Timotheus 416 Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 (edited) IT'S HERE!! Did I mention it's here? Don't bother trying to download, the server crashed lol... mirror Note: downloading via the mirror does not count as a download for the GBoWR Edited June 17, 2008 by bhj Link to comment
Schot 407 Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 omg omg! The bird is down. I repeat the bird is down! lol. Just "tried" to surf to the Firefox page but it's turning up an error page. Looks someone is in serious demand today. Link to comment
bhj 24 Posted June 17, 2008 Author Share Posted June 17, 2008 Download Firefox 3 Release Notes released June 17, 2008 What’s New in Firefox 3 Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 34 months. This new platform includes more than 15,000 changes to improve performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Firefox 3 is 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. More Secure * One-click site info: Click the site favicon in the location bar to see who owns the site and to check if your connection is protected from eavesdropping. Identity verification is prominently displayed and easier to understand. When a site uses Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates, the site favicon button will turn green and show the name of the company you're connected to. (Try it here!) * Malware Protection: malware protection warns users when they arrive at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other malware. (Try it here!) * New Web Forgery Protection page: the content of pages suspected as web forgeries is no longer shown. (Try it here!) * New SSL error pages: clearer and stricter error pages are used when Firefox encounters an invalid SSL certificate. (Try it here!) * Add-ons and Plugin version check: Firefox now automatically checks add-on and plugin versions and will disable older, insecure versions. * Secure add-on updates: to improve add-on update security, add-ons that provide updates in an insecure manner will be disabled. * Anti-virus integration: Firefox will inform anti-virus software when downloading executables. * Vista Parental Controls: Firefox now respects the Vista system-wide parental control setting for disabling file downloads. * Effective top-level domain (eTLD) service better restricts cookies and other restricted content to a single domain. * Better protection against cross-site JSON data leaks. Easier to Use * Easier password management: an information bar replaces the old password dialog so you can now save passwords after a successful login. * Simplified add-on installation: the add-ons whitelist has been removed making it possible to install extensions from third-party sites in fewer clicks. * New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files, and you can see and search on the name of the website where a file came from. Your active downloads and time remaining are always shown in the status bar as your files download. * Resumable downloading: users can now resume downloads after restarting the browser or resetting your network connection. * Full page zoom: from the View menu and via keyboard shortcuts, the new zooming feature lets you zoom in and out of entire pages, scaling the layout, text and images, or optionally only the text size. Your settings will be remembered whenever you return to the site. * Podcasts and Videocasts can be associated with your media playback tools. * Tab scrolling and quickmenu: tabs are easier to locate with the new tab scrolling and tab quickmenu. * Save what you were doing: Firefox will prompt users to save tabs on exit. * Optimized Open in Tabs behavior: opening a folder of bookmarks in tabs now appends the new tabs rather than overwriting. * Location and Search bar size can now be customized with a simple resizer item. * Text selection improvements: multiple text selections can be made with Ctrl/Cmd; double-click drag selects in "word-by-word" mode; triple-clicking selects a paragraph. * Find toolbar: the Find toolbar now opens with the current selection. * Plugin management: users can disable individual plugins in the Add-on Manager. * Integration with Windows: Firefox now has improved Windows icons, and uses native user interface widgets in the browser and in web forms. * Integration with the Mac: the new Firefox theme makes toolbars, icons, and other user interface elements look like a native OS X application. Firefox also uses OS X widgets and supports Growl for notifications of completed downloads and available updates. A combined back and forward control make it even easier to move between web pages. * Integration with Linux: Firefox's default icons, buttons, and