Firefox 3 Beta 1 Just Released
This is a quick tech post for those of you who demand the bleeding edge of software technology. If you haven’t heard about this, then you probably will in the next few hours. But this is for all our loyal RL fans & the Firefox lovers among them. 
Download straight from the Mozilla public FTP and test it out yourselves. Let us know what you think of the newest edition of Firefox in the comments!! 
Win32 Version :: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2007-11-07-03-firefox3.0b1/
Mac & Linux Builds here :: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2007-11-06-18-firefox3.0b1/
Sweet, time for the next step in evolution!
Well I used to be a firefox fan until I hit K-meleon.. still will check this one out
Acutally can we like, wait for the off release?
from the IMPORTANT NOTE in the folder :
To be honest, if you’re here from Digg or something similar, we’d really
rather you waited until 3.0b1 was officially announced, so the servers
don’t get overloaded and we don’t have a bunch of extra work to do.
“If you haven’t heard about this, then you probably will in the next few hours.”
Unless you read the sentence before the above statement…
opera rules
Tastes like chicken
Try K-meleon with Speedup.kmm File and U will know what speed means…
opera is the “chit”(now i spelld rong wonder why?)
You dont need to with 20mbit broadband…
k-meleon
would u say that is better or worse than firefox
no new theme…
In terms of speedier page loading and simple and effective designs like IE its better than firefox and it supports every media plugin by default but does not have fancy addons much like firefox… So k-meleon is better suited for ppl who wants speedier page loading and the tray loader of k-meleon fires up the browser in less than a second so very cool
Im not going to use it until ANY add-ons are compatible. I have put 2.0.0.9 back on. Had to delete the Mozilla Firefox folder to get it to work though.
Also It is still based on the same gecko engine but usues macro scripting for internal jobs so its faster …
any rapidshare links, going slowwww from mozilla’s server
K-meleon is what Firefox used to be like; a lightweight, fast browser. Firefox has become far too bloated these days, a fresh install, no plugins and already it’s using up 150,000 memory.
If K-meleon develops better support for 3rd party plugins, there’ll probably be far more users.
I’ve not tried Firefox 3 beta but it needs to be at least as fast as Opera/K-meleon/Safari and a much smaller footprint for it to be any good, otherwise it’s going down the path of Nero etc al.
@hi
I totally agree with you…Thats why I have now dumped every browser and uses k-meleon only..
Firefox rules!
But I won’t try any other release than the stable version. Firefox 3 looks awesome. Thanks for the heads up.
It’s as useless as Opera (there, I said it, Opera sucks) until most extensions and themes are ported. Mozilla should care more about backwards compatibility, they’d get more beta testers :/
Firefox is, by far, the most inferior browser today.
It compares miserably in every aspect to the competition (Opera, IE7, Safari… you name it.)
Read ‘em and weep http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/FirefoxMyths.html
firefox lost his flames long ago..let it go and cold now silently
Rapidshare link for windows 32bit:
http://rapidshare.com/files/68108551/firefox-3.0b1.en-US.win32.installer.exe
I use Opera. I will read reviews about this new installment of firefox and see if I’ll try it out or not.
Opera does all it needs to do (and more) for me, at the moment. It’s so underrated though.
Rapidshare for those getting crap speeds off the ftp:
http://rapidshare.com/files/68110393/firefox-3.0b1.en-US.win32.installer.rar
Not worth getting, I can’t notice any difference in… well anything actually.
what is the function of this firefox i have seen lots of people like this firefox and Why do we need dis ,is it really important
lol I can’t believe everyone is flaming the Fox! I wouldn’t even dream of using anything but Firefox, honestly…
Thank you
Firefox is teh best, at least, for me
pls i would like to know about firefox
Fast RAPIDSHARE Link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/68111998/firefox-3.0b1.en-US.win32.installer.exe
Try http://www.theleecher.com if you need to download from RS easily
No web browser is going to be the best for everyone, its all a matter of what you like and what your used to. I used to use opera when it had adds I wanna say it was v7 or v8 and I hated it with a passion, I didnt like netscape or mozilla either but the more I ended up working with Phoenix(now firefox) it grew on me and I ended up with a lot of add ons that I liked thus it sticks even if its a little slower and a little incompatible with a few sites it still works well enough to do what myself and others like.
I love how in a world where more is better, there’s suddenly a bunch of computer nerds who love the barebone boring software. When it comes to browsers, I’m referring to K-Meleon and Opera.
