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what do you think? i like the new buttons and such, and larger fonts, but i hate when i type in the address bar H to get here, and it has all my bookmarks with H, and gives all the details, not just the link. a lot harder to find what im looking for.
 
infornographer said:
That's the "awesomebar" and it takes getting used to. I run the nightly builds, and there is dissent in the forum over it. In the long term though, you may grow to like it. It adapts to your visit count, so once you realize how it works, it will actually help you.
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I don't mind it, but they should definitely include an option to turn it off (and I don't mean in about:config). Also, Firefox 3 Beta 5 is slow starting sometimes, a lot of video sites don't work with it (namely those that use the Move media player), and most of my plugins don't support it. They better fix up all these show stoppers soon or I may become an Opera fan.
 
Certainly wouldn't criticize Opera. I like Opera too. Until Firefox 3 final, patience is key. I remember Firefox 2 beta and how many problems that had. Firefox 3 is full of incredibly heavy changes.

That said, I would love to see an option to disable the awesomebar as well. If not, there will be an addon that does it simply. What I'm really waiting for is for the new bookmark system to be finished. The SQLlite engine is awesome, but interface is still lacking.
 
With Firefox 3, they finally have a browser that I might consider making my primary one, if the developers of the plugins/extensions I use currently port them over to full FF3 functionality.

The memory leaks are done, the performance is fast, the memory usage is down, etc. This could be the one, folks... sad it took them this long to get some of those memory issues resolved, but it really looks like it's a done deal finally.

It's a very impressive piece of coding now, and as long as they don't find any major showstoppers between now and the end of this week coming up, the RC1 build could become the "Final" FF3 one and then it's a whole new ballgame.

We'll see what happens, but so far I do like it, a lot more than I like FF2 at this point.
 
If you mean All Mouse Gestures, or something like it, there's a chance the Nightly Tester Tools can enable that functionality again, that's what I had to use to get it back and functional in RC1. Works fine for the time being, but I do hope, as I mentioned above, that the extension developer will create a proper FF3 build for it.
 
this really pisses me off though! lol, like i type in E to get ebay to come up, and whats the first link on my list? FEDEX! doesnt make any sense!


EDIT: and hitting H makes the first item on the list: ebay. :rolleyes: at least now i know i only have to hit H to get my ebay link
 
Then type a bit more...last time I checked FEDEX has 2 "E"s in it.

Like "hard" for hardforum or "eb" for ebay.
Most of us can type fast enough it is not an issue to put more than 1 damn letter into the address bar...heck in no other browser can I type in one letter...I visit too many sites to be able to do that.
 
I have a question, I'm running FF3 RC on my Macbook Pro and for some reason or another it blocks the images from match.com on me. A couple weeks ago my cat winded up walking on the keyboard while I was checking it out and now I can't figure out how to undo it...I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, but the images to the profiles are still blocked.

Don't have the problem with any other websites either...
 
Well that would be in your firefox user profile, not firefox the app itself. Make a new profile with the profile manager and see if it does the same thing there.
 
It's nice that they finally added the patch to add exceptions for self-signed certs. Having to import them manually was kind of lame.
 
Only thing really bugging me still is that it takes a long time to start up vs. IE and FF2 and no google toolbar...but that will be fixed soon enough I am sure.
 
I'm still getting a TON of crashes. Haven't been able to narrow down the cause yet, but it makes it almost unusable.
 
Can anyone tell me how to get the NoSquint add-on to work properly? If I open a 2nd tab, then close it, my No Squint settings go to hell and everything is tiny. Also, I'm getting very high CPU usage and a Java error here and there, but haven't positively connected the 2 yet.
 
Memory usage is definitely lower, although since I got a machine with 1 gig of RAM here at work, it hasn't been as much of a problem and definitely not a problem with my 4 gig of RAM machine at home. Either way, it's nice to have the lower RAM usage.

I haven't noticed anything else that is really "different" for me. There are some UI changes as well as some other stuff, it hasn't changed my ability to browse or anything like that. Rendering seems to be about the same but that could be my connection here at work as well as some software running the background. Then again, I have 4 systems at home which are faster than my work system and my net connection at home is less laggy.

I was able to use the Nightly Tester Tools plugin to get the Forecast Fox and All In One Gestures working so my main required plugins are good to go.

This is the RC 1 on a Pentium D 3.0Ghz 1 gig of RAM WinXP box at work. I'm waiting for the final release before I install it on my Linux systems at home. Then again, I don't have any problems at home with version 2. Plus, it's easier to uninstall it on a Windows system if I had any trouble. While it's only my profile I have to worry about, on Linux it will basically wipe out my FF2 install which means I would have to totally uninstall Firefox and reinstall FF2. I just didn't want to mess with that right now.

 
I have problem w/ Firefox 3, RC2. I just installed it, and I can no longer launch my fire fox 2. It seems Firefox 3 (even I save in 2 separate directory) is over riding firefox 2 somehow.

And when I forcefully launch Windows Explorer to hard launch Firefox 2, it says something like my firefox is updated.

As of now, when I use either the Quick Launch button, or the Start/Program way, only Firefox 3 will load up.

Surely you can have 2 separate browser in your computer. Is this a RC2 bug?
 
Both of them save the profile to the same spot. So everything in the profiles is being updated, that's why your old FF2 says that each time you open FF3.
 
So is there a way to run each ver. separately? A friend of mine did it, but he didn't use RC2, it was an older beta ver. But I don't think I can download that older beta ver. If there is a link, let me know.

I need a Firefox 3 that does not share the same profile as Firefox 2
 
i downloaded rc1 when it was released and i noticed rc2 is out now with the final release coming pretty soon. did my rc1 update to rc2 automatically? i dont remember seeing the dialog for the update and the about firefox it doesnt mention it. it does like theres date inside of a string letters that mentions a date later then when i downloaded it.
 
I have RC2 and here's the date mine shows: 2008052906 (I guess that's May 29)

FYI, RC3 is out, which is probably identical to the final version being released in a few days.
 
gtg465x said:
FYI, RC3 is out, which is probably identical to the final version being released in a few days.
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RC2 and RC3 for Windows are identical... the only change in RC3 is on the Mac.

So, RC2 is pretty much final! Woohoo!
 
Oneos said:
Both of them save the profile to the same spot. So everything in the profiles is being updated, that's why your old FF2 says that each time you open FF3.
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Now that Firefox 3 is out, I am trying to have both Firefox 2 and 3 running in my computer at the same time, but it seems Firefox 3 shares the same profile as 2, so I can't get 2 different software to co-exist in 1 computer

Any1 knows how let me know
 
Happy Hopping said:
Now that Firefox 3 is out, I am trying to have both Firefox 2 and 3 running in my computer at the same time, but it seems Firefox 3 shares the same profile as 2, so I can't get 2 different software to co-exist in 1 computer

Any1 knows how let me know
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Try running a version of Portable Firefox
 
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