menu styles now use the native GTK theme. More Personal * Star button: quickly add bookmarks from the location bar with a single click; a second click lets you file and tag them. * Tags: associate keywords with your bookmarks to sort them by topic. * Smart Location Bar: type in all or part of the title, tag or address of a page to see a list of matches from your history and bookmarks; a new display makes it easier to scan through the matching results and find that page you're looking for. Results are returned according to their a combination of frequency, and recency of visits to that page, ensuring that you're seeing the most relevant matches. An adaptive learning algorithm further tunes the results to your patterns! * Library: view, organize and search through your bookmarks, tags and browsing history using the new Library window. Create or restore full backups of this data whenever with a few clicks. * Smart Bookmark Folders: quickly access your most visited bookmarks from the toolbar, or recently bookmarked and tagged pages from the bookmark menu. Create your own Smart Bookmark Folders by saving a search query in the Library. * Web-based protocol handlers: web applications, such as your favorite webmail provider, can now be used instead of desktop applications for handling mailto: links from other sites. Similar support is available for other protocols (Web applications will have to first enable this by registering as handlers with Firefox). * Download & Install Add-ons: the Add-ons Manager (Tools > Add-ons) can now be used to download and install a Firefox customization from the thousands of Add-ons available from our community add-ons website. When you first open the Add-ons Manager, a list of recommended Add-ons is shown. * Easy to use Download Actions: a new Applications preferences pane provides a better UI for configuring handlers for various file types and protocol schemes. Improved Platform for Developers * New graphics and font handling: new graphics and text rendering architectures in Gecko 1.9 provides rendering improvements in CSS, SVG as well as improved display of fonts with ligatures and complex scripts. * Color management: (set gfx.color_management.enabled on in about:config and restart the browser to enable.) Firefox can now adjust images with embedded color profiles. * Offline support: enables web applications to provide offline functionality (website authors must add support for offline browsing to their site for this feature to be available to users). * A more complete overview of Firefox 3 for developers is available for website and add-on developers. Improved Performance * Speed: improvements to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimizations have resulted in continued improvements in performance. Compared to Firefox 2, web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office run twice as fast in Firefox 3, and the popular SunSpider test from Apple shows improvements over previous releases. * Memory usage: Several new technologies work together to reduce the amount of memory used by Firefox 3 over a web browsing session. Memory cycles are broken and collected by an automated cycle collector, a new memory allocator reduces fragmentation, hundreds of leaks have been fixed, and caching strategies have been tuned. * Reliability: A user's bookmarks, history, cookies, and preferences are now stored in a transactionally secure database format which will prevent data loss even if their system crashes. Link to comment
Timotheus 416 Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 sorry for the wrong link Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted June 21, 2008 Share Posted June 21, 2008 I'm still using FF 2...and still go the best skin ever... Go Noia Extreme! gogo Link to comment
Arafinwe 0 Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 HeHe Noia is a good theme yes but at the moment I only have one theme installed, namely W3v8..I like the way it looks. As for the extensions I have installed in FF2.. well here is the list. - Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.1.3 http://www.pierceive.com/ Firefox 1.0 - 3.0.* Synchroniseer Adblock with Filterset.G - Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5 http://adblockplus.org/ Firefox 1.5 - 3.0.* No more adds! - Better Gmail 2 0.5.2 http://www.ginatrapani.org/workshop/firefox/bettergmail2/ Firefox 0.8 - 3.0.* Enhances the new Gmail interface with Greasemonkey user scripts. All scripts copyright their original authors. Click on the script homepage in the About tab for help and more information. - BetterSearch 1.20 http://bettersearch.zottmann.org/ Firefox 1.5 - 3.0.