Oh man, I practically lived there when I played Quake 2 online. Sooo many awesome skins.

just following up. thanks for the tip redlemon, i did that and it seemed to work then uncovered another problem which was svchost.exe was maxing out the cpu constantly. most forums said it was a worm or virus but i was sure it wasn´t and one one forum some guy mentioned going to windows update and changing from "microsoft update" to "windows update" and that seems to have everything running normal again...

In my previous Firefox version a clicked link opened in a new tab. How do I get V.3 to do so?

I've gone to options and checked "pages should be opened in a new tab" but still it doesn't work.

Any suggestions?

My FF RC3 behaves properly. It should be under Tools > Options > Tabs > "New Pages Should Be Opened in" > * "a new tab"

I love FF3 - it has saved my computer!

The usual setting is "left-click is within the same tab, middle-click is a new tab". Do you want every left-click to make a new tab? It probably can be done, but before I research it, let me know if that's what you meant.

(Release date on Tuesday!)

Now installing Firefox 3, the real deal. Awesome.

I like it. nothing much different but it is faster than 2. It seems new.

I almost forgot that today is the official release. I am now upgrading to 3.0; I don't expect to see massive changes from Beta 5, but hey. Release versions are always nice.

EDIT - Interestingly, just as I finished downloading and decompressing the archive, the release version came out on livna (or at least my box checked the repo and found it). One click and about 90 seconds later, it was installed. So far, I don't see any major differences from the beta. To be honest, though, I'd be upset if I did. Don't mess with what works.

See my post on May 18th above; that's what's new. Or the single page Field Guide to Firefox 3, also from dria.

Redlemon-- thanks: I didn't know that middle-click would bring up a new tab. This is all I need. Thanks again.

when i said: nothing is that different, it was because it ran just as good as 2. even better except for 1 addon that I need everyday. so for now, it's really good.

I started using this yesterday. So far it's seems much quicker and I've not had any issues.

One thing that seems missing is the "back" button, seems a "refresh" has replaced it. Am I blind?

I have a big green back button to the left of the refresh..

The back and forward buttons are combined to form the 'keyhole' on Mac and Windows.
http://people.mozilla.com/~faaborg/f...wComposite.png
If you managed to keep a theme that isn't up to date, that might be your issue. Or, right-click and customize the layout and add that button back.

And if you don't like the large back button, you can always make it smaller!

one minor aesthetic issue I find mildly annoying is how the addressbar is curved on the left side but has right angles on the right side.

just thought I'd note that here.

And the boring Linux version strikes again!

My address bar (excuse me, awesomebar) is not curved on either side.

I feel left out. So far as I can tell, we got no visual updates whatsoever. We may be nerds, but that doesn't mean we don't have a sense of style!

And yeah, I know Linux is different, since it has to fit in umpteen different environments. I still feel left out anyway.

I think it looks cool. The asymmetry of the back/forward is quite unique and stylish. The curve in the address bar makes it look less Windows 95 and more Mac.

The problem (according to the developers) is that you Linux guys have *too many* senses of style. There was no single good "Linux theme" to adopt that would work well in each flavor of Linux, and so they didn't make a keyhole. Seems like a weak argument to me, but whatever.

I like the asymmetry as well of the large buttons, but I really hate large buttons being a minimalist when it comes to interfaces. I prefer the stuff on menus to be as small as possible especially when it comes to me getting the most porn- ... website content on the screen.

Grab a new theme: Themes :: Firefox Add-ons; there's 37 compact themes available at the moment.

I don't know how to do a screen shot like that but I have no such button. Directly under "file" in the upper left I have a blue refresh button.

Is it possible I need to check for updates or un-install/re-install?

I clicked about Firefox and this is what I see:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

right click up there by help in the gray area and click customize then restore to default setup and see if that helps

Thank-you!

If I'd have read Redlemon post more closely I probably could have got there earlier. Guess reading comp. isn't my specialty.

I dunno. I mean on the one hand I can understand it. On the other hand, the different distros aren't that different visually; the biggest difference is the desktop environment, which nine times out of ten is either KDE or Gnome anyway. Given that the browser as it is changes colour themes to match whatever distro/DE you're running, it doesn't seem like it would've taken that much more to develop skins for it with a bit more flair.

