FireFox 3 RC2 now available!

gumbald · 17 May 2008 at 21:11

tolien said:
Settings extensions.checkCompatibility to false will do it as well.

Excellent!

I managed to delete my Smart Bookmarks folder when installing Foxmarks, now I can't get it back. Every site such as this refers to:

browser.places.createdSmartBookmarks

I didn't have this, so have created it with the value false, but to no avail. Anybody know of a quick way to get them back?

tolien · 17 May 2008 at 21:54

That's the only way, though if it isn't there there's something screwed up - you are sure you're running 3.0, right?

Big Kev · 17 May 2008 at 22:29

tolien said:
In the case of having to log back in, but your username/password being stored, try moving/deleting cookies.sqlite.

In both cases, you obviously will need to shut Firefox down first.

That seems to have cured the constant logging in, cheers mate.

gumbald · 17 May 2008 at 23:56

tolien said:
That's the only way, though if it isn't there there's something screwed up - you are sure you're running 3.0, right?

Yep, everything else seems to be working fine. I just did an upgrade from 2.0.0.x, same on my MacBook which is also missing it.

sunderland · 18 May 2008 at 18:54

so tolien m8 its not like incredimail were every 1 min it checkas for mail and if there is some it comes up in the task bar,you have to go into thunderbird before it tell you it has email in the task bar,if so thats a waste of time as your checking yourself anyway,think i will go to incredimail at least dont have to go into it to get the notifications

mr.sly · 18 May 2008 at 19:04

sunderland said:
so tolien m8 its not like incredimail were every 1 min it checkas for mail and if there is some it comes up in the task bar,you have to go into thunderbird before it tell you it has email in the task bar,if so thats a waste of time as your checking yourself anyway,think i will go to incredimail at least dont have to go into it to get the notifications

Thunderbird is a completely seperate program to Firefox. If you don't have Thuderbird running it can't check for mail.

But if you do have it open, then it can check for mail every 30 seconds if you wanted it to. And you should get notified of new mail in the taskbar.

Cob · 18 May 2008 at 19:45

mrk · 18 May 2008 at 20:53

Ok I've been discussing this on neowin too but I must say some things I'm very happy with in FF3

Well one big thing really, the awesomebar!

It searches your bookmarks and lists them on the fly so no more need for the bookmarks bar being visible BUT!

I Marmite it at the moment.

ON one hand it's cleaner to look at hidden and gets me using the Awesomebar more but on the other hand usually I like to see my bookmarks listed as I bookmark pages by catagory and part them out using separators (see fig1)

fig1:

I'll probably get used to it as you can just hit ALT and display bookmarks normally if you need to whilst all other times it's neatly hidden away and you just use awesomebar.

So, with The Hide Main Menu extension installed my Firefox now looks like this:

mr.sly · 18 May 2008 at 21:10

mrk said:
Ok I've been discussing this on neowin too but I must say some things I'm very happy with in FF3

Well one big thing really, the awesomebar!

It searches your bookmarks and lists them on the fly so no more need for the bookmarks bar being visible BUT!

I Marmite it at the moment.

ON one hand it's cleaner to look at hidden and gets me using the Awesomebar more but on the other hand usually I like to see my bookmarks listed as I bookmark pages by catagory and part them out using separators (see fig1)

fig1:
[snip]

I'll probably get used to it as you can just hit ALT and display bookmarks normally if you need to whilst all other times it's neatly hidden away and you just use awesomebar.

So, with The Hide Main Menu extension installed my Firefox now looks like this:

Does it only search your bookmarks? Or does it search your history, and the text on those pages as well like the Opera 9.5 beta?

mrk · 18 May 2008 at 21:16

It searches your history (default setting is 90 days worth) as well as your bookmarks. The star on the right of th results indicate what is in your bookmarks already.

Finding text on a page though is done inline using find-as-you-type and I assume Opera does it like this too?

You can start typing in any webpage and it starts finding right away or you can CTRL+F to bring up the finder bar.

tolien · 18 May 2008 at 23:09

There are patches sitting there to let you restrict the AwesomeBar to only searching history/bookmarks/tags (demo here). They need review, and it's extremely unlikely they'll go into anything before 3.1 (last estimate, Novemberish) now.

Finding text on a page though is done inline using find-as-you-type and I assume Opera does it like this too?

You're thinking of something else - Opera's version of the AwesomeBar searches the content of the page as well as title, tags, URL etc. It was considered back in the original design for Places, but AFAIK it's a Moz2 item now.

sunderland said:
so tolien m8 its not like incredimail were every 1 min it checkas for mail and if there is some it comes up in the task bar,you have to go into thunderbird before it tell you it has email in the task bar

Er, you have to have Incredimail running in exactly the same way - it can't check for mail if it isn't running...

mrk · 19 May 2008 at 14:17

Hmm I've just updated my work PC with RC1 and it seems to have replaced FF2 portable with FF3 RC1 in the same folder

just Mozbackuped my profile over too and all is working excellent. Doesn't look as good in XP mind...

braveheart · 19 May 2008 at 14:26

already update to RC1 -- seem good one but few add-on just now... at home Im still using Fx2 until the final release due by end of June so Im using Fx 3 RC1 at work that look cool -- no hiccup.

mrk · 19 May 2008 at 14:29

sunderland · 19 May 2008 at 16:28

tolien said:
Er, you have to have Incredimail running in exactly the same way - it can't check for mail if it isn't running...

thats the thing it is running all the time like incredimail and incredimail gives me a warning saying i have mail thundebird doesnt so took it of,IMO its totally crap but cheers for the help

tolien · 19 May 2008 at 17:17

sunderland said:
incredimail gives me a warning saying i have mail thundebird doesnt

It does, like we've already said...

sunderland · 19 May 2008 at 17:27

dont want to get into a argument m8 but had it on for 2 days and the only time it popped up in the taskbar was when i opened thunderbird to see if i had any mail,and it was running all the time,gone back to firefox 2 might try it with that and see if it was firefox 3 doing it

MarcLister · 19 May 2008 at 17:31

If you have email and you don't check them then I don't think the pop-up appears again until you've read the emails you've already got. The email icon in the start bar is what you get until you read the emails then the pop-up appears after that I think.

Craig321 · 19 May 2008 at 17:53

Decided to just go for Firefox 3 on my main PC now that it's RC (I have backups of FF2 of course

).

All working well so far. Javascript applications are loading faster for me as well now

mrk · 19 May 2008 at 17:56

Good to know JAVA apps work faster, always good for yahoo dominoes and yahoopool when I play with my cousin! in fact I shall arrange a game with her tonight and perhaps will win for a change!