Yes, the new Firefox 3.0 is out :razz: if you have not got it installed, do it quickly because it fixes a handful of nasty bugs in the previous version. One of the craziest bug of all is Firefox 2 rendering a small, 1px tall grey line when you scroll down pages that are nested in iframes – which means ugly tagboards and Google adsense advertisements. Now it’s fixed for good! Plus, it comes with one-click bookmaring and smart location bar (which recalls your bookmarked sites as you happily type along in the address bar), which saves you from unnecessary time spent and makes web browsing a breeze.
With love, from IE Team
So it turned out to be a hoax – the IE team did not send a cake to Mozilla‘s for the release of Firefox 3. Nonetheless, it’s really funny to see how people would react to the cake. Some says that the Mozilla’s cake would have fitted more snugly because of correct padding and margin, some says that the IE cake is laced with poison while some says that it’s infested with bugs (LOL!) – check out the comments of this Flickr photo, and you’re guaranteed to have a good laugh. I’ve added some funny ones into the photo:
*Note: Arrows are by myukiori at DeviantArt. Font used is BudHand.
Poor IE team is probably all bitter and eating sour grapes now! I’m not sure whether is it the amalgamation of talents in the Mozilla team or is it the incompetency of IE’s, but Firefox 3 scores better on the Acid test than IE8 (which is YET to be released, but the Beta version is out already): check out the tragic results!
Looks like there’s still a lot of work to be done by the IE8 team.
Useful Firefox addons
IE Tab (linkie)- It may sound surprising but Mozilla Firefox does come with an IE engine embedded in it! For designers who want to ensure uniformity of the visual aspects of their designs or layouts across Firefox and Internet Explorer, IE Tab saves you the trouble of running an additional Internet Explorer window. Plus, you can compare two identical pages rendered with different layout engines on the fly, by just switching between two tabs. The layout engine can be simply switched with a click near the status bar – it either displays a Firefox or an IE logo, depends on which layout engine you’re currently running in that particular tab.
ReloadEvery (linkie)- If you’re tired of constantly refreshing a page and would wish the page to automatically refresh itself after a fixed time, this plugin will definitely be your cup of tea. You can enable it, or set differnet timers for each tab – and you can even apply the same timer setting across all tabs as well. Just be warned that if you have too many tabs opened at one time, brace yourself for a crash into oblivion. This worked miracles for me when Plurk’s AJAX script refuses to refresh my timeline every now and then – so I used it to do the task of refreshing pages!
Great post, Teddy! I haven’t downloaded the Mozilla yet, but I will download it on my imac, tomorrow, hopefully. I’m afraid that it’ll be out of stock. :s
the IE cake picure is funny. poor IE team. LOL
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Thank you! Don’t worry, the download link will not disappear and it’ll always be there for you. Have fun with your iMac, and Firefox 3!!!
p/s: Yea the poor IE team… they’re probably very bitter now!
It is hard to tell whether you really believe the cake wasn’t from the IE team but I assure you that it was. That’s me holding it and one of the old members of the IE team hand delivered it to me (and John Lilly and others that were there). Since I used to work on IE a few years ago, I knew the fellow even. :-)
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In fact, I’m confused now! I initially thought it was a hoax after reading it over here, but your comment made me think twice :) heheh! I’m glad I was a little ambiguous in the post!
Anyway, thanks for your comment! It’s rare to have someone featured in a photo to leave a comment here :razz:
Firefox 3 isn’t working very well for me. I think my PC is going bad. Well, Im going to upgrade to XPS than. I’d have to say bye bye to my Alpha 200.
Not working well in what aspect? Making your computer lag? I know my FF3 crashed a few times today – when I was using the IE engine and another instance, installing an incompatible FF theme… :???: perhaps it’s a RAM problem or something? I’m running on 512MB anyway (but actual usable size is around 490+MB)
It crashes a lot.
Whats bugging me most is the WYSIWYG in WordPress, it doesnt appear. How am I supposed to blog? Opera is crap when writing a post.
Now Im back to FF2. But its super slow. I guess I have to live with that for a while.
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Perhaps it’s a buggy installation? Have you tried redownloading the installation package and reinstall Firefox 3? Sometimes it works… last time when I installed Adobe Photoshop CS2, I have error messages popping up every few minutes but when I reinstalled it, the problem was fixed for good.
