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Firefox 3.0rc1 is now available for download

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38 pointsicey22 comments

I use FF3 Beta 5 and it really is a great browser compared to FF2. Doesn't use up as many resources and is powerful enough to have multiple tabs open, w/o major slow down. Sometimes I have 250 tabs open at the same time and it doesn't crash.

The only thing with it, is it doesn't seem to like old javascript. Any time it goes to a page from the 90s it slows down biiiig time.Sometimes even crashes.

I'll wait a couple of weeks for RC version to be out though, because I hated not being able to use any of the add-ons I had installed when I upgraded to Beta 5. Seriously without adblock the internet is impossible to use I didn't even know the sites I used had so many useless ads taking up so much real estate.

250 tabs? Literally?! I get majorly bogged down when I have more than 10 tabs open (I usually have no more than 4)... And my agility decreases exponentially, not linearly.

http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_treestyletab.html.en

yeah 250 or so..don't get me wrong there is some slowdown but its still very useable. Don't really notice any difference up to 100 tabs, after then it starts getting slow.

Note: This are just tabs that are open, they aren't in the process of loading the page

use this to force extension compatibility: www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly

Here's the download page, which curiously isn't linked from the 'what's new' page above (as far as I could tell):

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

This page is meant to be displayed on first load after the browser is installed, so that's probably why there isn't a link to download. This isn't a promotional page advertising the download itself.

I just installed it in a separate directory, looked around and decided that I wanted to upgrade to it. uninstalled it, so I could install it on top of my regular install.

it asked if I want to remove all my bookmarks and such during uninstall. I assumed it would delete the new profile only. Apparently it does not.

The only thing I'm waiting for is firebug.

I tried that beta version (of firebug) back with firefox 3.0b4 I think - and it crashed firefox like crazy.

Anyone know if it's better yet?

http://www.getfirebug.com/releases/firebug/1.2/ here is where u can find a firefox 3 RC 1 compatible release.

latest version works great.

If by "latest version" you mean the 1.2 alpha, which is only accessible from the Firebug website, not addons.mozilla.org. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411814#c60

On FF 3 beta 5, Firebug would mercilessly crash my browser any time I made the mistake of trying to expand an email in gmail, or reorder things in my google homepage.

Downloaded it and it looks nice. I also appreciate that they seem to have plugged the memory leaks. Wake me when StumbleUpon works with it, though.

Looks nice. SearchStatus works, delicious works, all my old stuff got imported, and its a bit faster. I think I'll be staying with firefox 3.

Awesome. Been stuck with FF2 at work as the Firefox beta's would crash uncontrollably (but at home, they work great). Time to download!

Nice. I hope they get this up on the *buntu repositories soon (I'm running Xubuntu but also have Ubuntu and Kubuntu installed).

Stability is great as is performance improvements. I look forward to the final.

Been using FF3 since an early beta. One of my fav things is being able to open numerous tabs and instantly go back to any of them without waiting. Every other browser forces you to mercilessly wait.

What browser makes you wait? Opera certainly doesn't. I have limited exposure to IE and Safari, but their tabs seem to work just fine as well.

That's what causes Firefox to use a ridiculous amount of memory, though.

(Disclaimer: I use FF3, too.)

Now, I'm just waiting for the Memrom optimized build.

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