Firefox 3

[ryanhellyer]

Rumour has it that Firefox3 will be released shortly.

Have any of you ben using the release candidates or betas?

I tried out the alpha version a LONG time ago, then I upgraded to a beta not long ago. There were a few niggling bugs, such as my back button dissappearing randomly, but I haven't tried the latest release candidate which I hope fixes that problem.

The CSS support has improved markedly, there is very little difference between the CSS rendering of Firefox3.0 and the most standards friendly browsers Opera and Safari.

I also notice that it doesn't crash as much due to excessive RAM usage. Although the beta version didn't support many plugins, so this may become a problem again if lots of plugins are installed - but I'm not sure.

All in all, a nice upgrade for the worlds most popular web browser.

[ryanhellyer]

So Firefox 3.0 has now been released.

Have any of you had any bad experiences with it?

I'm quite enjoying it. I didn't like the new address bar system, but I've grown accustomed to it now and find it very useful with the way it predicts what I'm looking for.

I am having issues with RSS feeds though. For some reason I can't access them via the button in the address bar. It prepends http:// to the feed and hence triggers a 404 error.

[Syed wahed]

Yah ... when ever it is about to be released, the plain old problem with firefox will still be existing..

i.e Session Expired.. when ever the user is idle for 3 minutes it expires the session, even though if we are on a Web-service or any E-commerce website performing major operations.

This is a major drawback with Firefox.. I had written many times of this but the bug has not been fixed yet..

I havent use the beta release but guys if any one has seen this problem been solved that please.. please.. do reply..

wahed

[ryanhellyer]

It already has been released. I don't know if the bug you speak of has been fixed though.