Firefox 3.0 anyone?

Borris · 9 Apr 2006 at 22:19

FF latest build

I think I'll stick with 1.0.7 for the time being.

Craig321 · 9 Apr 2006 at 22:22

Probably extremley unreliable alpha or something or is it official release?

DDave · 9 Apr 2006 at 22:49

Firefox builds dont really make any sense. We are currently on 1.5.0.1 and they have alphas of 1.6 and 3.0 ?

tolien · 9 Apr 2006 at 22:50

Craig321 said:
Probably extremley unreliable alpha

Not even.

or something or is it official release?

It's a nightly build of the Firefox trunk - it'll eventually become 3.0, but it's nowhere near yet.

The nightlies of what'll become Firefox 2.0 are here, and it's somewhere after Alpha 1, but it still isn't great.

dagwoood · 9 Apr 2006 at 22:52

Borris said:
I think I'll stick with 1.0.7 for the time being.

You aught to change to the latest version, v1.5.0.1 as it addressed several security loopholes.

The only problem with the FF betas is that the build itself is normally stable but most of your extensions don't work

tolien · 9 Apr 2006 at 22:56

dagwoood said:
The only problem with the FF betas is that the build itself is normally stable

Quite often it isn't - thursday's build broke all the menus (though it then got fixed on Friday), and Places is still a bit (well, a lot) of a mess.

Spike_UK · 10 Apr 2006 at 00:51

At the moment I haven't seen any diffence using the 2.0 trunk than the 1.5. Infact I've found FF has goot worse the more patches they do.

CossackNoodle · 10 Apr 2006 at 01:57

*hugs opera

PinkPig · 10 Apr 2006 at 08:15

Spike_UK said:
At the moment I haven't seen any diffence using the 2.0 trunk than the 1.5. Infact I've found FF has goot worse the more patches they do.

One would naturally expect an early nightly of 2.0 to be "worse" than the latest stable release.

tolien · 10 Apr 2006 at 13:40

Especially given it includes the Places system for history and bookmarks that isn't even feature complete.

Greenlizard0 · 10 Apr 2006 at 16:54

CossackNoodle said:
*hugs opera

I'm using opera, but I'm finding that sometimes content doesn't load up properly. E.g. I have an Arsenal Online TV subscription and I still can only see stuff using I.E

I used to use Firefox but leaving about 15 tabs at one time with the memory leak killed my computer.

I wonder if going back to I.E. might be the way forward...dunno..

VeNT · 10 Apr 2006 at 23:14

greenlizard0 said:
I'm using opera, but I'm finding that sometimes content doesn't load up properly. E.g. I have an Arsenal Online TV subscription and I still can only see stuff using I.E

I used to use Firefox but leaving about 15 tabs at one time with the memory leak killed my computer.

I wonder if going back to I.E. might be the way forward...dunno..

my brother used IE for 2 mins on my PC yesterday

he didn't meen to, was on a flash site for games and got winfixer et all in that time, no downloads etc just though IE being pants.
if www.shockwave.com worked on my firefox I'd never have to use IE EVER

Al Vallario · 10 Apr 2006 at 23:59

dagwoood said:
The only problem with the FF betas is that the build itself is normally stable but most of your extensions don't work

Often nothing about the backend coding has changed to stop extensions working, it's just the fact that the browser is built to point-blank refuse to activate an extension unless the source code says it's compatible with that particular version. In many ways this prevents incompatability issues, but it's a bit of a pain when the extension developers aren't on the ball.

Luckily you can force install extensions with the Nightly Tester Tools extension

MR_Punk · 11 Apr 2006 at 09:49

CossackNoodle said:
*hugs opera

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