Firefox 3 RC1 Released

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat May 17, 2008 5:48 AM EDT

Article Source: mozilla.com

technology, firefox, browser, mozilla, release-candidate

Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 33 months. Building on the previous release, Gecko 1.9 has more than 14,000 updates including some major re-architecting to provide improved performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Firefox 3 has been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot more under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers.

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Dennis P. McCann

The final version of Firefox 3 will be released when we qualify the product as fully ready for our users. Users of the latest released version of Firefox should not expect all of their add-ons to work properly with this preview release.

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1 vote

#1 - Sat May 17, 2008 5:49 AM EDT

{"commentId":1812000,"authorDomain":"edelweiss"}

Edelweiss

I've been using the beta for a couple of weeks now, and I like it a lot.

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2 votes

#2 - Sat May 17, 2008 7:01 AM EDT

{"commentId":1812009,"authorDomain":"paperdragon"}

Dennis P. McCann

I used Betas 2 through 5, and installed RC1 about an hour ago. Seems to be just fine. No problems at all, and most of my plugins work, though not all of them.

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4 votes

#2.1 - Sat May 17, 2008 7:14 AM EDT

{"commentId":1813640,"authorDomain":"edelweiss"}

Edelweiss

Sadly, my Bush countdown add-on doesn't work with 3. A couple of my other extensions worked with the beta, but they don't work with the RC.

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1 vote

#2.2 - Sat May 17, 2008 7:36 PM EDT

{"commentId":1814326,"authorDomain":"paperdragon"}

Dennis P. McCann

It's Flash. The Flash plugin doesn't work yet.

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1 vote

#2.3 - Sun May 18, 2008 2:17 AM EDT

{"commentId":1817042,"authorDomain":"edelweiss"}

Edelweiss

A ha! Let's hope that's working soon. I miss my extensions.

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#2.4 - Mon May 19, 2008 6:41 AM EDT

{"commentId":1812026,"authorDomain":"eddiefrench"}

Eddie French

Hardly any of my themes or extensions work. All of the plug-ins work ok though.
It won't be long before the enthusiasts deploy their updates. There are a lot of good things in FF3, it's a true upgrade.

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2 votes

#3 - Sat May 17, 2008 7:28 AM EDT

{"commentId":1814560,"authorDomain":"eddiefrench"}

Eddie French

I've just gone back to 2.0.0.14 purely on the basis that the firevine extension doesn't work.
How about it then Adam.....any chance of an update?

Please.....

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2 votes

#3.1 - Sun May 18, 2008 7:35 AM EDT

{"commentId":1814564,"authorDomain":"paperdragon"}

Dennis P. McCann

I'm used to not using Firevine because I tested the beta for so long, but yeah, I do miss it. But now that the release candidate is out, Adam has no excuse....

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1 vote

#3.2 - Sun May 18, 2008 7:37 AM EDT

{"commentId":1812257,"authorDomain":"ronk"}

ChrisRonk

My version of Firefox (v 2.0.0.14) is a memory hog. Does the new version use less memory?

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2 votes

#4 - Sat May 17, 2008 9:59 AM EDT

{"commentId":1812354,"authorDomain":"paperdragon"}

Dennis P. McCann

Yeah, that's one of the biggest improvements.

{"commentId":1812354,"threadId":"265710","contentId":"1494887","authorDomain":"paperdragon"}

5 votes

#4.1 - Sat May 17, 2008 10:51 AM EDT

{"commentId":1813073,"authorDomain":"JStranahan"}

Jimster

2.0.0.14 did not play with Newsvine well on my iMac. I hope this will be an improvement.

{"commentId":1813073,"threadId":"265710","contentId":"1494887","authorDomain":"JStranahan"}

2 votes

#4.2 - Sat May 17, 2008 3:31 PM EDT

{"commentId":1812757,"authorDomain":"stranger2315"}

stranger2315

I love Firefox. I've been using 3.5 and have no problems.

Stranger2315

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1 vote

#5 - Sat May 17, 2008 1:26 PM EDT

{"commentId":1812764,"authorDomain":"paperdragon"}

Dennis P. McCann

I upgraded from 3.5b to 3rc1 today, and it seems about the same, really. Haven't noticed any real difference, at least not yet.

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2 votes

#5.1 - Sat May 17, 2008 1:31 PM EDT

{"commentId":1815570,"authorDomain":"onlineapps"}

Andy Min

Ubuntu doesn't have a package yet, but hopefully that GTK theme fix will have fixed my stupid errors with the default theme and KDE.

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2 votes

#6 - Sun May 18, 2008 4:17 PM EDT

{"commentId":1815752,"authorDomain":"Paradox460"}

Paradox460

Woo! Still 2x heavier on my system and .5x as fast as opera.

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2 votes

#7 - Sun May 18, 2008 5:32 PM EDT

{"commentId":1817421,"authorDomain":"onlineapps"}

Andy Min

But Opera doesn't have the extensions. Otherwise, I'd be using it (or Konqi).

{"commentId":1817421,"threadId":"265710","contentId":"1494887","authorDomain":"onlineapps"}

1 vote

#7.1 - Mon May 19, 2008 9:36 AM EDT

{"commentId":1818396,"authorDomain":"politicalcenter"}

politicalcenter

Thanks for the heads up.

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2 votes

#8 - Mon May 19, 2008 1:39 PM EDT

{"commentId":1820442,"authorDomain":"funkybunch"}

TheFunkyBunch

I'm slowly growing to like Opera better, tbh.

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#9 - Mon May 19, 2008 11:21 PM EDT

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