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Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 2.0 released

Postby J-M » Thu 20 Dec, 2007 7:17 am

Firefox 3 Beta 2 is available for testing purposes now.

Link to the official Release Notes document here.

Download link to 'All language versions' page, in turn, is here:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-beta.html

29 language builds are ready, WOW!

Mozilla Developer News has its own post too, link here.
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Postby Fulvio » Thu 20 Dec, 2007 11:13 am

It seems ok, up to a point, except for a totally dead (grayed out) main toolbar. Nothing from File to Help is accessible. It seemed ok, until I uninstalled the incompatible Roboform add-on, and restarted FF.
I will see if this keeps up. I am pretty sure that restarting in Safe Mode will be ok. As anyone has seen, FF3 does not accept any add-on ( I go around the compatibility, and , did ok with beta1.
It is back after restarting. Some add-ons seem to be compatible, but, do not work well, e.g. Yahoo Mail Notifier. But, it did not work well with Beta1, either!
An additional issue. beta2 stole default, as beta1 did, but beta1 had a place to check for default. Not so in beta2. I am not asked if I want to be default, nor I find a place (it used to be in Mail) where I can make a selection.
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Postby Fulvio » Mon 24 Dec, 2007 12:22 pm

Correction to my previous post:
Mail
, should be Main.
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Postby Fulvio » Wed 02 Jan, 2008 2:43 pm

I tried, today, to save a page as a bookmark, and this build would do nothing. Nothing happens selecting Bookmark this page, and I could find no trick to get the page into a folder. The Smart Bookmarks are no help. Finally, I got the page as a link in the ever useful Prefbar.
However, it does not seem as if the Prefbar is completely compatible (but which add-on is?), as Images and JavaScript were unchecked, but, still working.
It will be interesting to use FF3.x!
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forks or cv

Postby cjb4923 » Wed 02 Jan, 2008 7:46 pm

do you like forks or cv best
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Re: forks or cv

Postby Fulvio » Thu 03 Jan, 2008 1:49 pm

cjb4923 wrote:do you like forks or cv best


I don't understand this. Meaning what?
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Postby JockTheBlock » Sat 12 Jan, 2008 6:19 am

So far so good. Seems a bit snappier at loading pages than firefox 2 and Seamonkey and even Opera. I might run with this as my main website browser for a while. I know it's still only a Beta version at the minute, but I like trying out different website browsers from time to time.
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Postby Fulvio » Sat 19 Jan, 2008 3:50 pm

I noticed today a serious problem in getting into a few sites, after entering username/password, or opening the pages without having logged out.
1. Sillydog.org, apparently, logs me out, but it offers my username and password, and, until yesterday, I needed to click under the username/password, and I was in. Today, nothing worked. Cookies and passwords are saved, but I can't login.
2. WindowsBBS has, often been a problem because I am not logged in, nor is any info about my username/password. But, if enter the info, I can log in.
2.ufaq.org is no problem.

And, there is no problem with any sites with v.2.0.0.11.
Interestingly, this site has a check mark to remember me next time. I unchecked the box, and reentered the username/password. The check mark came up by itself, but, I still could not login.
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