Yeah, they’re lightweight, etc., because their functionality is limited. Are you running with 64MB of RAM?
Firefox is the best of both worlds.
Love it, sweet stuff
do not download this if you have alot of extensions/themes installed with your current firefox version as this new version will not let you use any of them
@Unatco
1. the download window has been changed,
2. theres a new warning window when you enter about:config (thats quite amusing),
3. an applications tab has been added in the options dialog giving you control over what app opens files.
4. RAM usage is much better now. e.g with 3 tabs open in fox2: 130mb+, using fox3 its down to 70mb.
found a bug tho.. i installed it, then uninstalled it and went back to 2.0.0.9 (to install nightly tester tools) and i couldn’t start it!
so stuck using 3beta1 at the mo .. and shes running smooth and quick..
These files are not release versions, they are just potential release
versions. Use them at your own risk, without any of the warnings that we
will be putting in the release notes.
To be honest, if you’re here from Digg or something similar, we’d really
rather you waited until 3.0b1 was officially announced, so the servers
don’t get overloaded and we don’t have a bunch of extra work to do.
—————————-
These files are not release versions, they are just potential release
versions. Use them at your own risk, without any of the warnings that we
will be putting in the release notes.
To be honest, if you’re here from Digg or something similar, we’d really
rather you waited until 3.0b1 was officially announced, so the servers
don’t get overloaded and we don’t have a bunch of extra work to do.
—————————-
These files are not release versions, they are just potential release
versions. Use them at your own risk, without any of the warnings that we
will be putting in the release notes.
To be honest, if you’re here from Digg or something similar, we’d really
rather you waited until 3.0b1 was officially announced, so the servers
don’t get overloaded and we don’t have a bunch of extra work to do.
—————————-
These files are not release versions, they are just potential release
versions. Use them at your own risk, without any of the warnings that we
will be putting in the release notes.
To be honest, if you’re here from Digg or something similar, we’d really
rather you waited until 3.0b1 was officially announced, so the servers
don’t get overloaded and we don’t have a bunch of extra work to do.
Is this app better or worse then Halo 3?
@rob
not entierly true.. i’m running fox3 with all my extensions..tho i’ll give you it’s a little tricky to restore them.. heres how i did it..
all you need is ‘nightly tester tools’. install this extension before installing fox3, and then navigate to:
C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR USER ACC\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\YOUR PROFILE\extensions\{8620c15f-30dc-4dba-a131-7c5d20cf4a29}
and then look for the ‘install.rdf’.
open it in you fav text editor and change the:
em:maxVersion>3.0a93.0b1
hmmm
is it just me or have they stopped all posts with the word fook in them
whoops !! forgot the tags !!
so u change the ‘em:maxVersion’ in the firefox section from 3.0a9 to 3.0b1.
then install fox3 and you’ll be able to make all your extensions compatible using the nightly tester tools.
So … the question people really are thinking are: Is this better than halo 3? And: Will people be waiting for aXXo release?
This is the real link for firefox download!
http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=29978&location=172&sub=++++&x=75&y=15
Opera forever!!!!!
@41
lolxxo !
I use Gran Paradiso so lets see what they have changed…
firefoxmyths website only counts on windows. if you don’t use windows nothing applies to you. read the page your self.
“Yet this page is clearly about Myths relating to Firefox running on Windows.”
I use opera and firefox both but the only thing I keep using my firefox is coz of the flashgot plugin that damn opera doesn’t fully support any of the downloadin managers you have to drag links everytime….
@37: HAHAH!
IE 7 all the way.
I’m somewhat of an add-on junkie.
Though all the changes in this version of Firefox looks great, almost none of my installed add-ons work. They are either “Incompatible with Firefox 3.0b1″ or “Does not provide secure updates”, which is something new I suppose.
Finally scaled images does not look like crap! That’s always been something I dident like with FF.
somebody pleas explain to me why i get this error when i try to install it.
“Sorry, Firefox can’t be installed. This version of Firefox requires Microsoft Windows 2000 or newer.”
bus i got windows xp sp2
@49
look at posts 38 + 40, they’ll get your addon’s back up and running.. if you don’t mind a little work !
omg,someone said “IE 7 all the way”!!!!lol
yeah all the way down to the BOTTOM!!!!!!!
hey this is all gud but the add-onn developers have been lagging behind , 90 % of my addons don’t work with this version where the did with the alpha releases
I’ve never run K-Meleon, but I have run Opera and IE7. Both functioned horrendously slowly for me. I’m sure they are for some people, but they had poor performance on my machine. Now, Opera runs faster than anything else on my Windows 2k laptop, but Firefox outperforms on my Xp and Vista Ultimate boxes. As for IE7? Well, it runs, by far, the worst on all my boxes.
