Thank goodness for the Oldbar extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

You mention pausing your download and disconnecting your laptop.
I guess you mean stand-by.
I use Fn+F4 on ThinkPad (don’t even know if it’s the same of stand-by or not).
Anyway: many months ago, I had to stop the habit of putting the laptop to sleep with Firefox open because sometime the laptop would NOT come back to life. Pushing the power button for few seconds was the only thing left. Very annoying.
Now I know this could be related to thousands of things, but just in case I’m not the only one experiencing this, was any work being done in Firefox 3 to fix it?

thanks,

alfonso

Definitely my favorite Firefox 3 feature is the possibility to have site specific preferences, like zoom. Now I can finally make certain sites behave while not breaking others with font settings…

If you had put it in the poll, I’d vote for it…

I could go on and on, but I’d like to make sure the developers read this — from my perspective — FF3v3 may as well be finished, considering how polished I’ve found it over the last week or so of daily use. A round of applause and BRAVO! (Thank you)

-type some letters and scroll through the list to find the url that you’re expecting/actually looking for

-repeat a few times

and it’ll be back at the top of the list in short order.

With a fresh profile you will probably never even have to do this, since it will be tracking recency and frequency AS it acquires history.

Here is a result of a quick test of “3 windows with 10 tabs each = 30 website”…

Firefox 3 Trunk (3.0b4pre):
VM Size = 90MB
Mem Usage = 96MB

Firefox 2
VM Size = 182MB
Mem Usage = 176MB

You will also notice that Firefox 3 will release the memory when you close tabs and windows. I close a window with 10 tabs and FF3 Mem Usage dropped to 80MB while the same action in FF2 resulted in no changes in Mem Usage.

Thank you all developers who work on this excellent improvement.

Programming-wise, I’m intrigued by the cross-site AJAX and improved Javascript. Also, APNG images to replace GIF in the nebulous future.

On the downer side: The new location bar gives me a headache. I can’t find anything I’m looking for in there. *Waaay* too busy and cluttered. I’m pleased to see that the team is revisiting the design of the location bar, but I’d like to see an included option of returning to the old, single-line style. But, with the investment of time/money, I suppose we’ll have to make do with the new version. I know you mentioned in your review that the Location Bar design was based on Human Cognition studies, but other studies on decision-making and pattern recognition suggest that mentally searching through a set is relatively shallow, even for experts. To paraphrase, “it’s easier to see the fish in a smaller pool.” Also, don’t fear white space! Design precepts point out that white space around your object of interest defines and highlights it. Perhaps getting rid of the icon clutter would help.

I’d like to see the addition of a different color for unread tabs and an option to have links from different sites open in new tabs, a la Tab Mix Plus.

Finally, I’m *really* looking forward to improved garbage collection and multi-core performance. No more lockups?! Fantastic!

Excellent job so far. I’m looking forward to seeing the final results.

Now, could we have proper multitasking on Linux for version 4?

Plus the Remember Password feature is VERY useful. After you login(sometimes i mistake a password) you can see that you’ve logged in successfully and Remember the password for that site. This is TEH FEATURE! ;)

But, the icons…. Dear God. I thought Iconfactory was great, it seems they blew it with the FX3 icons.

Favorite Browser, the poll is in the home page.

JAREK, ouch! on those lost bookmarks. I’d suggest you visit mozillaZine Firefox builds forums for help: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=23

I’ll leave it to developers to decided if this feature should be fixed as a pure toggle or leave it as a “PROMPT” toggle.

FWIW, I really like the new features.

“Beta 4 will add learning capabilities to the location bar…”
Good news! :D

next:
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/737/fx3ui2.png

Beta 4 will add learning capabilities to the location bar so if you choose mozillalinks.org when you enter mo in the location bar, it will count as a vote and will get precedence the next time you enter mo.