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Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

fyc — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:32:27 -0000

Yep, I've been using it since the first non-2.0 nightlies (I've gone to the more stable beta 5 now). I absolutely love it, mainly because of Places and the Awesome Bar. Other favourite things: (multi-word) tagging; better UI, no matter what OS (GTK icons!); and far less memory hoggage than Fx 2.

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

shiva — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:21:42 -0000

I am using the beta5 and have been using since beta 3. Here's why?
1. It's very stable
2. very good memory management (less memory leaks)
3. like the cleaner new interface (On the mac, it made me give up safari. )

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

Nathan Snell — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:40:32 -0000

Love Firefox 3. Happy they finally integrated saving sessions, it's by far my favorite feature. Only thing is they didn't seem to anticipate this problem. In my opinion, the current way they handle tabbed navigation given the new ability to save sessions is poor, clunky, and just not fast enough (especially when it comes to scrolling). I'm sure some addons will be developed as a solution for it (if i get time, maybe ill contribute).

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

obscurelyfamous — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:13:14 -0000

Yes, Firefox 3 beta 4.

I wasn't having a great time with the previous betas but recently everything just clicked together. I'm loving it now, but it required a bit of tweaking.

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

Dean Landolt — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:18:20 -0000

Yes. And I have been since beta 2. It's...remarkable. I can't even go back to FF 2. I keep way too many tabs open, and FF 3 is so good for memory management, I couldn't even fathom using FF 2 on my ubuntu machine, and when I couldn't figure out how to install the beta, it was worth it to me to actually upgrade to the new ubuntu beta to get it -- the difference is that huge! At first, I thought the speed bump was just because a lot of my plugins I had in 2 wouldn't work for 3, but I've got most of them back and running in 3 and it's still lightning quick w/ a small memory footprint.

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

Justus P. — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:10:39 -0000

I finally started using Firefox3 after the announcement last week that apparently it was stable enough for "non-developer types". It seems to run smoothly (without adblocker; Firefox2 ran so slowly that I finally put adblock on it just to keep the webpages moving). So far I have had no problems, but no particular praises either -- except for the toolbar and how much easier it is to type in a website than ever before. At first the big text boxes annoyed me, but once I realized how much easier to go to a specific part of a website, I really began to enjoy it.

That said, even though I grew up with DOS (hence my tendency to type in websites), I am NOT a poweruser by any stretch of the imagination, I'm an architect and I use the web to surf and entertain/educate myself, for example I just barely started using RSS.

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

mike — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:50:13 -0000

Started using it about a day ago. Waaay faster!

The Mac native i/f was noticably different compared to FF2, and w/in moments it just looked right.

One problem, right-click->open in new tab makes the tab active. Maybe I missed a pref.

No other problems that I'm aware of other than many extensions don't work.

Overall, very happy with FF3.

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

ac5 — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:20:35 -0000

I probably won't . . . my sons tell me it is pretty good, but I'm in a comfortable rut with IE7

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

Ryan — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:46:53 -0000

I've been using Beta 3 and 4 on my MacBook Pro and out of the box it's pretty darn nice. Fast, significantly lower memory usage than FF 2, and once you tweak the toolbar to use small icons, it looks good too.

If you use some extensions, it can be a little bit of a pain to get them working, but I like it about [-----------------------] that much more than FF2, and [-----] more than Safari.

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

_Mark_ — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:03:40 -0000

I'm using it because (1) a lot of developers at PyCon2008 mentioned their use of it (2) 3.0b4 is the default browser in the current Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) beta (more for pyxpcom than web browsing, though it seems to handle that fine.)

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

Tom — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:48:46 -0000

Have been using it on & off for a couple of days. I just had to shut it down because it was using 100% cpu with three tabs open. I'm using a Macbook. I don't really like Safari much as it doesn't have the extensions I use but Firefox is just becoming tiring. Either it's taking all the memory or now it's the cpu. *Groan*

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

Theo Lagendijk — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:28:35 -0000

I'm using Firefox 3.0 and I'm very pleased with the address bar; http://theolagendijk.wordpr...

