SillyDog701

[J-M]

Link to the Mozilla's Developer News post:
Firefox 3 Beta 1 now available for download

Mozilla Firefox 3.0b1 can be downloaded here.

[Applied BBCode to first link. profman, 11/21/2007]

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[Fulvio]

Have you tried it? In my experience, most of the 3.0 were stealing default.

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[Antony]

Just to make sure that everybody read this from the Mozilla Developer Center:

Please note: We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 3 Beta 1 milestone release. It is intended for testing purposes only.

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[Fulvio]

Just to make sure that everybody read this from the Mozilla Developer Center:

Please note: We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 3 Beta 1 milestone release. It is intended for testing purposes only.

In my experience, it is a mandatory message for all new, non-final builds.
I worked 3.0ax, and, it behaved up until 3.0a8 (although its download progress was messed up). I tried 3.0a9 and then b1pre, and caused havoc. They insisted in making it default.
I will try b1, and see if has done away with the propensity of making itself default.

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[Fulvio]

I have installed (custom install to select a different folder) 3.0b1. I used the same profile, previously, used by 3.0a8. The first time around, the default was stolen, but not thereafter.
3.0x requires secure installations of the add-ons, but I can make all but one work.
I had to go into 3.0b1 to complete post. 2.0.0.9 would not accept anything else. Never seen anything like that.
Roboform add-on is the one which does not work, nor it can be uninstalled (grayed out).
The iSafari theme was not compatible, and I removed it.
Take a look at this review

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[richard mitnick]

I could possibly be curious enough to go for the beta, but it has gotten a lot of bad press, as being loaded with un-attended vulnerabities.

>>RSM
New Jersey weather: dunno, in San Diego with family for holiday.

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[iJohnE]

I am currently using FF and TB 2.0.0.9. I am willing to go for the beta, but I am alsow ownderinf if the will come out with a TB 3.

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[Fulvio]

I am alsow ownderinf if the will come out with a TB 3.

I think that you are akeing if there will be a TB3. I know that they were working on it. But, Mozilla is no longer, officially, working on TB. Some individuals come out with nightlies, but they have made no progress. I would not count on a TB3.0.
I try anything, but I will reject any program which messes me up. TB3.0 was one of those, which like FF3.0 earlier builds stole default. That's why I was asking if FF3.0b1 had the same propensity. I will test any program, but one which steals default (i.e. does not ask me) is not to be trusted.
One more comment, with a link mozillazine. A lot of people seem to have memory hog problems. I find that it is less of a memory hog than 2.x. But, I have unchecked most of the problem boxes. I am, actually, using about 5 CPU, and 52MB, with five tabs. I have half as many add-ons as Firefox2.0.0.9.
There is no doubt that 3.0 is more agile.

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[Somedude]

I have yet to fully mess around with b1, but so far it seems to be working fine for me.

~SD

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[Fulvio]

I have yet to fully mess around with b1, but so far it seems to be working fine for me.

~SD

b2 is suppose to come out this week. However, the only major problem I had was with Yahoo Mail Beta. 3.0b1 is not accepted by Yahoo, giving some ridiculous error messages. I think that Yahoo is striking again.

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