I'm glad they fixed the mouse over issues.
Now get all my extensions updated, and it'll be Sweet!!

Looks okay, but putting bookmarks in the drop down URL field is just flat out confusing.

You expect that when you clear the history, it clears a list of all sites you have visited, but for some unfathomable reason, they wanted to put bookmarks in there too.

Theme support is again a pain in the tail. I did find one that is called PAST MODERN v 0.1.08.05.17, which is close to the Modern Aluminum skin I prefer. I'm baffled why the updates that they make seem to break themes like crazy.

I had read that they would include an inline auto-complete function for the address/url field, but it doesn't seem to work nearly as well as the one in IE 6 under the Advanced tab under the Internet Options. When you check the box in front of Use Inline Auto-Complete, IE 6 executes the feature the proper way. If Firefox is going to add that feature, it should work the same way, because it's the best way, imo. :)

It was annoying that I had to register just to download skins and such, but just because I never had to before.

I really do wish they had some more default TAB features, cause right now, so many extensions are broken, like Tab Mix Plus.

Still, all things considered, I think it is a pretty decent release, and I hope they keep on plugging away and make it even better.

About the theme support, I'm 100% behind you.

You could download a workable version on this thread topic. I hope it helps.

not compatible with youplayer.. :(
compatible with speed dial but shortcut(ctrl+ #) not working.. waaa..

There is still a few minor issues but it looks very promising.

Just add -profilemanager to your firefox shortcut and you can create another profile for ff3.
You can then start your other profile with -P yourprofile

Or you could create it somewhere else with:
firefox.exe -createprofile "testuser c:\testuser"
and then start with:
forefox.exe -profile "c:\testuser"

There are lots of other parameters, too many to list here.

I've noticed that this new RC1 release is a bit snappier when first launched and renders web pages even faster than beta 5. The folks over at Mozilla are truly amazing.

Which is no surprise since Betas typically have a more extensive logging level turned on.

Someone on the internet is wrong! Let's FIGHT! Lol.

Are you guys running FF3 alongside FF2 without v3 messing with v2 settings? My FF2 is pretty much working perfectly with all it's addons and wouldn't want to get it messed up, althoug I'm obviously interested in trying FF3...

I would recommend simply waiting. You can go to portableapps.com and download the portable version of FF3, if you just can't wait. Some things to like in the new one, though nothing earthshaking, I would say. New and improved is always good, but the finished version in not so far away.

I am currently running FF3 RC1 and FF2 at the same time without any issues at all. Here's how: http://ellaborg.blogspot...x-3-co-exists-with.html. Follow the instructions exactly and you will not have a problem. Cheers!

Nope. Dumped 2 after I saw incredible speed enhancements. When 3 final comes out I will restore my bookmarks and preferences from then.

The Firefox Back and Forward buttons look a bit IE-ish.

Yeah, I can't see the logic in Mozilla doing that. It's not necessary. It even looks like that on the Mac version. However, I am using the YummyGrapple theme and the fission extension to fix that and make it more Mac like. Those little touches make a big difference.

Wonder why the Opera gang has not arrived yet, probably still trying to get online.

Opera != Dial up

I prefer Opera because it suits me, you prefer Firefox because it suits you.

Stop being a tart about it and get on with your life.

And may I add that while I use FF much of the day, there is at least one site which I must use without it crashing, and only Opera works best in this case. Actually, for working stuff, I prefer Opera. For browsing and the forums, I prefer FF. Both work well in their own way. The ie7 is the only one not used by little ol' me these days. I have used FF3 portable, and it is OK. The memory use is still there, but we all have more memory on our systems these days.

Don't be daft, I use IE8.

:))

You got me curious. What kind of work do you do if Opera is your default browser and the only one capable of handing it?

Of 17 extensions I have, only 2 came over. And no, Adblock didn't work. Though i didnt try adblock plus which a user says below works. And the forecastfox did also. Overall, the authors of these add ons need to get cracken.

IE7 is way better then 6, as they took a lot of ideas from Firefox. But to say no addons. Try IE7PRO for IE7. Adds most of what people are adding into Firefox below. http://fileforum.betanew...ail/IE7pro/1168277137/1
Don't get me wrong. I have both installed but was forced to start using IE7 at work (corp policy no firefox). And for the people that say IE7 or IE8 sucks - explain why.

And this has what to do with the above posters reply?

Something changed - there was an edit done - so no mine makes no sense. Doesn't matter though - I like firefox - I like IE7 but only with IE7Pro added :)

Original post said IE7 was a huge step back from IE6.
Guess he saw the stupidity in that claim and changed it :)

As this is done in their free time and nobody pay them why do you expect extension developers to spend huge amounts of time with each new Firefox version? I foresee a decrease in extension/theme support with every new Firefox release if they keep this behavior of breaking everything. At least the most creative ones.