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

Robbie van der Blom — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:58:32 -0000

I love it, actually I love betas anyways, but this one actually is a huge improvement above FF2. And it's pretty solid, when it crashes it's mostly because of a problem with flashplayer. (running it on Ubuntu Hardy Heron Beta RC4, which i can also recommend)

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

Jorge Rosa — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:41:54 -0000

PS: Memory management is also improved. Memory usage normally stops at (i. e., floats around) 80MB, even with a few tabs open. But I still feel (in the old computer) some slowing after a while.
At least I can close the program and open it again with all tabs memorized (also a new feature).

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

Jorge Rosa — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:37:09 -0000

Page rendering seems a bit faster, but I hope the smart bookmarks don't do the opposite, i. e., slow navigation.
Interface is also slightly better, although one arrow only for multiple page back/forward is in the beginning a bit unintuitive. Download is also improved, but I still haven't tried the "pause" feature. A progress bar in the status (a la safari) instead of a new box would be even better.
Since I'm addicted to a few add-ons (del.icio.us, FireFTP, etc.), I'm only using the beta in an older computer, for testing.
When it's out of beta, I'll install right away it in the main computer.

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

playerx — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:04:58 -0000

i'm using the beta right now under Ubuntu 7.10 and it's GREAT!

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

Mark — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:17:54 -0000

@Eric @cyprien @shawngrimes, Flock's next release will have FF3 under the hood. Using Flock 1.3pre - which is FF3 (disclaimer - I work there).

FF3 is a huge performance improvement over FF2. Most simple add-ons will work the same in FF3, developers just need to update their install.rdf file. Some will need rework.

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

Eric — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:49:18 -0000

I Used FF2 for quite a long time, then switched to Flock and love the extra functionality. It is a memory and processor hog though, just like FF2. I love the speed in FF3 and the new Safari 3.1 but not sure I'm willing to give up the Flock extras. Many FF plugins aren't FF3 compatible yet, so that may tell the tale as well. I wish there were more plugins for Safari.

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

cyprien — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:33:55 -0000

I just switched to flock. I will be back to Firefox 3 when there is a good del.icio.us plugin.

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Asa — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:08:40 -0000

That's a mac system wide setting you must adjust if you want to tab through _all_ elements on the page.

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

Sebastian — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:53:55 -0000

I'm using Firefox 3, since the late alpha versions. There are a few things that are very different, like the "Awesome Bar", but most of these things are very, very useful at the same time.
The interesting thing about transition is that each browser, despite the basically similar features, behave very different. It's the small things like what happens if I double-click on a paragraph of text that make changing the browser difficult for me. I repeatedly tried to switch to Opera, for example. But even after changing Opera's settings so that it behaves more like Firefox (like the STRG + TAB tab-switching), I'm having a difficult time getting accustomed to it. And after a few days, I always came back to using Firefox.

Funny that you got uninvited from their press list, though. I think that's a bad thing, because their newest browser versions really are big, big steps forward. Both from a user's as well as from a developer's standpoint I consider recommending them again.

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

PaulE — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:38:21 -0000

I've been moving more to Opera lately and might not make it to FF3. Originally this was just for reading nytimes.com since Opera doesn't do the definition pop-up when you select a word, which I find so annoying. Then I found that magically washingtonpost.com somehow doesn't require registration when I read their articles in Opera, even though it does in Firefox and IE. Also I found that I really like Opera's rss feed reader (at least better than Google Reader).

I still use Firefox for some development, gmail, and reading bookmarked sites I'm too lazy to import into Opera (like this one). I'll probably upgrade my Firefox for development purposes when the full version is released.

Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

thorlin — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:58:26 -0000

I have been using it of and on. However, it hasn't pushed Safari to the side yet. I'm a big Firefox fan, but when FF2 starting causing issues, i moved over to Safari. When my add-ons are updated to work on FF3, I'll then move back.

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Re: Are you using Firefox 3? (Scripting News)

missTech — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:33:15 -0000

- I have been using Firefox for a very long time.
- Since version 0.05.
- Firefox 3 requires Win2000 or >.
- Latest Firefox , V2.0.13 still supports Win98.
- I wonder for how much longer?
- May soon have to switch to Opera.