http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Giveaway of the Day Forums Topic: Firefox 3 is here en Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:39:21 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1168#post-6793 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:14:33 +0000 Frem 6793@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>It's an alpha. They don't even have all the planned features in yet. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1168#post-6709 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:37:26 +0000 BuBBy 6709@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Yes - be aware that "bleeding edge" also can mean "broken". Things that you expect to be working and in place today... in the next Alpha build might be a distant memory. From build to build, features come and go ("Places" was going to be in FF2 till they removed it - now it's back for FF3), they work fine and then mysteriously.... they don't.</p> <p>Some other products I have tested, I have "fallen in love" with a "brilliant feature" (or so I thought) only for it to be dropped in Beta testing (How dare they!)</p> <p>To avoid disappointment, I will probably let it mature and stabilise to a "Release Candidate" before taking a look.</p> <p>Also - many AddOns/Extensions will not work until the developers update them - and rather than code to a moving target (having to revisit their addon again and again) most developers will leave testing for compatibility against FF3 until the latest possible moment (or later if possible). </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1168#post-6693 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:31:00 +0000 Theleecher 6693@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>The lowlights:</p> <p>1. It's an Alpha, the only thing more "bleeding edge" than that is a nightly build (if they are following the same release structure, an alpha is preceded by a short period of strong checkin control (bugfixes more important than features). When they hit beta/RC, then strong checkin control remains in effect until release.</p> <p>2. FF3 will drop support for Win9x/ME and Mac OSX 10.2 and earlier. They are also talking about some fairly draconian Linux distribution minimums as well.</p> <p>The main highlight is the return of "places", as well as technical improvements in the gecko 1.9 html rendering engine. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/1168#post-6692 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:14:47 +0000 Hadeda 6692@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>It's not official yet but here's the details<br /> <a href="http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9726942-2.html?tag=cnet.sc" rel="nofollow">http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9726942-2.html?tag=cnet.sc</a></p> <p>I'm not too sure if it's stable yet but I'll wait until it is </p>