Firefox 3 Thoughts and Discussion***Post about FF3 Here***

Nope, people are reporting the same problem and I haven't seen any fix as yet, only a workaround which would be using the IE tab addon when loading hotmail.

http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-vie...s_per_page=20&thread_style=commentStyle_plain

 

It seems as if our computers are not to blame.

I'm hoping for an update on this soon.

 

Indeed, in the meantime I'll suck it up and either continue using the classic version or use IE tab

 

I'll just use IE7 for Hotmail.

This is really the first time I've used Firefox on my own and not on someone else's computer. I'm pretty satisfied right now. A few sites are a little jagged, but I'm guessing it's the same deal as Hotmail.

 

Hasn't FF taken the IE road, looks more bloated and obviously slower than its progenitors. Sure they've stepped up the oomph factor and added an eye candy here and there, overall it's an evolutionary release not a revolutionary one.

 

. personal experiences?
. numbers to reference to?

FF always has its own oomph factor and "eye candy" dingy via its addone-extensions. FF3 is a total remake of its core engine, like IE8, like Opera 9.5

care to define for us what is the revolutionary that u would want to see in a browser?

cheers ...

 

Are you sure you're using firefox 3 and not mistaking it with IE?

 

Lol!! 10char

 

I noticed minor hiccups. Observe the swirling "loading" sign each tab has while the page loads, the animation becomes jerky as you open more and more pages, with FF3 I observed this with only 2 tabs open none being content intensive. Also the colour scheme seems to be borrowed from Vista's own colour scheme which isn't very good on its own. See the faint blue colour in the attached image and contrast this with the rich blue FF2 offered.

These two observation forced me to construe that FF3 is going the IE way with a larger memory footprint. Just a gut feeling.

 

Why do good things have to drastically change?

I got rid of FF3 and reinstall FF2 to get back the ability to read pdf inline, a thing that I'm doing very frequently every day.
I have been very disappointed when I tried FF3 since on the top of the pdf problem, FF3 is not compatible with a bunch of other very useful extensions such as mediaplayerconnectivity...

Well, as seen for the transition of XP to the sluggish Vista, FF3 offers probably tons of super features but it has forgot some that were essential to me.

Conclusion, FF3 will be OK for me in few month when all the FF2 features will be added. Let's wait for FF3.1 and keep your FF2.0.014 install file...

PS: FF2 is difficult to find, here is the link if you find yourself trapped in FF3:
http://mozilla-mirror-origin.intern.../2.0.0.14/win32/fr/Firefox Setup 2.0.0.14.exe
only problem, it's in french!

PS2: I just found a link for other distributions and languages:
ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.14/

 

*sigh* i've had a few crashes with FF3 yesterday

Good thing I had that restore session on, but I wish it wouldn't happen.

I've had a couple of addons to not work also, but I'm sure they'll be rewritten for FF3 soon enough

 

just a quick question, does ff3 store the bookmark file in the same folder as ff2?
i added a few sites but the modified date remains the same?

 

I've had no more crashes ever since the one crash on day one. The only incompatible thing that I have noticed is that I am not able to modify certain options in my router setup page.

 

According to Infoword FF3 has a high alert...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/19/Firefox_3_vulnerability_found_1.html

 

the Clicking and Dragging under the Bookmark Menu isn't doin so well for me.. I try moving the links into different Folders/sub folders and yea it doesn't want to cooperate with me most the time.

 

been running ff3 for a few days now, seems flawless thus far.

 

I downloaded it on the launch day and I'm loving it. Another very nice browser from the Mozilla team

 

Just downloaded and installed. Haven't played around with it at all yet. I connect through a mobile phone as a modem. All I can say is WOW. FF3 loads pages much much faster than FF2 ever did for me. I didn't even know there was a FF3 before reading these forums. So Ummm... Thanks.

 

I thought that the memory hole issue was had been fixed by Beta 5, since back then I remember having 10-15 tabs open and would observe the memory never hit 150K in task manager. But I guess I was wrong! I only have two tabs open right now (both NBR threads) and already FF3 is eating up 180K of my RAM Is the memory leak issue back to haunt us??

 

i believe that one must re-think what "using" lots of memory mean nowadays - take vista as the base!
. if u have plenty of ram and the system is not being underperformed, u are not having any issues
. now if u have other important apps and if FF3 still "hogging" then u can complain
. take a closer look at ur CPU number, if it is not spiking, u r not having any issues
. FF3 "manages" its system resource usages much much better than ff2

cheers ...

