Firefox 3 Beta 2
17 December 2007If all goes well we will release Firefox 3 Beta 2 this week, just a month after Beta 1. Beta 2 includes about 900 bug fixes. The fixes include 34 performance improvements, 32 memory leak fixes, 11 improvements to memory footprint, 51 crash fixes, 59 improvements to places, 48 improvements to the javascript engine, and too many other improvements to do justice in this blog post. Things like the awesomebar:
You might remember an article in mid November reporting that 80% of the 700 Firefox 3 blocker bugs would not be fixed. Since that article was written we’ve fixed over 800 bugs in total. Beta2 contains fixes for 448 blockers and we’ve got another 200 bugs fixed and ready for Beta3. In short, despite some sensational and inaccurate headlines you might have read - Firefox 3 is going to rock.
The Mozilla community has been working overtime to make Firefox 3 easier to use, faster, and use less memory than previous versions. Firefox 3 includes tons of improvements specifically requested by web developers. More on this to come - but I wanted to make sure that it is clear: we are committed to releasing a version of Firefox that is the best yet. Try the awesomebar in Beta2 for a few days and see if you can go back to Firefox 2. I know I can’t.
P.S. Thanks to Alex Faaborg from whom I adapted the use of Exhibit for the icon set to use here visualize bugs fixed in Beta2.
7 Responses to “Firefox 3 Beta 2”
December 17th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
The NYTimes still has that inaccurate story up, why the hell isn’t someone at Mozilla probing them for a retraction?
December 19th, 2007 at 1:36 am
I wish i can update 2 FF 3.x but what prevents me from doing that is that the vast majority of my add-ons/Themes r not compatible with 3.x and unfortunately, I can’t browse without these add-ons!
December 20th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
I am a big fan of Firefox. I also believe it’s in everyone best interest for IE competitors (such as Firefox and Opera) to keep pushing Microsoft. Besides, I like Firefox much more than IE. ‘nuf said. New changes in this milestone are …
Crosstalk: http://dataland.wordpress.com/2007/12/20/firefox-3-beta-2-released/
December 23rd, 2007 at 6:15 am
dowload update firefox3 beta1 to beta2
December 26th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Just setup FF3 b2 and the Master Password feature if acting strangely. It will not respond properly to the password and then it accepts and gives access to all home pages even if the password is not correctly entered.
February 13th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
AwesomeBar is the BEST and EXTREMELY USEFUL addition in Firefox 3 ! I can’t understand, how I could live without it??? Guy, which invented AwesomeBar is genius!
February 25th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I don’t get what’s so awesome about it. It displays the same data the previous urlbar did; it just takes up more room. Thankfully, there’s a configuration option to disable it. Unfortunately, this was reported as a “bug”, and was removed in beta 3.