Comments on: Firefox 3 beta 5 mini Review

By: Mozilla team and Ubuntu Hardy Heron at Sasha’s spot

Mozilla team and Ubuntu Hardy Heron at Sasha’s spot — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:15:41 +0000

[…] days after Hardy, but Firefox 3 beta 5 is very useful and pretty stable for day-to-day use. Just look at the reviews. And I’m sure we’ll be able to install Firefox 3 as soon as it comes out […]

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:50:02 +0000

Frank,
Thanks. Yes this does work, but I use ~8 extensions and this seems like a lot of work

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:47:28 +0000

If you take the xpi file for the extension (it’s just a compressed file, I think it uses zip) and open it up in a program like winrar or winzip, you can edit the install file and change the “max version” from what it is to 3b5 (I think that’s it) then load the new xpi in Firefox and it will install just fine.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:30:59 +0000

Morbus,
I’m on windows so Safari isn’t an option, their current windows version doesn’t count ;). I did do the extension check but one of my extensions must be breaking it cause it crashed on start up repeatedly. Their bug submitter wasn’t real clear on what the issue was either.

By: Morbus

Morbus — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:16:04 +0000

@ the author
It’s still lighter than Safari in pretty much everything, and manages to be faster too. About the extensions, you might want to disable the compatibility check. Add a new boolean line in your about:config as false “extensions.checkCompatibility”.

By: Firefox 3 Beta 5 is out: Superior than IE, but still work to do | money news blog

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:12:13 +0000

[…] status. It feels even faster than before, and includes over 750 fixes over Firefox 3 Beta 4. It’s getting rave reviews. Progress, […]

By: Firefox 3 Beta 5 is out: Better than IE, but still work to do | money news blog

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:12:09 +0000

[…] status. It feels even faster than before, and includes over 750 fixes over Firefox 3 Beta 4. It’s getting rave reviews. Progress, […]

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:38:33 +0000

#1 - Yes, I’ve done this bug it caused FF 3 to crash

By: WebUser

WebUser — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:29:38 +0000

You can use non-compatible extensions with firefox 3 beta versions by disabling the compatibility screening in the about:config. I’m not sure what the exact entry is, but I have been using a number of extensions in FF3 with no problems.