Firefox 3.2 news

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/246965/mozilla-reveals-plans-for-firefox-32.html

Sounds good.

 

Woo mozilla always innovate

 

That's an understatement!

It sounds VERY good!

 

It all sounds great but they have to release 3.1 already.

 

3.2?
I haven't even try the 3.1 yet... since it's still beta...

 

At the bottom they say about there not sure if there going to release 3.2 or just go straight to v4, surely if you add these new features and its noticeably different to 3.1 then what difference does it make?
Also surely they should be thinking about 3.1 more as its still in beta rather than 3.2?

 

Great news. although I'm still having difficulty with the multiple tabs

 

Nice link. I currently have the Firefox 3.2 Alpha trunk build (January 29th version) in both 32-bit and 64-bit installed on my Windows 7 partition, and it's definitely extremely fast. Probably the fastest browser I've used - it definitely is for GMail. But I didn't know what the new features were, and I'm not particularly up on Firefox 3 in general - I still use Firefox 2 on XP and university computers. I mainly downloaded it for the sake of being able to have a 64-bit browser that wasn't IE.

Ubiquity doesn't sound very unique, though, at least not to an Opera user. Ever since 9.5 you've been able to set up custom search engines in Opera, so you can just type "w elephant" to search for elephants on Wikipedia. Or you can set up a search to search the NBR forums so that "nbr windows 7" searches NBR for Windows 7. Google Maps and Live Maps are acting a bit quirky when I try to set up searchs for them, but I'm sure there's a way that "map 10 Downing Street" would bring you a Google Map of 10 Downing Street as well.

The desktop app part is of course taken from Chrome. Lightweight theming I'll have to try. It could just be the simple color theming that's been around since at least IE 5.5 for Mac (blueberry or tangerine browser today? hmm, tough choice), but maybe there's more to it. I'll get back on that once I take it for a swing - assuming it is in the January 29th/31st trunk build, of course.

I should disclaim that the 64-bit version isn't an official Mozilla trunk build - it's just built from the trunk builds. I haven't seen anything saying there will be a 64-bit official version. I downloaded it from here. I can't tell a speed difference yet myself, but that's as much a testament to how fast FF 3.2 already is as anything.

So, unless lightweight theming is a really cool new feature, I have to disagree with Mozilla being really innovative, at least of late. It's bloody fast, I'll give it that, but not really bleeding-edge on features.

 

firefox 3.0 sux
i liked v2 more ...... (on windows xp)

 

3.0.6 runs fine on my work computer running XP.

 

I have v3.06 on both xp machines here, why does it suck?

 

So, still no Aero Glass compatibility, still doesn't take advantage of browser sandboxing in Vista, still an atrocious memory hog.

Yes Mozilla, keep innovating.

(I use Firefox because of its extensions.)

 

i also have 3.0.6
my desktop is very old p4 1.7ghz , 384 mb ram, unlike my laptop , but i use it for internet more than my lappy
anyway i had before firefox v2 , flawless the best browser
but when i downloaded v3 , it's very very slow to launch
when i start to write a website's name . it will give me the list of websites i've visited wich contain the same letters i wrote , this procedure right here is very slow on firefox 3 , and i mean very very slow , the pc will freeze for many seconds and i cant do anything , after a few seconds the long waited list will appear
now i am having another issue , i think it's with the cookies
i cant use the remember me in forums i click remember me but it doesn't work , everytime i visit a forum or facebook i will have to rewrite the username and pass
i tried to clear the cookies but nothing changed

 

You can still download Firefox 2 if you'd rather use it; it's available from Mozilla here. It's not receiving updates anymore, but it's still pretty much current (Dec 2008).

Relativity, what's "browser sandbox"?

 

Old article about it: http://www.pctoday.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/2005/t0302/06t02/06t02.asp

 

I don't really care too much about any of the new features. Just give me an app that loads faster, renders faster and is more standards compliant and I'll be happy.

And I think the separate process thinking from Mozilla is the wrong answer. A compromise might be a great solution, but computers have a ton of memory these days. Why does it matter if Firefox uses more if it is done efficiently and the end user greatly benefits from it?

Maybe the Chrome-handling does some work on the CPU usage side as well, I don't know. But otherwise, it's really not that big of a deal.

 

Sounds like they plan to include a lot of the features originally planned for 4.0. It's ambitious, but I wonder how long it'll take to develop...

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250462.aspx

 

3.1 probably only has one more beta before release. Of course they have further development constantly in the pipeline.

 

Firefox 3.2 has been under development for some time now.

That seems more like a performance issue with Windows XP, try using CCleaner or doing a fresh install.

 

Thanks, that explains it well. Will look into it next time I'm running XP. Probably won't use it, but good to know what it is.

I used to think the same thing. Then I found out how useful some features can be. So long as they don't slow things down too much, features can save you a lot more time than almost any speedup in rendering.

