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Coyote    Topic opened June 18, 2008, 12:47:32 AM
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Just as a heads-up for those who don't know,  Firefox 3.0 has been released by Mozilla.

Download it here.

Aside from the style changes, the major shift is that the FF programmers overhauled the entire program, making it quicker overall and less of a memory hog.  Squee!

Here are the release notes to tempt you.

And to leave you with, from the usual place:
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Major Reply #1 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 08:13:11 AM
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I downloaded it this morning, and I like it.  It's faster than Firefox 2 and the tool bar is prettier.  Remember, you can be part of a world record if you download yours by 11:16 PDT today, June 18th.  That's three hours left to make history, folks.   nerd
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Dagda Reply #2 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 08:37:54 AM
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I downloaded it... But I'm probably going to wait to install it for a week or two. I try never to install a x.0 application. They may have had a lot of people playing with the betas and the RC's but until it actually gets out into the wild, there's going to be a bit of shakedown, generally.

And I'd rather not find out that one of the things that didn't get shaken down was a big security hole.
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sinic Reply #3 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 08:58:41 AM
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I need less of a memory hog so I'm going for it.  Wish me luck.  Wink
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Mira Reply #4 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 09:04:02 AM
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Isn't the Awesome Bar great?
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sinic Reply #5 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 09:10:27 AM
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So far, so good... mostly.  I don't like it's lack of mouse gestures support.  Also, I have no idea what I did, but it just freaked the fuck out and was doing odd stuff any time I tried to input something.  I closed it and reopened it and it seems to be running fine now.  I think it might have something to do with trying to use old mouse gestures or something.

*Shrug*
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Dagda Reply #6 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 09:23:17 AM
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I had a lot of trouble giving up Opera a while back, because I really liked the mouse gestures and some of the keyboard commands (like control-z for page back and control-x for page forward), but that's gotten easier now that I've got a laptop keyboard that has page forward and back keys built in. I had problems with a previous build of Opera when I first installed it on my Vista machine, but the 9.5 version seems to be working better. It's having some problems with a few pages still, though that seems to have gone away after a restart of the machine (which I didn't do after the install).

So, maybe I'll actually install Firefox 3, and see how that's going too. Still a little trepidatious, though.

Heh... Firefox's spellcheck doesn't recognize "trepidatious". I have a vocabulary!
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sinic Reply #7 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 09:39:28 AM
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I have a five button mouse that has forward and back paging on it.  I used custom mouse gestures, though, to reload the main page of the forum (drawing a Z with the mouse loaded zetachannel.com).  At the moment I miss it, but I assume the mouse gestures will get updated soonish.
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The Ogre Reply #8 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 09:56:33 AM
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I'm not a power user.

But I AM posting this through Firefox3.

Because my work laptop sucks ass and the last firefox raped my resources something fierce, so if this is lighter, I'm all for it. 

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Dagda Reply #9 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 10:03:54 AM
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Yeah, when I open task manager and see that Firefox 2.x is using 350mb of memory, with about 20 tabs open... 6-7 times the amount of memory of Outlook 2007.... Ok. Maybe I'll break down and install it today. On the other hand Opera 9.5 has 6 tabs open, and is using 120mb. Hm...
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sinic Reply #10 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 10:16:24 AM
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Hrm.  4 tabs, 83 k.  Not a whole lot better than before, but we'll see if it goes up any.  Generally by the end of the day I'd have it up around 150k.  Honestly installing the flashblock program seemed to cut down the memory demands more than anything else.
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Coyote Reply #11 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 10:22:37 AM
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Hmm.. Maybe it's your system?  I'm testing it right now, I've got WinAmp going with an internet radio station pulling, and I've got my FF3 up with 12 tabs of various flash and complexity up and I'm only pulling 128-135k of memory.
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Scix Reply #12 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 10:31:38 AM
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Not only is it less of a memory hog, it seems to be much faster even when my bandwidth is choked tight.

Awesome.

Installed it last night / this morning.

I like a lot about it, haven't explored everything yet.
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Symmetry Reply #13 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 11:04:53 AM
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I've been using the new Firefox for a while now with the new Ubuntu release and I gotta say I like it.  What they did to the address entry area in particular.
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Bunner Reply #14 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 11:28:04 AM
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Errruruuugh.
I *hate* what they've done to the drop-down history in the address bar.


EDIT: RAAAARGH! I don't want a brief history of the pages I've been to in that site to show up when I'm typing a site name in, I only want shit that I've typed in to the address bar to show up in the address bar.

*cries* WHY, MOZILLA, WHY?
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Scix Reply #15 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 11:54:04 AM
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There's a really good chance that's a preference option.
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Dagda Reply #16 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 12:01:04 PM
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27 tabs, 274mb. Better. But then, I know that I keep a hell of a lot of tabs open.

ADD, take me away!!!

Hey Bunner! http://lifehacker.com/396312/power-users-guide-to-firefox-3
Should find what you need in there...
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phobos Reply #17 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 12:20:18 PM
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I don't think it's actually possible to switch off the awesomebar. You can only make it look like the old one; the new autocompletion algorithm is still there.
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julia Reply #18 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 01:01:42 PM
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Quote from: Bunner on June 18, 2008, 11:28:04 AM
Errruruuugh.
I *hate* what they've done to the drop-down history in the address bar.

Same here.
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Bunner Reply #19 in Firefox 3.0 Released — Posted June 18, 2008, 01:28:56 PM
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Ah. Indeed. *beams*

Thank you Dagda.

Julia: Go to the site Dagda linked, about halfway down, there's an extension called the "Oldbar Extension"
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