Comments for: Mozilla unveils Firefox 3 Beta 3

#20. Posted at 09:27 PM on Feb 13th 2008

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Lazier_Said

My preferred theme (Brushed) was never updated for FF2; eventually someone hacked it to work.

I doubt that will repeat for FF3, so I am in no hurry to make a change.

#20, Sadly, I gave up on themes for FF. They broke too many thing... : indeego (#21) «

#21, From a development point of view, the theme system is hor... : BenBasson (#25) «

#25, I'm no authority on the subject of firefox development... : readysetgo (#31) «

#31, They've added something in the region of 15,000 bug... : BenBasson (#32) «

#1. Posted at 02:34 PM on Feb 13th 2008

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ssidbroadcast

Call me when it does mouse gestures…

#1, It does, get the add-on. : 5150 (#5) «

#5, Bah. I want that out of the box. : ssidbroadcast (#10) «

#10, And there's 1000 people who don't want it out of the b... : DASQ (#13) «

#13, Yeah gee dang, Opera is SO slow from the bloat that... : ssidbroadcast (#16) «

#16, And almost no one uses Opera compared to firefox... : northreign (#18) «

#18, Dunno why best browser out there IMHO. : carburngood (#22) «

#22, Too bad only about 0.5% of the Internet po... : BenBasson (#23) «

#10, Installing an add-on is hardly troubling. Firefox has ... : BenBasson (#24) «

#10, I want that out of the box. So I guess your gaming urge... : UberGerbil (#30) «

#28. Posted at 10:48 AM on Feb 14th 2008

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deathBOB

I installed it on my Macbook yesterday. It's a huge improvement from beta 2 in terms of speed and stability and the new interface looks great. It's already better than Camino.

#28, Well I hope they fix the bug with Google Spreadsheet then... : bozzunter (#29) «

#27. Posted at 06:41 AM on Feb 14th 2008

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bozzunter

It has problems with Google Docs (Spreadsheet), every now and then there's no way to edit cells, even after restarting Firefox. With the beta 2 there wasn't this problem, amazing. I switched back to Camino meanwhile...

#26. Posted at 05:43 AM on Feb 14th 2008

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bogbox

i use opera most of the time ,it's very fast and simple ,not so hungry like the ie or firefox .
BTW I hate to upgrade , because is just eating my memory for nothing,
and i like to the browser only for browsing pages, not all the the junk it has plug in by default ,

#19. Posted at 08:53 PM on Feb 13th 2008

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crazybus

Wow the default Windows themes are terrible. Lets hope they're not final. I'm still using the Firefox 1.5 theme on FF2.

++ for the linux and os x themes though. It's good to see the Mac FF go to a native Cocoa widget interface.

#14. Posted at 05:08 PM on Feb 13th 2008

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Sargent Duck

I am curious as to why they are trying to mimmick other browsers interface as default. Having spent a little time on both IE7 and Safari (let me stress minimal), I don't like either of those two interfaces, much preferring Firefox. I'd have thought they'd release an IE7 skin in the install package that lets users customize the look upon installation.

#14, Maybe they're afraid not enough people are using addons. Off... : Ethyriel (#17) «

#15. Posted at 05:09 PM on Feb 13th 2008

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5150

IE7's interface is an abortion.

#9. Posted at 03:24 PM on Feb 13th 2008

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TheTechReporter

Hopefully there will be a "classic" theme.
The biggest problem with IE7 is the interface, IMHO.

#2. Posted at 02:41 PM on Feb 13th 2008, Edited at 02:41 PM on Feb 13th 2008

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BobbinThreadbare

Ugh, the new themes are ugly. I hate the different size forward and backward buttons.

#2, not a big fan of the big/small direction buttons either. fee... : etilena (#6) «

#2, That style only shows up if you use large. [Its not like its... : northreign (#7) «

#3. Posted at 02:44 PM on Feb 13th 2008

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MrJP

I suppose the move to themes that mimic IE in Windows is to minimise transitioning issues for people new to Firefox, but it still seems odd when one of the strengths of FF (1 and 2) relative to IE is its clean interface, IMHO.