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Anyone here trying it out? My 'tester PC' is packed away and I don't like installing Beta software on my lappy.

"5 Things You'll Love About Firefox 3: Firefox 3 Beta 2 shows some nifty new tools we can expect in Mozilla's next browser"
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9054138&source=NLT_WK&nlid=2

I've been trying Firefox Portable Edition 3 Beta 4 (just a couple of times so far) and it looks really good.

One of the main reasons I'm trying it is that it will support animated png graphics. (Opera will too.)

"APNG is an extension to PNG that enables animation in PNG images."

Animated GIFs;
    *GIF images can only contain 256 colors.
    *Lack support for partially-transparent pixels.

Animated PNGs;
    * Animated PNG files that retain backward compatibility with non-animated PNG files.
    * Adding support for 8-bit transparency and 24-bit images.
    * Smaller library size.


Your smileys are going to start getting a lot better looking Ripley.

 

I downloaded Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, yesterday, on my test system. The final version is due to release tomorrow. Anyway I went ahead and bet the rush for the download, just ran an upgrade, I'll get the final update on released patches, but I figure it is the release anyway. It has Firefox 3.0b5 in the final release. A matter of fact I'm running it right now. It seems to a decent build. Some of the old add ons aren't compatible, but previously installed add ons that are compatible converted right into the new browser. As far as speed it's decent. Not any faster than with the current 2 series version, using fasterfox. This is a Web developers beta version.

See the current release notes on b5 here

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0b5/releasenotes/

I've been testing the RC2 release candidate for a couple of days, so far it hasn't hiccuped, pages do load faster with this release.
You have four options for Bookmarks, Unsorted Bookmarks Menu, Bookmarks Menu and Bookmarks Toolbar and adds a most visted link as well. I think it may be an overkill, instead of keeping it simple.
I'm still not a RSS feed fan yet, but you have an option to always use live bookmarks.
If you have more than one tab open, you will be prompted. Do you want Firefox to save your tabs for the next time it starts? So it gives you same option as it automatically does if it would crash.
It does look for suspected attack/Malware sites and suspected forgery sites, how well it works, I don't know I haven't found any yet.
You have an on the fly rendering engine to view an IE7 display, in the status bar, it has additional options, to open in new tab. This is good for web developers to be able to view there web designs on the fly.

I'm sure there is more, but a good start.

Well it's getting close to a final release.

Here's what you see when first install the RC2.

http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0/whatsnew/

Tuesday, June 17, 2008:  http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/06/11/coming-tuesday-june-17th-firefox-3/

Set a Guinness World Record:  http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

I can not imagine the server loads they will be experiencing on release day trying to set the record
I did pledge though...

Everyone knew that this would be broken before it started, effectively the servers were completely overloaded within a few seconds, not minutes. Good luck. 

Only just been able to download it. All day servers were completely overloaded for me. Even downloading it about 20 minutes ago, only a few hours before June 17th ends in GMT, it downloaded at dialup speeds.

It's actually the number of downloads in 24 hours and the start time was 10:00 Pacific Time US. It will end at the same time on the 18th of June.

These new links are starting to work well, any download counts.

The new download link is up and working at this point for windows English.

 http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

For other operating systems and lanquages it is located here:

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