Mozilla may be remembering that there's a lot of people who still have XP with 512 MB of RAM, or Vista with 1 GB, who will notice a big slowdown if the browser isn't very memory-efficient. Back in the day around when Firefox 2 first came out, Firefox was very bad in terms of memory usage. I had XP with 512 MB then, and sometimes I'd notice Firefox seemed really slow, open up Task Manager, and find out Firefox was using 350 or 400 MB and total memory use (including virtual) was about 666 MB. Firefox, along with most other browsers (IE never was bad) has gotten a lot better in memory usage since then. I think it's good that they're still paying attention to memory usage. It's fairly rare for a browser to crash at any rate, when they do they usually remember what tabs you had open (maybe not IE), and if they can expand their market reach by being more efficient, they may as well.

 

3.1 is tons faster, so that solves that. How much more standards compliant would you like it? Have you ever actually ran into a problem with its standards compliance? 3.1 actually does add HTML5 features, though.

 

Update - the "map 10 downing street" feature does work. It's a bit funny - if you type a generic place like your house or "map China" then you'll get a map of it from Google's standard Web search results. Example: map china. But if you do a famous location, you might get a specific site with a more detailed map of it. Example: map Eiffel Tower. That doesn't always actually give you a map, though, unfortunately. Example: map White House. I'm not sure what exactly it's doing - perhaps looking up to see if it matches a place they have listed, and if not going to Google - but it could be a nice feature if it always works. Hopefully there aren't too many in the "map White House" boat. I'm not sure quite how many places have special redirects, either - "map Kremlin" just gave the generic Google result.

edit: That works in FF 3.0.6, too. Not sure what that article was talking about with that being a new feature.

Haven't figured out where to Lightweight Theme yet.

edit2: Found a new feature. Take a look at this screenshot:



If you click that button in the upper-right that I've circled in red, it brings up the thing in the center. You have previews of all the tabs you have open, and you can use the Search box to narrow the tabs shown down to the ones that match what you type. Could be rather handy if you tend to keep lots of tabs open.

That feature isn't in 3.06. There's probably another new feature or two in 3.20 Alpha, but there doesn't seem to be much public documentation yet so it looks rather discover-as-you-go right now.

 

The new feature hasn't yet been implemented, that's why.

 

apollo, the all tabs preview thing is a nice addition, but i see that it is basically the extension i have been using for a long time (and still suffers from a poor preview imo) called ctrl-tab

 

That's one of the features I like in IE and I was hoping it would be implemented in FF. I don't usually like third-party add-ons for this feature because it's not usually implemented well. Hopefully the guys at Mozilla polish it and actually release it as a feature.

 

Firefox 3.0.xx has some problems..it is the biggest resource hogging browser of all...if u open multiple tabs very fast..the memory allocation causes it to freeze on many comps i have tried.

in the earlier versions it was fine..but from 3.0.4 the problems escalated imo

 

They integrated the extension into Firefox - that's why they're so similar.

 

My point was that I would like to see the browser continue to improve in those areas.

 

Well, of course. I'm with you on that, but I think it has sufficiently improved in those areas for the time being. I think Mozilla should focus (as they are) on enriching Firefox's features.

 

That's always been something I've thought about. Extensions versus new features.

 

Well, I think there are certainly benefits to both. Features built into Firefox tend to be much more refined and stable. On the other hand, extensions are updated more frequently and often offer more customization.

 

It sounds really great.

 

The 3.2alpha does seem to load pages notably quicker than 3.1 beta2, at least on my system. I have completely gotten rid of 3.06 since I have not had any pages that do not load in 3.2 or 3.1.

Hotmail does not work in 3.1, it displays but does not let you open mail.
Hotmail works in 3.2 but has a problem with Web CT Vista which I have to use for classes.

I think it is a problem with the java on Web CT. Everything works fine until I close Minefield displays an error that it has displayed an issue and needs to close. This only happens after loging in to Web CT and is probably more of a problem with Web CT than either version of Firefox.

 

Worried New Features Will Mean Firefox Bloat? Relax

 

Could anybody tell me how to clear the URL bar on FF??
I ve already tried with Ccleaner,its cleaning well,but the issue is it s still some webbsites that wont be removed from the url bar!!


Thanks

 

I am using 3.0.6 and it recently has been crashing. How can I fix this?

 

Download 3.1b3 preview

 

alto did you try ctrl+shift+del?

 

With the actual third Beta supposedly coming this Wednesday, I think I'll just hold off till the actual (third Beta) release.

 

Like This

 

Sorry,I didn`t get it !!

Still not removed ,when i try with Ccleaner the most of webbsites are removed url browser,but there are about 3-4 sites will not be removed,I don`t know why .

I think those that wont be removed are just there that i added on my bookmarks.

I tried also with ctrl+alt+del, still there!!!!