Firefox 3 Beta 1 is available for download. Packed with new features, but carefully avoiding overwhelming users with complexity, this is a huge release for us and the Mozilla community. Awesomebar, new mac theme (as an add-on), Places and one click bookmarking, progress on a new Linux theme, improved SSL identity reporting, improved password manager, native form controls on both OSX and Linux, full page zooming and many other things. And that is just what you can see.
The platform is much improved. Overy 300 memory leak fixes, the XPCOM Cycle Collector which removes an entire class of leaks, ongoing work on memory fragmentation, improvements to rendering performance and better reliability in preserving user data.
This quote from an ars technica article sums things up well:
Firefox 3 beta 1 delivers an outstanding improvement to the user experience. Unlike Firefox 2, which was a bit light on new features, Firefox 3 is practically overflowing with shiny new goodies. [...] Despite delays and other setbacks, Firefox 3 is shaping up to be an outstanding web browser that delivers innovative new technologies while retaining Firefox’s signature ease of use.
All that, a bag of chips, and no j or k hotkeys with google reader!?!? Aw well, it is a beta after all. Bound to be a few bugs.
Yes, but is it in rawhide? ;)
Yeah, having it in rawhide would be the shiznitz.
Hey, that’s up to you guys, not me. :)
I was mistaken about the j or k bug in google reader.
FF rawks. You don’t really need to install it. Just extract the tarball and run it.
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That new address bar is horrid. If I click the favicon, I want the URL to be selected like it is in every other browser, not see some popup crap.