Comments on: Firefox 3 Nearing Completion http://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-nearing-completion/ Technology News Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:26:55 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-nearing-completion/comment-page-1/#comment-137905 Ryan Wed, 14 May 2008 20:03:15 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12559#comment-137905 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-137875" rel="nofollow">James wrote:</a><blockquote>It was not always released on mult-platform (Win, Linux, Mac) as the Mac OS releases from Mozilla did not happen until it was Firefox 0.6</blockquote></div> Huh, that's interesting. I also thought that it had always been cross platform. James wrote:
It was not always released on mult-platform (Win, Linux, Mac) as the Mac OS releases from Mozilla did not happen until it was Firefox 0.6

Huh, that’s interesting. I also thought that it had always been cross platform.

]]> By: Yeditepe http://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-nearing-completion/comment-page-1/#comment-137897 Yeditepe Wed, 14 May 2008 17:40:58 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12559#comment-137897 ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/3.0rc1-candidates/build1/ ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/3.0rc1-candidates/build1/

]]> By: James http://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-nearing-completion/comment-page-1/#comment-137875 James Tue, 13 May 2008 23:56:27 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12559#comment-137875 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-137855" rel="nofollow">natmaster wrote:</a><blockquote><div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-137846" rel="nofollow">Google wrote:</a><blockquote>Is it multi-platform on day 1? I.E. Firefox 3 for Mac and Linux users. Sorry have to ask after all the stuff that happens with Video Games. :?:</blockquote></div>Yes, Firefox has always been multi-platform. They don’t have to port anything, it’s written to be cross-platform. Hence, XPCOM (cross platform COM) as a basic framework.</blockquote></div> It was not always released on mult-platform (Win, Linux, Mac) as the Mac OS releases from Mozilla did not happen until it was Firefox 0.6 natmaster wrote:
Google wrote:
Is it multi-platform on day 1? I.E. Firefox 3 for Mac and Linux users. Sorry have to ask after all the stuff that happens with Video Games. :?:

Yes, Firefox has always been multi-platform. They don’t have to port anything, it’s written to be cross-platform. Hence, XPCOM (cross platform COM) as a basic framework.

It was not always released on mult-platform (Win, Linux, Mac) as the Mac OS releases from Mozilla did not happen until it was Firefox 0.6

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-nearing-completion/comment-page-1/#comment-137871 Ryan Tue, 13 May 2008 19:55:21 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12559#comment-137871 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-137846" rel="nofollow">Google wrote:</a><blockquote>Is it multi-platform on day 1? I.E. Firefox 3 for Mac and Linux users. Sorry have to ask after all the stuff that happens with Video Games. :?:</blockquote></div> Yup, it's always multi-platform. You can even use nightly builds (or Beta's) and they are available for each platform. That's one of the really cool things with Firefox. Google wrote:
Is it multi-platform on day 1? I.E. Firefox 3 for Mac and Linux users. Sorry have to ask after all the stuff that happens with Video Games. :?:

Yup, it’s always multi-platform. You can even use nightly builds (or Beta’s) and they are available for each platform. That’s one of the really cool things with Firefox.

]]> By: natmaster http://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-nearing-completion/comment-page-1/#comment-137855 natmaster Tue, 13 May 2008 05:56:21 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12559#comment-137855 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-137846" rel="nofollow">Google wrote:</a><blockquote>Is it multi-platform on day 1? I.E. Firefox 3 for Mac and Linux users. Sorry have to ask after all the stuff that happens with Video Games. :?:</blockquote></div> Yes, Firefox has always been multi-platform. They don't have to port anything, it's written to be cross-platform. Hence, XPCOM (cross platform COM) as a basic framework. Google wrote:
Is it multi-platform on day 1? I.E. Firefox 3 for Mac and Linux users. Sorry have to ask after all the stuff that happens with Video Games. :?:

Yes, Firefox has always been multi-platform. They don’t have to port anything, it’s written to be cross-platform. Hence, XPCOM (cross platform COM) as a basic framework.

]]> By: Fedorov http://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-nearing-completion/comment-page-1/#comment-137848 Fedorov Mon, 12 May 2008 22:02:43 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12559#comment-137848 I've been running Firefox 3 since the alpha versions and used almost every nightly build right up to today. Been using it as my mainstream browser everyday and it's been 100% stable. I personally think the RC1, unless as they say they find any showstopping bugs will be out on schedule - it's a fantastic web browser, speed and stability improvements everywhere. Regarding add-ons, I've been using ALL the add-ons that I used with FF2, the NightlyTool addons just allows me to force them as compatible and I've had zero problems... Adblock, Smoothwheel, NoScript etc.... I’ve been running Firefox 3 since the alpha versions and used almost every nightly build right up to today. Been using it as my mainstream browser everyday and it’s been 100% stable. I personally think the RC1, unless as they say they find any showstopping bugs will be out on schedule – it’s a fantastic web browser, speed and stability improvements everywhere.

Regarding add-ons, I’ve been using ALL the add-ons that I used with FF2, the NightlyTool addons just allows me to force them as compatible and I’ve had zero problems… Adblock, Smoothwheel, NoScript etc….

