Firefox 3 to be released tomorrow

[99nasha]

so what are the major changes going to be to FF3? mainly a face lift or actual changes?

As I said, the "awesome bar" is the biggest thing. The address bar is a history search which is great. You stick whatever you were looking at in the address bar and it will list websites which matches those terms. Check the video out

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7389175.stm

 

[Carbon]

Looks nice but that is for a Mac. What about Windows?

 

[99nasha]

Looks nice but that is for a Mac. What about Windows?

Their identical

 

[Carbon]

Oh ok, yea it looks nice. I will get it and I hope its better then the current Firefox. No one ever answered the question if we can download it at exactly 12:00 A.M.

 

[compguy91]

Have they fixed the memory leaks yet?

When I tried the latest RC it seemed to have those problems fixed. I had two tabs open and it ran at about 40MB where as one tab with FF2 on my machine runs at about 65MB.

 

[Jesusfrk611]

I had RC3 and it had a whole lot of glitches, so I went back to FF2. I don't like a couple things about it but might be able to live with it if they fixed the spell checker for the final release... I guess I can give it a try, and go back if it still does work right.

 

[dude_se]

just in time for my new laptop

 

[alvino]

Have they fixed the memory leaks yet?

I think they have for the most part. I noticed it still uses a bit of RAM, but considering the features it has it actually uses less RAM than Firefox 2.

 

[mikee]

rc3 uses alot more cpu on my computer than ff2 especially if you are watching youtube videos or anything flash

 

[alvino]

Hmm, I didn't notice any of that for me...