I used to be an Opera user but I ditched it in favour of IE7 with the IEPro addon. Heaps better. IE7 is worthless without IE Pro (which is free). IE Pro has mouse guestures, ad blocking and more!
all you pawns buying into the “revolution”, get over it!
it’s just another conglomerate trying to portray itself as “David” through various multi million euro publicity firms, when behind Mozilla’s curtain is actually another “Goliath”.
Stop being a pawn, use what you want; not simply because FireFox is currently “cool” and “indie”.
So how fast are the differences? seconds? nanoseconds?
Why this say in the Important Notes:
These files are not Firefox 3 Beta 1, they are the test builds for that.
Please see
http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2007/11/07/were-happy-that-you-digg-us-but/
for more information.
Most extension devs won’t update their extensions until the final v3 comes out… anyway, a BETA is only for testers, not for everyday use.
It’s funny to see all the kids promoting their fav browser, like anyone cares what he or she uses!
Firefox FTW!!!
lots of ideas Firefox is ripping of Opera…
@James, Cause every release has a nightly… and that’s a test build. These nightly’s are release candidates for the BETA, and until the right RC is made there will be no beta. It’s done so the final product, in this case the BETA experiences only undetected bugs at the main app and not mistakes that a packer might do while packing a nightly. Sometimes it happens!
New version is coming… YAY!
@51
Ahh… yes, right. You can do that, but I’m lazy.
And I won’t be submitting beta reports or anything like that so… I’m content with my current FF2.0 until 3.0 goes final.
IT IS NOT out atm if you follow the links you get this:
(Hi! You may have been redirected here while looking for the Firefox 3 Beta. We’re sad to say that it’s not actually ready yet, but we’re awfully happy that you stopped by. Read on for more details!)
At around 4am PST today, the last of the Firefox 3 Beta 1 release candidate builds appeared on our public FTP today. This was mistakenly reported on Digg as the official release of the first Firefox 3 Beta. It’s extremely flattering to get this sort of attention, and we know that it’s motivated by the very best of intentions, but it does cause us three major problems:
1. The release candidate builds have not been thoroughly tested by our QA group,
2. we haven’t completed all the steps required for a beta release (see below), and
3. these builds aren’t being mirrored properly on our servers.
Before a release candidate is released to the public we let our Quality Assurance team put it through a bunch of tests (if you’d like to participate in this activity, by the way, you’re absolutely welcome to join our Firefox Beta Test Day on Friday), write release notes, and put together a page that appears when someone first runs the beta to help them understand what’s new and how they can give us their feedback. At the same time, our localization teams make the final translation fixes, and our build team generates versions in as many languages as we have ready to go. The final step is to “sign” the builds digitally, authenticating that they came from Mozilla.
So, if all this needs to be done before a release candidate can actually be handed out to users, why do we put these “release candidate” builds on a public server? Well, because we’re an open source project, and we put all of our builds on public servers.
For now, we’ve restricted access to the builds by HTTP, meaning that if you click the link in Digg, you’ll see this page instead of the builds. We’ve done this to protect our own bandwidth, and also to limit the distribution of what’s essentially an unfinished product. People can still use FTP clients to get the release candidates, and if they want to help QA test the beta, we encourage people to do so! If not, however, we’d ask you to wait another week or so, at which point we expect to have the final beta release available for public consumption.
Stay tuned for more detailed timelines and estimates for the official release date of Firefox 3 Beta 1, which should appear here a little later today.
This entry was posted by beltzner on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 at 11:11 am and is filed under General.
Well, I posted a rapidshare link to the installer inside a .rar archive in post #24 before they took it off the link….
http://rapidshare.com/files/68110393/firefox-3.0b1.en-US.win32.installer.rar
speed dial
Myth - “Firefox is the Fastest Web Browser”
Reality - Opera (now 100% Ad free) is the fastest Graphical Web Browser in Windows.
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html#winspeed
I used to have firefox on my pc but realise that it is too bloated and not that fast with every new release,likewise same with opera and IE7,k-meleon is fast like they say but i came across a browser which is IE based and faster than k-meleon try google search for ‘the world browser’ using it now and recommended it to my friends all with positive feedback.
is the platform better cause they changed to gurilla or something i think but ima try it cause ff2.8 and 2.9 always crash i thinks its an extension but 2.7 and down are fine
Everyone has their own personal favourite (correct spelling, I’m English), browser. Some like Firefox, like I do, some IE, some K-Meleon….each to his/her own.
