Has anybody else played around with the Firefox 3 beta? It seems MUCH faster on OS X than previous versions. I've never been able to handle Firefox for extended periods before because Camino and Safari seemed so much snappier, but this version is rocking my world.
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Gris - Feb 29, 2008 11:27:13 am PST #5009 of 25501
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tommyrot - Feb 29, 2008 11:30:14 am PST #5010 of 25501
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Has anybody else played around with the Firefox 3 beta?
Nope.
IOSomewhatRelatedN, I just read yesterday that OS X has some hidden API calls that Safari uses that makes it much faster than other browsers (where, of course, the developers don't know those API calls). So non-Apple programmers have been reverse engineering those APIs.
I wonder if this is part of the reason Firefox 3 seems faster?
Consuela - Feb 29, 2008 11:36:13 am PST #5011 of 25501
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Anyone have any recommendations for printers? I've had a Canon for about three years and it makes me crazy because about half the time it can't feed the paper and I have to restart it a couple times. Makes me nuts. I don't use it a lot, but really, it shouldn't be that hard to get a reasonably reliable home printer that doesn't cost $500.
Gris - Feb 29, 2008 11:49:33 am PST #5012 of 25501
Hey. New board.
I wonder if this is part of the reason Firefox 3 seems faster?
Might be part of it. It also seems to use more native frontend code: it feels more like a Mac program, which is partially theming, but dialogs and such are obviously native now. They've always been native in Camino.
Anyone have any recommendations for printers?
I have a cheap Brother laser printer that I got for under $100 that I like just fine. But then, I never ever need to print color or much of anything at all.
P.M. Marc - Feb 29, 2008 12:22:51 pm PST #5013 of 25501
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Do you still get WiFi on the bus to work?
I ride the public bus, and the WiFi is hit or miss. Mostly, as I'm sort of in writer's block land, I'm liking not having to bring my laptop on the bus with me.
DCJensen - Feb 29, 2008 1:21:27 pm PST #5014 of 25501
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Firefox 3 beta 3 is coming out soon.
Gris - Feb 29, 2008 1:31:47 pm PST #5015 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Beta 3 is already out. Do you maybe mean version 4 is coming out soon, or did I just give you a new toy?
DCJensen - Feb 29, 2008 1:42:49 pm PST #5016 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Must have been 4.
February 27, 2008 (Computerworld) For the second time in the past four weeks, Mozilla Corp. has announced a "code freeze" for a beta version of Firefox 3.0 -- this time, Beta 4 -- as it prepares another public release of the open-source browser.
The freeze was announced late Tuesday. By midday Wednesday, however, Mozilla was saying that a fifth beta might be necessary.
Kevin - Feb 29, 2008 1:49:37 pm PST #5017 of 25501
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Beta 4 contains the code which makes it much faster on Mac OSX, IIRC. Unless you're using the nightly builds, in which case you've got the code in place.
They've rewritten the Javascript processor and fixed a load of memory leaks. It's much nicer.
Gris - Feb 29, 2008 1:51:05 pm PST #5018 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Wow. I'm using Beta 3 and it feels very fast compared to previous builds. Can't wait for Beta 4 to blow my mind even more!