A deep look to Firefox 3 Beta 3
Tomorrow, Mozilla will release Firefox 3 Beta 3, the eleventh milestone in the longest development time for a Firefox revision since the initial Firefox 1.0 on 2004. The eight alphas and trio of betas (so far), if anything, are a reflection of the long list of enhancements it (Firefox) and the underlying Gecko rendering engine, are bringing along.
Visual Refresh
Without a doubt the most visible change introduced in this beta are the theme updates in all platforms. On Windows XP and Vista, a large part of the planned new XP icons has been added to the main toolbar, the Options window, the Download Manager, here and there.
Reception hasn’t been warm precisely as was to be expected: just the same happened when Firefox dropped the Qute theme for Winstripe around version 0.9, again with the updates just before 1.0 and yet again when Radiant Core updated Firefox 2.0 icons to its current washed out aspect.
I haven’t been a big fan of any Firefox default theme so far and it doesn’t seem Firefox 3’s will be an exception. But we’ll see. There are still theme updates pending, as well as small icons, and Vista icons.
The Options window on Windows XP with the new icons.
On the other hand, Mac OS X users seem to be more satisfied with the landing of Proto, a Safari-like theme introduced along with Beta 2. Linux users also get a very well integrated theme that uses native icons.
The back and forward buttons have been combined in a single keyhole-shaped widget featuring a single history menu. So far just Windows XP and Vista feature it but Mac OS X versions are ready and waiting to get in. An option to split the combined icons in the customize toolbar dialog is being considered.
We can also expect a revised throbber (the connection activity indicator) coming soon.
The Home button has been moved to the Bookmarks toolbar by default (but can be easily moved back) and the splitter that allows to resize the search and location bars when placed next to each other has become invisible.
Developers are aiming to deliver better operating system integration in Firefox 3. This will be most notorious for Mac OS X and Linux users who will now get native widgets like text boxes, menus, check boxes, icons, button order and orientation following each OS guidelines.
On Linux, Beta 3 adds native file open and print dialogs that provide image thumbnails and more printing options.
Mac OS X users get integration with Growl, a popular centralized notification system, while Windows Vista gets native looking menus and new icons that should be added for the next beta.
The Page Information dialog has been reviewed to become more organized and informative and allows to set all site specific preference from a single location.
Comments
Percy Cabello
Thanks Ken. As usually it took a ridiculously larger amount of time than I first thought! (even with some copy/pasting from some past articles)
René Leonhardt
Ken is right, this was the best (and very detailed) overview of the new features, thank you!
I am sure that many more IE users will be converted by Firefox 3, the new convenient location bar and bookmarks are not beatable by any other browser.
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temp
“With keywords, if you associate the w keyword with Wikipedia (now a default search engine)”
why is that? i though google pay them lots of money for using it as default search engine
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temp, loads of money haven’t stopped Mozilla from shipping Firefox with six search engines in the past. Now they are seven.
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Stuart Brown
Will Firefox ever support Mac Services menu items.
One of the most useful ones I have is a clipping service which i would like to use.
Thanks
K-IntheHouse
Wow.. excellent and comprehensive listing of features. I am drooling at some of these and can’t wait to get my hands on the new beta 3. :-)
jmdesp
You should add something about internationalization.
With Cairo, the support for languages that require complex handling has improved a lot, Thai users for exemple will very much notice this is the first version that natively support proper line breaks in their language, also support of ligatures and composed characters has enormously improved, users of arabic will be thankful, but even in english you can see the effect by using a nice calligraphic font like Zapfino.
Werewolf
You forgot to mention (in the under the hood section) the rewrite of the underlying thread model, which means that Firefox will perform better with multicore processors. Firefox 2.0’s periodic hangs on my quad-core Xeon was driving me nuts!
Percy Cabello
Werewolf and jmpdesp, thanks for sharing.
makosol, Ubuntu = good Linux example.
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Aditya
I’m sorry the ‘visual refresh’ on the Vista side is gag worthy. The combined Back/Forward Icon looks pixelated and worse just tacky. I can’t even get the old icons back.
Other than that the browser has performing superb stability wise compared to FF2. I havent missed a beat at all using it as my primary browser.
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dbcooper
Yahoo Mail works now as well (woohoo!). It and other AJAX sites seem really fast in this latest beta.
yeah...
