

Only one problem so far which I don't understand. Yesterday on FF2 I was able to watch ITV catch-up (it uses something called Microsoft Silverlight) to-day on FF3 it just doesn't want to know. Works fine on IE.
Good news though, The Sun website now fully viewable on FF. Bring the noise.

have you tried reinstalling silverlight?

a while ago, Alba pointed out this really nice "skin" for ff3 called grApple, which i've been using for months without even remembering it's there -

http://www.takebacktheweb.org

Loadsadownloads! And still four hours to go!

xp. Yep. Even went to the microsoft site and did it. ff just doesn't seem to want to play. No biggie, I've only used 'catch-up' once before now, just mystifying.

FF3 seems rather smoother and faster than FF2 - apart from the slide-out "do you want to remember this password?" bar.

Plus, the Book Of Mozilla has a new verse!

(yes, I know it was in the betas)

the slide-out "do you want to remember this password?" bar

yes, this is really annoying, although it doesn't stop the next page from loading like it did before.

i have a problem for the people who think theyre so smart on this thread to solve: when i drag a photo out of ff3 onto my desktop it ends up on the right of my desktop snapped to grid instead of in a the spot where i dragged it to.

this is annoying for me as ive got an internet photo collecting habit.

im on osx 10.5

i believe that's an option in your desktop "view" options, to either keep arranged, in a grid, or not

i.e. click on the desktop, go to "view" menu (i think) and it's in there somewhere

no it just when i drag from firefox 3 - thx tho

bizarre - i wouldn't think an application would be able to control that

i wouldn't know because, he said smugly, i have my desktop set to automatically send everything into the downloads folder

yah downloads folder whaaaeva

Tracer is post-desktop.

Ah, crap, this Firefox 3 killed my Ad Block shit. Is there a version that works with this new firefox?

adblock plus

So any idea why, on my Mac, new FF3 windows appear full-screen even if the window that launched them wasn't full screen? This happens even after I quit with a window non-full-screen, thinking it remembers your last window or something. FF2 never did this.

tasty

Only thing really annoying is I have to re-login in nearly every website that requires a login. I mean, hello FF 3 coolheit, just look in the list of passwords you saved for me!

bitches need to update their extensions

(yeah i know how to do it manually, but it's a pain and doesn't work on everything)

http://downloadcounter.sj.mozilla.com/ :

One hour to go, current total: 7,880,262

(Please download Firefox 3 by 11:16 a.m. PDT (18:16 UTC) on June 18, 2008. That's 11:16 a.m. in Mountain View, 2:16 p.m. in Toronto, 3:16 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro, 8:16 p.m. in Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw, 10:16 p.m. in Moscow, and June 19, 2008 at 2:16 a.m. in Beijing and 3:16 a.m. in Tokyo.)

I realize that this doesn't look like a canned cocoa app w/shading and all and it's a bit goofy to imitate Safari, but I like the theme and although it's not perfect, this is by far the best FFX user experience yet:

http://i26.tinypic.com/23msym8.jpg

Mine doesn't look like that! ^^^ How do I get that? PLEASE SPEAK SLOWLY I don't speak internet very well.

go to preferences at the top of this page and click "I Want to Change the Way ILX Looks" - i belive that style is called keith css or something.

that is, if you meant the way the ILX page itself looks rather than the way firefox looks.

Yeah that Firefox look is MacOS, it wont look like that in Windows (tho I imagine you could make it do with a skin?)

The best (and probably most-whinged-about) part of FF3 is that it integrates properly with the OS/window manager you're using. Overall it's better for this.

The web-page-title-in-url-dropdown thing is also better, once you get used to it. For work if I want Outlook Web Access I just type owa in the box and it finds it.

I find it a bit odd, and I am also not fond of the fact it seems to include my toolbar bookmarks in the history dropdown, or some set of my bookmarks, which seems a bit pointless. History + bookmarks = different things yo.

