Posted April 3, 200817 yr http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html -------------------------- http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0b5&os=win&lang=en-US Firefox 3 beta 5 now available for download Please note: Firefox 3 Beta 5 is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed. We recommend that you read the release notes and known issues before installing this beta. Firefox 3 Beta 5 is now available for download. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso. New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include: Improvements to the user interface based on user feedback, including changes to the look and feel on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux. Changes and fixes for new features such as the location bar autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom, and others, based on feedback from our community. Fixes and improvements to platform features to improve security, web compatabilty and stability. Continued performance improvements: changes to our JavaScript engine as well as profile guided optimization continues to improve performance over previous releases as measured by the popular SunSpider test from Apple, and in the speed of web applications like Google Mail and Zoho Office. (You can find out more about all of these features in the “What’s New” section of the release notes.) Testers can download Firefox 3 Beta 5 builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in 45 different languages. Developers should also read the Firefox 3 for Developers article on the Mozilla Developer Center. Note: Please do not link directly to the download site. Instead we strongly encourage you to link to this Firefox 3 Beta 5 milestone announcement so that everyone will know what this milestone is, what they should expect, and who should be downloading to participate in testing at this stage of development. This entry was posted by beltzner on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 at 9:05 am and is filed under General. « about:mozilla - Mozilla turns 10, Foxkeh news, Toronto moves, AMO redesign, Firefox announcement, Freerice, and more
April 3, 200817 yr It's awesome. If you got extensions that don't work with it get the Nightly Tester Tools extension that makes incompatible extensions work.
April 3, 200817 yr I tried it out, having my extensions not working was a pain in the ass though because I really like my adblock. D: I'll try the nightly tester tools though and I might go back to it.. (Saw this on slashdot when it came out and used firefox 3 all of yesterday) I really haven't noticed a performance upgrade at all, but supposedly acid test is supposed to rate your browser, but fucks up on everything other than firefox 3 in terms of a browser. I'm just going to stick with firefox 2 until it comes out of the beta stage and is actually released because none of the new features really appealed to me.
