Review of some changes in Firefox 3

There is a "not now" option for the remember password window. It's the red X on the right :)

The 'Not Now' option you're missing for not remembering passwords is the red x button. I like it, simple, elegant and not in your face.

For the password remembering, wouldn't clicking on the red x to the right be the same as "Not Now"???

The only gripe I have with any firefox version is that it remembers log in passwords for a short time, then they vanish. This is a must fix feature, especially for us web designers!!

I love the way the background page of the screenshots is "How to become a Digg Power user in only 48 hours"

I like the new FF 3, but the memory leaks are terrible. It averages around 75,000K on my Windows XP machine, and 400,000+ is not unusual. Hopefully they fix these issues...

"The dialog box offering to remember your passwords now appears located in other position it certainly looks better, but I do miss the "not now" option, don't you?"

What happens if you close or ignore the message? I've not installed ff3, but wouldn't clicking the "x" do the same thing as "not now"?

I just can't imagine they'd take that feature out.

Well what I have read is that Firefox 3 is still trying to close the memory leaks and it does chew up a lot of the memory when running under the Windows environment.
I have not yet transitioned into firefox 3 but I wondered if there is a significance memory leak issue.

Regarding password saving, I assume you can click the red X if you want the Not Now option.

Thank you for this detailed comparison!

In response to your missing the "Not Now" option in the new Firefox, the reason that button no longer exists is because you have the "X" to close out the entire dialog. It's the same as hitting the "Not Now" from earlier versions of Firefox.

"but I do miss the "not now" option, don't you?"

Just hit the x beside it. It's the same thing.

In the remember password dialogue, the red X box takes the place of "Not Now" button. If you click it, it closes the drop bar with no action taken.

Odd. Comments didn't show up until I submitted my own. Judging by the number of posts saying the same thing, I wonder if it's doing the same to everyone.

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Most importantly FF3 is one more nail in the coffin of IE. Web developers who stick to validated standards based code like my new site http://www.banglebangle.co.uk/ can be confident that their sites won't fall over or display poorly because Microsoft deliberately ignore internationally accepted standards.

Viva la FF3!!!

Nice comparison!

Though I fear learning to distinguish between an "extension" and a "plugin" will be a long, painful process for some of Firefox's less tech-savvy users.

RE: The password bar missing the "not now" option - won't closing the bar with the red x accomplish the same thing?

the "not now" became the 'x'

;-)

Regarding 'password remembering', can't you just click the cross and continue (as if you had clicked 'not now')?

Nice review. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the review. Now, i'm a bit disappointed by Firefox3 features, since most of them already exist on Opera.

Zooming -> What? Firefox 2 don't resize images??? Opera already do this for ages.

Bookmarking -> All what Firefox3 pelople did was to copy the "Manage Bookmarks" feature from Opera.

I know that Opera have some issues. For example the embedded movies don't play well sometimes, but Firefox people should have done better. Opera contitues the fastest browser. I guess we have to what for the stable release to see the true power of Firefox.

As many features and improvements Firefox 3 has, I want to see one fundamental change happen in Firefox:

Memory Management

As anyone knows, FF2 has an incredibly poor memory footprint, often consuming hundred's of megabytes for no apparent reason (Linux is better) and as many web developers will know, once you start to add the useful extension into Firefox it becomes sluggish to use and will often crash.

If Firefox can sort out it's fat belly I will definitely be taking a look at it again.

ff3 loads and runs alot slower than IE for me! any ideas why?

@Jkwic, you might have too many addons installed.
I have that problem too, tried to uninstall some plugins and FF works faster.

I've been using FF3b3 on XP and OS X for a couple days, seems a lot more stable then FF2. It renders pages super fast too, I've done some comparisons between it and IE6&7. Its amazing how fast it is.

Looks very interesting.
Thanks for sharing.

I like most of the features. But, the address bar auto suggestion box is paining me. I'm missing the simple auto suggestion of FF2. Is there any way to enable it?

The new version of FF works flawlessly..

New zoom so much sucks!!

Zoom is by far the feature I use the most. Blame on 99% of the websites and their tiny little fonts! But firefox 2 was there to save my ass: ctrl+scroll and read comfortably. Now there is a limit on the zoom I can get.

Firefox developers, take note of this:
When I zoom a page and the width increases, I need horizontal scroll to read all content. Am I supposed to read line by line with a hand constantly scrolling horizontally?

With the previous zoom model, width is fixed and the problem does not arise.

I quit!! There is no way to disable this ****! Screw opera, screw explorer, screw firefox. Which is now the browser that zooms properly? Konqueror is downloading: wish me luck.

Again on new zoom feature.

This is the same guy of the previous post blaming on the new way zoom works. More calmed down, after some research, I can say there is a "text-only zoom" menu option, so I blamed too early. However, I have to say the beta still feels beta, slower and more unstable than production version firefox 2, and in particular zoom takes a lot of time. It takes almost as long as a reload, which doesn't make any sense if "text-only zoom" is checked.

Anyway, the final version will probably be much better, and I'll keep using the zoom the way I want. Sorry for all the blaming...

It is clear, that Fx 3 will have something that Opera already has, but it is still nice that they try to be better.

I think that copying a good ideai is not thievry, but develops the whole internet community!

I don't like Firefox 3. To be honest, I started out with Firefox 2, and the interface was fine and I like it. Now the back arrow is huge, the icons are hideous, and it doesn't even let you rename the bookmark toolbar folder which is just there bugging the hell out of me. I hate the new address bar with the drop down of bookmarks. I find it extremely useless.

FF 3.0 runs smoother and faster on my vista pc. I also like the zooming and new bookmark functionality compared to 2.0. Good work firefox team!

I like firefox3 !
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Firefox3 is the best !