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17th May 2008, 4:31pm
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#1 | | Aurė enteluva Gallery SuperMod
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| Firefox 3 RC1 out now
Been using it today, and it does feel a lot snappier.
Took a wee bit of digging to get updates for a couple of extensions, but other than that, all going smoothly. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html | 
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17th May 2008, 4:48pm
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#2 | | Strong protect the weak Admin
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| Re: Firefox 3 RC1 out now
Nice going to give it a try.
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17th May 2008, 5:25pm
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#3 | | EVIL/NICE.
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| Re: Firefox 3 RC1 out now
Is it still such a memory hog? My computer only has 1GB of RAM so unsure if to give it a shot or not.
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17th May 2008, 5:26pm
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| Re: Firefox 3 RC1 out now
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Originally Posted by Draven  Is it still such a memory hog? My computer only has 1GB of RAM so unsure if to give it a shot or not. | from the Release notes Quote: |
Memory usage: Several new technologies work together to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 over a web browsing session. Memory cycles are broken and collected by an automated cycle collector, a new memory allocator reduces fragmentation, hundreds of leaks have been fixed, and caching strategies have been tuned.
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17th May 2008, 6:47pm
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#5 | | Man Up
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| Re: Firefox 3 RC1 out now
I would strongly recommend people test this out by using the portable version. That way it won't interfere with your old FF2 install at all. Also if you know how to use the FEBE extension then you can easily bring all your bookmarks etc along.
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17th May 2008, 6:51pm
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#6 | | Registered User Editor
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| Re: Firefox 3 RC1 out now
had a play with this today, it all looks good but no stumbleupon  | |
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17th May 2008, 6:52pm
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#7 | | Here Comes Yr Man
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| Re: Firefox 3 RC1 out now
How do you get the portable version? What does that mean? I love how I've got FF set up here, I don't want to fuck with it.
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17th May 2008, 6:55pm
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| Re: Firefox 3 RC1 out now
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Originally Posted by CHUCK LIDELOL How do you get the portable version? What does that mean? I love how I've got FF set up here, I don't want to fuck with it. | http://portableapps.com/apps/interne..._portable/test
The portable version doesn't 'install' as such, it just sits in it's own wee folder. It's meant to be loaded onto a USB drive so you can use it on any machine you like. AFAIK this contains most of the new features etc of FF3 proper.
So far I'm really liking the improved way it handles saved passwords and bookmarks.
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17th May 2008, 6:59pm
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| Re: Firefox 3 RC1 out now
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Originally Posted by triggerhappy had a play with this today, it all looks good but no stumbleupon | Worth taking a swatch at the site for stumble upon, as they'll doubtless have an early version ready for firefox 3 that hasn't went up on the mozilla site yet. Quote:
Originally Posted by Shannow Worth taking a swatch at the site for stumble upon, as they'll doubtless have an early version ready for firefox 3 that hasn't went up on the mozilla site yet. | Also using the nightly tester tools 'make all compatible' is wortha bash.
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17th May 2008, 7:13pm
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#10 | | Here Comes Yr Man
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| Re: Firefox 3 RC1 out now
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Originally Posted by GoddamnElectric http://portableapps.com/apps/interne..._portable/test
The portable version doesn't 'install' as such, it just sits in it's own wee folder. It's meant to be loaded onto a USB drive so you can use it on any machine you like. AFAIK this contains most of the new features etc of FF3 proper.
So far I'm really liking the improved way it handles saved passwords and bookmarks. | How will this protect my current settings?
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17th May 2008, 7:26pm
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| Re: Firefox 3 RC1 out now
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Originally Posted by CHUCK LIDELOL How will this protect my current settings? | Because it wont install over your firefox directory. Just make it install in a folder on your desktop over something.
If you mean how do you bring over your current settings into the portable, then you need an extension called FEBE https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2109
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17th May 2008, 7:38pm
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#12 | | Here Comes Yr Man
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| Re: Firefox 3 RC1 out now
Thank capt.
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17th May 2008, 8:01pm
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#13 | | Filth-kitten
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| Re: Firefox 3 RC1 out now
I had a look at it a while back in the earlier Beta and found several snags. Interested to see if those've been cleared up now.
Ooh, looks like they haaaaaave.
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20th May 2008, 1:40pm
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| Re: Firefox 3 RC1 out now
I'm impressed. Very impressed. Massive improvements over FF2 and the Betas.
For some reason the Mac version doesn't have the Back and Forward buttons on the UI as deafult.
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21st May 2008, 8:28am
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#15 | | You look lovely today. SuperMod
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| Re: Firefox 3 RC1 out now
A lot of cool features that I've found so far (saving your tabs when you close the browser is great)
Also, for incompatible add-ons, go into about:config and create a new boolean called extensions.checkCompatibility and set it to false. Restart Firefox and all (or most) of your add-ons will now be working. | |
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