Upgrading to Firefox 3
I’ve been using Firefox 3 for a while now - I’ve used the portable version on Windows, and Firefox 3 is the default browser on Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04. RC2 was released a few days ago so I think it’s time to take the plunge and upgrade.
Foxmarks appears to work fine with the beta versions used by Fedora and Ubuntu, and I’ve been using a FF3-compatible version with Firefox 2 for a while.
There are a few things that have irritated me so far with FF3:
- Folders on the Bookmarks Toolbar have an arrow next to them:

This makes the toolbar much wider than it needs to be, so some of my folders drop off the right hand side. Fortunately, the arrows can easily be turned off. - Bookmark separators can’t have names any more. It doesn’t look like this will be fixed in the near future, according to this bug.
Other than that, FF3 seems great. Gmail is noticeably quicker, and I like the AwesomeBar!
Posted: June 9th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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