Comments on: Firefox 3 ROCKS!

By: Sharaz

Sharaz — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:58:48 +0000

FF3 is alot faster than FF2 and IE. Recently, I
downloaded SAFARI (for PC) and like that even more.
Worth a trial……….

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By: mako

mako — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:57:42 +0000

The feature that most of us were waiting for in ff3 was support for threads… It’s unfortunate, but firefox still runs as a huge monolithic thread.. Certainly not an easy task, but it would’ve been nice to have in this major release.

H & Mahmood: you can disable plugin compatibility checking in ff3. that way you’ll be able to run older plugins on ff3. That doesn’t mean they’ll run as expected if at all. I use some that work perfectly though. YMMV.
**Warning***
Do this if you want. I’m not responsible if you get a heart attack because of this :
**Warning***
1)type “about:config” in your ffox address bar. and proceed to the configuration page.
2) rightclick -> new -> boolean -> use “extensions.checkCompatibility” as a name.
3) use “false” for the value. You can toggle the preference value by double clicking on the value or rightclick->toggle.

at your own risk.

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By: mahmood

mahmood — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:59:22 +0000

It’ll only get better, just wait a few days. It’s worth it.

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By: H.

H. — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:44:07 +0000

I got cheated out off a few add-ons which were not compatible with FF3RC2. I blame you.

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By: jameed

jameed — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:50:40 +0000

i have no problems on Ubuntu 8.04 but FF3 crashes regularly when visiting some sites like alghad.jo. I would like to think this is because of me forcing some plugins to work with the new version. Overall, it works great and does render Arabic fonts correctly unlike some of the FF2 releases.

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By: mahmood

mahmood — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:01:58 +0000

On a Mac you would have a problem. Anyway, try 3RC2 and you’ll be impressed.

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By: Ashraf

Ashraf — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:52:24 +0000

i donno what ya guys are talking abt i have FF2 and dont have ne sorta probs with arabic fnts o txt

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By: mahmood

mahmood — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:41:22 +0000

I haven’t used Ubuntu yet and it is unlikely that I will. The Linux I use now is purely for servers, and sometimes I drop into the shell and root around a bit there (pun intended!)

Stick with Mac OS X, in it you get to play around with GUI as well as drop to shell if you feel like it and FF3 runs like a breeze!

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By: BuZain

BuZain — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:29:04 +0000

I’ve been using it for sometime now as a second installation without replacing version 2. It rocks on windows. Much faster, and as you mentioned, better Arabic rendering. However, on Ubuntu 8.04, it sucks. It slows down the whole system especially we I access a flash based page. If I dare to open another tab with flash content, it brings the whole system to its knees and I have to kill the process.

Can’t wait for the final release.

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By: mahmood

mahmood — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:56:05 +0000

Firefox Download Day

Ah, thanks for pointing that out Sam, much appreciated. The more people download a standards compliant browser like FF3 the easier it is for me to maintain this site!

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