Test Driving the new Firefox 3 beta

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Test Driving the new Firefox 3 beta

11/20/07

Today, Mozilla made me do something I thought I'd never even have to consider: I used Internet Explorer (shudder). What brought me to such a state of panic? The Beta version of Mozilla Firefox.

Follow up:

Mozilla engineers must have attended the Microsoft "change and worsen" school of software coding because they managed to offer no apparent improvements while creating deal-breaking incompatibilities with current software. The bookmark and tools-> options menus got makeovers, but that's it, as far as I've seen.

Firefox options menu- big whoop!

Roboform, Google Toolbar, Media Player, and FireFTP don't work yet. I was really hoping that Firefox would decide to be the hands-down best browser by allowing users to tile windows within the same browser. Tabs are great, but right now with Firefox, if you want to look at two websites at the same time (say you want to look at one while filling in a form on the other or transfer information from one to another), you have to open another Firefox instance and tile them as one would two completely different programs. Let's go Mozilla! Opera and Avant Browser have had tiled windows for years! And, yes: I've tried plugins like splitbrowser and they're not great solutions.

I haven't noticed any "under the hood" changes. I hope they fix the system-slowing tendency of open Firefox browsers.

Will I go back to Firefox? Maybe. One feature that none of it's competitors have delivered in inline spell check. Right now, I wouldn't bother with the download link below.

If you're still not dissuaded, click here to download.

By nguirado (

), 02:58:04 pm, 260 words
PermalinkCategories: Internet/Blogging :: 5 comments »

5 comments

Comment from: Not a Retard Like You [Visitor]

You are a retard

11/20/07 @ 16:57

Comment from: Omar Upegui R. [Visitor]

· http://epiac1216.livejournal.com

I would say to take it easy, since Firefox 3 is still in its first beta stage. As bugs are crushed with user's feedback, it'll get better.

I won't use this beta, until more water has flowed under the bridge. Meanwhile, Firefox 2.0.0.9 is doing an excellent work. I would not trade it for anything else. IE? God forbid.

Just my two cents on the subject.

Omar.-

11/20/07 @ 17:04

Comment from: Jeff Miller [Visitor]

· http://www.splendoroftruth.com/curtjester

I won't use it till it is out of beta. I really don't want to browse without all of my plug-ins working which won't happen totally till the final release.

The plug-in breaking is sure to happen since Firefox 3 is focused on security and code improvements more than interface changes. This is a good thing and I am more likely to cut off my hand than go back to IE. While IE7 is much improved without an open architecture for plug-ins it isn't a good platform.

11/20/07 @ 19:18

Comment from: Fahim Farook [Visitor]

· http://farook.org

I am sorry but seems to be another effect of "Googlization" when people start expecting beta software to work like release software :) FireFox 3.0 is currently at beta stage and anybody who uses it has to expect that their plugins will not work or will behave erratically - that's just the nature of the beast. I switched to FireFox 3.0 beta as my regular browser because I'm willing to put up with the non-working extensions. If you're not happy with extensions not working, then you should wait till the final release by which time most extension developers should have their extensions updated. That's just common sense :)

11/24/07 @ 02:17

Comment from: raya [Visitor]

i realy like the fox pic