Mind you in the end, its all what one gets used to, no matter what that is.

I hope that's true, because at the moment I'm not enjoying the new history dropdown behavior.

As predicted, I'm getting used to the so-called Awesome Bar (which apparently is the pet name for what they at Mozilla also call the new Firefox 3 Smart Location Bar) and think it could well be A Good Thing.

However, I'm having Java problems, particularly with Zenfolio. There are a few threads on the Zenfolio forums about the issues, but I haven't had a chance to read them in detail yet.

http://secunia.com/advisories/30761/

Pretty suspicious timing there, anonymous discoverer dude.

http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/06/18/vulnerability-in-mozilla-firefox-30

yeah I lol'd

security jackholes always bitch about that shit
some f'real aspies in this biz u kno

sounds like a biz that needs and rewards real aspies.

3.0 lost a load of my bookmarks in the transfer, is slower than 2 and keeps loading Facebook incorrectly.

I'm really thinking of using fucking IE again. Ugh.

IE7 ain't half bad, honestly.

I friggen have to log into every website, everytime I restart FF! Sites like last.fm, or ILX, of which it obviously knows my login and password. In FF2.x, when restarting FF, I would just be logged in already (except webmail/gmail, but that's normal).
Anyone else have this?

The safest way to upgrade to a new major version = create a new profile.

* export the bookmarks from your current profile
* install password exporter plugin and export your passwords/logins

install new major version & let it mess up your profile (possibly, never had it happen myself)

* create a whole new profile: start -> run -> (path)\firefox.exe -profilemanager
* import the bookmarks you exported up there
* install password exporter plugin and import your passwords/logins
* install flash player, install other addons you might want
* profit

OK, maybe not that last one, but anyway. Clean profile solves a LOT of problems.

I friggen have to log into every website, everytime I restart FF!

check your cookies & security setup. Sounds like it deletes all your cookies when you close firefox (tools-options-privacy) It doesn't remember your passwords either, check tools-options-security for that problem.

(or just create a new profile and see if it still happens)

look at "private data" right under that cookies thing as well - "always clear my private data when I close firefox" -> settings -> don't select cookies & saved passwords

Well, the new FF did take over my pw-list, so it doesn't 'forget' those. But it could very well be the cookies, will check that out when at home. Dank je!

Oh, for all you Tor-users: Tor leaks your timezone and live feeds in FF3. They're trying to find a workaround, but haven't found it yet.

Ooh, FF3 has colour management. Except it isn't enabled by default, you need to install some kind of add on. Which appears to be available only to people who've registered with Mozilla. Hmmm. I'll stick with the murky world of sRGB for now then.

Still, quite nice, though I'm more excited by PicLens, which isn't exclusive to FF, but which I discovered the same day as the FF upgrade.

FF3 definitely crashes faster.

How do you make it crash then? Haven't managed to since beta 2 or so.

Googled from toolbar with maybe 4 tabs open... dunno, it just went away. Could be an add-on. But yeah it has crashed twice.

Reading about the new version has really highlighted the diversity of browsing habits. Saw someone bragging about how little RAM FF3 used when he had 20 tabs open - uh???

Yeah, PicLens is great!

Saw someone bragging about how little RAM FF3 used when he had 20 tabs open - uh???

Erhm, not to be bragging, but it really does use less ram when 15+ tabs open. I somehow am incapable of closing most of them, I want them open all the time.

I am also incapable of closing tabs, and can easily end up with that many open.

I've had FF3 crash once so far, on www.theregister.co.uk. However, my FF2 installation used to crash all the time on that site; I suspect it's actually a problem with my Flash installation.

I am also incapable of closing tabs

crtl-w

;)

alternate colour management option

played around a bit with opera 9.5 the other day and their "awesomebar" remembers visited page content, so like typing lol brings up all pages you read where lolz occurred. it's fantastic! (wouldve thought caching all that would be a strain too big but it hasn't been, at all.)

ff3 is ok and more stable and stuff but it's retarded that i still have to tinker with extensions just to do basic common sense shit like 'paste and go' or get tabs to open up next to the active one. greasemonkey is the only thing keeping me on here tbh.

r|t|c, could you point me to the extension that places a new tab next to the active tab? I'd like that as well!

