It’s Here! Firefox 3 RC1 is Here!

Posted by Jaren
Posted on May 18, 2008
Filed Under News |

Oh Yeah.. Firefox RC1 is out now…

What are you waiting for get it, download it, try it, enjoy it, love it. Alavet!

Now if for some reason It didn’t auto-update…just go to the Mozilla Site and download it. Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1

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Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 33 months. Building on the previous release, Gecko 1.9 has more than 14,000 updates including some major re-architecting to provide improved performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Firefox 3 has been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot more under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers.

My Installation or Firefox 3 had no problems and is working very fine… but for some reason you have encountered problems…

Check out Bugzilla for Solution on Known Issues :

All Systems: Installing Firefox 2 in the same directory in which Firefox 3 has been installed may result in Firefox 2 being unstable (bug 423226)

If Flash content is active when Firefox crashes, the Crash Reporter may not activate (bug 422308)

Deleting an entry from the history sidebar, then invoking the Clear Private Data tool can result Firefox crashing (bug 426275)

Some add-ons that depend on deprecated code may not install properly (see bug 406807)

Privacy > History > Remember visited pages to “0″ has no effect (bug 366075)

The DOM Inspector has been removed and is now available as an add-on.

Support for Cross-Site XmlHttpRequest has been removed until the specification becomes more stable and the security model is improved (bug 424923)

After dismissing the “Do you want Firefox to remember this password” prompt, it is sometimes not possible to focus form fields unless you reload the page (bug 433942)

The new Location Bar, Add Bookmark dialog, and Download Manager information popup behave inconsistently with Window-Eyes. JAWS 8.0 or better is recommended for this release candidate. (bug 393398)
Microsoft Windows: A Windows Media Player (WMP) plugin is not provided with Windows Vista and some other versions of Windows. To view Windows Media content, you must install this plugin by following these instructions. After installing you may need to check for Windows Updates before the plugin will show content properly.
Mac OS X: Items in the “File” menu show as inactive after using the “Print” item from that menu - switching to a new tab restores them (bug 425844)
Linux and Unix: If your screen resolution is 800×600 or smaller, you may not be able to see the “Accept” button on the End User License Agreement. Keyboard commands can be used to accept the agreement (bug 433298)

Ubuntu users who download and install Firefox may find that they cannot install add-ons without first deleting their extensions.rdf file (bug 433371)

Users running Ubuntu 7.10 may need to update their certificate databases in order to submit crash reports (bug 407748 for instructions)

The mouse button assignments for Back and Forward have changed, users may need to reconfigure their pointing devices (bug 420294)

Incompatibilities between NVIDIA drivers and some versions of the X server cause scaled images to render incorrectly (bug 411831)

The Orca screen reading software does not read some text, such as the save password notification, site identity information, or the default prompt text in search fields - these are known problems with Orca (see Gnome bug 533109 and 533125)