Firefox 3.7 Alpha 1 Arrives for Preview

[Marcus Yam]

Want to be on the bleeding edge of Firefoxiness? Go alpha.

Firefox 3.7 Alpha 1 Arrives for Preview : Read more

 

[Shadow703793]

Umm... FF 3.7a1 has been out since DECEMBER! This is truly late news man.
Been running 3.7a1 Alpha since January and with the exception of 3 adons, every thing else works fine.

For those interested in Alpha builds keep an eye out on the Minefield dev trunk.

Btw, those links give me a 404. Here's where you can grab pre compiled builds: http://www.wg9s.com/mozilla/firefox/

 

[Shadow703793]

One more thing: The latest alpha version is a2. NOT a1 as you stated.

 

[chechak]

firefox is good but lately isn't that good i believe it will return as we all know Excellent!!!
so now iam using Opera its great and I'll wait for new Firefox full 3.7 !!
how about creepy IE ?
hope they improve it soon because last one is Err...!!!

 

[Tomtompiper]

I suppose even though it is an interim build "3.7" Tom's will use it as a new browser, letting IE6 gain second spot on the list???????

 

[drksilenc]

Chrome FTW

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]chechak[/nom]firefox is good but lately isn't that good i believe it will return as we all know Excellent!!! so now iam using Opera its great and I'll wait for new Firefox full 3.7 !!how about creepy IE ? hope they improve it soon because last one is Err...!!![/citation]
Gotta agreed. With the exception of CAD,Photo/vid editing and games, Fire Fox uses most of my RAM. More so than Chrome, IE, Explorer, and Word ,etc. I do have 6GB+ but I do wish it was more RAM conservetive as I have a lot of tabs running at once some times and a few times, I manage to make Fire Fox eat up ~600MB of my RAM!

 

[Guest]

That's nice and all, but it's not like some of us were running that way back when the 3.6 beta was announced for download. I would *still* be running Minefield/3.7a1 pre, except that just last week it updated to 3.7a2 pre...

 

[Shadow703793]

Way to go. -1 ing for stating the truth. Well done.

 

[mayne92]

[citation][nom]tomtompiper[/nom]I suppose even though it is an interim build "3.7" Tom's will use it as a new browser, letting IE6 gain second spot on the list???????[/citation]
Oh hey! How much you want to bet that if FF was included with Windows that FF would be #1? And again, people would actually have a more secure browser from the start over IE...programmers won't have to find stupid work-arounds for getting ALL PRIOR VERSIONS OF IE TO FUNCTION PROPERLY...and I could go on...and on...and on...and on............

 

[Guest]

Opera 10.50 Pre-Alpha for the win. Its 300 percent faster than firefox 3.6 in java based websites.

 

[jfem]

Will

 

[jfem]

Something's wrong with the link.

 

[masterjaw]

Wow. There's somebody doing all the "-1" thing again.

@mayne92: Then it would be renamed as Microsoft Firefox instead. Honestly, I'm quite disappointed with Firefox's performance lately. I've been using this since version 1. Maybe I still can't get over with the numerous crashes I encountered from FF 3.5.

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]Shadow703793[/nom]This is truly late news man.[/citation]
Not according to Mozilla it isn't, they published the news yesterday. It's here (as are the working download links): https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2010/02/10/mozilla-developer-preview-gecko-1-9-3a1-available-for-download/

 

[JohnnyLucky]

I hate to think what would have happened if MS bought FF.

 

[pocketdrummer]

[citation][nom]JohnnyLucky[/nom]I hate to think what would have happened if MS bought FF.[/citation]

It's not a company, really.... it's open source.

 

[randomizer]

[citation][nom]pocketdrummer[/nom]It's not a company, really.... it's open source.[/citation]
Mozilla is a company though.

 

[urlsen]

I hope this will help the Battlefield heroes team to fix the problems they have had with the latest build...it only runs on >FF 3.5 and IE and honestly IE has always sucked moose balls compared to FF