Firefox 3 Beta 5 - It Just Keeps Getting Better

Friday, April 4th, 2008
by Ron Schenone

I have been playing with Firefox 3 Beta 5 for the past few days and can only conclude that the newest Firefox just keeps getting better and better. With this recent release, the folks at Mozilla seem to have a real handle on the memory issues. Which is good news since to many people were dumping Firefox because of this problem. Also is speed. This latest release is the fastest yet. I don’t have any test results to offer just my perception, but this puppy is quick.

There is only one minor issue. Some of the extensions I use are not compatible with this new version. Because of this, I can’t use FF3 Beta5 for now. Hopefully when the final comes out in June the extensions I use will be working.

But for those of you who have experienced memory problems with version 2, give version 3 a try and see if it works better for you.

Let us know what you think.

Comments welcome.

Free download is here.

Tags: firefox, 3 beta 5, test, memory, problems, fixed, speedy,

5 Comments

Agarath

April 4th, 2008
at 7:59am

Which extensions are not working Ron ??

Ron Schenone

April 4th, 2008
at 12:12pm

Hi Agarath,
AdBlock Plus, Blog This extension for Windows Live Writer, Smiley Xtras, McAfee Site Advisor, Aero Theme for Firefox.

I only use six. The ones that do work are ScribeFire & Forecastfox.

Thoughts?

PS. Another strange issue was happening. Every time I opened Firefox 3 Beta5 my Comodo firewall went nuts. I kept getting permission requests, one after another, like a endless loop.

Bones

April 4th, 2008
at 5:48pm

regarding the extensions not working, you can force them to work by using an extension called Nightly Tester Tools from here http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly

I installed the latest of firefox 3 and had to use this tool to force them to be compatible

Ron Schenone

April 5th, 2008
at 3:34am

Hi Bones,
Thanks for the info.
Regards, Ron

Pepijn

April 10th, 2008
at 12:15pm

Yes a strange error with scribefire is…
That is send me a Fault error: (with no text behind it)

Stange Anyone had this…?

I am using wordpress!

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