Firefox 3 Beta 1: much faster and less RAM!

[ghg]

Does this mean I can have multiple Flash videos/audio players in different tabs and actually switch between them?

[FliesLikeABrick]

Does this mean I can have multiple Flash videos/audio players in different tabs and actually switch between them?

Yeah, but you should have been able to do that before too.  Why can't you do it now?

[mar77a]

Might be because the keyboard input is passed to the actual loaded flash movie and not firefox itself.

[sai`ke]

This sounds very nice. Have they discovered any serious security flaws yet?

[FliesLikeABrick]

This sounds very nice. Have they discovered any serious security flaws yet?

As with Firefox in general, no

[ghg]

With teh mouse teh tab doesn't register for about a minute.

[FliesLikeABrick]

sounds like a possible driver issue or something else.  99% of people have no problem using multiple flash things at once.  It sounds like the kind if of problem that definitely can be fixed in this beta, give it a try and let us know

[Will]

Opera feels kind of heavy. I've used it, but I returned to firefox shortly.
And adblock works perfectly on mine...

[Psycho]

This sounds very nice. Have they discovered any serious security flaws yet?

As with Firefox in general, no

Sorry, but sadly no browser is perfect.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071203-security-analyst-rates-ie-higher-than-firefox.html

[FliesLikeABrick]

This sounds very nice. Have they discovered any serious security flaws yet?

As with Firefox in general, no

Sorry, but sadly no browser is perfect.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071203-security-analyst-rates-ie-higher-than-firefox.html

Right, now read the truth about that story: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/03/0717229

The "analyst" (who works for MS) counted only publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in IE, whereas when looking at Firefox they counted EVERYTHING in the bug tracker that could be a vulnerability in even the most remote of circumstances

[Snow]

Did someone say "Sea Monkey"?

[Eclipse]

AHa, This pwns normal firefox with Fasterfox.

[LeetFidle]

wait so this is faster than IE?

[Sethamundo]

wait so this is faster than IE?

...

Any browser is better than IE as far as I'm concerned.  Try Firefox.

[Psycho]

Right, now read the truth about that story: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/03/0717229

The "analyst" (who works for MS) counted only publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in IE, whereas when looking at Firefox they counted EVERYTHING in the bug tracker that could be a vulnerability in even the most remote of circumstances

My point was that firefox also had its share of security flaws.

[Biscuiteer]

Right, now read the truth about that story: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/03/0717229

The "analyst" (who works for MS) counted only publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in IE, whereas when looking at Firefox they counted EVERYTHING in the bug tracker that could be a vulnerability in even the most remote of circumstances

My point was that firefox also had its share of security flaws.

Of course nothing is perfect... but Firefox comes much closer than the competition. Firefox Pwns!

[spkka]

i used it for awhile and i like it more then i did before <3
It seems that browsing became a little faster here. I think i had a real outdated version tho.

[Lord Frunkamunch]

Someone had to say it

[a-4-year-old]

I'm downloading it now, hopefully it will run better than opera, which totally sucks as far as I am concerned. it loads pages really slow.

[FliesLikeABrick]

Beta 2 is out and even faster

download: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

article about it: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/19/2332257