Have you upgraded your WP installation recently? Because that might be the source of the issue. My first WP2.5 installation didn’t work too! The image/media uploader didn’t work, and the WYSIWYG thing disappeared as well. You use Opera?
For the moment being, try switching to Safari :)
Well, not all sites support safari. I personally think Safari is the most AWESOMEST browser out there.
I would never jump to WP2.5, it isnt that good and still buggy. Ive debugged my own WP2.3.3. It loads faster than WP2.5
Ive tried redownloading and reinstalling. Doesnt work.
Photoshop CS2 is heavy. Try CS3, its a lot lighter than CS2.
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Yea how sad! In fact, Safari is the browser that has the best interpretations of web standards, so it should theoretically be the most popular one. Safari loads fast and consumes far less memory that Firefox (FF2 has this notorious bug which causes it to crash after consuming too much memory) and Internet Explorer.
WP2.5 is working fine for me, but the transition from WP2.3 to WP2.5 is a bit of challenge because I had to deal with all those incompatible plugins and a revamped admin layout. Plus, you can no longer drag and drop widgets like you do in WP2.3… I’m wondering why did they leave it out. And they ditched the good ol’ dark blue layout for a flimsy colour scheme… :???:
I’ve been thinking of installing CS3, but I guess I’ll leave that for my new laptop :D I’m too lazy to update the programmes on the current one I’m using since I’m switching one soon, heheh *weak smile*
Speaking of Adobe Photoshop CS2, it’s kind of Vista-incompatible! I just realised that when I installed it on my new laptop. It crashes frequently :???: ah wells, time for CS3!
Hey Teddy! It’s been a long while. I’ve taken a break from the online world, so to speak. Anyway, Firefox 3 on a Mac is awesome! Been using it for a while now. I’m already quite used to it since I’ve used the Beta as well. There are still some bugs that have to be fixed though. It doesn’t to load CSS files at times and I have to quit and re-start again. What an annoyance!
Interesting cake. I wouldn’t eat it. I might crash.
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“Interesting cake. I wouldn’t eat it. I might crash”
hahahaha. genius. :mrgreen:
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Welcome back Ivy! I’m glad to see you back in action :) *pats pats* I’ve considered installing FF3 beta too, but after a tragic loss of my entire library of Firefox bookmark in an unexpected FF crash, I had my reservations since FF3 beta installs over FF2. Since FF3 is a stable release, I have no qualms using it now!
I doubt anybody would want to eat the cake:
(1) If you eat it, you might not read CSS properly.
(2) You’ll get bugs all over you.
(3) It’s of great sentimental value! IE sending Mozilla a cake… wow :wink:
I also have the new FF3 browser. So far, I have had no major problems with it. My site layouts look fine in them.. haha! I did have a problem when I was beta testing it, especially in the spell checking department. I am quite scrupulous when it comes to spelling, so when I was beta testing the browser, I did not have the comfort of that dotted red line. Drove me nuts. I’m glad they implemented it in the official release.
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Btw, did I mention that I LOVE your rainbow loading icon for the comments? =D
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I love the new spell-checking feature because I’m a bigass typo person and so the dictionary will definitely come in very handy to me :) heh. Firefox 3 should render pages better (as long as they follow the webstandards, like XHTML and CSS) because it comes equipped with a better layout engine (see the Acid3 test images in the post). In fact, FF2 failed the Acid3 test miserably… but it still did better than IE8 beta. How hilarious. FF2 scored 52/100 while IE8 beta got 18/100… wow :shock:
And I must say that you have excellent observation! I have not tell anyone about the colourful loading gif and you found out about it so quickly! :cool:
I just got the mozilla firefox 3 a few days back and i totally love the feeling of using mozilla because to me, i think it’s the BEST web browser i’ve ever used. It’s much more convenient especially the reload plugin you mentioned at the end. =D
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Yep Firefox 3 is way better than the previous version, especially when it comes to the efficiency of using system resources. There’s a lot of FF themes that are incompatible with the latest version, but I guess after some time the respective creators will share new themes. Addons are no problem at all because when you launch FF3 for the first time, it’ll check through all your addons and disable incompatibly ones (and it’ll even give you an option to update it as well!).
I’ve use it..
Don’t find any problem yet..
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