Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Firefox 3 - So Far, So Good
It's been almost a full day now, since loading the official release of Firefox 3 on my laptop (Vista Home Premium) and office desktop (Win2000). All of my webpage designs are rendering exactly how I want them, with a few bonuses that previously only worked in IE and Opera. As well, all of the pages I frequently visit are rendering perfectly.
2/3rds of the extensions I had loaded are still supported by Firefox 3. The ones that aren't supported were discontinued because 3.0 natively supports those features - with the exception of "Copy Plain Text." Hopefully that'll be updated, soon, as I hate copying text formatting. The improved Zoom feature works great, too. I've also noticed that after a whole day of regular browsing, Firefox 3.0 isn't hogging up as much memory as the previous version did. I usually had to reset Firefox a few times during the day, but so far I haven't had to reset once. I was also pleasantly surprised how easy it was to migrate over my bookmarks, quick search and settings. Actually, it did most of the work for me (I only had to import bookmarks from my backup).
I've got my fingers crossed that Firefox 3.0 continues to work well. It's rare that I upgrade hardware or software upon release, since I often like to wait until the first few patches and updates roll out, but Firefox 3.0 really sounded good.
Also, in other news, I managed to crash my new Vista Home Premium laptop for the first time... Whodunit? I had to use Internet Explorer 7 to test a new design. While testing, I followed a link to a friend's DevArt page, and BAM!! ...the screen flickered, and the system froze. I had to hard-power off the system. That strengthens my resolve to almost NEVER use Internet Explorer ever again, unless otherwise forced to.
2/3rds of the extensions I had loaded are still supported by Firefox 3. The ones that aren't supported were discontinued because 3.0 natively supports those features - with the exception of "Copy Plain Text." Hopefully that'll be updated, soon, as I hate copying text formatting. The improved Zoom feature works great, too. I've also noticed that after a whole day of regular browsing, Firefox 3.0 isn't hogging up as much memory as the previous version did. I usually had to reset Firefox a few times during the day, but so far I haven't had to reset once. I was also pleasantly surprised how easy it was to migrate over my bookmarks, quick search and settings. Actually, it did most of the work for me (I only had to import bookmarks from my backup).
I've got my fingers crossed that Firefox 3.0 continues to work well. It's rare that I upgrade hardware or software upon release, since I often like to wait until the first few patches and updates roll out, but Firefox 3.0 really sounded good.
Also, in other news, I managed to crash my new Vista Home Premium laptop for the first time... Whodunit? I had to use Internet Explorer 7 to test a new design. While testing, I followed a link to a friend's DevArt page, and BAM!! ...the screen flickered, and the system froze. I had to hard-power off the system. That strengthens my resolve to almost NEVER use Internet Explorer ever again, unless otherwise forced to.
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Someone was able to get the Copy Plain Text add-on to work with Firefox 3. The extension is available here.
If it doesn't auto-load, save the XPI file, and run it with Firefox.
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If it doesn't auto-load, save the XPI file, and run it with Firefox.
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