Who else is waiting for FireFox 3?

Cisco_Kid · Post by **Cisco_Kid** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 1:56 am

I was just curious, I have been checking regularly but will wait until it is a final release and can handle all or most of my current extensions. Or rather install it in a separate directory and use both 2 and 3 like I once used Opera 7.x and 8.x at the same time.

Edit: Of course Opera is all I use for this forum, but FF does get a decent amount of use as well with other things.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 2:30 am

It’s slated for 17 June, although I’ve been using Gecko 1.9 prereleases in Epiphany since upgrading to Hardy. From a purely Gecko standpoint, I’m glad to see near-native GTK+ forms now, and increased standards support is always nice, even if we can’t always take advantage of it.

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manadren · Post by **manadren** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 5:12 pm

I use RC2 at work it's pretty stable and the extensions I really care about work. I still use v2 at home though.

I'll download firefox 3 on launch day (for the world record), but will probably wait a week or so before installing it. I can't surf without ad block anymore.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Jun 13, 2008 5:24 pm

I'm waiting till its fully released.

I tried it but it currently does not import bookmarks properly and I really don't want to have to redo all my (over 100) bookmarks and reorganize everything. I'm sure they'll get that working before the final release.

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Cisco_Kid · Post by **Cisco_Kid** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:28 am

That was a fast download for the final release...they must have quite the load of servers to handle the onslaught of downloads.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:42 am

Microsoft sent the Firefox team a cake in honor of the release. (They also sent one for Firefox 2. No one died to my knowledge.)

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:36 pm

LOL that is hilarious. The comments are funny too.

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manadren · Post by **manadren** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:43 pm

as much as some of the higher ups at MS may dislike firefox, I bet the developers love it. The competition gives the guys on the IE team an excuse to play around with new features.

I went in for an interview at CNN once, one of the managers in the tech department was telling me how they loved all the competition in TV news, because the bosses upstairs kept telling them to buy new toys, trying to out do the competition.

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