It's really a minor bitch in the grand scheme of things. I mean, as long as all of the functionality is there it doesn't really matter what it looks like, and if I'm that bothered by it I can always change the theme anyway.

well, I've had this installed for half a day - I've had a crash (you know the "Report to Microsoft etc" dialog box), but otherwise seems fine. Certainly seems much quicker than v2.

im loving it so far.

It turns out that the "Awesome bar" isnt so awesome if you dont want your little sister to know what a fucking perv you are.

You can set it to clear all private data (including history) on exit. Admittedly that pretty much castrates the awesomebar and removes it's most useful feature, but if you're on a multi-user computer and don't want your family/roommate/dog to know what you were looking at, that's the way to do it. Look in the privacy tab under preferences.

Also, does anyone (Redlemon) know why preferences is under the Tools menu in Windows but under the Edit menu in Linux? Admittedly that predates FF 3.0, but it's always confused me.

ive tryed that martian, i tryed it yesterday.

but whenever i begin to type "fark" into my bar the first thing that pops up is "Fat Pussy".

Shit, it even has a star! i KNOW this isnt in my favorites... Now how in the hell...?

edit: did mozilla break the record on fire fox release day?

edit squared: never mind, google answered my question. it turns out it will take a week or so to verify.

And on the Mac, it is under the App menu (which is consistent with the OS). I guess they felt that Edit was the most common place for preferences on Linux? Windows, who knows, preferences could be anywhere.

That is very true. You might consider setting up user accounts on your computer. The Awesomebar is the reason that I did that on my computer, so my 5 year old son doesn't get an early jump on the facts of life.

If it has a star, it is bookmarked. Go to "Organize Bookmarks" in the Bookmarks menu, click on All Bookmarks in the left column, type 'pussy' in the search bar, and select the 'All Bookmarks' button that just popped up. You should find your 'fat pussy' there.

From what I gather, there is no previous record in this category, so they will establish the record with whatever score they achieved. I also gather that the expected result was 3.5 to 4.0 million, so the 8+ million unofficial count should do well.

sweet, i did find my fat pussy there!

tricky, tricky porn.

thanks lemon.

The forum ate my post. I was going to point out that you can unbookmark a website by clicking the star and then clicking the Remove Bookmark button that pops up.

You probably just clicked the star by accident. When going for the drop down menu maybe?

You can always tell your little sister that you were looking for Garfield comics.

Proper marketing:

http://whacked.net/wp-content/upload.../picture-1.png
http://www.eontarionow.com/technolog...-for-download/

cool....I wonder if someone actually sells that top :p

ohhh, proper marketing indeed!

martian, i have no idea. i think i may have book marked it to finish downloading a video or something and i just dont remember. ive had it on here for a while apparently. it was totally lost in the clutter of the folderless bookmarks.

yeah, it'd be awsome to have my GF wake me up sunday morning with "WTF is this your looking at ?!?!?"
I was telling some people at work about ths pic and they were all..."and you were searching for what ?"
http://www.cam.cornell.edu/~mblais/Shaved%20Cat%201.jpg

Once again, I have some really gay problems with FF.

First: when I have the VLC pluign active, everything media related says [no media]- not helpful for Apple Trailers.

Next, when I disable it and have just the QT plugins, it won't show anything on Apple Trailers.

Finally, when I have VLC and QT enabled, and try to visit Apple Trailers, FF 3 crashes!

WTF.

Addons: Free Download Manager, FireFTP, FoxyProxy, Google Toolbar
Plugins: DivX web player, Java Platform, Mozilla Default Plugin, QT 7.5 Plugin, Shockwave Flash, Shockwave for Director, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation

I reverted back to 2.0.0.x today because FF3 wouldn't stop crashing despite removing addons. It worked fine on other computers. I just got tired of it and didn't feel like screwing around anymore.

What makes me mad is that it worked fine... then I updated the Adobe and Shockwave crap. Then a site used WMV, so I updated that plugin, then it crashes.

WTF!

Hain: I haven't futzed too much with plugins... but perhaps when you disabled the VLC plugin, the settings under Options/Applications were set to either nothing or to VLC? Try disabling the VLC, then going to Options, and seeing what the settings are for that filetype.