FireFox 3.0.1 released

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Release notes.

  • Fixed several security issues.
  • Fixed several stability issues.
  • Fixed an issue where the phishing and malware database did not update on first launch.
  • Under certain circumstances, Firefox 3.0 did not properly save the SSL certificate exceptions list.
  • Updated the internal Public Suffix list.
  • In certain cases, installing Firefox 2 in the same directory in which Firefox 3 has been installed resulted in Firefox 2 being unstable. This issue was fixed as part of Firefox 2.0.0.15.
  • Fixed an issue where, when printing a selected region of content from the middle of a page, some of the output was missing (bug 433373).
  • Fixed a Linux issues where, for users on a PPP connection (dialup or DSL) Firefox always started in "Offline" mode (bug 424626).
Full notes here
 
VeNT said:
why don't you like the AwesomeBar?
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Where to start? It includes things I didn't type manually so if I try and type forums.overclockers it will show a whole list of threads before showing the root of the forums. It's far far too big, it doesn't look very pretty and is pretty useless in general.

I've got a plugin installed called oldbar which presents the results in the Firefox 2 style, then I set browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped to true in about:config. That's got it emulating Firefox 2 as much as possible.
 
I like the AwesomeBar, but many do not. I am of the distinct opinion that many of Firefox's features added since 1.x should be removed from the base browser and implemented instead as extensions that are installed by default. I love the spell checker and was, in fact, using a nxtension for that purpose before it was added as an official feature. Others do not though. It'd be great to be able to disable some of the things that others users or me find less useful, thereby maintaining the stripped-down core with which Fx began.

The lifecycle of a lot of "lightweight alternative" software, especially in Linux, seems to be this

Existing version is too big/bloated/etc
People take the codebase and strip it, or write a clone from scratch dropping many features and making an actually lightweight alternative to the original, if you don't mind the missing features.
Features are requested and added by developers; codebase grows
The codebase reaches critical mass that some think it's too big/bloated/etc
People take the codebase and strip it...

ad infinatum
 
Joe User installs (next to) no extensions, so unless they were more discoverable (I guess the Get Add-ons tab in the addons wind is a step towards that) or came ready-installed, there'd be a disparity between Fx and IE/Opera.
Fx doesn't really play itself as a super-lightweight browser anymore either (though it's still more lightweight than the Mozilla suite), and some things you just can't do with an extension.


My vote goes on this for the new Marmite feature in 3.1.
 
tolien said:
Joe User installs (next to) no extensions, so unless they were more discoverable (I guess the Get Add-ons tab in the addons wind is a step towards that) or came ready-installed, there'd be a disparity between Fx and IE/Opera.
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The key is that I want them to be installed by default. They'd already be there for Joe-user. Sally-power-user could turn them off if she wanted to, just like she can now add features if she does so desire.
 
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