firefox 3

[Deleted User] · 15/06/08 - 08:22

just thought i would start a thread about the new firefox 3.

this is to be released for download on Tuesday the 17th June.

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/18772/1141/

they say it will set a Guinness world record for the most downloads when released.

so who is going to downloading this. ???

zx50 · 15/06/08 - 09:02

I'll certainly be downloading the final version of this on Tuesday. I can't wait to find out of they have made improvements to the page renderring speed, but, I suspect they'll have only concentrated on bug fixes likely. Oh, and security issues.

[Deleted User] · 15/06/08 - 11:47

It's very much faster than FF2.

They really haven't pushed that fact as much as they should have. They're underselling it

mossy2103 · 15/06/08 - 13:06

Aspartame wrote: »

It's very much faster than FF2.

They really haven't pushed that fact as much as they should have. They're underselling it

Probably a smart move to undersell (aka "expectation management"). At least then people could be pleasntly surprised at the speed rather than expecting it to be super-duper fast and being disappointed when it's only super-fast.

System · 15/06/08 - 13:09

I'll be getting it - so that's 1 download!

jkain · 15/06/08 - 13:14

I don't believe there is a current record for the most downloads in 24 hrs, so setting one should be quite easy

. I won't down it straight away. Even when i tried RC1 all but a couple of my add-ons were disabled, i'll wait until they are updated to work with v3.

Echo1 · 15/06/08 - 13:19

I'll be downloading it; if I remember that is.

[Deleted User] · 15/06/08 - 13:24

I've been using it since about beta 4 with absolutely no bugs or problems at all.
It's also lightning fast, so I'll definitely be downloading the final release.

Finglonga · 15/06/08 - 17:33

I have Update Notifier so it should do it automatically. . . . Well it usually does.:p

[Deleted User] · 15/06/08 - 17:50

As soon as Ubuntu have it in their repos, it will be mine. Using RC1 right now, and am very happy with it overall. However, I wish they'd sort out all these Flash crashes. They still occur fairly regularly and are very annoying.

zx50 · 15/06/08 - 18:19

I was totally surprised with the speed after I got a tower with enough system resources in it. It's amazing how much faster things work when they have the freedom to go at the speed they need. You can definitely notice the fact that it loads more multiple images faster than Firefox 2 did. I was going to say that maybe they should make the page renderring a lot faster as well, but maybe it would be faster if I got an even faster tower? Only when you have a very fast tower, not state of the art though, can you be certain that they do need to make their browser faster at renderring images, because it could be down to the fact that your tower simply isn't fast enough.

tommyd1258 · 15/06/08 - 19:17

It's been really very fast since Beta 2, which is when I first got it. Haven't looked back to FF2 since and will definitely be downloading FF3 in Tuesday!

[Deleted User] · 15/06/08 - 19:24

I might get it, but I've also just got Opera 9.50, will FF3 be faster than that?

pixel_pixel · 16/06/08 - 01:12

I use it now! It is some candidate version.

I like it

It will be even better once all my add ons catch up with it!

Although it updates them automatically so I don't have to worry

Tadpole · 17/06/08 - 00:38

You can speed up Firefox 3 (and 2) further by enabling pipelining:

a. Enter the URL about:config
b. Find the setting network.http.pipelining, and set it to YES
c. Find the setting network.http.proxy.pipelining and set it to YES

This enables Firefox to download 4 pictures simultaneously from a website. By default it only does one at a time.

Some websites advise tweaking other related settings, but they don't really have much effect IMO.

Tadpole · 17/06/08 - 07:56

nufc4life wrote: »

...
this is to be released for download on Tuesday the 17th June.
...

Looks as if the download will be available from 10AM PDT, ie 6PM London time

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/firefox3
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=6&day=17&year=2008&hour=10&min=0&sec=0&p1=224&sort=1

zx50 · 17/06/08 - 08:20

Tadpole wrote: »

You can speed up Firefox 3 (and 2) further by enabling pipelining:

a. Enter the URL about:config
b. Find the setting network.http.pipelining, and set it to YES
c. Find the setting network.http.proxy.pipelining and set it to YES

This enables Firefox to download 4 pictures simultaneously from a website. By default it only does one at a time.

Some websites advise tweaking other related settings, but they don't really have much effect IMO.