Frankly I find it hard to compair firefox and IE anymore.
IE is just a browser that works well
Firefox is just a browser and SO much more. Its the sandbox for browsers.

Some people just want that browser, others want that so much more.
Can we all be friends? :)

"IE8 will be better then Firefox 3!!"

Going on previous efforts on IE, i highly doubt it.

Microsoft simply cannot be arsed.

IE8 will be better then Firefox 3!!

Bravo! Not afraid to stand up for what he/she believes!

I hope so. Right now I still prefer IE (with ie7pro of course...) but FF3 seems an excellent piece of work.

Good for us if IE8 is better....

What is the use in arguing for or against Firefox or IE or whatever? Sure, I think Firefox 3 is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but that doesn't mean I should look with disdain on someone who chooses to use an archaic, bloated, over-the-hill browser like IE, right? After all, it's a free country. Bad decisions aren't against the law (though one might argue that choosing IE should be). My point is that we should all just try to get along (even if using IE demonstrates a bit of technical naivete). See, I can be reasonable and objective! Embrace our differences - that's my motto.

Not bad - loads much faster on my Vista Box then 2.X (I mean really, really faster). I'm still an IE7 fan with ie7Pro installed. Gives me most of what I need. But FireFox3 might get me to come back.

Thankfully we folk who use IE8 don't squabble amongst ourselves. We also don't brag about how many extensions we have installed ! Bill has fortunately already supplied all we require in a browser, and for that we thank him.

IE8 = Microsoft crapware

*laughing*

That was brilliant! Gotta remember that one...

IE8 is quite bad at the moment, but I'm looking forward to the final build when it's vaguely stable.

You are out of tune.

WE NEED A GOOGLE TOOLBAR ALREADY!! PEOPLE!!!!

lol why? it has the little box on top right corner you can choose google as default..
hmmmm

UNITE!!!!

If you're having problems, start out with a new profile. Using Ff2 profiles have been known to cause problems previously.

Most extensions that were compatible with 3.0b5 are most likely compatible with this release. You can use this addon to get them to install
http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly

And if the extensions listed on addons.mozilla.org aren't compatible, go to the developer's home page and see if they have a development build. Many do.

Per the article:

"As expected, most of the plug-ins recently upgraded for usability with Beta 5 were inoperable in this version..."

'nuff said.

Useless.

Undid all my bookmark configurations and rolled back to a very old profile.

How does this happen?

I am ripping this and rolling back.

Score=0

OK....Does Greasemonkey work with FF3??
I run around 50 different Greasemonkey scripts in order to manipulate web pages the way I want them to appear.

Yes, works flawlessly.

My favorite extensions that I use carried over perfectly from 3.0b5:

NoScript 1.6.5
Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4
Forecastfox Enhanced 0.9.5.2
Gmail Notifier 0.6.3.2

So far it's been a pleasant experience. I've loved every new release of 3.0 more and more.

Great.

Add opendownload, TMP, and downthemall to that list, and I am sold. :)

opendownload hasn't been updated for FF3.0 as far as I can tell, but TMP and DownThemAll! both work in 3.0 RC1. Grab the developer build of TMP off the official site.

Grab TMP from the Dev-Build discussion thread
http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7031

Had issues with the DEV version for b4 that was supposed to work. Made a mess of things real nice.

Meh...

I'll wait. :)

I guess we'll get an official release Monday.

No mayor problems here except for the add-ons incompatibility. Only 14 of my add-ons work. And FF still eats up a $h!t load of memory. Although it does seem a little faster than FF 2.0.

Only 14?

Wow.

Perhaps is eats up a lot of memory because of the absurd number of add-ons? For most folks it seems, FF3 has pretty much solved the memory issues.

Also seems most folks agree on the add-on compatibility issue. Seems a lot of us are going to wait for the final (and hopefully the migration of all of our most beloved add-ons), regardless of quantity. ;)

Yah I was about to say, maybe it is the 14 plugins lol.

Wow, are you joking? You have 14 EXTENSIONS and you're complaining that Firefox 3 RC1 still eats up memory? Just in case you missed it, Firefox 3 significantly improves memory usage and memory leaks.

I recommend you try parting with some of those UNnecessary extensions and memory usage should be much smaller on your computer.

PC_Tool don't be a smart @$$! :-) Obviously the add-ons increase memory. I'm talking about a clean install with no extra add-ons installed.

And btw a absurd number of add-ons would be more than 50, I'm still in the 40's:-)

I use 12 addons and I find that number to be conservative, as opposed to some folks, although it all depends on what those addons are that could be the cause of high memory usage.

