@Abnormal: Er, none? Extension developers have to test their work before making them compatible, and this is just the beta, so they're just seeing this now too! Believe me, I know, I've got a few extensions to update myself!

Gina Trapani

Adblock plus works fine. I'm using FF b3 right now.

schwnj

FFt. Not until it has adblock.

Kendra

I wonder how much pressure(money) they got to make sure adblock wasn't compatible?

Abnormal

Most important extensions, as in, adblock.

ripfire4

Thanks alot! Great red!

nikoPSK

Wow this is such an improvement! Seriously if you have 3.2 what are you waiting for?

flame500

So have they fixed the eat-2-Gb-of-RAM-in-one-day issue yet?

Stang70Fastback

Book bookmark sync and I am there

hpavc

Loads pages faster!! They should add active x next and then make it off by default so there is no danger yet and make it where you can choose which sites can have it on and stuff to make this replace IE!!

--Tito--

^^^^nevermind, geez I didn't even read the article. Doh!

ericshmerick

Stupid question:

I've been using 3.0b2 for sometime now. I assume this news release isn't an upgrade, right?

ericshmerick

Hmm this is probably just me but i wasnt very fond of firefox when i had Pc's at work.

n/a

Fewer memory issues? Yay!
Hopefully they'll sort Thunderbird soon - it's not funny when your e-mail client uses 900MB of RAM.

Step666

So nice, soooo nice.

Betas do not overwrite anything. In fact the beta will have all your bookmarks and addons right there.

scarf

Would a beta install overwrite my profile?

frank26080115

Ugh, never mind. I found it. It didn't have an icon displaying in the "customise toolbar" thing, only text. I added it back to my toolbar and it appears as an icon.

ocdude

Maybe it's just me, or maybe I'm blind, but did the toolbar lose the "home" button?

ocdude

New toolbar is ugly. I'm happy with the way I've minimized the chrome elements with userchrome.css and I hope the customization carries over to this new version. Are the chrome elements named identically to the chrome in FF 2.x?

InspectorxGadget

OPERA FTW!!! OPERA FTW!!!! SUCKS TO YOUR ASSMAR!!!

marksman7328

firefox 2 was awful in how it has memory leak and constantly taking over 200MB RAM. is v3 better?

if not for the extensions, i'd have dumped firefox a long time ago. i hate resource hogs, and memory leaks

diablofreak

I can't wait to see the final release!!!!

ChambrasWeed

I've got 4 tabs open and organizing/tagging bookmarks. 78,068 K.

ryetronics

How's the ram usage? Is it under 80mb (assuming no extensions)? That would be nice.

Quine

I can't believe how FAST this browser is! Of course, only Greasemonkey out of my usual 20 extensions are working, but still, what an improvement. I'm very impressed.

ryetronics

DiabloFreak is such a tool. Extensions are to be used at your convenience. If you don't want them, don't use them. Most of them make Firefox a great, and customizable browser. And if you don't have 100 MB of RAM to dedicate to a browser then you should probably just stay on IE 5. Nub.

scarf

well doesn't the fact that the pages we now view, full of ajax preloaders, flash, plugins (and browser prefetching )... blah blah blah... constitute why FF takes up 100K+ ?? seems to me it's the increase size of content we view, not the just browser we view it from.

adblock is god. without god, i don't believe in the internets.

fuzzymuffins

@ocdude:
The Home button has been moved to the Bookmarks toolbar by default.

hlkljgk

1. The memory reported by task manager is not correct. Period. It means nothing.

2. The reason Firefox's memory usage is so high is that it stores cache information from each tab you open. Open and close lots of tabs with lots of browsing, and the memory usage is going to be high. You can turn it off, but your performance will not be nearly as good.

SizzleBeast

Lets see, Help, Check for Updates..... OH MY GOSH!!!!!!

Neoistheone2000

Memory usage seems to have be improved quite a bit, any way to make the fastest web browsing experience faster its a bonus in my books.....however, the adblock thing may be an issue, let's see how that pans out...

800hightech

The creeping memory problem seems to come from GreaseMonkey. For ages I didn't have greasemonkey on my work machine, but eventually caved in and now FF is consistently creeping in memory usage.

@Sizzlebeast: While the taskmanager memory usage is not correct, it is a useful yardstick. The few times FF has pushed me beyond the 1gb mark (eating up 400mb itself), restarting FF has made my machine a lot more responsive.

graham.reeds

A few tips that will help install addons, plus other stuff. Open 'about:config' in new tab:

* stop GIF animation:
1. set 'image.animation_mode entry' to 'none'.

