Firefox 3 - Page 2

Jasper · 27-02-2008, 15:52

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Originally Posted by |Show|

opera ftw.

you're just wrong. Opera is horrible.

I've been using beta 3 for a few weeks and I love it. I don't use the new bookmarking stuff, but I'm taking advantage of the vastly improved stability and memory allocation in OSX. It's a lot more stable than beta 2 was

Daz · 27-02-2008, 16:00

A couple of people have said to me that the memory problem looks like it'll be much better in 3 (though it's still difficult to say for sure - there's bound to be some debug stuff still compiled into the betas).

I'm hopeful, but I think I'll believe it when I see it. I love Firefox, but it's memory leaks are quite bad.

Stan_Lite · 27-02-2008, 16:14

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Originally Posted by Daz

A couple of people have said to me that the memory problem looks like it'll be much better in 3 (though it's still difficult to say for sure - there's bound to be some debug stuff still compiled into the betas).

I'm hopeful, but I think I'll believe it when I see it. I love Firefox, but it's memory leaks are quite bad.

Beta 2 was pretty much the same as 2 as far as memory was concerned, I don't know if it's any better in beta 3 or whether the final release will be better - we live in hope.

petemc · 27-02-2008, 19:28

As an OSX user the new FF3 beta something is great. They've finally designed it with OSX in mind. All the little things like text boxes, check boxes, gadgets n things all look great. I think the font is better too. As your average mac fanboy, I do like it when people take their time with user interface design and make their apps look good. I can't say I've noticed anything else thats worth mentioning but when you're swimming in a field of well designed interfaces, FF2 does stand out.

Daz · 27-02-2008, 20:39

The whole UI has been much better designed to fit into whatever OS you're putting it on. Likewise, FF3 will fit in much better with whatever Gnome/KDE theme you're using on *nix.

LeperousDust · 27-02-2008, 20:47

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Originally Posted by Jasper

you're just wrong. Opera is horrible.

I've been using beta 3 for a few weeks and I love it. I don't use the new bookmarking stuff, but I'm taking advantage of the vastly improved stability and memory allocation in OSX. It's a lot more stable than beta 2 was

War!
If you're worried about stability/memory issues and not the new stuff, Opera IS for you! It's always been much much more stable than FF, but always lacked the extension (which ironically can make FF even more unstable). Opera is a wonderful OS independant browser, and now they've got some plugin gubbins sorted out (and other things i just don't get

) working better with the latest few betas of the upcomming 9.5 it's set to get better since they're also working on making sure the product is as good as it should be on all OS'

Daz · 27-02-2008, 20:55

Browser wars, the new OS wars.

rich99 · 27-02-2008, 21:16

Ahhh fantastic - finally something that will eat the other half of my RAM aswell!

MarcLister · 27-02-2008, 21:20

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Originally Posted by Daz

Browser wars, the new OS wars.

Which Opera has already won.

Mark · 27-02-2008, 21:57

Opera lost when they claimed they were the most standards-compilant but had glaring errors displaying sites that other browsers (and I don't mean just IE) rendered fine. Sure, they've fixed that since, but I don't care.

27-02-2008, 16:00	#12
Daz The Stig Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Swad! Posts: 10,713	A couple of people have said to me that the memory problem looks like it'll be much better in 3 (though it's still difficult to say for sure - there's bound to be some debug stuff still compiled into the betas). I'm hopeful, but I think I'll believe it when I see it. I love Firefox, but it's memory leaks are quite bad. __________________ apt-get moo

27-02-2008, 19:28	#14
petemc Moonshine Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Nr Liverpewl Posts: 4,371	As an OSX user the new FF3 beta something is great. They've finally designed it with OSX in mind. All the little things like text boxes, check boxes, gadgets n things all look great. I think the font is better too. As your average mac fanboy, I do like it when people take their time with user interface design and make their apps look good. I can't say I've noticed anything else thats worth mentioning but when you're swimming in a field of well designed interfaces, FF2 does stand out. __________________ Thats no hamster, its a space station!

27-02-2008, 20:39	#15
Daz The Stig Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Swad! Posts: 10,713	The whole UI has been much better designed to fit into whatever OS you're putting it on. Likewise, FF3 will fit in much better with whatever Gnome/KDE theme you're using on *nix. __________________ apt-get moo

27-02-2008, 20:55	#17
Daz The Stig Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Swad! Posts: 10,713	Browser wars, the new OS wars. __________________ apt-get moo

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27-02-2008, 21:16	#18
rich99 Long Island Iced Tea Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Stratford-upon-Avon Posts: 195	Ahhh fantastic - finally something that will eat the other half of my RAM aswell!

27-02-2008, 21:57	#20
Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	Opera lost when they claimed they were the most standards-compilant but had glaring errors displaying sites that other browsers (and I don't mean just IE) rendered fine. Sure, they've fixed that since, but I don't care.