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Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: Lead Head on 9 October 2008, 20:36

Title: Firefox 3.1 Changes
Post by: Lead Head on 9 October 2008, 20:36

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/152079/mozilla_readies_firefox_31_features.html (http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/152079/mozilla_readies_firefox_31_features.html)

Notable features include Private Browsing (like google chrome) and the ability to drag a tab to the desktop to open a new browser window

Title: Re: Firefox 3.1 Changes
Post by: worker201 on 10 October 2008, 03:41

Downloading a beta candidate now.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1) Gecko/20081007 Firefox/3.1b1

Sucks that none of my addons are compatible, but it'll be okay for awhile.  I can switch back at any time.

Title: Re: Firefox 3.1 Changes
Post by: Lead Head on 10 October 2008, 20:41

There is an option to enable all the add ones to work, but I forgot what it is.

EDIT: Try this maybe?

http://lifehacker.com/355973/make-your-extensions-work-with-the-firefox-3-beta (http://lifehacker.com/355973/make-your-extensions-work-with-the-firefox-3-beta)

Title: Re: Firefox 3.1 Changes
Post by: adiment on 11 October 2008, 00:12

Quote from: Lead Head on 10 October 2008, 20:41

There is an option to enable all the add ones to work, but I forgot what it is.

EDIT: Try this maybe?

http://lifehacker.com/355973/make-your-extensions-work-with-the-firefox-3-beta (http://lifehacker.com/355973/make-your-extensions-work-with-the-firefox-3-beta)

Nightly Tester Tools (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543) does the job great.

Title: Re: Firefox 3.1 Changes
Post by: worker201 on 11 October 2008, 09:45

Quote from: etement on 11 October 2008, 00:12

Nightly Tester Tools (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543) does the job great.

Rad, everything works now.  Firefox is the best.

Been using a beta candidate (not a beta version, a beta candidate) for a couple days now, and everything has been smooth.

Title: Re: Firefox 3.1 Changes
Post by: Lead Head on 11 October 2008, 15:43

Good to hear

Title: Re: Firefox 3.1 Changes
Post by: piratePenguin on 19 October 2008, 16:35

video woop!

Title: Re: Firefox 3.1 Changes
Post by: worker201 on 25 November 2008, 17:14

Errr, found a problem, maybe.  Using the official beta-1 release, Google Maps doesn't work.  When you go to the site, it loads a basemap of the US, which you can pan and zoom.  However, if you enter an address or location to search for, it displays "Loading" at the top of the page and is completely unresponsive.  Works great in Safari, so I have at least proved that it isn't the website or a network issue.

Title: Re: Firefox 3.1 Changes
Post by: Lead Head on 25 November 2008, 20:34

Javascript/Ajax problem maybe?

Title: Re: Firefox 3.1 Changes
Post by: worker201 on 26 November 2008, 02:49

Maybe - haven't seen any problems at any other sites.  Anybody know a good Ajax/JS-heavy site I could test on?

Title: Re: Firefox 3.1 Changes
Post by: piratePenguin on 4 December 2008, 16:11

Google Docs?

I'm sure they'll fix Firefox 3.1 so that google maps does work. You could search bugzilla or file?

edit: hell use help > report broken web site!

Title: Re: Firefox 3.1 Changes
Post by: worker201 on 4 December 2008, 23:57

I checked Bugzilla, and there were like 200 various bug reports concerning Google Maps, in Windows and Mac versions.  Looked like it might have been an Ajax bug.  In an attempt to make sense of what exactly is going on, developers were asking everyone to try the latest nightly, and make sure to format their bug reports properly.  So I went and downloaded a 3.1b2 build, and now everything works great.  Google Maps is back to 100% normal.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2