* stop Firefox stealing focus:
1. set 'browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground' to 'true'

* improve performance:
1. network.http.pipelining - set 'true'
2. network.http.proxy.pipelining - set 'true'
3. network.http.pipelining.maxrequests - set '18'

* allow installation of extensions that "will not be installed because it does not provide secure updates":
1. create new boolean with value of 'extensions.checkUpdateSecurity'
2. set it to 'false'

* allow installation of extensions that fail compatibility check:
1. create new boolean with value of 'extensions.checkCompatibility'
2. set it to 'false'

* switch off auto image resizing:
1. set 'browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing' to false

n/a

For anyone that relies on Roboform, be aware that those great forward planners at Siber Systems haven't provided a beta 3 compatible version.

As Roboform works with beta 2, it's most likely just an update for the version string.

Maybe they didn't know FF3 beta 3 was going to be released? Or maybe they just don't care too much ... having dealt with their 'customer service' a couple of times, I'll go for the latter.

n/a

Any chance to see versions of BetterGMail that don't give "Cannot install because not a secure update" errors?

Stéphane Gallay

I had to stop using Firefox because of all the memory issues I was having with it, it just kept on killing my system when I have multiple tabs open. I'm now using Flock for the last two months and I haven't had that many issues at all. No issues since I updated to the latest release.

keinz

@ BUGMENOT21:

Roboform does indeed have a Beta 3 compatible version: [www.roboform.com]

yochanan_marqos

@dekay46:

Thanks for the link

kman79

for those missing foxmarks, you should try using Mozilla's own Weave [[services.mozilla.com]] which ONLY works in the Fx3 Betas.

dekay46

Does Foxmark work with the new Beta?

kman79

Anyone know what happened to the Places folder that was in Beta 2?

ryetronics

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3 Beta 3 is available as well. It's designed for use on portable devices and doesn't interfere with your local install, so you can use it to test out the latest beta without worry.

John T. Haller

@Benjo: I had no problem reverting; I just uninstalled v3, and downloaded and installed v2 again. (Only, it would have made more sense to download v2 before I uninstalled v3! Glad I had portable FF on my thumb drive :-)

MrJR

Anyway to turn off the address bars "Title/URL" feature? I'm used to typing the url, and then selecting if it hasn't been done automatically. With the titles in there, I have to look and read a lot more than I did.

Git Em SteveDave

Yeah, this kind of messed up my Firefox and then I couldn't retroactively change it. Annoying...

Benjo

Maybe I'm dumb or something. Is my toolbar supposed to look like the one in the screenshot? I'm not seeing any visual improvements so far besides the star in the address bar. Halp!

the_Sleepwalker

Anyone else having a problem with Flash not working with this release?

Jarick

I'm going with the ActiveX comment/suggestion too.

Really, there is nothing wrong with ActiveX, it's just that Microsoft/IE "gave it a bad name" - by enabling it by default :P

As far as I understand, an *.XPI file can be just as dangerous as an activeX file...

Only hackers/scripters tend to target IE more, because it has a bigger market share (in the rich-grandparents-or-parents-and-businesses-and-schools-who-don't-want-to-adapt-to-firefox-industry).

ahoier

@ Everyone bitching about add-on support, have you ever looked up the Nightly Tester Tools extension? It allows you to change the compatibility of an add-on in one click (so it doesn't nag you with all the 'this add-on isn't compatible with this version of Firefox/Gran Paradiso/Minefield) and if you take a decent text editor to your add-on folder, you can just change the update links to include https. Also, if your going to run this, might as well go all the way and get the latest nightly from the mozilla ftp.

PS: Adblock Plus works, and none of my other extensions have given me any grief (just make sure your DivX extension is up to date)

citizen.lambda

Not all of the addons are upgraded for FF3.

Lawk Salih

I have an older version of Photoshop, but it worked for me as well.

eeefresh

@jarhead: confirmed working on CS (v8).

Biggrz

@digidandy: Not sure what you are talking about. I have been doing this since the initial Firefox browser and with Photoshop 6. I just tried it with Firefox and Photoshop CS3 and it works just like it always does. It copies the image to your clipboard and when you go to Photoshop, hit File -> New and in the Preset box, it shows Clipboard (meaning it found the image I copied). It hit Ctrl+V and my image pastes into Photoshop.

jarhead

Ok, so they have fixed "thousands" of bugs, yet this simple one they haven't fixed: Try copying any image from a web site, then paste it into Photoshop CS3.

It can't be done. It hasn't worked since Firefox 2, and telling them over and over again doesn't work either.