Yeah thats not linux integration… gnome integration maybe and if I remember correctly, theres more than one environment for linux…
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Mike Nash
Firefox comes out with tabs. IE copies them pronto. Then Firefox 2 comes along looking just like IE? What is this whole mentality that Microsoft has started where every new version of a software product has to move, change, delete, rename, whatever every blamed function and shortcut? And why do all the “independent” developers just follow right along in their footsteps like lemmings? I HATE FF2 and FF3 looks even worse. It boggles my mind that after finally finding a non Microsoft product that works well (except for all the sites for which FF _doesn’t_ work) they have to come along and TAKE AWAY functionality and replace it with glitter and a bunch of vague, blobby counter-intuitive icons. I want a product that lets me keep the look and functionality of the previous version if I want to. Take for example the “go button”. FF1 let me put it where I wanted it. FF2 forces one crappy location or allows it to be deleted via a mysterious browser page of cryptic settings for which you have to search the internet for info. But I can no longer put it where it works for me. Now the *&^%$ thing is going to start popping in and out?
The browser is a tool. The operating system is a tool. I don’t start either one to “enjoy” all of the frustrations of using either one, especially when the (#$^%&^ designers think they are some kind of ^%#^#& playground for demented artists. A true artist doesn’t try to force everyone into the same box.
KeirOctober 4th, 2008 at 12:49 am
Absolutely agree. My address bar is forced to have feeds and bookmarks which I never use. But where is the go to button? where is the option to choose?
leftystrat
I realize everybody browses and sees things their own way but I couldn’t help but notice that in a four page review, the first and largest item seemed to be how pretty the software is.
I thought I was safe when I got to page three and saw something about safety, but right under it was a mention of animated graphics.
I’m very happy about the per-site controls and memory cleanup. Firefox has been getting larger, like a certain other unmentionable browser.
I’d like to hear about how it’s going to blow the doors off the other browser, which features swiss cheese security. Or perhaps that it has gotten faster so it can compete with Opera. And if it will coexist nicely with earlier versions on all platforms.
I’m no doubt in the minority, but I don’t want to *experience* a site – I want to *read* it. I use Opera (scripting+cookies off) for its speed and safety. I use Firefox when a site gives me grief about cookies, javascript, or requires a plugin. I use IE as a last resort (even on linux). And if the site requires flash, I go elsewhere.
Hopefully I can get the smell of Ajax out of my nose before I do the install.
I look forward to trying out F3. Thanks for a balanced review.
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Ashwin
what happened to the home button on the toolbar? i cant do without it? I mean u guys forgot to put it in or something?…
How could you?
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Jamie
Yuck! Here’s hoping you can turn off that ugly combined back/forward button to it’s individual counterparts because it’s seriously the ugliest change I have seen to Firefox since it came out.
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Funkyidol
I think the development from Beta 2 to Beta 3 is very impressive and makes the wait worth.
All nice and good, Places organizer is still something tht kept me wanting more, specially the bookmarks tagging.
After using google bookmarks and del.icio.us for some time I still find it a little difficult to quickly tag my bookmarks in bulk. I have a very huge bookmark list and tagging multiple bookmarks is kind of impossible. Also the lack of auto complete of tags in properties is very much required.
I would also like to see option of creating our own smart bookmarks using the same search query method shown in the thumbnails above.
But still great improvements. 2 THUMBS UP
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Firefox fanboi as of beta 3
I’d just like to say that the new firefox theme is *fantastic*. It’s the first default theme that’s actually good.
Congratulations, guys, you rock.
John
Just a note to say the following “Firefox 2008″ link was presented in the Beta 3 “Ads by Google” section.
http://firefox.softhip.com/
hmm…. dodgy
Matteo Raggi
What about the used memory?
The memory used, grow up a lot in the time or not?
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josephdietrich
Just a note to people as retarded as myself: don’t be confused if you have your toolbars set to show “Icons and Text” and notice no keyhole-shaped back-and-forward widget. Firefox uses the old icons in that instance.
Darren
I have Beta 3 and it looks nothing like this under XP. Wierd!!
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S Luquet
Very great location bar. I think, it would be even better with autocomplete on several words à la Text Mate
allo
I totaly dislike the new url-history … its just ugly :(. Hoping for addons to turn it back to the old default.
