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Firefox Download Day (June 17, 2008)

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Meh, I'm not impressed. I've used FF3 Beta on ubuntu as well, and I just don't see the improvement.

I can't say with a straight face that I see a speed improvement... then again, I never felt that FF2, IE7, or Opera were "slow" to begin with. We're probably talking about differences of half-seconds here, and to be honest, it's pretty insignificant. The new address bar is clunky and annoying. Doesn't really have any rhyme or reason why it recommends things. Let's just say that it usually doesn't recommend what I'm trying to put in. So I just installed the Oldbar extension and got rid of it.

There's a "Most Visited" Bookmark folder now on my toolbar that'll I never use, since I know where all my bookmarks are by habit now, so why would I change? I can't say I like the new default theme (for win vista). I mean I don't hate it, but it isn't all that great. Also annoying that I have to use workarounds for some of my favorite extensions to work right now...

Anyway, I'm a little underwhelmed here. I don't see a whole lot new here worth upgrading for, but I figure I gotta upgrade eventually, I might as well do it now.
 
Originally posted by: fatpat268


Anyway, I'm a little underwhelmed here. I don't see a whole lot new here worth upgrading for, but I figure I gotta upgrade eventually, I might as well do it now.
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And it's free. It's not like you bought a car and drove a lemon off the lot 😕
 
Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Originally posted by: fatpat268


Anyway, I'm a little underwhelmed here. I don't see a whole lot new here worth upgrading for, but I figure I gotta upgrade eventually, I might as well do it now.
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And it's free. It's not like you bought a car and drove a lemon off the lot 😕
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so because it's free I can't have any criticism for it?

😕
 
Originally posted by: fatpat268
Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Originally posted by: fatpat268


Anyway, I'm a little underwhelmed here. I don't see a whole lot new here worth upgrading for, but I figure I gotta upgrade eventually, I might as well do it now.
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And it's free. It's not like you bought a car and drove a lemon off the lot 😕
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so because it's free I can't have any criticism for it?

😕
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Nope. Not allowed. Strictly forbidden 😀
 
memory leaks is definitely better. its only 110mb or so when normally it would've been 300 or 400 mb already
 
FF FTL

I am getting rendering problem, when I click new link or scroll around I keep getting ghost images from previous pages or the top of the page, restarting FF isn't helping.
 
Originally posted by: EKKC
memory leaks is definitely better. its only 110mb or so when normally it would've been 300 or 400 mb already
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I notice this too and the speed is greatly improved going from page to page.
 
Originally posted by: legoman666
adblock plus is reason enough to use Firefox over Opera. I used Opera for a while, but switched to FF + Adblock, never going back unless Opera gets similar functionality.
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I downloaded this and put it in my profile folder and it blocked most of the ads, if not all. Obviously you can't personalize it as much without the extension but it's pretty nice.
 
Originally posted by: Chris
Switched to GrApple as it fits the native OS X UI and does not look like a MP3 player from the 90's like the default theme.
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grapple is pretty slick looking. but the drop down menus are very difficult to see.
 
Originally posted by: scttgrd
Opera FTW, most of the good extentions are simlpy built into it. Speedial, open closed tabs, mouse gestures and many more come included.
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implimentation of said features tends to be annoying or inferior which just makes me turn back to firefox.
 
In the bookmarks pane, I have two items. One is "Boomarks Toolbar" and the other is "Unsorted Bookmarks". Is there any way to remove these?
 
Originally posted by: MrChad
Originally posted by: Chris
The OS X skin is terrible. All the screens I have seen showed the Safari look, but I have the ugly round buttons. WTF?
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Have you checked out the Proto theme?
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I don't get it. It does not look like the screenshots when installed. It looks like the default FF3 theme (which I think it is). Weird.
 
Originally posted by: intogamer
Originally posted by: legoman666
adblock plus is reason enough to use Firefox over Opera. I used Opera for a while, but switched to FF + Adblock, never going back unless Opera gets similar functionality.
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Don't forget the adblocker plus element hider

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4364">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4364</a>
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so does adblock plus work with filterset g? or is filterset g not necessary now? adblock doesn't have a 3.0 version apparently.
 
well with over 100 tabs open its using 400 instead of 600 mb.
dunno how many exactly since the drop down no longer is numbered.
 
Download day was so horribly implemented. Started 16 minutes late, and now we are well past the deadline but the counter is still going up.
 
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