Strange.

digidandy

I can't understand making a fuss about alpha and beta releases since newer nightly builds are always available.
Yahoo mail beta won't work, be forewarned. TabMix Plus and recent All-In-One Sidebar builds won't, though older builds of the latter are fine and Session Manager provides much of what TMP does.
Many older themes will bork the AwesomeBar -- that is awesome! Phoenity Modern is a well-working theme, aided by some GUI-scrunching userstyles.org scripts.
Minefield is better than Ff 2. For me, Mf uses less RAM than Opera and Safari/WebKit.

fluxam

Hasn't 3.0b4 already been released? These are nightly builds going under the codename 'Minefield': [ftp.mozilla.org] . I'm guessing the difference between these two is that Minefield only has nightly builds.

techfreak6

has anyone noticed that bookmarks can't be dragged and dropped into different folders from the "show all bookmarks...?" is it just me?

melpri

The following is a list of extensions I have personally tested with Firefox 3 Beta 3. If there are not comments next to them then they are fully functional. In order to use these 'legacy' extensions, you will need to manually add "extension.checkCompatibility" in about:config, make it boolean and set it to false.

SecureLogin
BetterYouTube
Resurrect
Unlinker
ChromeEditPlus
TitleBarTweaks
NoScript
IETab
CookieCuller
FavIconPicker
RefControl
FancyNumberedTabs
Adblock
Stylish
MidnightFox
SessionManager
Fission
CacheViewer
ConfigurationMania
FasterFox
DownloadStatusbar
TinyMenu
TabMixPlus - Doesn't Work, Disables Torbutton and TinyMenu functions
Torbutton
FireSomething
UserAgentSwitcher
Performancing
Firebug
LocationBar - Installs fine, does not function properly - Displays blank location instead of breadcrumb, mouseover shows proper
Performancing Myspace Addon

The theme InTheDark works, but it causes a small issue with fancy numbered tabs - instead of a single number that on mouseover changes to an x the tabs display the full 4 images that create the number to x mouseover effect. The same applies to the Zune theme, as well as the MidnightFox, Aero Fox, and Black Aqua themes. (Actually I'm guessing it applies to all legacy themes, but I'm not trying anything that isn't black.) They also do not properly display "suggested" text in the address bar.

I haven't seen it posted anywhere yet, maybe I need to thoroughly read release notes, but Live Bookmarks don't work. They are there, but clicking them does absolutely NOTHING.

wynneth

Any idea how I can test 3 on a Mac without removing my 2?

theworldofm

Christ that back/forward button is HIDEOUS. I hope somebody releases a Firefox 2 theme for it.

zaussome

Can someone please reply to me about an issue I am having in FF 3.0. Most addons that I believe are good 3.0, do not install due to error, "Cannot install because addon does not have secure updates". If this was discussed previously, I apologize, I have not seen it.

BraveGiant

@BraveGiant: that basically means that the addon doesn't yet have a version compatible with the new beta's, give it a couple days and it will probably or view the lifehacker article on how to make your firefox extensions work in beta 3, that should allow the extensions to work

ubuntugamer

@scarf: why do you have to be so negative? he said if it werent for the extensions he would of ditched ff a long time ago, which means that he likes the extensions and that is why he uses ff. also ff uses a lot more than 100mb ram, I checked on my windows machine and it was hogging nearly 350mb, on my Linux machine it was hogging 512 (but it doesn't really matter as I have a 4gb SWAP)

ubuntugamer

This version is SO much faster. But, Google Reader doesn't work! :-( Not even after I installed Google Gears or the better G Reader2 add-on. This is terrible, since I use it more than once every day!
Another weird thing...I found out I have both Firefox 2.012 and the Beta 3 version installed at the same time, wonder if this will create problems when uninstalling anything later on, but in any case I copied my profile folders.
Though, I could just use the old version for Google Reader and the Beta version for everything else. Really hope this won't mess things up.

Serendipipse

@ubuntugamer, KEINZ: I had huge performance and memory issues with 2.x; beta 3 has pretty much solved all those issues for me. Memory use stays constant over time, and CPU usage remains 0-3% when lightly used, and reasonable when pressed -- no 99% CPU usage so far.

Oh, and AdBlock works fine. Use the nightly tools to remove the version checks.

Nepherim

damn...if google reader dont work then i cant use it, since i rely on it quite a lot. scary how dependent we are on technology. looks like robots will indeed win. it wont be that difficult since we are almost veggie if our techtoys are taken away

theworldofm

greader used to work for me and now it doesn't. Gina help us!

substance12

Wynneth, thanks for explaining how to add the Compatibility check. After installing Firefox 3 and then copy & pasting my Firefox 2 profile into it, I found that most of my addons, plugins and even my theme continued to work without any problems. Until I needed a certain media player that wasn't compatible. For some reason I decided to turn on the Compatibility check, which apparently deleted the extension.checkCompatibility code in about:config. Hence, none of my addons & theme continued to work and there wasn't any way to disable it again. Wonder why it was eliminated from Firefox 3? Anyway, thanks again.

Drew

Gungistoker

Downloaded it. If it's a bust. I'll put what I had back. Thank's! :)

AtomicOrange