 

That's what I'm thinking too:

-) What is the purpose in having 2GB RAM if you don't use it for better performance. I mean that's the reason why you buy so much RAM - in order to enhance performance.

 

A lot of memory issues are also caused by poorly written extensions, make sure any extensions you have are leaking memory.

 

Dictionary/spell check doesn't seem to work in FF 3 (previous ver 2.0.0.9). Any suggestions?

 

Has anyone figured out how to not display favorites in the URL bar? Thats really the only thing I dislike.

 

Right click on a field and check "Check Spelling". It should be enabled by default though. You could also download a spell check extension if all else fails.

 

The problem I'm having is that on some sites I cannot log in so I have to go back to IE7 to do so.

 

Try using IEtab?

 

i personally prefer ie view lite, at least i think that's what it's called.

having IE within the tab was kind of weird because since i knew firefox was open, my mind keeps trying to do mouse gestures and other things that are only associated with firefox.

but either are viable solutions

 

Opera says that FF3 has 1 vulnerability hole;

http://secunia.com/product/19089

Any comment on this?

 

Anyone else have trouble with fullscreen videos? For example, on YouTube when I try to view a video and go fullscreen, it's just black. On IE, this works fine.

 

I don't have any problems with it. Do you have the latest version of flash installed?

 

Just in case any of you wanted to know, Noia is being released for FF3. The beta will show up around June 26th and the final July 4th.

This is the theme I'm talking about (FF2 version): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/72

 

Well, FF3 just crashed on me for the second time. Coincidentally, both times were when I was organizing my bookmarks.

 

I downloaded it the day it came out but have yet to install it. Is it THAT much faster than FF2?

 

well, depeding on:
. FF browser users and fan gilrs/boys = yes (me included)
. "reading statisitc" critics = probably not
. how about trying it urself, and share the personal experience?

cheers ...

 

I've been using FF3 since the day it was released to the public. All has been pretty good so far. Yesterday I suffered 3 crashes just from doing normal browsing.

Basically FF3 quit responding and I had to force quit the app. Since then i've rebooted Vista and i'm monitoring to see if I get anymore crashes.

 

. can u share the links to the sites/pages when it crashed?
. try the same pages/sites with IE7?
. try also increase FF cache to 76 instead of the normal 50

cheers ...

 

I never suffered a single crash with FF2. Honestly, I think I might go back if I get another one. I didn't want to overreact, but if it wasn't happening with FF2, then I don't feel I should have to put up with it on a browser that's supposed to be much improved. It's not even like I'm noticing that much of a better experience with FF3, anyway.

 

Works fine for me, maybe an addon is causing it?

 

I would tell you "yes" but i want you to find out for yourself, install it and see, you have to experience things first hand sometimes instead of replying on others opinions.

 

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It seems smoother, but not noticeably faster...

 

Here's a good hotmail fix

Download the IE TAB Addon
Go To Options and add these URL Filters to the list

* http://*.hotmail.com/*
* http://*.live.com/*
* https://*.live.com/*

and you'll have the Full version running in Firefox.. for now

 

I figured it would do that...the IE engine is too slow compared to FF, I'm better off using classic than waiting forever for the page to load.

 

I need help. I downloaded FF3, didn't like the new address bar and drop down list, went back to FF2.

So how do I make the drop down address list to be:
1. single spaced?
2. have a list of all the links that you type into your address bar
- so not only the last 12 links are only shown in the drop down list
3. make sure the URLs in the drop down list stay in that position, so it doesn't move up and down as you click the URLs.
4 Does not include favourites

So basically, how to have FF3 with FF2 Address bar and functions?

It annoys me a lot that they had to change this without an easy option of switching back.

 

^ You can Download the OLDBar Addon to get the "Old style back". Though the favorites will still remain in the list

yeah, does seem to lag a bit.

 

Hey just wondering... will all my saved website that i put on the toolbar and all of my ADD-ON be deleted if i install the FF3?

 

If you install ff3 in the same directory - no. You can always export your bookmarks fromm ff2 and import them in ff3 later. Bookmarks->Organize Bookmarks..

 

I'm so glad All n One Gestures is working again for FF3. That was the one add on I was missing while using RC's

 

I have noticed that my FF3 lags sometimes, am I the only one?

 

FF3 doesn't lag for me, but Facebook still has some issues with FF3.