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    Default Firefox 3 beta

    Anyone using it ? I have just downloaded it for a look and test. It is claimed to be faster and I must admit it seems to zipping along quite well.

    Anyone else got any thoughts or comments ?

    Download link for anyone interested , please note it is Beta



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    my one is 2.0.012 ill get it beta to see thx

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    The Location bar autocomplete seems like a great idea
    When you do things right, people won't be sure that you have done anything at all

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    Yes , I agree , good place to have it.

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    Just installed it as I have used firefox now for the last couple of years, I am not an IE hater, so I usually use the browser I find easier.
    Time will tell...

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    It's probably mostly placebo, but it does seem noticeably quicker than my previous firefox...

    Thanks, RHCP.
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    its working much better than the version I had. No longer timing out finding a web page. thanks

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    I have had it hang on a few pages....Commonwealth Bank in particular was one it wouldnt load no matter how many times I refreshed the page.

    It opened instantly in IE7.

    I used to be a Firefox user and was for around to 2 years straight but went back to IE about 6 months ago. I always keep Firefox and Opera installed though.

    Firefox 3 does seem faster on pages that it loaded ok....but is it faster or an illusion ? Anyone know what DOm Inspector is under tools ??

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    too many bugs using vista, will try again now i have vista sp1.....

    firefox 2 works perfectly with vista and vista sp1.

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    can you still uses your addons with it ?

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    just installed then

    doz anyone know where it puts the bookmarks file on vista

    found it if anyones looking for it it in (so you can backup you bookmarks and addons)

    c:\users\your user name\App Data\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ then in to the folder thats got XXXXXXX.default



    Oh yeah whats the go with no Home Button ???
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    been working fine until i logged into westpac banking everything looked screwed..

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    Yep, been using it for a while...FF3Beta4 is out now and beta5 is being worked on.

    Even moving to beta 4 I noticed improvements

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    the only way I got the home button was to go to view and click on toolbars and tick bookmarks toolbar. The first button on that toolbar is home. Strange

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    You need to add the Home button...its simple...

    Right click on an empty piece of the toolbar and choose customise.

    Then just drag the Home button from the window up onto your toolbar.

    Simple

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    I don't know It's starting to give me the heeby jebby's
    Bloody crashing almost every time It needs Java run time, Like
    when you log into the banks and things
    When you do things right, people won't be sure that you have done anything at all

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    I have not had a problem with it I use it full time now

    Wait there is one problem...when you open a link to a Photo in a tab the Tab shows the pic in it (super Size TAb)

    I don't know if you can turn that off or not


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    just updated to Firefox Beta 5. The Home button is on the toolbar now. Maybe people complained it wasnt there before and you had to put it there yourself.

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    yeah it was a pain in the "A" untill I worked out you could drag it to the toolbar

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    Anyone else having troubles with opening new tabs
    20% - 30% of the time the page is timing out and can't be displayed
    error message popping up
    Or is it just my great internet provider
    When you do things right, people won't be sure that you have done anything at all

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