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This post has been edited by fariz: Mar 11 2008, 09:56 PM

This isn't released quite yet. 550 error

This post has been edited by fariz: Mar 8 2008, 10:53 AM

nightly beta 5 is out?

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...2.installer.exe

no surprise there.. you can even get v4 alpha 1

This post has been edited by fariz: Mar 8 2008, 11:11 AM

that means v3 is almost out of beta

It is actually out now.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

That page has been updated.

# [Improved in Beta 4!] New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files, and you can see and search on the name of the website where a file came from. Your active downloads and time remaining are always shown in the status bar as your files download.

# [Improved in Beta 4!] Full page zoom: from the View menu and via keyboard shortcuts, the new zooming feature lets you zoom in and out of entire pages, scaling the layout, text and images, or optionally only the text size. Your settings will be remembered whenever you return to the site.

# [Improved in Beta 4!] Integration with Vista: Firefox now has Vista-specific icons, and uses native user interface widgets in the browser and in web forms.

# [Improved in Beta 4!] Location bar & auto-complete: type in all or part of the title, tag or address of a page to see a list of matches from your history and bookmarks; a new display makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page you're looking for. Results are returned according to their frecency (a combination of frequency and recency of visits to that page) ensuring that you're seeing the most relevant matches. An adaptive learning algorithm further tunes the results to your patterns!

# [Improved in Beta 4!] Speed: improvements to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimizations have resulted in significant improvements in performance. Compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run twice as fast in Firefox 3 Beta 4, and the popular SunSpider test from Apple shows improvements over previous releases.

# [Improved in Beta 4!] Memory usage: Several new technologies work together to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 Beta 4 over a web browsing session. Memory cycles are broken and collected by an automated cycle collector, a new memory allocator reduces fragmentation, hundreds of leaks have been fixed, and caching strategies have been tuned.

This post has been edited by fariz: Mar 11 2008, 09:59 PM

I really need to see how they manage the memory usage this time in the beta
since firefox can be a memory hog most of the time

I gonna try this out ~!

for some reason after update to beta 4, i havta reinstall flash back

4.0 alpha is out also but so so un stabel

Anyone know how to get the old style location bar & auto-complete with the new beta 4? Installing oldbar doesn't quite help.

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Beta 5

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...%20Beta%205.exe

actually it's an RC2 of beta 5 dated 3/26/08. Not the official beta 5.

This post has been edited by fariz: Apr 2 2008, 07:34 AM

now beta 5 d.. users of beta 4 can upadate through "check for update"

beta 5 release note:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b5/releasenotes/

This post has been edited by gstoh: Apr 3 2008, 12:49 AM

Hmm any beta users yet?

using now....sense not much different other then interface...

can anyone tell me what the different ?

me too... im using it now and i tested almost everything and it seems everything is the same.... interface and performance still the same...


This post has been edited by ham_revilo: Apr 4 2008, 12:37 AM

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...post&p=16106807



v3b5 is much faster & lighter on memory+CPU usage. i like the F11 feature, but it will better if firefox put in similar feature F12 key on Avant web browser.

im using Firefox 4.0 rite now..
too many add on stuff..
but still stable..n cool too..

But after i used awhile... i notice my virtual memory will go up to 1.4gb

even i quit firefox 3 beta 5 it still remain at 1.3gb

this only happen since i install firefox 3

serious bug ?