Dont Rush: Firefox 3 Beta 3 released
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Ntas in Internet, Web Tools |
Mozilla hve released beta version 3 of the much anticipated Firefox 3. But hold on, just don’t get excited this beta version is only for developers only to try it out. Even though this a major milestone in the development and has got much improved features than the previous release, it is advisable to continue using Firefox 2. With this new release most of your favourite extensions and sites wont work on it. Below are some of the unresolved issues:
“All Systems
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- Windows Live Mail will not work; users must use Hotmail Classic Mail
- GMail (new version) conversation labels appear on their own row in the message list, and names don’t show in the contacts manager
- Yahoo! Mail (new version) is being updated, and may not work for all users right away. Until it does, users can use Yahoo! Classic Mail
- Cannot drag and drop folders in the Places Organizer. For now, users must use cut and paste
- MathML does not render properly in Firefox 3 Beta 3
- 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 beta.
- Resuming downloads can result in an error message if the server doesn’t allow a reconnection
- Web feeds served as text/html won’t load properly
- After installing some add-ons, the “Restart” button will not appear
- In some cases add-ons will be loaded after they’ve been blocked or disabled
- Using the Internet Download Manager add-on will cause Firefox to crash; it should be disabled or uninstalled
- Privacy > History > Remember visited pages to “0″ has no effect
- Microsoft Windows
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- 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.
- Folders on the Bookmark Toolbar don’t open when an object is dragged over them
- Downloading multiple files at the same time on a system running the AVG Virus Scanner can cause Firefox to crash
- Mac OS X
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- Firefox will frequently stop responding to keystrokes when using Google Documents, Spreadsheets, and Presentations
- The drop-down menus on the Back and Forward buttons do not work properly
- Several problems exist when drawing content using Flash Player r60 or higher
- When creating a new profile, migrating data from Internet Explorer is an option. After migrating data from Safari, bookmarks are stored in an “Imported IE Favorites” folder
- The Applications folder icon is missing from the DMG of all non en-US builds
- Linux and Unix
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- Printing is broken on many distributions for many websites
- Users running older distributions will need to update their certificates in order to submit crash reports
- Browsing SMB shares using older versions of Gnome VFS won’t list files with non-ASCII names
- The AT-SPI event is not fired when focus is returned to Firefox, which will affect screen readers”
Improvements
Improvements of features can be found here and the blog too and since its an open-source project Mozilla are asking for your feedback and input too. May be with Firefox 3 we are going to see another big chunk bitten off Internet Explorer’s share. But word around the dev labs is that the big MS has also been busy with Internet Explorer 8 which is going to be standards compliant.
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