Thanks, mookieproof!

Unfortunately, PicLens is crashing FF3 like mad. It's fine in IE6, however.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1956

i think it is also an option in tab mix plus but i havent any need for any of the other stuff that ext peddles.

tab mix plus (dev build for 3.0)

so when I go to check for updates from 2.0, it says no updates can be found....do you have to explicitly go to the site and download? are they just trying to keep from getting swamped with auto-updates?

some of them you do, some of them you don't -- depends on whether the url information in your existing extensions are accurate, i think

Pic Lens is rough when you try to click on a tiny image in a GIS and that stupid Pic Lens arrow won't disappear. Otherwise, yeah it's fun to browse with.

@rtc and Mookieproof, merci!

@akm, my FF2 didn't get any update either, after searching for way too long too. Maybe it's to do with the craze that's going on, servers being too busy?

alternate colour management option

-- mookieproof, Friday, June 20, 2008 3:19 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

I hardly see the difference between visited (bluish purple) & unvisited (purplish blue) links on ILX when I enable that, unless I use blueski.css or don't "let sites choose their own colors" :-/

Reading about the new version has really highlighted the diversity of browsing habits. Saw someone bragging about how little RAM FF3 used when he had 20 tabs open - uh???

-- Kerm, Friday, 20 June 2008 21:12 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I've got 23 open in one instance and two open in another, and it's snagging a reasonable amount of memory but nothing excessive. Part of that could be to do with Linux PWNING WINDOWS ALL OVER THE SHOP though.

I routinely have 20+ tabs open - I fire a bunch up at once from any number of sites and read them throughout the day. This might be a remnant of having free dialup through the old university that cut off after an hour so I'd have to load everything and read later.

Also full-screen Mac error is remedied by wiping my existing profile.

shit rules so far
1 point for the windows version: no massive memory leaks killing your system whenever you visit google maps or some such
1 point for mac version: faster than latest safari by about eight lengths
this is actually fucking amazing. this is how a computer program is supposed to work. we're getting there. WE'RE REALLY GETTING THERE.

don't get there too fast el tomboto, lol

lol

still nothing new but the crashes here. must be some karmic payback for me never having any problems at all with Vista.

Are you using Safari 4, Tom? Shit be faast

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

Western Sahara and French Guiana didn't pull their weight, i notice...

Boo, Svalbard And Jan Mayen! (East of Greenland and North of Norway) Even Greenlanders managed 482 downloads!

I had an update recently but it still says I'm using version 2.x

someone explain this shit to me

was it like 2.0.0.15? i got that cos i'm too lazy to upgrade :(

Does anyone know how to stop it flicking out of the tab you're reading to ask if you want to accept a cookie? It's very irritating!

tools - options - privacy - accept cookies from sites (but not third party cookies) and keep until they expire

is how my settings are, at least

I like it.

Seems exactly the same to me!

I had an update recently but it still says I'm using version 2.x

someone explain this shit to me

Apparently running an upgrade in 2.x will only upgrade you to the latest version of the 2.x tree. You need to download 3.0 directly.

Using FF3, when I log into gmail, it opens the page scrolled part way down. Does this happen to anyone else? It's hardly a big deal, but it is annoying.

Thanks StanM, I'll give that a try.

Didn't work unfortunately.

why does 3.0 not remembering my cookies? having to log into gmail every damn time. and yes i have accept cookies and third party cookies enabled, and no i don't have cookies ticked in the 'clear private data' settings.

wow, FF3 on windows looks like a heap of ass. any good, simple themes?

Hated it myself at first, but it grew on me.

But there's always https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6898

ahhhh

Why does French Guianans hate the Firefox?

