Comments for Firefox 3 Beta 1 is a winner at http://www.itwire.com , comment 1 to 20 out of 20 comments http://www.itwire.com Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:48:05 -0600 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-5119 /quote John EVERY ONE of these features is already in Firefox 2. What is he talking about? end quote John/ /quote Shaun What? No they aren't... end quote Shaun/ All of the features listed by John are available in ff2 as addons, but they are not an integral part of the program. It would be a little dumb for the programmers not to merge the features of the most popular addons. - Troy Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:52:23 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4587 What? No they aren't... - Shaun Rosten Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:22:17 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4584 1 one click "bookmark this page" star icon in the location bar, 2 ability to save tabs (very handy when you need to quit Firefox), 3 ability to add tags to bookmarks for later sorting, 4 page zooming EVERY ONE of these features is already in Firefox 2. What is he talking about? - John Atkeson Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:22:57 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4559 I mean IE6. Sorry for the typo :d - Krishnan Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:39:47 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4558 /Quote with all those pirated copies of xp out there, there are also a lot of people not able to upgrade to ie6 End Quote/ I think XP comes with IE7. - Krishnan Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:39:12 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4553 Not only is the memory hole not fixed yet, it's worse. I had it hit 300,000k in a matter of minutes! They still have a long way to go. I don't care how many extra bells and whistles they throw on to this thing, if they don't fix the memory hole, none of those fancy window dressings will matter. - Anonemyeouse Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:53:37 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4551 And had to uninstall immediately. Within 2 minutes of use the browser would eat up my memory to 800meg usage. I'm a huge firefox fan, but that is unacceptable. I don't know why it does that, nor how to fix it. But it is a beta, so I can only hope it's fixed by actual release. BTW this is on Windows XP SP2. But it seems to be the same problem as the openSuSe user above me. Haha, just read his post further, and yeah I've NEVER had any memory problems with previous releases before either, strange it starts now when most people have experienced better memory usage. - Shaun Rosten Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:26:14 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4547 I tried the beta1 on my pentium3-opensuse10.3 and it would gobble up about 500 mb ram and 80% cpu after sitting at the homepage for 10-15 seconds. Same thing after mv'ing .mozilla to .mozilla.bak and letting it build it's own ~dir. But I guess that's why they call it beta. I'm still planning on upgrading when the official release comes out. I've never experienced any of the "memory leak" problems I've heard about on this old hardware, using firefox since the first release. - Stu Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:07:07 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4546 with all those pirated copies of xp out there, there are also a lot of people not able to upgrade to ie6 :D - xenu Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:39:12 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4541 It may not be that they won't upgrade, it's that they can't. Win 2000 users can't upgrade to IE 7. Thankfully I don't care because I use Firefox. I'm planning on downloading FF v3.1b as a separate install soon. - Joshua Harris Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:32:13 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4540 I am a Safari user, but I am giving Firefox another look since the new beta. I like what I see, the new prototype mac theme is very safari like. Also the Memory consumption issue seems to be solved. There a few minor things that need work, but they will be fixed i am sure. So far very stable for a beta. - paulw Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:37:13 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4538 I've tested firefox 3 on Ubuntu as well as OpenSuSE and this new version seems to be very stable and fast . - Aliov Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:28:26 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4532 I am currently running firefox 3 on fedora and it is stable enough for prime time use. It also loads and works faster than the previous version. - Jst4Fun Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:09:57 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4530 Some problems with the search field, you can search only once then it freezes. - nolihc Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:39:56 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4529 As no real man(or woman) runs Vista. - BmnRocks Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:23:14 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4528 I've been running the firefox nightly builds on linux for the past month. I'm pleased to report that it now uses your gtk engine's controls for form widgets. No longer are we stuck with the messy widget replacement hacks or ugly, boxy buttons. Additionally, they're working a new Tango theme for the Linux 3.0 final. - MrS Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:17:39 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4527 I'm running Firefox 3 alpha (that´s what I found in the Ubuntu repos) There's a nice visual refresh on the way so Firefox looks pretty much like a part of the system now. There's still a few visual glitches but it looks well overall. Also, Javascript no longer slows the browser to a crawl, so I can confirm that there's the same speedup on Linux - maybe even greater because the Linux version of Firefox 2 was slower than the Windows one. Now it's so fast I can't spot the difference. - Peterix Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:02:06 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4522 I second the request for an Ubuntu or any Linux test! - Mark P. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:51:12 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4515 I'm sorry but I've only tested it on Vista so far. I plan to give Kubuntu a try tonight. My experience with the Firefox 2 has unfortunately been that it runs slower on Ubuntu/Kubuntu. I'll be interested to see how FF3 Beta 1 performs. - stan Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:51:35 -0600 http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15460/1023/#comment-4514 Which OS did you test on, Stan? I'm asking since many Linux users blame the Mozilla Corporation for treating their OS as an afterthought. It would be wonderful news for us if your positive comments here applied to the Linux version. - Sridhar Dhanapalan Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:54:30 -0600