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Percy Cabello
leftystrat, thanks for your comments and pointing out the absence of a memory and performance comment. I agree it is a critical aspect and I should be posting an article on the topic soon, as some important memory optimization bugs land in the next few days.
There’s also a reason for the themes being the first area and it is that I have to balance the review between users who are getting a Firefox 3 milestone for the first time and those who have been following its development for some time now. For the latter, the themes update is the most noticeable change since Beta 2.
JC
Well done for the review. One of the best reviews I have seen for a while.
I’ve been using FF since around v1.5 mainly for its tabbed browsing.I have tested FF3 B1, B2 and now B3. I love the new address bar. However the lack of google browser sync extension and new yahoo mail not working make me switch back to FF2 after a few days.
I think the Places feature is a little convoluted. I dont see many people using the ‘advanced’ capabilities of this. I think most people just want (need) good old simple bookmark.
gary
take the home icon off the bookmarks tool bar and put it back to its original position on the menu bar
Lawk Salih
Can you list which addons are compatible with the FF3. I mostly use Foxmarks, Colorzilla, Measureit and Fireshot.
Thanks,
Lawk
Roland Weißegger
I’ve been using Firefox 3 since Alpha 2 and I think there’s nothing more to say than this: Bye, bye, Internet Explorer (now even more than ever before). I love every single feature added in Firefox 3 and I love every single feature added in Beta 3. The new UI looks really great (and I’m eagerly waiting for the promised icons to be added in Beta 4).
And, last but definitely not least, I’d like to express my regard for this great review!
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s s mehndiratta
while downloading any file if downloading connection failed due to power failure, fire fox download manager donot offer resume download when the connection estiblished again.
so ihave to download the file from the begining, which is wastage of time, bandwitch too.
please do some thing for resume down load as in operaa web browser.
thanks
s s mehndiratta
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Percy Cabello
s s mehndiratta, Beta 3 will continue an interrupted download automatically if the server supports download resuming which is the case for a large majority but not all of them.
Martin
Any way to get the Beta2 default theme into Beta3 on Mac? I do not like the new look. Too black on dark greyish for me.
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James M.
Those back and forward buttons are grotesque! Absolutely hideous.
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Jacques Gauthier
Lets get that home button back on the main toolbar
Pleeeeeeeeeease
pedro
I cannot find something similar to the “Flashblock” I had in the older Beta 2 version. It was very useful, somebody help me please!
Alexander Lindo
Great in depth review on Firefox 3 beta 3. I’m very pleased to see the new visual enhancements taking place, I love the new combined back/forward navigation buttons and the home icon being relocated to the bookmarks tool bar. If I had to find any flaw in the interface, it would be the refresh button but other than that its awesome. These changes will definitely motivate IE and other browser users to use Firefox.
Wildcatter1980
I can’t believe Mozilla actually paid money for this theme. It looks like Icon Factory wanted to justify the money they’re receiving while not making any real effort to develop something distinctly Firefox. I just hope things have not been so drastically altered that the community of them writers will be frustrated with applying their themes to Minefield/Firefox 3.
Mike
I moved my bookmarks that were on my bookmarks toolbar up next to the main toolbar(File, Edit, View, etc) in an attempt to give myself more real estate… Now you have gone and moved the Home button to the Bookmark toolbar, which I am hiding.. so now I have no home button…
Thanks : (
Robert
I’ve just updated to beta3. So far so good. For folks who wish use non-compatible (old) extensions: try “nightly tester tool” extension. That tool makes old extension compatible with beta3. Be carefull – that can make firefox not working at all and you’ll bo forced to re-start it in safe-mode
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Spread_Firefox
Please move the Home button back to the main toolbar!
Could Dão Gottwald (Bug 404109) or other Mozilla developer(s) gave us a detailed explanation and reasoning behind moving the Home button to the Bookmarks toolbar by default?
“(but can be easily moved back)” Is this statement suppose to be a joke? When a normal user can’t find the usual Home button, they will try to call you up and ask “WTF is my Home button?”. You then have to walk them through customizing the tool bar… oh, wait the minute, the Home button is not there! That right, you have to view the bookmark toolbar, then customize, then drag the home button back to the main toolbar!!!
So far, this little change has accomplish the following:
- Made Firefox more difficult to use since it attempted to change user normal behavior.
