Firefox 3

[Melvil]

Better than 2? Worth upgrading?

 

[longers]

I'm using it now but having never used 2, I can't really offer any advice.

Wasn't that helpful?

 

[Melvil]

I'm using it now but having never used 2, I can't really offer any advice.

Wasn't that helpful?

Very!

 

[fossyant]

If it's out of Beta - I'll be getting it !!!

 

[domd1979]

Its on "release candidate 2" apparently:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0rc2/releasenotes/

I installed it yesterday, seems to work alreet.

 

[Aperitif]

I tried it a few weeks ago - but for some reason I reverted to 2...with 'colourful tabs' etc.
This is equally helpful I know but generally Firefox is pretty good innit? I probably needed to fine tune my settings or something.
Knocks ie into the proverbial 'cocked hat'. I like the Scrapbook facility and the way I can drag sites down from the title bar and they are 'held' there, waiting for their next click upon...

 

[redfox]

I'll be waiting to make sure all my v2 add-ons work with v3 before I change.

 

[buddha]

I had v3 beta installed on my Ubuntu (linux) machine. But it kept crashing, was slow, didn't work with quite a few extensions etc. So i reverted back to v2.
I will try again when most of the problems have been ironed out.

 

[HLaB]

I put V3 on my mum's laptop and use V2 on my own PC and to tell the truth, I don't see much difference. V3 was locking up occasionally today and I had to minimise and maximise to unlock. V2 is working fine for me.

 

[marinyork]

Beta was buggy and a lot of the add ons still don't work (getting there). It'll be very good when it's sorted though. The speed alone is great.

 

[yello]

I had v3 beta installed on my Ubuntu (linux) machine. But it kept crashing, was slow, didn't work with quite a few extensions etc.

Beta 5 works okay for me on Ubuntu 8.04. I've turned off compatibility checking for add-ons and all mine seem to work okay. I'm tempted to go to release candidate 3 though.

 

[domtyler]

All my add ons don't work yet although as soon as Google toolbar is ported across I'll upgrade. The speed for sites like GMail is vastly improved over 2.

 

[barq]

I'm using beta 5 with (K)ubuntu and it crashes less than v2 and they seem to have fixed the memory leak. I like the search facility in the address bar. Occasionally a window or tab refuses to load any new pages, but you can just open a new window and carry on. I assume that has been fixed by now.

We are getting so close to the actual release that I'm holding off upgrading my work computer for a couple more weeks.

 

[HJ]

It is due for release later this month, once the beta testing has finished...

 

[HJ]

The latest news is that Firefox 3 will be released on next Tuesday (17th June), release candidate 3 is currently available, and apparently the only out standing issues to be sorted are with Mac OS X, so if you are not a Mac user, it is probably worth down loading...