Comments on: Download The Newly Released Firefox 3 Alpha 1

By: Basil

Basil — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 04:45:21 +0000

Very Stable with my Win2k SP4 box . Renders pages faster than FF2 and everything looks sharper on my 23″ LCD . It is now my default browser.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:00:59 +0000

Ryan wrote:

I am almost positive that it is only for Windows but Cairo is the rendering engine that Firefox uses. Currently it is GDI but Cairo is supposed to offer some improvements in the speed and quality of rendering.

Cairo is now being used as the default graphics library, affecting all graphic and text rendering.

[mozilla.org]

Also Firefox 3.0 will be the first release of Firefox using Cocoa widgets.

By: James

James — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 04:42:28 +0000

Cario is on Unix, not just Windows but while it can be fast or even faster than Bon Echo it can be slow as heck on Linux in some cases, say for example Chinese text spam.

[bugzilla.mozilla.org]

[wiki.mozilla.org]
[wiki.mozilla.org]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 17:38:18 +0000

Thanks! I just posted about that.

By: SLA

SLA — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:55:38 +0000

Hey, where is ACID2-passing Gecko engine from [ftp.mozilla.org]

BTW, Cairo is rendering pages slightly different (comparing to Firefox 2). For example, when viewing [mozilla.org] all headers are larger, and all link underlines are nearer. Also many other differences. But overall quality, IMHO, good. It is fast, and look better. For example, if there is text with inserted small images (smilies, icons, bullets, etc.), then spaces between lines are consistent (it WASN’T in Firefox 2!).

By: natmaster

natmaster — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:22:54 +0000

Update: I just tried out today’s trunk nightly and it DOES pass the Acid 2 test. This means reflow has finally landed!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:58:45 +0000

Justin Cook wrote:

Why would I even want this? I’ll stick with stable production releases thank you!

Some people, like myself, enjoy tinkering around with software that hasn’t been released.

Dale Cruse wrote:

I downloaded it and after using it for a couple of hours it seems pretty stable for an alpha release.

However, one big problem that I just encountered is copying and image from a webpage and pasting it into Photoshop for editing gives a weird red caste to the image that I can’t get rid of. I don’t know if GranParadiso is doing something to the color profile, but I’m not having this problem in any other browser.

Anyone else experience this?

I just tried that with PhotoShop as well but can’t reproduce the problem. I assume that it is pretty obvious and not something so lite that I would have to use a color picker to find.

By: Dale Cruse

Dale Cruse — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:34:19 +0000

I downloaded it and after using it for a couple of hours it seems pretty stable for an alpha release.

However, one big problem that I just encountered is copying and image from a webpage and pasting it into Photoshop for editing gives a weird red caste to the image that I can’t get rid of. I don’t know if GranParadiso is doing something to the color profile, but I’m not having this problem in any other browser.

Anyone else experience this?

By: Justin Cook

Justin Cook — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:08:33 +0000

Why would I even want this? I’ll stick with stable production releases thank you!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:06:58 +0000

natmaster wrote:

As per a previous meeting, this means dbaron will be landing reflow on the trunk immediately!

Yeah, I was a little disappointed that it hadn’t already landed in this release but I am excited to see it happen.