[thelist] FireFox 3
Symeon Charalabides
symeon at systasis.com
Wed Jun 18 13:09:13 CDT 2008
> Firefox 3.0 Record Download Attempt Crashes Mozilla Servers
> Mozilla hopes to successfully complete 5 million downloads of the Web
> browser in 24 hours and set a Guinness World Record.
Their HTTP servers crashed for a while, but their FTP servers were up constantly (if you knew how to get to them). Currently, they are pushing the 8 million mark (!) and still have an hour to go.
> I was about to go get it. Maybe I will wait. Does it import your
> bookmarks/favorites from 2.0?
On my machines (WinXP), it automatically picked up *everything* from 2.0: bookmarks, add-ons, settings, even add-on settings. It was just like updating your firefox version, only you had to manually install it.
> Do all the plug ins we know and love have new
> downloadable versions that are compatible with 3.0?
Web-developer toolbar & Gmail Manager worked right off the bat.
FireFTP, DictionarySearch, HTML validator, YSlow it found & downloaded new, compatible versions.
FireBug and Rankquest SEO toolbar are still out - I would expect FireBug to be available very soon.
> Virtually none of the addons/plugins work (not unusual, just
> irritating.) Plus, it overwrote my old version without asking or telling.
> (Was that the default before? I don't remember.)
I think (though I'm not certain) it did the same when upgrading from 1.x to 2. That was a bit presumptuous of them, all right.
> Some of the default behaviours are incredibly annoying. I start typing my
> own web address in the address bar, and instead of going to the history and
> matching me letter by letter, it does some random search as if it as
> suddenly become smarter than me.
Here, I don't know what you're referring to. When I type anything in the address bar, it displays the history dropdown, which is further refined the more I type. Just like it used to do, only now the history items are as
<title>
<URL with highlighted type matching what you have typed>
> Overall look and feel fairly screams "Look! We're turning into Internet
> Explorer!" I do not want to re-learn the browser from scratch after I've
> spent two years customizing it to behave exactly as I wanted it to.
Again, I don't agree with this.
Regarding the look and feel of the browser, nothing has moved around - everything is exactly where it used to be. It certainly looks a bit more Windows-y, but it's the Windows crowd these people are trying to penetrate. Although I don't feel I'm making any sacrifices by using FF3, I'd be happy to readjust to the new look and feel (if I felt it required any readjusting) if it meant more widespread adoption of a standards-compliant browser.
As for customised behaviour, FF3 picked all my setting from FF2, so most, if not all of, your customization should be there already.
Symeon Charalabides (cosmopolite trainee)
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