My first was Netscape, was okay, better than any MS browser, and it did a good enough job in it’s day (the 90’s).
I’ll personally wait for an official release, as I prefer FF to any other browser. Yes it can hog memory, but if you close it down, and restart it, it won’t use as much as before, don’t know why just does, don’t really care.
All browsers at some stage steal from others, IE7 and tabs? So eventually they’ll probably all end up looking and operating the same.
opera, k-meleon, or IE 7 with that pro add on
Which is better?
I have so many add-ons i’m going to wait for the official Firefox 3 release
If one tried to click on http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2007-11-07-03-firefox3.0b1/ You will get redirected to http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2007/11/07/were-happy-that-you-digg-us-but/ explaining it is Not the Beta 1 test release but a test release candidate.
The nightlies themselves that happen each day (mozilla1.8 and Trunk) are NOT Release Candidate builds as the nightly builds are automatic each day (unless your using a tinderbox build which is hourly about depending on the OS and box) whether new checkins or patches gets put in or not. Look at the Mozilla1.8.0 Branch nightlies as they are automatic each day (being labelled as 1.5.0.13pre ever since 1.5.0.12 release) and yet Firefox 1.5.0.13 never happened as the 1.5.0.12 was the last official release of Firefox 1.5.
The above nightly ftp links are Not the 3.0 Beta 1 releases.
The 3.0 Beta 1 test release will be in below link when it is out. http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/granparadiso/
I have used easily over 2000 nightlies (Currently both BonEcho 2.0.0.* and Minefield Trunk) so I am not new to using nightlies as by the time it gets to beta stage for the release they are boring and I would focus much more on the next version development if I have not yet.
>>61. Emm
@James, Cause every release has a nightly… and that’s a test build. These nightly’s are release candidates for the BETA, and until the right RC is made there will be no beta. It’s done so the final product, in this case the BETA experiences only undetected bugs at the main app and not mistakes that a packer might do while packing a nightly. Sometimes it happens!
I’m very happy with FireFox. IE, no matter how hard it tries, is just a slow, memory-hungry heap of junk. I’ve not tried K-meleon, but Opera, for all is good intentions is just not flexible enough.
For me, Firefox, with mouse gestures, fasterfox, adblock, and 1 or 2 other useful little add-ons is just perfect. Mind you, I’m in no real rush to upgrade to v.3 if there isn’t any support for addons.
Direct download link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/68170541/firefox-3.0b1.en-US.win32.installer.exe
I was using FF until i realize how much slow it is. Then tryed few alternatives and come to conclusion that Opera is browser that meet all my needs. Everyone have his own preferences and needs. Best way to figure out which browser is best for you is to test some of them. I’m also waiting to test stabile version of FF
If you like firefox you will love flock. you can use all ff extensions and great for rss and social networking. I’ve been using FF for yrs and this really took me away. Try it out.
http://www.filehippo.com/download_flock/
rs.com links
Win32 Version :
http://rapidshare.com/files/68110751/f3.0b1.rar
Linux Builds here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/68113404/f3.0b1lx.rar
Mac Builds here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/68117034/f3.0b1mc.rar
Password:
brutus22
Heh, as other’s have mentioned. This info is wrong.
the new opera mini rocks.. mucho grande.
the foxy lady will never upscale opera on the mobile front.
Sh.iT! Jerking off over a damn web browser! OOOHHH I can open prOn 3/10ths of a second faster meaning that I can whach on my mangled piece of meat even quicker! Yaaay!!
Been waiting for a beta to come out, It includes APNG support, which is quite frankly alot better than gif.
Oh Yawn..>Firefox…What is so great about it…Nothing… Internet Explorer 7 all the way baby! Why install more junk just to browse the web…And don’t say security… Only a problem if ur surfing porn all day and don’t know what your doing.
Oh and don’t say speed. If you have DSL or Cable modem… Does that 1 billionth of a trillionth of a second really matter? It does? Then upgrade your computer!
As the above stated! Does everyone here have a 56K dial or what?! Complaining about memory usage WTF!!! UPGRADE!!!
