Comments on: Firefox: The Pre-Release Version is a Big Improvement

By: Lasse Rintakumpu

Lasse Rintakumpu — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:54:31 +0000

I tried almost all the released betas, but couldn’t get all the extensions I need to work (even with Nightly Tester).

Now, with RC1 everything finally works fine and I got it installed as default browser on all my three PCs.

On my office PC FF3 still suffers occasional crashes, but in general it really is a lot faster and more reliable, even at this stage. Hard to imagine how I ever could work with my bloated Firefox 2.

One thing that annoys me, though, is that Firefox 3 has full page zoom enabled by default. Do people really like that feature so much? Methinks it’s highly annoying. And thank goodness easily disabled (View->Zoom->Zoom Text Only).

(If you want to zoom pictures, just mouse gesture over them or something…)

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:45:12 +0000

I installed Firefox 3 RC1 yesterday, and have noticed a drastic boost in performance.

For me Firefox 2 would slow down to a crawl when using web apps like netvibes, with 3 so far I am experiencing no slow down and no crashes.

Great Work!

By: Marcin

Marcin — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:35:30 +0000

I may be just unlucky, but after installing Firefox 3 RC1 today, it has already crashed 4 times. Firefox 2 is rock-solid for me.

I can see very noticeable speed improvement in FF3, but these crashes are more than annoying

By: Regac

Regac — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:33:40 +0000

I am using it in Ubuntu, and the only drawback is that not all the extensions work yet.

It is faster, looks better, more secure

The certificate exception adding thing is a pain though
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By: Blake

Blake — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:35:22 +0000

I have had it on my Mac along with FF 2, since an early beta. I loved the speed, but the lack of extensions kept me from using it much as I rely on them (Web Developer and FIrebug in particular).

Now that those two are available (Firebug as a beta) it is getting a lot more use and will probably soon reclaim my “most used” browser status.

By: Cervantes

Cervantes — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:25:29 +0000

One issue with FF3 tho is that it breaks some Flash applications

http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2008/05/29/firefox-3-will-break-some-flash-content/

By: Toni Marie

Toni Marie — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:23:53 +0000

I started using FF 3 when it was in Beta 4, because my FF 2 developed an error that reinstalling couldn’t shake (probably something in the registry, I dunno) . Anyway, I’m much happier with RC1 than I was with FF 2, but I’ve been on a roller coaster of add-ons working and not working.

Finally, everything I use daily for development is available for RC1 (Fireshot, clippings, and the web developer toolbar are MUST HAVES).

I only turn IE on for checking my CSS designs for cross-browser compatibility.