Mozilla has pushed out the first release candidate for Firefox 3. That means this version should be more stable than any of the betas that have been released over the last year, but there may still be some bugs to work out. If you want to be absolutely certain you won't lose settings or mess up your system somehow, you might want to hold off on downloading Firefox 3 until a final build is released. That said, we've been playing with early builds of Firefox 3 for months, and it's way faster than Firefox 2 and includes some nifty new features like improved bookmark management and a more useful location bar.
Firefox 3 RC1 looks and feels a lot like Firefox 3 beta 5, but there are a few changes:
- Changes to the JavaScript engine and optimizations for web applications like Gmail and Zoho Office
- Improvements to the user interface
- Changes and fixes for bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom, and location bar autocomplete
- Security improvements
You can check out the complete list of changes in the release notes, or you can just go ahead and download the release candidate. Firefox 3 is available for Mac, Linux, and Windows.
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5-17-2008 @ 2:41PM
Philip said...
i have it now..
and i can tell you thay ditched the bight lime green nave buttens and thay went with a darker like pine or ever green buttens..
i wish thay would go back to the old style home butten though..i dont really like the yellow home butten since beta 4....
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5-17-2008 @ 2:41PM
Bruce said...
Gmail is a program?
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5-17-2008 @ 6:08PM
Night Elve said...
It's a web application so yeah you can say that is a program because it involves instructions with a computer (In this case the Servers in which is hosted).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program
5-17-2008 @ 2:41PM
754Boy said...
Does this release not hog your memory??
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5-17-2008 @ 2:43PM
RP said...
It seems much better on memory use.
5-17-2008 @ 2:43PM
Blog Jones said...
Downloading it now. I hope this finally fixes the "crash every time I close gmail" bug.
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5-17-2008 @ 2:43PM
RP said...
Just a note: FF3 uses a different history file (a .mdb file, vs. the old history.dat). So if you run FF3, then go back to FF2, you won't see your FF3 browsing under FF2.
Not a big deal, but might be confusing if you switch back and forth.
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5-19-2008 @ 6:55PM
RP said...
Wow, printing sure seems to be messed up.
Print selection seems to always print blank pages. Even regular print gives me 1 good page, then skips a page. Very strange.
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