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Bryan B
May 17th, 2008, 09:27 AM
Finally Firefox 3 RC1 is ready

You can download it here:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html
The Batman
May 17th, 2008, 09:32 AM
Can you put a link to the information page up too.
Triple7
May 17th, 2008, 09:57 AM
Can you put a link to the information page up too.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0rc1/releasenotes/
The Batman
May 17th, 2008, 09:58 AM
OK thanks. It looks like the just beefed up minefield and released it as this, I like it.
Electric Cheese
May 17th, 2008, 10:09 AM
firefox 3 RC1 already comes shipped with the new distro of ubuntu, and it seems to be a bit buggy, crashing sometimes when there's embedded material on the page....but that may just be the linux version
Blahages
May 17th, 2008, 01:53 PM
I installed it last night.

OK thanks. It looks like the just beefed up minefield and released it as this, I like it.

That's because Minefield is just the nightly snapshots of the browser. So, they're the most up-to-date. So, when they have a build that is suitable for an RC, they'll clean the appearance up, brand it with "Firefox" and release it.


firefox 3 RC1 already comes shipped with the new distro of ubuntu, and it seems to be a bit buggy, crashing sometimes when there's embedded material on the page....but that may just be the linux version


Actually, Beta 5 comes with Ubuntu right now.

It's a few months old.

There's likely been a lot of bug fixes since then.
iJack
May 17th, 2008, 01:55 PM
I installed it last night.

Same here, on my mac, i needed it to make my forum toolbar.
Oblivion
May 17th, 2008, 02:19 PM
Does it keep all my old firefox settings?
Blahages
May 17th, 2008, 02:22 PM
Anyone who wants, type "about:robots" (Without quotes) into the address bar in Firefox and press "Enter."

Does it keep all my old firefox settings?

It should, for the most part.

Some of your Add-ons or themes you may have might not work properly. It just depends.
iJack
May 17th, 2008, 02:25 PM
Anyone who wants, type "about:robots" (Without quotes) into the address bar in Firefox and press "Enter."

what? it wont work.
Blahages
May 17th, 2008, 02:27 PM
what? it wont work.

Works in RC1.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b191/blahages/FF3Robots.jpg
Electric Cheese
May 17th, 2008, 02:29 PM
it works in beta 5 as well!! it even has a go at you if you click "try again"
Blahages
May 17th, 2008, 02:32 PM
"about:mozilla" is always a good thing to try as well.

Then, there's "about:plugins" and "about:config"

Those aren't meant as jokes though. Just the first two I've mentioned.
Patchy
May 17th, 2008, 08:02 PM
been waiting for this...hopefully is much more less likely to crash unlike beta 5
Blahages
May 17th, 2008, 08:11 PM
Oddly enough, I really didn't have any problems with crashing in most of the betas. The largest problem I had with any of the betas was in Beta 4, it put lines in the reply boxes randomly, and several other places.
Bryan B
May 17th, 2008, 09:58 PM
I had more Problems in Beta 5
but this RC1 is much faster an it has less bugs
Antares
June 11th, 2008, 07:55 PM
Has anyone heard about any bugs on this yet?

I am glad I waited for XP SP3 because I heard they are having some issues btu what about this?
Blahages
June 11th, 2008, 08:16 PM
Nothing that I know of. They just released RC3 today, for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The Linux and Windows Releases were unchanged since RC2, so they apparently haven't found any bugs in RC2 for those two OS's. The Mac version, they had one fairly significant bug in RC2 that was found with the update from OSx 10.5.2 --> 10.5.3, so they released RC3 to fix that bug.

All-in-all, FF3, even at Beta 5, was at least under Windows, less buggy and more stable than FF2.
Antares
June 11th, 2008, 08:45 PM
Okay sounds good. I will download that now :D
Bryan B
June 12th, 2008, 01:46 PM
But now is RC3 (Release Candidate 3)