Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3 is available in more than 45 languages as a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed.

Download: Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3 | Other Languages and OSes

It's recommended that you read the release notes and known issues before choosing to install this release candidate.

This post has been edited by fariz: Jun 12 2008, 06:07 AM

woah.. it's fast.. comparable to opera..

been using ff3rc1 for a while now and it is certainly faster than ever! me likey.

its faster than ff 3beta5

i dunno why my FF wun connect to the net
but opera and IE can >_<

known issue


All Systems

* Installing Firefox 2 in the same directory in which Firefox 3 has been installed may result in Firefox 2 being unstable (bug 423226)
* If Flash content is active when Firefox crashes, the Crash Reporter may not activate (bug 422308)
* Deleting an entry from the history sidebar, then invoking the Clear Private Data tool can result Firefox crashing (bug 426275)
* Some add-ons that depend on deprecated code may not install properly (see bug 406807)
* Privacy > History > Remember visited pages to "0" has no effect (bug 366075)
* The DOM Inspector has been removed and is now available as an add-on.
* Support for Cross-Site XmlHttpRequest has been removed until the specification becomes more stable and the security model is improved (bug 424923)
* After dismissing the "Do you want Firefox to remember this password" prompt, it is sometimes not possible to focus form fields unless you reload the page (bug 433942)
* The new Location Bar, Add Bookmark dialog, and Download Manager information popup behave inconsistently with Window-Eyes. JAWS 8.0 or better is recommended for this release candidate. (bug 393398)

Microsoft Windows

* A Windows Media Player (WMP) plugin is not provided with Windows Vista and some other versions of Windows. To view Windows Media content, you must install this plugin by following these instructions. After installing you may need to check for Windows Updates before the plugin will show content properly.

Mac OS X

* Items in the "File" menu show as inactive after using the "Print" item from that menu - switching to a new tab restores them (bug 425844)

Linux and Unix

* If your screen resolution is 800x600 or smaller, you may not be able to see the "Accept" button on the End User License Agreement. Keyboard commands can be used to accept the agreement (bug 433298)
* Ubuntu users who download and install Firefox may find that they cannot install add-ons without first deleting their extensions.rdf file (bug 433371)
* Users running Ubuntu 7.10 may need to update their certificate databases in order to submit crash reports (bug 407748 for instructions)
* The mouse button assignments for Back and Forward have changed, users may need to reconfigure their pointing devices (bug 420294)
* Incompatibilities between NVIDIA drivers and some versions of the X server cause scaled images to render incorrectly (bug 411831)
* The Orca screen reading software does not read some text, such as the save password notification, site identity information, or the default prompt text in search fields - these are known problems with Orca (see Gnome bug 533109 and 533125)

This post has been edited by cwk88: May 17 2008, 11:51 AM

damn fast.. alot faster then beta 5

yeap.. it improve alot

It's really fast Love it

just noticed about that. why ler?

thanks for sharing..

faster than v2?v3 beta 5 not fast enouf

the toolbar is no what i like...

it's really fast but consume lot of memory too.Opera 9.5beta also very fast but abit lighter.

but the scrolling problem with a fixed background/image is still there.

in Mac , the layout is almost same like Safari .

Kudos !

are you using a pc with 256MB ram?

surf wif many tab or open firefox for a long time it will use up lot of memory

how can i has this back?