* Enhances Google, A9, MSN, Yahoo, Answers.com (web results), AllTheWeb, del.icio.us, ask.com (Ask Jeeves), Clusty.com, Vivisimo.com, Dogpile and Simpy.com by adding previews (thumbnails) and Amazon product info (images, prices) as well as new special links to the search results. (This extension was formerly known as McSearchPreview.) - Bookmark Duplicate Detector 0.6.4 http://bookmarkdd.mozdev.org/ Firefox 1.0 - 2.0.0.* - Cooliris Previews 2.6.4 Firefox 1.0 - 3.0.* Browse Faster. Discover More -- Preview and share websites and rich media without clicking or leaving your current page. - CustomizeGoogle 0.72 http://www.customizegoogle.com/ Firefox 1.0 - 3.0.* Better Google search results. - Download Sort 2.5.7 http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/downsort/ Firefox 1.5 - 2.0.0.* Automatically save downloads to different directories. - Download Statusbar 0.9.6.3 http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/ Firefox 2.0 - 3.0.* - EM Menu 1.2 http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/emmenu/ Firefox 1.6 - 2.0.0.* Quick access to Extensions through a submenu - ErrorZilla Mod 0.31 http://www.jaybaldwin.com/Blog.aspx?cid=4 Firefox 1.5 - 3.0.* Implements a useful error page when a website cannot be reached. - Extension List Dumper 1.14.1 http://sogame.awardspace.com/ Firefox 1.5 - 3.0.* Dumps a list of installed extensions. - Flagfox 3.2.7 http://flagfox.servehttp.com/ Firefox 1.5 - 3.0.* - Gmail Space 0.5.94 http://www.getgspace.com/ Firefox 1.5 - 3.0.* Use your Gmail account space for file storage. Enables uploading/downloading of folders. - Googlepedia 0.5.3 http://code.google.com/p/googlepedia/ Firefox 1.5 - 3.0.* Shows you a relevant wikipedia article along with your search results. - NoScript 1.7.6 http://noscript.net Firefox 1.5.0.4 - 3.1a1pre - Password Exporter 1.1 http://passwordexporter.fligtar.com Firefox 2.0 - 3.0.* Export and import your saved passwords. - QuickRestart 1.1.2 http://es.geocities.com/jucarlosa/quickaddons/ Firefox 1.5 - 3.0.* Adds a "Restart Firefox" item to the "File" menu. - SafeCache 0.9 http://www.safecache.com/ Firefox 2.0 - 2.0.0.* Defends against cache-based web privacy attacks. - SafeHistory 0.9 http://www.safehistory.com/ Firefox 2.0 - 2.0.0.* Defends against visited-link-based web privacy attacks. - Secure Login 0.9.2.5 https://blueimp.net/mozilla/ Firefox 1.5 - 3.0.* login extension like Operas Magic wand - SecurePassword Generator 0.5.4 http://mozmonkey.com Firefox 0.9 - 2.0+ Creates a toolbar icon and dialog which helps to create secure passwords. - Smiley Xtra 4.1.1 http://www.smileyxtra.co.uk/ Firefox 1.5 - 3.0.* Insert smilies from an online database into forum posts, blogs and more! - Spamavert.com 1.0.0 http://spamavert.com Firefox 1.0 - 2.0.0.* Generates temporary e-mail addresses for all those pesky online registration forms. - Tab Mix Plus 0.3.6 http://tmp.garyr.net Firefox 1.0 - 3.0a6 - Tab Scope 0.2.2.8 http://www.xuldev.org/tabscope/ Firefox 1.5 - 3.0.* Preview and navigate tab contents through popup. - termBlaster with Firefox 1.4.2 http://termblaster.forizon.com/mozilla Firefox 1.5 - 3.1a1pre Provides the ability to searches using the included 110+ search engines from your right-click menu. - WebMail Notifier 1.1.4 http://webmailnotifier.mozdev.org/ Firefox 1.5 - 3.0.* - WOT 20080519 http://www.mywot.com/ Firefox 1.5 - 3.0.* Web of trust. And yes Shot it takes a bit longer then most FF users to load my FF2. Link to comment
Schot 407 Posted July 9, 2008 Share Posted July 9, 2008 lol Arafinwe. I see you are trained in the fine arts of mind reading and premonition. I couldn't help but laugh at myself when I read that last line, hehe. As I was progressing through your list I was thinkin "Gosh, this sure is a long list". None the less allow me to say this anyway... Holy crap! That's a whole lota addons! ...And yes Shot it takes a bit longer then most FF users to load my FF2. Link to comment
Arafinwe 0 Posted July 10, 2008 Share Posted July 10, 2008 lol Arafinwe. I see you are trained in the fine arts of mind reading and premonition. I couldn't help but laugh at myself when I read that last line, hehe. As I was progressing through your list I was thinkin "Gosh, this sure is a long list". None the less allow me to say this anyway... Holy crap! That's a whole lota addons! Lmao. Link to comment
bhj 24 Posted October 12, 2008 Author Share Posted October 12, 2008 Firefox 3.0.3 is now portable Link to comment
Spock 271 Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 Firefox 3.0.3 is now portable ... When you say "portable", I'm assuming you mean for cell phones or some such as FF3 has continued to run just fine on my notebook for some time. Link to comment