All right ..I'll bite.. GS? can you please list 40 plugins that truly enhance the browsing experience? If so, I'll copy your response and save it for when I install this new version and add these plugins. I mean that and I am not being sarcastic.
Oh and the Betanews neo-nazis are out in full force and selectively enforcing their TOS portion of "personal attacks". Pc seems exempt but others are fair game.

Have a nice evening.:)

PC_Tool don't be a smart @$$! :-)

*laughs*

...like asking a fish not to swim, my friend. It ain't gonna happen. ;)

Name one person I've attacked in this topic, Oh Wise One.

Just one.

Relax, tscar. I am not picking on anyone out of spite, nor am I intentionally being cruel to anyone. To be perfectly honest, I simply don't care enough to put that much effort into it.

...In case you haven't noticed, I post here for fun. I enjoy messing with people. You can go ahead and take it personally if you must, but don't expect me to return the favor. :)

Laughing...PC? I knew you were lurking in the shadows and wanted to entice you in and I have been shot down so many times, I don't care. Welcome back from lurking.:)

Have a nice day:)

Oh and for the future, I will make provocative statements just to see how people react.:)

Sorry to disappoint you tscar13, but I don't use 40 add-ons. I have less than 20. But since you want to know what add-ons I can't live without, here they are:

Adblock Plus, All-in-One Sidebar, Bookmarks on line, DownThemall!, Febe, Feed Sidebar, Fierr, FlashGot, Full Screen, Nighly Tester, NoScript, Personal Menu, Sercure Login, Tab Mix Plus, Throbber Botton, WebMail Notifier, Flagfox, OpenDownload, Organize Status Bar

Enjoy!

12 is very conservative, I have a friend that has 80+ add-ons. I use about 20 add-ons, which I find pretty reasonable. But today I installed a clean version of FF3 and the memory that is used up was between 45 and 55mb. And this was with no additional add-ons. So I don't know, maybe it's just me.

Thank you. I only use 3-4 and some of these are interesting.

Have a great day:)

Well they say it does improve on memory use, but I have not found it to be so. I have run FF3 and found the memory use to be about the same as the current app. It is stable and works fine, but takes memory all the way. I think most people have plenty of memory on hand these days, so it is not as much an issue. Opera gobbles up memory too.

Oh and for the future, I will make provocative statements just to see how people react.:)

How ... "me" of you. Now try to make them relevant and, ya know, true, and you've got it nailed. ;)

I must be one of the few and the proud, but I enjoy your comments. They actually contain information. Some of the stuff I see is pure, unadulterated ignorance.

I agree... even his sarcasm is brilliant! :)

You're a Marine? ;)

I'm a retired cop. Up against the wall and spread'em.

Good Browser, but the extension/add on thing is starting to worry me. Allot of mine still don't work. I know its not a final release, but when i was using 1.5 and the upcoming 2 series was going through its beta and release phases, All my add on's came over. I know its up to the authors of each add on to be up on the newest Browser version. But as of now, Its Still Seamonkey and Firefox 2.0.0.14 i will stick with.

Plugins. That's what we love about FF. But it seems they're also the biggest issue with making the transition to v3. Maybe Mozilla should give some thought to this in the next major update. Most plugins are actually compatible and can be easily made to be, but it requires tweaking that's probably beyond the average user. I personally won't be switching until every plugin I love is working properly. I'll bet most plugin writers will wait until its final before even bothering with a re-write, and I imagine many great plugins will never get redone, since some of the authors have moved on. This will mean that some people will just stay with v2.

100% agreed, my man.

Don't think our wish for an end to the addon issues will ever come true, but I'm right there with ya on it.

Regarding the plugins that "don't work" but really do, just use the Nightly Tester Tools plugin... That one allows you to make anything officially compatible if you'd like. Voila, everything (that works) is fixed, one easy step. :)

Thanks for that cool tip. :)

Try to install that prior to upgrading. Makes life a bit easier...

This crashes when running SilverLight over remote desktop connection.

Wow.

Why are you running Silverlight over RDP? (Not that you shouldn't be able to, but....)

Report it. Hopefully they'll get it worked out before release of the final.

No crashing issues here. RDP'ing to XP SP3, 2 gig RAM.

I do get "echoed" sound effects, however.

Flash works normally and always has over RDP, of course.

Poor Microsoft, one day they'll catch up.

OK I just checked out Silverlight on IE7 under RDP and I get the same echoing effects. Some of the sites in Microsoft's "showcase" didn't even work when I visited. I am using current version according to Microsoft's test page."The latest version of Silverlight 1.0 is installed:
version 1.0.30401.0"

Based on my experience I'd say the problems are much more to do with with Silverlight rather than Firefox.