Firefox 3.5 is released later today. Supposed to be much faster, thanks to a new JavaScript engine.

Downloaded the release candidate. It does seem a lot better with js-heavy pages. And the start up time seems to have improved too.

Bah, fuck this. Keeps crashing as type a search into the search bar.

It's still slower in tests than the webkit ones, by quite a way, too. Though pure js speed doesn't matter quite as much as they make out: GMail feels like it loads quicker on FF, despite being js-tastic.

They can take my life, but they can't take my AutoPager.

Phew. Official 3.5 release crashed me all the time too, but resetting toolbars to the default set seems to have fixed it. Hello again 3.5.

0 problems here. Everything just feels faster, it's true.

I missed the whole 2.0 revolution and have been rocking 1.5 forever. Finally decided to upgrade today and am more than pleased.

I don't know if I believe the map, sometimes there's downloads from the middle of the ocean where no islands are nearby (do they count ships?) - also, wake up australia!

http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/

Sorry Azores and Seychelles. So THAT's where you are. :-(

wow, google maps is hella faster

I'm running this now, not noticing significant more speed, but that's okay. What I really hope for this version to do is to stop crashing on me every once in a while when I try to download something (.doc, .rar, .whatevs).

If you have plugins that it doesn't want to install, here's a trick you can try (it worked for the two I had it refused to install at first) :

1. download the .xpi file (save it on your hard drive)

2. rename it from pluginname.xpi to pluginname.zip

3. unzip it & edit the install.rdf file with notepad

-> maxversion 3.0.* -> change that to 3.5.* and save the file

4. zip everything back into pluginname.zip and rename that to pluginname.xpi

5. open and install in FF 3.5

6. profit!

(ok, maybe not step 6. Disclaimer: YMMV, but it's worth a try if you don't want to wait until your fav. plugin is updated)

this is how it looks in that install.rdf file (don't worry if it's all unix end-of-lines/squares, just search for maxversion, edit and save) :

<em:maxVersion>3.0.*</em:maxVersion>

and you can try to change it to this:

<em:maxVersion>3.5.*</em:maxVersion>

Man, I haven't changed in three years. I need to get a new sense of humor right now :-(((

The minimise to tray add-on isn't working! Waaaaaah!

1. download the .xpi file.
2. rename the .xpi file to .zip
3. unzip
4. edit the .rdf file: change maxversion=1.5.0.x to 2.0.x
5. zip again
6. rename the .zip file to .xpi
7. in Firefox: file - open - install
8. profit

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:45 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

much easier way to get around that: go to about:config, right-click, choose "New Boolean", call it extensions.checkCompatibility, set to FALSE and restart.

Kick @ss! thx!

They've made the icons on the bookmarks toolbar smaller or closer together or something - anyway you can get more on there - so that's it for me, sold!

What does that do Stet? Will it simply never check for compatibility but the extensions keep working anyway?

My del.icio.us extension wasn't compatible but works like a charm. Imageshack toolbar though, not so much...

(would insert jamesvanderbeekcrying.gif right now but I can't reach it!)

It never checks for compatibility -- most times extensions are fine after an update, but yeah sometimes they break. I prefer it not checking because at least it'll have a go at running them instead of just plain refusing.

Agreed. Will try, thanks.

Sorry, Firefox, you might as well give up, Microsoft has an unbeatable offer.

Microsoft is so the Nickelback of the interwebs.

3.5.1 y'all. Fixes a slow startup thingy on some windows systems and some kind of security issue.

> some kind of security issue

the security issue that they told everyone about in their public bug tracker...

from the dfa thread:

If you use Firefox it's fairly simple to "download" songs direct from Hypem by playing the track and then copying it from your cache.

how can i access the cache? mine seems to be encrypted. would this trick work with embedded videos in sites like bbc.com that hide the vid url in the source data?

there's a handy CacheViewer extension that'll show you everything in there.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2489

brilliant, thank you