Thread: Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 4

Originally Posted by Replicon

So it crashes less frequently, starts up quickly, and feels less bloated than stupid FF 2 was?

¡Sí señor! (and there ends my knowledge of español)

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I heard that it uses native widgets, are they doing that for Windows and Ubuntu too?

Not that I know of, but XUL has always looked fine on Windows and X environments.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

I use it on Ubuntu, if it outperforms Safari then I'll use it on my Mac too.

I don't have any concrete benchmarks, but it seems at least as fast if not faster than Safari. Assuming that's true, you might as well switch to Firefox since Safari doesn't really have anything else going for it: Gecko has better compatibility than WebKit, Firefox is much easier to extend, you can customize the appearance with themes if you're into that kind of thing, etc.

They also improved the look on vista. Looks great now

Too bad not many plugins work yet :/

I got it for Vista, and I really like it so far. Hoping for more theme support soon, though. I do like the default theme better than earlier versions of Firefox, though.

Beta 5 has been released

Indeed it has. I am currently using it. I'd say it was slightly faster. I like the new design scheme.

I have no idea how to install beta 5 on my linux
I unzip the folder, but there is nothing to "install." I think I need to compile it on my own... in which case I'll just wait until they finish it.

Originally Posted by wasup

I have no idea how to install beta 5 on my linux
I unzip the folder, but there is nothing to "install." I think I need to compile it on my own... in which case I'll just wait until they finish it.

Beta 3 is in the Gutsy backports repository
but if you want beta 4 or 5, you'll have to roll your own for now

Originally Posted by Goldney

Indeed it has. I am currently using it. I'd say it was slightly faster. I like the new design scheme.

I seem to have some standard light blue theme, is this the one you have?

Originally Posted by Adam

I seem to have some standard light blue theme, is this the one you have?

Nope, multi-coloured.

Originally Posted by Adam

Beta 5 has been released

Awesome, thanks. I just upgraded.

Originally Posted by wasup

I have no idea how to install beta 5 on my linux
I unzip the folder, but there is nothing to "install." I think I need to compile it on my own... in which case I'll just wait until they finish it.

You can download the source tarball here. The build instructions are relatively straightforward, assuming you are comfortable with the command-line. If you aren't, I seriously suggest that you learn to use it. The command-line won't take very long to pick up, and it will be well worth the effort.

Just picked it up--that's fast!

Having recently installed the (brilliant) Ubuntu 8.04 Beta 2, to be honest the first thing I did was uninstall Firefox 3 and reinstall Firefox 2. The only reason you'd ever want to use Firefox over other browsers is for extensions, yet very few of these support Firefox 3, so what's the point?