Firefox 3.0 for Mac

Been playing with FF3 on my Vista desktop machine, and it's pretty awesome. One question, though: how do you disable text that pops up on mouse-overs? Like on these forums, for example, if I have my mouse hovering over a thread (but not on the link to it) it pops up a bunch of text from the opening post. I want to get rid of that but haven't seen a setting for it. Or is there an add-on I need to install?

 

I'm not install FF3 until they release FF 3.0.X.X version.Normally first release have bugs & first update release will fix it

 

This is not the first release of FF3, there were lots of alpha versions, 5 beta versions, 3 RC versions before this one.

 

Ya! But this is the first general public release & people will definitely report errors

 

They have already found the 1st Zero-day exploit but Mozilla say they are aware and already working on a fix. Compare and contrast with Apple on Safari who have no problems with ignoring obvious/reported holes putting customers at risk. That’s the kind of attitude from Mozilla that makes me feel comfortable with installing the FF 3 final release and not wait for later version while conversely I try to limit Safari launching at all.

So far I don't notice that much visually but in terms of performance regards CPU and RAM usage it really is a serious improvement. On sites like piratebay and other killers my processor is just sitting there happily ticking over with only the odd very minor jump. It’s great as along with the fantastic Opera 9.50 final release I can now go play on all the sites that make other browsers have a fit. Congratulations Mozilla on a job very well done

A couple of side notes though, good and bad.
1) The default Mac FF 3 skin is IMHO far superior to that of the default PC one which looks very poor in comparison to the clean and stylish OSX version. Great if you’re only on the Apple side, not so good if you’re dual PC and OSX like me. Ahh well, its customizing time (and its another thing to shout about OSX for even if it’s nothing to do with the OS)

2) Still no tab-wrapping, come on Mozilla. I just want an option on the new feline. I just cant live without this as I often use 80-150 tabs at a time on 1 window. Trying that on 1 line and you end up going nuts. Staying with Opera as my main until I have an option for this.

3) Not really a direct FF comment, more an attack on Safari: why in this day and age of widescreen laptops and desktops (Apple don't currently produce a non-widescreen model and are unlikely to ever again) doesn't Safari make use of the sidebars available for almost every other browser. The net is still almost exclusively portrait-driven so not having the option to fill up dead space with useful content is a design flaw plain and simple. You have to pay for Saft etc to get this kinda functionality. FF 3, Opera and others have Apple's in-house creation pinned on this and so many other issues I can't really see any reason to use it anymore. Safari is now definitely the IE of OSX in light of FF3 and Opera 9.50.

4) I chose to download FF 3 on my pc of my own accord unlike having it maliciously injected on false pretences as with Safari. If Mozilla can achieve such high 1st day download figures without resorting to the despicable tactics of Apple but merely relying on community spirit I'll happily support the new streamlined fox in the future. Well done Mozilla.

 

yes bored people on the internet will definitely post errors they are having.

 

Actually they are called people who are concerned with Firefox's development. They are also known as people who are helpful and who have a developed sense of community spirit. Bored is the last thing I would call them. Without those 'bored' people as you call them we wouldn't have a Firefox 3, or an OSX Leopard or almost anything else in development these days. Keep the reports coming.

 

sorry I did not mean it like that at all, and trust me I have plenty of respect for developers, that is not who I am talking about, I am talking about the people who go out looking for things that get in the way of their incredibly specific workflow and call them issues.

 

Seriously, what could you possibly need that many sites loaded at a time for?

 

Yeah wtf. That's a lot of tabs.

 

That's quite a lot...how do you manage? The most I usually have is about 10 tabs, and I thought that was much .

 

Its actually really useful. I know it sounds a bit messed up but say if I'm researching something online I just keep opening potentially useful links as background tabs and move on to the next batch of sites, all the time doing that again and again. Eventually you have hundreds of tabs and I look for keywords in each using the inline 'find in page' button to see if they have any good 'quick-fix' material before just stopping, grabbing a coffee and reading all the sites thoroughly. I can cover and research hundreds of sites, cases and topics in the time it takes some of my mates to go through just the basics. Its like mental sprinting in research. Even though the screen looks like its been carpet-bombed with tabs Opera just sits there ticking over. Great time-saver and sometimes you just hit gold with good info. I just wish FF 3 had that option as it seems like a really cool and fast browser. The closest thing I can find is 'Tab mix plus' but the wrapping still doesn't work yet . You can get it here anyways if anyone wants to play with it and Firefox's tabs.

http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7031

 

I'd like to love FF3 but it's just very laggy when there's a quicktime video on a website or flash or something like that. Just check out gametrailers.com.

