FireFox 3.0 releasing with new features.
By taiguy
@taiguy (478)
United States
May 25, 2007 1:58pm CST
Mozilla has announced that Firefox 3.0 has passed a major milestone. The Places feature has been added to the alpha client slated for release next week. Places is a complete re-work of the bookmarking and history browser functions. It was at one point slated for Firefox 2.0, but will instead see release in Mozilla's next major version. "We enabled the Places implementation of bookmarks on the trunk," said the Places team in a post to the Mozilla developer center blog. "Although there is still much to be done, this is an important milestone for us." Firefox 3.0 alpha 5 is scheduled to launch June 1. Because Places uses the open-source SQLite databse engine to store and retrieve booksmarks and history entries, it's incompatible with earlier Firefox editions' bookmarks. Alpha users must convert their existing entries, Mozilla developers said.
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@ryanphil01 (4182)
• Philippines
25 May 07
that sounds great. i am a mozilla user since january this year. i like very much their add-ons specially cooliris and stumbleupon. what gives me anxiety of the new version that will be going to released this june is the use of too much memory. ain't not sure if this works faster with my 512 ram.i can't hold my excitement using the new version.
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@taiguy (478)
• United States
25 May 07
That is a good question. I would likely believe that they have done alot to help reduce the memory footprint by optimizing, but they may be in a state where they are adding so much new stuff to the browser that the optimizations can't keep up. I would bet on less usage, though, as I am sure many people have already alerted them to the memory concerns.
@senthil2k (1500)
• India
25 May 07
Thats a great news ! Im a great fan of Firefox. Seem you are too! BTW, do you have any suggestion to reduce the memory occupied by Firefox ? My Firefox consumes more than 200MB of my Ram with just more than 5 tabs opened !!!!!
Can I participate in the Firefox beta programs ? How can I do that ? Thanks for your information though.
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@Snoberizer (22)
• Belgium
25 May 07
hmm i like firefox, i kinda got addicted to it! version 2 was better then 1.5, so let's see what the future brings us with version 3!
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@immy00100 (56)
• France
25 May 07
oh wow what a news.. i use firefox and i am big fan of firefox from last 2 years.. i hope new firefox gona have more good to use features as well.. i hope they wont bundle it with crap si it will load and operate slow.. lets hope.. nice information taiguy =)
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@carbyville (97)
• United States
25 May 07
Sounds great, I am just afraid that all of my addons will become incompatible with Firefox 3 until the appropriate updates are realeased. Might have to wait awhile to try this out.
@Methodless (882)
• Canada
26 May 07
I have been using Firefox 3 alphas for about 2 months now, and I like them even more than Firefox 2.
I find computer performance to be marginally better.
Beta's are going to come out later in the year.