- Frustrations for Firefox user.
- Hampering the efforts of people trying to spread Firefox.
Once again, please explain the reasoning for this change and move the Home button back to the main toolbar!
nate
I really like this on also One tip make a button that gets a new tab if you did the kind of like enter explore everyone would use Firefox that’s one of the main reasons some of my friends don’t use Firefox and put back the home button!
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Ponsen
Hi and greetings from Germany!
I just wanted to tell you that I miss the Homebutton, too.
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george
great! When’s the final version available? How will it handle interfaces to websites that today work better with IE?
Rogier
Hi ppl,
It’s very easy to move the home button, just do the following: Right click on the navigation bar and pres customize. Now you can move the home button around to the previous location.
Good luck.
Rogier
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dean
I have been very pleased with the 3.2 beta version. I did have 1 browser list crashes. I was changing my media player settings in the browser section when it crashed. But MY drag and drop works great. I will now download F.F.3.3 beta version to check it out. Thank you for the opportunity to submit a comment. Have a GREAT day and I look forward to the final version. :) dean
dean
I do not seem to have the same problem as some others do when it comes to the HOME button being moved. Once I come on line and view my home page, I’m off to adventure where ever I can go and faster than I could before, Thanks to Firefox!!! I can always keep that one tab available for my home page or not. Once I leave my home page what is the need to go back? NONE, never went back never even found the need. In fact since you moved it, which by the way wasn’t even noticed till I read the other submits I have more room for the things I want. With the star and feed buttons right there in with the navigational bar I have found no need for the button bar so I hide it, (which is a KOOL feature)but knowing if I need it it’s not a problem to pull back up which isn’t even an issue, unless I guess,a person is that darn (”LAZY”)!!!!! The lessor the bars the more room for the screen as well.So far every thing is GREAT!!! Oh Ya … With your over 600,000+ new Firefox people, CONGRATULATIONS, would of liked to have been at that party… lol Thanks dean
Darrell Bircsak
I can’t believe this isn’t in yet: being about to hit CTRL-TAB, release, then hit CTRL-TAB to go back to tab you just came from. :( I really REALLY wish this was in there for fast, easy switching between two particular tabs when you have 50 open.
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Bug 404109
“Bug 404109 – move the Home button to the Bookmarks toolbar, and reset toolbars for Firefox 3″.
So far, the users expectation:
- of “Home” button on the main toolbar – NOT THERE!
- of “Home” button in customize palette – NOT THERE!
- of Firefox design to work for the users – NOT THERE!
It is very concerning to read comment like this by Alex Faaborg (the Firefox User Experience Designer) in Firefox Bug 417152 “I agree that not
all users are going to quickly adapt to this relocation, but if it really
bothers them they do have access to a customization palette.”
Aren’t we suppose to design Firefox to work for the users and NOT forcing the users to work for Firefox.
If this wasn’t enough, theme developers now also have to suffer because Bug 404109 make changes to the toolbar id(s)… FF2 themes won’t be compatible with FF3 themes.
Blakamin
Seems the plast fix for the location bar isn’t working in this release…. for the first time in years, I’m looking for a new browser. I wonder if opera is any good?
:(
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Sursubbu
Top marks to the Firefox team. This is a very nice UI refresh on the whole (apart from the huge number of under-the-hood tweaks you guys would have been at). While Opera is nice as a standalone broswer (IMO), FF with it support for addons and myriad other features beats everything else when on the whole.
If only the Tab mix Plus people would officially update their add-on to support the newer FF3 beta, life could not be sweeter :D
zalalur rahman khan
firefox3 beta updated version is truly amazing its nothing i have used before i am not a computer geek even i am finding it usefull welldone cant praise enough, 15 out of 10.
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kj
I was lookin forward to the new UI but honestly is that the best they could do for XP? The green back and forward buttons look terrible and out of place. Hopefully theres more to come when they get some feedback
draco
Ok, but where are the things you are speaking of ?
In which menu, or which keystroke?
I can’t find them…
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Athar Mumtaz
Congratulation for so nice full of appeal Firefox 3 Beta 3. I am glad to see and read about it.
Kim Slawson
I liked your review a lot. What I failed to glean from it, however, is how one uses web services for protocols. There’s no add functionality in the Applications section of the Preferences dialog (on a Mac, at least), and no settings anywhere I could see to link web servicesprotocols. Perhaps there’s an altogether more obtuse way to do it on macs?
