Now that Firefox 3.0 is out, I bet there will be a ton of reviews of this milestone release. I must say that it seems to be a lot more stable than it was. The Mozilla team have really created an interesting monster this time. I’ve been using the version on and off since it was first branched in the trunk. it was scary to run at times back then. I must say, though, that, since the RC1, its been quite stable and I don’t even know if I remember when it crashed, which is more than I can say for any of the 2.x versions. I am not going to go ahead now and review what I’ve already commented on in earlier posts. Kudos to the Firefox team, I say. Now, guys and gals, can you somehow get your heads out of your asses and provide a switch to turn off your “improved” address bar? Its the ADDRESS bar, not the “lets search any goddamn browser/search slowing term that you’ve ever typed or not tymed so that we can be your browser of choice for longer than you want us to be” behavior??? That’s my only peeve about the 3.0 version of Firefox. The address bar is no longer an address bar. Its a way to make you think Firefox sucks. Give us a choice!
Of course, I write this in the new and improved, but hardly hyped, Opera 9.5 Kestral. The Wordpress editor is still funky in Opera, but its a lot better than it was. Like, what’s the deal with you hitting “enter” like you would in any other browser to go to the next paragraph or thought and to be thrown to the TOP of the paragraph you just wrote? That behavior’s just gotta stop! I do like all of the other reasons that I’ve liked Opera, though. Its FAST and its FAST. Yes, its fast. Pages seem to want to render like they’re supposed to and they arrive in front of my face in a speedy way. Its too bad that it crashes on java applets all the time, though.
Damn, this is starting to look like a review. Its not - its just a rant. Rant, I say!
Wow… how exciting, Yet another Firefox release.
What I’ve done to get around this annoying Firefox 3 feature is to type in:
about:config
in the URL bar and set “browser.urlbar.maxRichResults” to 0.
This will return ZERO results.
What I’ve actually done is set it to “3″ so it still has the feature which I don’t mind too much but it doesn’t take over the full screen. I have a fast computer too so I haven’t noticed any slowdown as of yet!
I have to agree with you Corey. Firefox 3 is looking pretty good!
As for Opera I haven’t used it in over 2 months. Its just too buggy in Linux though in Windows I’ve never had issues with it.
Plus, shouldn’t we be supporting the free gpl versions of software? Yes, I am a Nvidia whore in linux because I love gaming but there are no other viable opensource options that give decent 3D in linux.
I have to say that Firefox 3 is rendering really fast! Has the Firefox team succeeded in creating on the client side of things a compliment for what Apache accomplished in the Server community more than a decade ago? Opera, Bu Bye!!! We have achieved speed and full-page F11 functionality so your services are no longer required! hahah
Could I be more biased? hehe
@devin - Thanks for the hint, Devin. I think that I’ll try that.