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Firefox 3. Painless and Fast

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The Mac install was smooth, picking up existing Bookmarks and compatible Add-ons. Hopefully previous issues are resolved. Gmail v2.0 even works.

Update: Enabled Extensions...

6 comments

Comment by Gary on 18 June 08 @ 22:12
John, I got myself Firefox 3, up to now all seems well :) Managed to update all my extentions to work, I am a happy bunny ;)

Gz
Comment by John Email on 18 June 08 @ 22:34
So, your the one that got them past 6 million downloads
Comment by Gary on 20 June 08 @ 21:57
Yep, I was ONE of them ;)

gz
Comment by Miles on 30 June 08 @ 04:13
I'm liking the new version except for the much-touted smart search in the address field. I think the results are horribly formatted, it's very hard to distinguish at a glane one item from another or the title of the page from the URL. I also just preferred the old way of knowing what would come up when, for example, I typed "maps" into the address field I always got "maps.google.com" as the first result, now I get all sorts of rubbish with maps in the URL or title.

I've searched in vain for a way to turn it off.

Another annoyance is the new version of Firebug for FF3. It's an essential add on for a web developer but many of the best features have disappeared or been much complicated in the new version.
Comment by John Email on 30 June 08 @ 04:47
I don't mind it Miles. It's pretty savvy at finding urls that you have previously visited. I may be missing the point, but I thought that was it's key purpose.
Re turning it off.. I'm surprised there isn't an about:config setting.

The best thing about this version, on OSX, is that it hasn't crashed yet :)
Comment by Miles on 06 July 08 @ 22:02
Ok, after a week or so of using it I'm pretty happy with the keyword URL feature, I just needed to get used to it. I still think it could be formatted better, if a page has a long title and a long URL it makes for a pretty unreadable scan.

The changes to Firebug are the most annoying thing. I might revert back to FF2 just to get that back.

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