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Jeff Kim
How do you turn off the new autocomplete features? I don’t want any autocomplete on my firefox, though I admit this is the most refreshing idea I’ve seen yet. Thanks in advance!
superleafe
Big Green Back Button ROCKS!
bookmark star, red rounded button SUCK! Please bring old look back! And leave the Big Green Button.
Ability to change page’s size is stunning.
BEG YOU to speed up the browser!!
BEG YOU to find a better way to manage the memory!
I belive in FireFox. Just speed him up and keep him simple.
Thank you guys,
good browser
Percy Cabello
There are options to reduce the size of the location bar autocomplete menu and make it look similar to Firefox 2’s, here: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/02/fix-firefox-3s-location-bar/.
Matt
V3 beta 3 for mac looks like safari – I HATE the way safari looks.I miss the old UI (sniff). I wish the mac version had the back/forward buttons that I see the pc version has.
WR Franklin
printing does not work, yet you spend time on different skins?!
I don’t care whose fault it is, and yes I’ve read the arguments blaming foomatic-rip. It doesn’t matter. If printing doesn’t work, firefox is useless.
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vinitneo
Works great.. I love Firefox.
I don’t know why visual refresh isn’t warmly received, it’s better than any other browsers.
Sir I’ve got three questions-
Why is the home button in bookmarks toolbar, there must be some explanation why the developers put it there..
How do we use the Offline web apps support. Google Reader can be used offline. I till now used the Google gears, now i want to use Firefox’s Offline web apps support but i don’t know how to use it..
what is the concept of tags?
Roberta
Good Day Percy,
Superb review!!……
Thank You Very Much,
Roberta
Quick Review: Firefox 3 Beta 3 - Make Tech Easier
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Bertie Baggio’s Wonderland » Firefox Beta 3
[...] downloaded Beta 3 of Firefox 3. It’s pretty slick looking, and there’s a whole host of new features. I don’t like the lack of ‘go’ or ‘->’ at the end of the address [...]
varun mohan
first of all i would like to congratulate mozilla family for relasing beta version of firefox. i really love mozilla firefox. the fun part of it is that u can customize according to ur own need.Browsing with firefox is much faster then other explorers.when i saw ur new product,mozilla firefox version 3 beta,i downloaded it in no time and without giving a second thought. i know that u guy must have really worked hard to ease our browsing tension.may god bless all of u and good luck for future proposals.
mozilla rules!
Domination from Firefox 3 - Beta 3 | Firefox Facts
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Firefox 3 Beta 3 lanzado - GunBound Forum
[...] que tendr esta nueva versin de nuestro querido navegador, y Percy como siempre las detall. El cambio ms visible introducido en esta Beta son los temas actualizados para todas las [...]
Richard
I just got Beta 3, and it has deleted ALL my bookmarks from the Beta 2. I had to use a backup, which was from 4months ago, before I got Beta1. I have lot over50 bookmarks, which I cannot get back!
I have gone through all the backups, and cannot find my current one. Will you please sort this problem out, because I am beyond annoyed, and beyond desperately need those pages back!!!
John Johnson
Great review, nearly as good as the program.
As a long term fan-I like it, it’s quick – seems reliable and I look forward to more testing and poking about!
Thanks, although I really liked Firefox 2!!
You see it’s all about the familiar!
Mads
My BACK-button is fading at the top, but is clean green and visible at the bottom. Why is it so? It doesn’t look good.
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emz
It’s great! I hope the problem with the downloading of torrent files (when it asks again and again what to do with torrent files, but it’s associated with the default torrent client) will be finally fixed in the next version!
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Gianni
Great ! But please take back Home button to main bar…. my daugther got crazy all day long due to that ;-)
William Cromie
Great review will help inexperienced users like myself to get more out of Firefox, Thanks
Francois Mayolle
One key feature seems to be still missing: the ability to copy a page content, including format and lay-out, vs text only.
I don’t understand why a so advanced solution like Firefox 3 coul
Ken Saunders
What a fantastic and thorough review.
The best that I’ve seen yet for Firefox 3.
I’m sure that it took quite a bit of time to put together.
This is certainly going to be the best Firefox upgrade yet.
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