Comments on: Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 review

By: johnfortich

johnfortich — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:02:55 +0000

why bother Foxtab is better.. great ideas for firefox always come from the developer of the addons.. if they haven’t realize it.. the next trend of browsers will be in 3Ds and Home page will be in pages.. a lists of several favorites or bookmarks.. now imagine the same 3D browser on your phones or PDAs sync in real time.. careful not to loose track of the firefox addon developers.. they could one day challenge the fox.. ^_^

By: turo62

turo62 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:55:35 +0000

Firefox 3.6 alpha 1 is definitely faster than Firefox 3.52. It seems very stable. .No noticeable bugs so far.

By: RoyB

RoyB — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:17:17 +0000

There’s nothing wrong with copying ideas to improve a product.
Many add-ons are copies of features from other browsers.
Relax and drop the strong language.

By: sung

sung — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:01:35 +0000

Does anyone know if 3.6 will be supporting prism from the get-go? It’s practically become part of my daily routine.

By: Ste_95

Ste_95 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:09:28 +0000

Great news, congratulations!
I’m writing from Firefox 3.6 alpha 1, and it doesn’t seem bad.

By: Gabriela

Gabriela — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:17:49 +0000

Moosop,
Many thanks for your answer!
Yes, I checked with the Mozilla IRC, you’re right. That preference is no longer used. They showed me how to show all tabsâ€™ thumbnails including a search bar too!

By: Gabriela

Gabriela — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:13:09 +0000

Yes Percy it helped!!!
Many thanks!

By: gxg

gxg — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:33:08 +0000

I normally use the extension Tab Mix Plus to tweak these things, but I doubt it will work with the 3.6 alpha.

http://my.opera.com/exde601e/blog/on-browsers-and-evolution

By: bogas04

bogas04 — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:29:36 +0000

But the site http://www.betanews.com/article/Firefox-36-needs-more-better-features-to-compete-against-Chrome-3/1249940057 says the speed is slower than 3.5.2

So what does this means , there is no major difference which my eye can see , however i will use 3.5.2 for the time-being , also will u change the Icon ??? Or it is for Minefield only and will change @ Beta/RC …

By: bogas04

bogas04 — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:26:23 +0000

So it means that it will speed up firefox in UI , and hence its better to turn it “True” ??

By: noname

noname — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:16:03 +0000

Oh the navigation bar has to be enabled to see those buttons. In my case it’s a blank bar and hidden to add vertical space.

I hope they allow switching back to normal from fullscreen mode without the navigation bar eventually.

By: KX

KX — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:51:34 +0000

Do you mean that you want a button to get back from fullscreen mode? Because that already exists:
In Fx3.5 fullscreen mode (at least under Windows) there are minimize, restore, and close buttons in the upper-right corner of the toolbar. Clicking the restore button should get you out of fullscreen mode.

By: John T. Haller

John T. Haller — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:04:38 +0000

You can try out Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 without impacting your local install by downloading the portable version. It will even run right from your desktop.
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable/test

By: AGAIN STOLEN

AGAIN STOLEN — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:03:22 +0000

Again ideas stolen from Opera. :(

those $^%$^$%^ bastards from fIREFOX…

By: Skullsplitter

Skullsplitter — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:34:18 +0000

Can someone suggest a way to get rid of the “Open a new tab” button? I don’t want it there. I want it gone. There was a userchrome.css line that worked in 3.5 but not for the new alpha. Any help? Thanks.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:54:57 +0000

http://wiki.mozilla-x86-64.com/Firefox:Download

By: ftb

ftb — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:15:11 +0000

I could care less about 3.6.

FF 3.5.2 can’t even run properly without the ‘not responding’ appearing several times an hour (it’s been a common problem). They can focus on getting their current build correct, then I’ll care about 3.6.

By: Percy Cabello

Percy Cabello — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:37:06 +0000

You should notice a “Show all 7 tabs” button below the tab previews. You can reach it hitting tab, then release when it is selected, then you’ll get the all preview screen. Hope that helps!

By: darco

darco — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:53:09 +0000

Is FF going to give us a x64 browser? I no longer use FF because of this.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:50:25 +0000

my bad. have to have more than two tabs open… that’s logical. haha.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:49:21 +0000

Yea, I enabled both functions as well, and it behaves like normal. Tab’s do not switch to the last used, and no preview when ctl-tabbing.

On Windows 7 7100

By: Mossop

Mossop — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:47:04 +0000

I think the preference browser.ctrlTab.mostRecentlyUsed is no longer used. Just browser.ctrlTab.preview is required to enable the UI shown

By: noname

noname — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:35:53 +0000

The laggy scrolling while zooming issue seems to be fixed for the most part.

I’d use the fullscreen button a lot but I can’t access in fullscreen mode, which makes it useless for me. Am I missing something?

By: khaled

khaled — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:43:29 +0000

when will u release the official version ???

sorry for bad english

By: David Naylor

David Naylor — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:31:21 +0000

Great summary, much better than the official one. I’m quite tempted to try this out – lots of nice improvements.

Also, I’m surprised how quickly Mozilla got this alpha out after 3.5.