#85
downloading a program thats more efficient is easier than upgrading your whole computer
#85
You obviously dont know what you are doing, IE is the nastiest browser on the internet, Firefox and opera have billions more possibilitys than it, Firefox now has support for Apng as i stated, which stands for animated png, Which is so much cleaner than gifs.
Another thing is firefox just looks and feels better than IE ever could
I do suggest creating a new profile for this Trunk nightly build as there have been changes with the Bookmarks and other many many things that are not easy to spot on the surface. If you plan to still be able to use or go back Firefox 2.0.0.* you may have problems if you use the 2.0.0.* profile with these builds.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Profiles
>>>If you like firefox you will love flock. you can use all ff extensions and great for rss and social networking. I’ve been using FF for yrs and this really took me away. Try it out.
http://www.filehippo.com/download_flock/
>If you like firefox you will love flock. you can use all ff extensions and great for rss and social networking. I’ve been using FF for yrs and this really took me away. Try it out.
http://www.filehippo.com/download_flock/
I hate “>” as I get cut off.. sorry.
Just get Flock from http://www.flock.com/ as filehippo is not a official source.
Yeah, Firefox does Not use 150000 Memory for me, hahaha.
#87 well I have a 4gb ram.. but for some reason firefox often slows things down… some computer have this bug with firefox…..
I love FFox because I am a web developer myself but for some people its really making your computer slow (like I said my system is perfect, no need to upgrade)
http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/
Read that b4 downloading
@47 use idm works smoothly with all browsers opera is very good in terms with it as well
and by the way the real beta is due on friday
my mistake at 96, both IE and Opera… kinda tired this morning!
the most important thing is that a browser displays the html correctly. while ff, opera and other smaller browsers seem to care about it m$ still does not obey the rules completely. Although the ie7 is far better than ie6 it is still a bad browser.
opera is teh suxxors
Not supporting one or the other but if you are using 150 M of mem then I would have a look at your setup. Something is maybe not quite right, seems a little excessive.
I never said I was a developer in any way…. As I figure You misread my use of the word “development” as I was never implying I was a developer but have been one to follow and giving feedback and bug reports of the nighties like many others for a long time so regressions and such can be fixed sooner and things can progress faster. Something that may be as fast as minutes or hours for checkins to fix the regression that often took days or weeks to get fixed back when it was say Firebird 0.6 or 0.7 when testers of nightlies started to be more common and testing to be more organized. If you had posted this on the independent MZ forum, you would have people correcting You and not me and if you had attacked me there you would not have lasted long if you continued.
The original end-of-life date for Firefox was April 24th 2007 but they decided to make support for Firefox 1.5 to be able to do Major update to Firefox 2.0.0.4 hence the main reason for Firefox 1.5.0.12 as it almost ended at 1.5.0.11. I was just using the 1.5.0.13pre nightlies as an example to show the nightlies are automated whether patches/checkins have gone it or not.
I think You are the bit confused one about the long history of nightlies and how the RC terms get used with RC’s of Beta’s and Final as before it was a little less confusing for users like you… but you seem so sure of yourself so whatever…
I as others were pointing out the links that Yankee posted was not actually out yet as was not the Beta 1 test release as he said. The Beta 1 test release is still not out yet as the ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.0b1-candidates/ you mentioned (which came about after I posted otherwise I would have linked to it) are where to find the RC’s of the Beta 1, not the 2007-11-07-03-firefox3.0b1/ for RC1 example. Mozilla just wants to have a decent Beta 1 test release for people who are too scared to try a Minefiled Trunk nightly but yet are adventurous enough to want to see what Firefox 3.0 could be like even though the Beta 1 is still not for the public of new users or those who think the current 2.0.0.* release is the latest.
When I said “The above nightly ftp links are Not the 3.0 Beta 1 releases.” I was referring to the links Yankee posted and not to you as they were not where you properly go for a RC of Beta1 nor was it the Beta 1 test release itself.
http://quality.mozilla.org/en/node/784
I guess you hardly know about the history of nightlies because you say you have not really used them yourself or am I misreading you there… as you certainly misunderstood.
The 3.0 Beta 1 test release will most likely be in below link when it is out. http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/granparadiso/
((((96. Emm
my mistake … kinda tired this morning!)))))
Ah… no wonder you are a bit confused…
I can’t believe how stupid you people are. Uploading a publicly available nightly build of an open source program to rapidshare. Do you do that every night? Presumably for those masses of Mozilla alpha testers out there that never heard about FTP (and then complain about “no new theme” and “my extensions don’t work”). I’m sure they will write really qualified bug reports and submit lots of patches.