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   #9. Posted at 02:36 PM on Nov 20th 2007 Edit   Reply

"Mozilla says Firefox 2.0 will continue to be supported for six months after Firefox 3.0's release."

This bit my brother in the ass. He liked version 1.5.x's ability to use "Control+F4" to close firefox. This doesn't seem to exist in version 2.0.x, it just closes tabs. eventually he had to look for another browser as 1.5 stopped being supported.
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   #25. Posted at 10:41 AM on Nov 22nd 2007, Edited at 10:44 AM on Nov 22nd 2007 Edit   Reply

Boo to the new download manager. Those tiny little icons next to the files suck, as does the omission of the "clean up" button. Making downloads resumable = good. Screwing with the UI for no good reason = bad. Maybe those stupid UI changes will be fixed before the final release. Once upon I time, we scorned the Mac for lacking right click. But at least they figured out how to make a better UI because of it. Right clicking should be a shortcut to do something "quicker", not the only way to do it.
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   #19. Posted at 01:59 AM on Nov 21st 2007 Edit   Reply

I've hated using (and developing for) Firefox for a long time. It's the rendering bugs that kill me. Not that IE doesn't have rendering bugs, but FF has rendering consistency bugs. Things that are, forget out of spec, completely screwed up.

My favourite ones -- and by favourite, I do mean dreaded -- are the styles and attributes that FF "forgets" to assign to block elements that begin as 'style="display:none;"' . Whe these elements are revealed, the attributes are still not assigned.

Simple examples include such tiny things as centering the content, or centering the block element.

If these types of rendering issues have finally been fixed, FF is starting to look like a nice application for remote web content viewing -- It's still a long way off from a local application platform.
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   #12. Posted at 04:52 PM on Nov 20th 2007 Edit   Reply

YAY! You can't resize windows to go below the OS X dock.

Boo, I have two file menus. That's friggin weird. And some stuff on the second one, like "New Tab" are grayed out where they're active on the first File menu. I'll file that bug for sure. heh

YAY! Interface overhaul, and it doesn't look bad (if a little light on the color, so it still doesn't blend into Leopard's darker scheme)

Boo, it broke my extensions.
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   #4. Posted at 12:58 PM on Nov 20th 2007 Edit   Reply

Will my addons work with this beta? (Adblock+, flash block, Exif viewer, etc)
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   #2. Posted at 12:25 PM on Nov 20th 2007 Edit   Reply

Does feels a little more snappy. Will test it out to see if the memory leaks are stsill as bad.
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   #6. Posted at 01:07 PM on Nov 20th 2007 Edit   Reply

Finally a working zoom.
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   #3. Posted at 12:40 PM on Nov 20th 2007, Edited at 12:40 PM on Nov 20th 2007 Edit   Reply

I've been using the FF3 alpha for a few weeks (rather amusingly named "Minefield") and apart from the occasional rendering error haven't had any major problems with it. The interface changes are very intuitive and overall it just feels faster.
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   #1. Posted at 12:12 PM on Nov 20th 2007 Edit   Reply

OMG! The bugs! The horror!!!!
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