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Firefox 3 beta 2 available for download
- New location bar that shows history and bookmarks
- Improved security features including anti-virus integration in the download manager and stricter SSL error pages
- Better password management
- Easier add-on installation
- New download manager with resumable downloading
- Full page zoom
- One-click bookmarking
- New graphics and font rendering architecture
- Over 330 memory leak fixes
If you want to try out Firefox 3 beta 2 without installing it and risking data loss from your Firefox 2 profile, you might want to check out the portable version.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Comacozi said 4:08PM on 12-19-2007
And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced.
But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird.
The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire
and thunder upon them. For the beast had been
reborn with its strength renewed, and the
followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15
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RP said 9:23PM on 12-19-2007
> # Over 330 memory leak fixes
Thank you, Mozilla team, for working on memory leaks! This is seriously needed.
Right now my Firefox.exe is using 305 MB (and 810 MB virtual). Ouch!
At least there's "Restore session", so I can kill it, and re-start with all my tabs, and get down to 150 MB.
P.S. The new zoom is slick! (It zooms text + images)
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