 

I've had a change of heart since first downloading FF3. It's still hanging badly. this afternoon I uninstalled it, and downloaded Opera (9.5 I think), which is working pretty well.

Safari is a nice browser, but IMO, is just too slow.

 

I love Firefox 3.0 both on the Mac and PC. I think both versions look beautifully designed. I don't feel any lag in Firefox but font rendering is definitely worse in Safari. And like someone already mentioned, Safari works poorly with eBay, go figure!

I also can't believe that you "power users" don't miss all the cool add-ons for Firefox. I can't do without Auto Text, Google Sync, Show in IE, etc. Glad to hear that there's a replacement for GS too!

 

I also open around 80+ tabs. They are some cool articles that i want to read later or some data i need... etc.

 

i am definitely a fan of a lot of tabs myself, and sometimes do begin researching and trying to find information that way, but just because you have found it and opened it in a tab does NOT mean you have actually learned anything about it. I find I get much more done if I am not using more tabs then fit across a browser window.

 

i just found 3-swipe for FF!!!!

google "multiclutch" now, firefox is complete.

 

Everyone and every discipline has different needs. For law a lot of research and branching off into interrelated topics can be accomplished using multiple tabs and trawling like this. For other subjects I can't imagine it would be anything more than a distraction. As I said you have to stop and read your articles and be very careful in doing it buts its actually fun just to find a needle in a haystack sometimes. If anyone knows how to do tab-wrapping to multiple lines in FF feel free to spill the beans. Would love to get more into FF and its addons.

 

Ever since I upgraded to 3, I've had issues with input randomly. When scrolling (wheel on mouse), I get occasional hesitations that last a half second or so. When typing, I get the same issue. I can keep typing and it will catch up, but it's annoying to have 5-6 words go by finally catch up. It screws up my thought process.

 

Miles ahead of the old version, but still doesn't have that "native" feel I've come to love from Safari. In view of this, Safari will still be my favorite browser by far. The only thing I like better about FF is the new zoom feature. Safari has it all wrong - only resizing text and not graphics makes things look terrible at higher magnifications. Maybe I'm just too picky...

 

thanks for pointing that out, I actually did not realize that until just now, that is much much better than the normal text resize on every other browser, actually scales whole sites very well.

 

I don't like the way safari handles its bookmarks and RSS Feeds.

 

Yea, not being able to see bookmarks on the left, goes counter to all other Mac programs. How "native" is that?

 

I've been having some weird issues lately.

I always use keyboard shortcurts to close tabs, head to the location bar, and I've been finding that Firefox 3 for the Mac seems to have some problems with the keyboard shortcuts.

Anyone else find a similar issue?

 

Just confirming that there is still no better way to support the multitouch swipe left and swipe right to go back and forward on FF 3.0 on OSX other than to use the beta of MultiClutch?

 

multitouch TWO FINGER SWIPE is already built into Firefox, just press and hold Alt/Opt and two a two finger swap left or right to go back and forward.

 

Ok anyway to not require hitting the alt/option button? i like navigating without having to use two hands

 

Looks like the 1st Firefox 3 optimized builds are starting to come out of the closet.

http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2008/06/18/firefox3

 

Something weird keeps happening with my Firefox and I'm not sure what. I can open it and then it will stop accessing pages all together and then distort the pages, etc. But Safari doesn't do any of this. I have to keep reinstalling FF 3.0 to work and I don't want to deal with it. Any ideas?

 

I use firefox cause its not a memory hog like safari. I mean when i had 2 gigs of memory i use go down sometimes even below 512meg. Damn that was annoying. But with firefox i never dipped below 990megs. i may need that memory for like other things like photoshop. I would hate to have to close down my browser to use such programs due to me working with PS images bigger that 30 megs.