Mozilla announced today they are continuing their EOL (end of life) policy with their products by ending support for Firefox version 2 even though version 3 itself has its own problems. The EOL policy is a system Mozilla set up to allow the developers to end their work on a previous version so they can work on the future versions. The EOL for the previous product kicks in after 6 months of release of a new product. If you are using version 2 of Firefox you may not be able to get any security updates or patches for flaws that could occur from now on.It's not just Firefox that will soon be unsupported, the Gecko engine version 1.8 that is a key factor of Thunderbird 2 will also be ended and it in turn could stall the production of Seamonkey, Camino and Galeon. Despite this move Michael Connor from Mozilla announced "Mozilla (in some form) will provide support for Thunderbird based on the official lifecycle policy."
Despite there being no support for Seamonkey or any other 3rd party application using Gecko 1.8 Mozilla said the developers making those applications can still release their own updates but the system its self will not updated.
Mozilla will now set focus on improving Firefox 3. Many people have had problems with Firefox 3 crashing or stalling at various times something that the previous version didn't do that often. Other problems with Firefox that have been noted is the amount of memory the browser uses during a good few hours usage.
Firefox 3 set a world record when it was downloaded more then 8 million times when it was unleashed to the world this past June.
Care to elaborate?
http://www.wbeta.com
Click on any link under "Xml News Aggregator".
FF3 --> crashes
FF2 --> works.
Click on any link under "Xml News Aggregator".
FF3 --> crashes
FF2 --> works.
Indeed it does.
Also theres like a fair few memory leaks in it
I think the Firefox 3 bugs are a little overblown, but Fx 3.1 is coming soon which I'm sure will deal with a lot of them.
I know you can change the functionality to a point using OldBar and a few other extensions, but I just want it to work like it did in 2.xx.. is that to much to ask for? Make it a toggle option or something.
Also whenever I "upgrade" to 3.x, half of my bookmarks go missing. If I revert back to 2.x, they are all there. It is a really odd issue that has never been addressed when I asked on the mozillazine forums.
- I love 1.5, but it's too slow, so I now use Chrome at home.
- At work I develop for 2.0, and test on 3.0 (as I do with IE/Safari).
There are a fair few noticeable differences between the way 2 and 3 render certain things. On one site in particular, there's a 24-bit PNG with absolute positioning, sitting in a horizontally-aligned unordered list, and it jumps from left to right randomly (about 2/3px ), each time the page is refreshed! ONLY Firefox 3.0 does this, weird!
If only Mozilla kept Firefox nice and lean, they've set the snowball rollin', it seems
What site? And have you filed a bug at bugzilla.mozilla.org at all?
Poorly decided upon default settings for Bookmarks and History, "awesome bar" isn't so awesome, generally less stable and compatible, and no options to revert back to 2.x GUI with 3.x engine.
Probably some more issues I can't remember right now.
I like awesome bar, it is a great feature....even other browsers like Opera copied this feature from Firefox. In Opera, it is called Quickfind.
http://portal.opera.com/discover/?feature=quickfind
It's working a lot better.
Firefox 2.x is the best browser ever made..!!!
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