Wow, remember when IE7 came out and everyone said how stupid the "giant back button" looked?

Thankfully you can customize the FF button easily. You cannot with the IE button.

What giant back button?

Excellent browser and coming along nicely. I have no real complaints, after all is it free, it is not like you had to buy it. Some people on this forum would argue over colored toilet paper and you need to get a life. Geez

"colored toilet paper? They actually make that? I prefer the brown on white Contrast myself. But thanks for the news that everything works fine with FF as I like it.

Have a nice day:)

All my extensions work fine: adblock plus, noscript, download statusbar.

New feature on FF3: Spyware. Great !! Mozilla collecting info from users to track used data .
http://www.favbrowser.co...efox-to-track-user-data/

Gee.. that's a shocker! STOP THE PRESSES..BREAKING NEWS..
With all do respect Andrew, a lot of browsers and programs (Google, for example) have for a long time done that. It helps create a demographic profile to better target ads. While the line sometimes gets blurred, there is a difference between adware and spyware.

Have a nice day and have a beer (if you're of age):)

Looks opt in. No problem with opt-in.

With all do respect Andrew,

...due respect.

Just because. ;)

no..just trying to be nice in case the Betanews neo-nazis are practicing their Goose-stepping nearby:)

Have a nice evening:)
Caught again in a typo. I often wonder if that creep Fulton and PC play tagteam:) but I made a mistake so be it do=due. From now fair is fair.. any Typo or Misspellings will be pointed out.

BTW PC? did you find your typo on one of your post or should I point it out to you.?:)

or should I point it out to you.?

Well, you seem to take offense to it, but I would actually appreciate it.

Being corrected is far better than being ignorant.

Actually, do whatever you want. It makes no difference. My own attitude is that typos happen and this site unlike the articles which should be correct is just a comment page so, generally, I ignore typos and spelling errors unless they interfere with understadning the post.

Have a nice day:)

"Being corrected is far better than being ignorant"= arrogance but since you don't care it's ok:)

How the hell is not wanting to have typos arrogance?

here we go again...

Scott got his degree off a matchbook cover and that is why there are problems with his writing and, of course, there is always his bias (just my opinion).

As far as this upgrade, I haven't d/led it yet because there has been a problem in the past with extensions not working so I'll wait until the final version comes out and the extensions are upgraded.

Everyone and this includes you Scott have a nice day:)
Edited:
Good one Scott...you got me.:). As far as being bias, that is for each person to decide. Just like Pc or any of the others including myself.

Touch a nerve? I am amazed you must spend your time waiting for responses. The difference between posting here and stories is that you should look at your stories before releasing them whereas people post without spellcheck since Betanews doesn't seem to provide that.

But have a great weekend:) and get out more and enjoy the sun:)

Oh, and PC? you ight want to check one your other post as there is a typo and you wouldn't want Scott to call you out.

Okay, let me get this straight: You've concluded I'm biased on account of my inadvertent admission of a prefix?

Ditzy, yea, I'll accept that. "That is why their are problems with his writing?" I'll let that speak for itself.

-SF "Pretty Damn Expensive Matchbook Cover, If You Ask Me" 3

My view of your bias is on the totality of your body of work.

Have a nice day:)

Oh, and PC? you ight want to check one your other post as there is a typo and you wouldn't want Scott to call you out.

...and if he does? I'd rather he call me on it than let it sit there for everyone else to see.

As expected, most of the plug-ins recently upgraded for usability with Beta 5 were operable in this version, though our plug-in to switch rendering engines with Internet Explorer at will, is functional.

The wording there is a little funky, Scott. As expected, most worked, though the IE-TAb extension worked? Makes no sense. I think you missed a "in" before "operable" or a "non-" before "functional". :)

Can't wait until it's the real deal. Love the Beta 4, got sick of the plugin issue though. Will wait now until it's final.

You're right, Tool, that was funky. I poked Update on that piece about 12 times, and the language got garbled. Note my correction.

-SF3

Try writing your stories on Word or open source's version before here. Then just cut and paste:)

The spelling was all correct, none of that would have helped.

Thank, Scott.

Things are much better when they make sense. ;)

Based on the current wording (*nudge*) I'll definately be holding off. Firefox just isn't my kind of browser unless the extensions I have come to depend on are working.

Can't wait for it to hit final though.

You two should get a room and then fight over who is on top.:)

People having problems with non-functional plugins should install Night Tester before talking garbage.

Oh, the love-hate relationship is quite entertaining. They should keep it on the forum - or open a dedicated section.

If they want to include those tools as part of the default distribution, that is fine. Until then, the complaints are valid.