bhj 24 Posted October 12, 2008 Author Share Posted October 12, 2008 When you say "portable", I'm assuming you mean for cell phones or some such as FF3 has continued to run just fine on my notebook for some time. not quite "portable" like you can have it on your memory stick and have your firfox with your setup and bookmarks working on every pc no installation needed just plug it in and start it up Link to comment
bhj 24 Posted November 12, 2008 Author Share Posted November 12, 2008 btw how is Firefox 3.*.* working for the ones in here that are using it ? Link to comment
Arafinwe 0 Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 (edited) I have FF 3.0.3 installed and the following extensions work with this version. - Adblock Plus 0.7.5.5 - Better Gmail 2 0.7 - Download Statusbar 0.9.6.3 - Extension List Dumper 1.14.1 - Fasterfox 3.0.4 : Hey I wanted to see how this one works compared to the settings from the Faster Firefox thread on these forums. - Gmail Space 0.5.97 - NoScript 1.8.4.1 - Password Exporter 1.1 - Remove It Permanently 1.0.6.4 - Secure Login 0.9.3 - SecurePassword Generator 0.5.5 - Tab Mix Plus 0.3.7.3 - WebMail Notifier 1.1.5 I dropped a lot of extensions, the ones in this post I realy have use for. Edited November 13, 2008 by Arafinwe Link to comment
bhj 24 Posted November 14, 2008 Author Share Posted November 14, 2008 Firefox 2.0.0.18 and 3.0.4 are now available for download with the most critical bugs fix Firefox 2.0.0.18 Firefox 3.0.4 Firefox 2.0.0.18 Release Notes Firefox 3.0.4 Release Notes Firefox 2.0.0.18 other languages Firefox 3.0.4 other languages Link to comment
bhj 24 Posted November 20, 2008 Author Share Posted November 20, 2008 Mozilla has a policy that they will support earlier versions six months after a new one is out This means that in the middle of December they will stop supporting Firefox 2 so 2.0.0.18 is the last ff2 version Link to comment
bhj 24 Posted April 22, 2009 Author Share Posted April 22, 2009 Firefox 3.0.9 are now available for download with some longed for bug fixes What’s New in Firefox 3.0.9 Firefox 3.0.9 fixes several issues found in Firefox 3.0.8: * Fixed several security issues. * Fixed several stability issues. * Many users experienced an issue where a corrupt local database caused Firefox to “lose” its stored cookies. (bug 470578) * Fixed an issue where, starting with Firefox 3.0.7, inline image attachments on popular webmail services (like AOL and AIM) would not display. (bug 482659) * Large forms would sometimes take a long time to submit. (bug 426991) * In certain cases, new windows would not have proper focus. (bug 446568) * See the Firefox 3.0.8 release notes for changes in previous releases. See the complete list of bugs fixed. Link to comment
bhj 24 Posted April 28, 2009 Author Share Posted April 28, 2009 Firefox 3.0.10 are now available for download.... What’s New in Firefox 3.0.10 Firefox 3.0.10 fixes two issues found in Firefox 3.0.9: * Fixed a security issue. * Fixed a major stability issue. * See the Firefox 3.0.9 release notes for changes in previous releases. See the complete list of bugs fixed. Link to comment
bhj 24 Posted March 22, 2011 Author Share Posted March 22, 2011 Firefox 4 are now available for download.... Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 Thanks, just upgraded. They don't have Noia for this yet... lol I may go back till they upgrade that. The net just isn't the net with Noia gogo Link to comment
bhj 24 Posted March 22, 2011 Author Share Posted March 22, 2011 hehe ive started to use LavaFox myself Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 got a link for that? Any other goodies new yer using? gogo Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 zomgod lavafox woooooow gogo Link to comment
Stormwing 40 Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Looks cool, gotta admit. And is compatible with FF4 too. Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Yeah I do like the "completeness " of the job. Most of the other skins out there never even came close to how good noia felt... even this one, while cool and sharp looking, is a little behind noia imo for instant clarity or button reads...but Noia is the most popular theme for FF right? I'm sure a new version for ff 4 is on it's way. gogo Link to comment
Stormwing 40 Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 For some reason, Noia didn't impress me much. Must be a personal niche, as I have to admit, it's really solid work. Guess I could take lavafox for a ride, though I currently prefer to use some personas. Mebbe I associate them with the Persona gameseries. I'm a total sucker to 'em. Link to comment
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