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 06/18/2008 02:18:17 PM · #1
I missed the download party yesterday. Thought they would send me an e-mail reminder that I had signed up for to help get them in the Guiness book of records. Oh, well. It looks good so far and most of my extensions had compatible updates.

The option to disable 3rd party cookies is now back in the preferences as a checkbox. The convenient checkbox was removed in version 2, and you had to go into a config dialog to and know what to change. I guess they listen after all!

If you are still using Internet Exploiter, it's time to upgrade! Firefox 3.0

06/18/2008 02:25:15 PM · #2
i dunno, I tried d/l'ing it a few times and every time it told me "file corrupted"
 06/18/2008 02:25:35 PM · #3
Aww, the the IE team sent them a congratulatory cake. =D Now that's funny!
06/18/2008 02:27:48 PM · #4
The download party is still ongoing until sometime later today.

Sign up and help to break the download world record.
 06/18/2008 02:31:38 PM · #5
Originally posted by smurfguy:
Aww, the the IE team sent them a congratulatory cake


Love it! Though I am not quite sure what the intended message is...
 06/18/2008 02:38:13 PM · #6
Has the "find when you start typing" function been changed back to the way it used to be in Firefox 1? I mean when you start typing and it finds stuff, does it give you a button to find next? Or do you have to go to ctrl+f to get that option? I'd appreciate if someone can try it... That was the only reason I didn't get Firefox 2 haha.
 06/18/2008 02:42:08 PM · #7
Originally posted by SamDoe1:
Has the "find when you start typing" function been changed back to the way it used to be in Firefox 1?


If you can clarify exactly what you are asking about, I will try it. Do you mean when typing into a search engine?
 06/18/2008 02:43:43 PM · #8
damn, I downloaded firefox3 yesterday and it crash windows vista 3 times!!!!!
 06/18/2008 02:45:05 PM · #9
Originally posted by Rino63:
damn, I downloaded firefox3 yesterday and it crash windows vista 3 times!!!!!


download it last night to my mac, and it runs great on leopard :P
 06/18/2008 02:49:25 PM · #10
downloaded it yesterday and love it, works just fine on my mac at work and home

Message edited by author 2008-06-18 14:49:31.
 06/18/2008 02:59:38 PM · #11
been using it all day and last night ... seems the same to me ... i must not be geeky enough to see a difference

:/
 06/18/2008 03:05:05 PM · #12
I like it.

It remembers the font size now if you changed it to read the smaller fonts. Now that's cool.

We need themes now. I like my FF theme darker than default theme.
 06/18/2008 03:12:30 PM · #13
Originally posted by yospiff:
Originally posted by SamDoe1:
Has the "find when you start typing" function been changed back to the way it used to be in Firefox 1?


If you can clarify exactly what you are asking about, I will try it. Do you mean when typing into a search engine?


There is a find when you start typing function in firefox. When it's enabled, the browser will begin finding whatever you're typing on the page automatically without you pushing ctrl+f to bring up the find window. In firefox 2, you had to bring up the find window in order to get an option to "find next" or "find previous" where as those came up even if you just started typing to start finding. I'm not sure if I'm making sense...
 06/18/2008 03:15:09 PM · #14
Bah!!

;-)
 06/18/2008 03:26:04 PM · #15
Originally posted by SamDoe1:
When it's enabled, the browser will begin finding whatever you're typing on the page automatically without you pushing ctrl+f to bring up the find window.


Yup, it has it. I just typed the letters "mill" and it put a highlight on the word "million" in your signature line.
 06/18/2008 04:26:30 PM · #16
the find thing must need to be enabled then? I see nothing like this on my just installed FF 3.0. Ctrl F still works, the same as before. Am I missing something obvious here?
 06/18/2008 04:57:55 PM · #17
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
the find thing must need to be enabled then? I see nothing like this on my just installed FF 3.0. Ctrl F still works, the same as before. Am I missing something obvious here?


Don't know. I never used that feature before. I just started typing and it highlighted the letters. Maybe your cursor is in a text entry box. Try clicking out somewhere that text cannot be entered and see if that works.

Message edited by author 2008-06-18 16:59:03.
 06/18/2008 08:37:21 PM · #18
Tools> Options> General> Second checkbox allows 'search' when you begin typing. Enjoy :D
 06/18/2008 09:00:54 PM · #19
My favorite feature (and it's on by default) is searching in the address bar.

Say you visited a forum post yesterday, you forgot the link, but you know it was on DPChallenge and the word macro was in the title. In the address bar, type "dpc macro" and it automagically searches in your history, both in URLs and page titles, and displays results in the drop-down!

Love it!

Message edited by author 2008-06-18 21:01:24.
 06/18/2008 09:13:04 PM · #20
Since I installed 3.0 I have been having issues with Firefox crashing on me at DPC. Doesnt seem to be affected by any other sites, just DPC. I want my 2.0 back dangit.
 06/18/2008 09:20:45 PM · #21
Originally posted by timfythetoo:
Since I installed 3.0 I have been having issues with Firefox crashing on me at DPC. Doesnt seem to be affected by any other sites, just DPC. I want my 2.0 back dangit.


Me too. It's when I open several tabs, everything freezes and FF crashes. Only here at DPC, so far.
 06/18/2008 09:21:25 PM · #22
Originally posted by timfythetoo:
Since I installed 3.0 I have been having issues with Firefox crashing on me at DPC. Doesnt seem to be affected by any other sites, just DPC. I want my 2.0 back dangit.


I'll second that. Glad I'm not the only one.
 06/18/2008 09:27:01 PM · #23
I've also been having issues today with DPC locking up and crashing my browser, but it is also happening at home, which still has FF2 on it.
 06/18/2008 10:09:21 PM · #24
I like that when I close the final tab, the whole window closes. It was stupid before and stayed open. Easy pleasy.
 06/18/2008 10:13:21 PM · #25
Hmm...I have had no problems whatever on either of the two computers I installed it. Everything works fine and as it always has.
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