]]> By: Google http://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-nearing-completion/comment-page-1/#comment-137846 Google Mon, 12 May 2008 21:29:28 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12559#comment-137846 Is it multi-platform on day 1? I.E. Firefox 3 for Mac and Linux users. Sorry have to ask after all the stuff that happens with Video Games. :?: Is it multi-platform on day 1? I.E. Firefox 3 for Mac and Linux users. Sorry have to ask after all the stuff that happens with Video Games. :?:

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-nearing-completion/comment-page-1/#comment-137832 Ryan Mon, 12 May 2008 20:17:18 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12559#comment-137832 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-137829" rel="nofollow">Dave wrote:</a><blockquote>Personally, having used the browser since 0.7 or so, I can say I don’t recall ever seeing it use more memory than about 250,000k. I never had big memory leak problems. So with my experiences, the Firefox 3 betas memory improvements don’t seem like much to me. Memory usage is about the same.</blockquote></div> You are definitely one of the lucky few. Most of the people I know have the memory leaks when opening large numbers of tabs. Dave wrote:
Personally, having used the browser since 0.7 or so, I can say I don’t recall ever seeing it use more memory than about 250,000k. I never had big memory leak problems.

So with my experiences, the Firefox 3 betas memory improvements don’t seem like much to me. Memory usage is about the same.

You are definitely one of the lucky few. Most of the people I know have the memory leaks when opening large numbers of tabs.

]]> By: Dave http://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-nearing-completion/comment-page-1/#comment-137829 Dave Mon, 12 May 2008 20:14:02 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12559#comment-137829 Personally, having used the browser since 0.7 or so, I can say I don't recall ever seeing it use more memory than about 250,000k. I never had big memory leak problems. So with my experiences, the Firefox 3 betas memory improvements don't seem like much to me. Memory usage is about the same. Personally, having used the browser since 0.7 or so, I can say I don’t recall ever seeing it use more memory than about 250,000k. I never had big memory leak problems.

So with my experiences, the Firefox 3 betas memory improvements don’t seem like much to me. Memory usage is about the same.

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/firefox-3-nearing-completion/comment-page-1/#comment-137825 Ryan Mon, 12 May 2008 19:52:49 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/?p=12559#comment-137825 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-137819" rel="nofollow">The Guru wrote:</a><blockquote>Now, as much as I love to see Firefox 3 final next month, I don’t see it happening.</blockquote></div> It is definitely a tight schedule to get it out, but I think they might be able to pull off a June release even if they need to squeeze in one more RC. I saw in their forum that they are targeting June though. <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-137821" rel="nofollow">curtissthompson wrote:</a><blockquote>I’ve been really hoping they would buckle down and solve the memory leak problems for Firefox 3. So when Firefox 3 beta 2 was released I decided to give Firefox another shot. I was extremely pleased when I wasn’t able to get a memory leak above 250 MB under nearly identical situations as in Firefox 2. Overtime this number has continued to decline. In FF 3 beta 5, I can’t get a memory leak above 175 MB. My memory leaks are now minimal in size and don’t have a drastic impact on system or browser performance, which has caused me to start using Firefox as my primary browser again.</blockquote></div> That sounds like exactly what my experience has been while using pre-release versions of Firefox 3. They have definitely made huge steps forward in terms of performance, and in the end it will win over a lot of people. <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-137823" rel="nofollow">StationStops.com wrote:</a><blockquote>I don’t understand how anyone uses Opera (or Firefox betas) as their regular browser - I can’t live without my add-ons.</blockquote></div> I don't really use any add-ons in my browser because of security and stability concerns. They've often caused more problems and grief than they were worth. I don't use Opera all that much anymore because of how stable Firefox 3 has become, but for awhile I didn't have much of a choice other than to use it. When writing articles I'll sometimes have upwards of 50 tabs open at a time, and I need a browser that can handle that. Before Opera was really the only one that could without giving my computer a heart attack. So that's what I used. The Guru wrote:
Now, as much as I love to see Firefox 3 final next month, I don’t see it happening.

It is definitely a tight schedule to get it out, but I think they might be able to pull off a June release even if they need to squeeze in one more RC. I saw in their forum that they are targeting June though.

curtissthompson wrote:
I’ve been really hoping they would buckle down and solve the memory leak problems for Firefox 3. So when Firefox 3 beta 2 was released I decided to give Firefox another shot. I was extremely pleased when I wasn’t able to get a memory leak above 250 MB under nearly identical situations as in Firefox 2. Overtime this number has continued to decline. In FF 3 beta 5, I can’t get a memory leak above 175 MB. My memory leaks are now minimal in size and don’t have a drastic impact on system or browser performance, which has caused me to start using Firefox as my primary browser again.

That sounds like exactly what my experience has been while using pre-release versions of Firefox 3. They have definitely made huge steps forward in terms of performance, and in the end it will win over a lot of people.

StationStops.com wrote:
I don’t understand how anyone uses Opera (or Firefox betas) as their regular browser – I can’t live without my add-ons.

I don’t really use any add-ons in my browser because of security and stability concerns. They’ve often caused more problems and grief than they were worth.

I don’t use Opera all that much anymore because of how stable Firefox 3 has become, but for awhile I didn’t have much of a choice other than to use it. When writing articles I’ll sometimes have upwards of 50 tabs open at a time, and I need a browser that can handle that. Before Opera was really the only one that could without giving my computer a heart attack. So that’s what I used.

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