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I have never been one for doing a lot of news but I’ll wear the suit and tie any ways while writing this quick post. According to Wired’s tech blog the final release of Firefox 3 is due in June of this year. This was disclosed to a roundtable discussion of tech bloggers (I wasn’t invited to!*) on Wednesday.
To give you a timeline to work with, right now we are at Firefox 3, beta 4. Firefox 3, beta 5 is expected to be released the first week of April (hopefully not on the 1st!). That should though be the last of the beta releases for Firefox 3.
In May we should be seeing the first release candidate hit the streets, and then most of the work will go into kicking extension developers in the pants to try to get them to officially update their code to work with Firefox 3.
* - I am sure my invitation got lost in the mail, right guys? RIGHT?!
So should you or should you not be using Firefox 3 yet? I would say for 90% of the population or people using Firefox, no. You should at least wait for the release candidate versions or the final version. The fact of the mater is, even though Firefox 3 looks good it still is not done yet. The idea of bringing this topic up started after reading a post over at Cybernet News:
There is a lot of talking going around the Internet about Firefox 3 Beta being ready for mass usage. It’s because of an article by Reuters where the creators of Firefox supposedly told them that the Firefox 3 Beta is ready for everyone to use after months of being in development.
So I thought I would do what I can to help spread the words too about Firefox 3 being nice, pretty but not ready for prime time just yet. Just to give you an idea of how long you should wait - I haven’t even replaced Firefox 2 yet. Personally I’ll wait till it goes into the "release candidate" versions so that I can get ahead of the curve with some of your questions about it.
Also major "shame shame" on Reuters for not doing their homework on this.
Firefox 3 Beta 2 just rolled out and I have to say things just keep looking better and better. I mean, I’m not really all that disappointed with Firefox now but with what is being done there are tons of improvements on the way.
This recent release includes approximately 900 improvements over the previous beta, including fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements. Awesome news all around.
Here are a few more details worth mentioning:
Star button: quickly add bookmarks from the location bar with a single click; a second click lets you file and tag them.
Places Organizer: view, organize and search through all of your bookmarks, tags, and browsing history with multiple views and smart folders to store your frequent searches.
New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files, and displays where a file came from.
Are we we excited yet? How about the news that 300 individual memory leaks have been plugged, and a new XPCOM cycle collector completely eliminates many more.
This is something everybody and their grandmother will be covering over the next few days, so I thought I should say something about it. Firefox 3 Beta 1 is now ready for testing. Still for “testing purposes only” this version promises to deliver…
List of feature courtesy of developer.mozilla.org.
Speaking of interesting new ideas, here is a new one that got my attention this morning while going through my E-mail. Share2me promises to help you share things that you find on the Web site your friends, family and strangers you like to call friends.
Here is a little more about the Firefox extension from the folks at Lifehacker:
Once you enter in the necessary information, you’ll be good to go after a quick download and restart. Share2me definitely is an extremely quick way to share pretty much anything your heart desires - images, Web pages, videos, podcasts, you name it. It’s a free download, Firefox browsers only at this time.
+ Sign Up for the Beta of the Share2me Firefox Extension!
When I decided to make the leap to using Firefox’s latest beta (2.0b2) I ran into a problem. A lot of the extensions that I grew to love just crapped out on me. After I had a good cry, I did a little editing and got most of them back up and working. How can you do the same? Well, PerfectBlogger.com has been nice enough to post three ways of making your old extensions compatible with Firefox 2.0b2!
+ Make Your Old Extensions Work Again!
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