Yes, but not ALL websites are compatible with pipelining though..............most, but not all. It does however make a very noticeable difference to the speed at which you surf websites though compared to other recommendations from other websites of how to speed up the browser. I was reading something very interesting yesterday though, and this is that quite a few websites claim that if you set this number to 30, it will make no difference, as Firefox can only handle 8 pipelining requests at a single time. They also said that setting your paint delay to 0 will not make surfing the internet faster, but just display the images quicker within the browser..........as if I didn't know that. Anyway, the pipelining thing is a bit of an eye opener for me. Here's the website I got this from. It's a sort of a bit of a slow site in terms of actually getting there. At least it is at the time of making this post.

http://egonitron.com/2007/05/25/the-truth-about-the-firefox-pipelining-trick/

Tadpole · 17/06/08 - 09:17

Matt-08 wrote: »

I might get it, but I've also just got Opera 9.50, will FF3 be faster than that?

In the majority of situations, yes.

The main development area for both Opera and FF3 seems to be Javascript handling, and benchmarks seem to use http://webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html. On my PC (64-bit Ubuntu Linux system), FF3 RC1 runs these between 80% and 200% quicker than Opera 9.50 Beta 1.

However I don't think there is a definitive proof that either browser is quicker. Each user will have to work that out for themselves.

I may post the benchmark results here once I have the final versions of both products installed.

Either way, both Opera 9.50 and Firefox 3 Release candidates both run rings around IE7. I tried out IE8 beta 1 a couple of weeks ago and it seems highly unstable, ie not yet fit for consumer use.

Esot-eric · 17/06/08 - 09:18

Tadpole wrote: »

Looks as if the download will be available from 10AM PDT, ie 6PM London time

It's on the servers now. I just downloaded it because as far as i'm concerned "download day" started at 00:00 UTC and not 17:00UTC.

Of course, my download wont count towards their record, but i don't really care about that.

Mac OS X
Linux
Windows

Sexbomb · 17/06/08 - 09:22

Esot-eric wrote: »

It's on the servers now. I just downloaded it because as far as i'm concerned "download day" started at 00:00 UTC and not 17:00UTC.

Of course, my download wont count towards their record, but i don't really care about that.

Mac OS X
Linux
Windows

That's the release candidate not the final. :rolleyes:

Esot-eric · 17/06/08 - 09:30

Sexbomb wrote: »

That's the release candidate not the final. :rolleyes:

It's both. RC3 and the final are exactly the same (that's the entire purpose of Release Candidates).

But this is exactly the same version of Firefox you will get whether you download it now or wait until 18:00. It's already been pushed to the main Mozilla download mirrors in preparation for the official launch.

Sexbomb · 17/06/08 - 11:02

It's available here now.

but it still isn't on the mozilla site and it is still release candidate as well.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox/

rai uno · 17/06/08 - 11:22

Sexbomb wrote: »

It's available here now. but it still isn't on the mozilla site and it is still release candidate as well.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_firefox/

Just installed it.

Like sh*t off a shovel!

Just got to wait for many of my preferred Extensions to be made compatible .........

[Deleted User] · 17/06/08 - 12:23

PeppermintPatty wrote: »

As soon as Ubuntu have it in their repos, it will be mine. Using RC1 right now, and am very happy with it overall. However, I wish they'd sort out all these Flash crashes. They still occur fairly regularly and are very annoying.

Get rc3

No problems I have found with it at all

The Rat · 17/06/08 - 12:32

Just downloaded FF3 from the filehippo site above (does state that it is RC3 on first start). Its pretty good, and is much faster than FF2. At 26MBs it is still a pretty big for such a stripped down browser.

Will be interesting to see if they've sorted the "memory haemorrhaging" that FF is now famous for.

Dave

rai uno · 17/06/08 - 12:37

The Rat wrote: »

Just downloaded FF3 from the filehippo site above (does state that it is RC3 on first start). Its pretty good, and is much faster than FF2. At 26MBs it is still a pretty big for such a stripped down browser.

Will be interesting to see if they've sorted the "memory haemorrhaging" that FF is now famous for.

Dave

I think not - my FF3.0 has crept up from 30MB to 75MB in next to no time!

(And the Restart button is awol, pro-tem ..............)

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