Firefox 3.6 Beta Available for Download

[Minotar]

I noticed that it lagged when scrolling down pages

 

[Firestrider]

Sunspider benchmarks:

Firefox 3.5.4 = 1469.4ms
Firefox 3.6b1 = 1240.0ms
Chromium 4.0.228.0 = 679.4ms

Faster, but still doesn't hold a candle to Chrome.

Just try running this in Firefox JSNES: A Javascript NES emulator

 

[kodi]

Lasted 30 seconds on my computer, not One of my addons worked.
I can't live without my addons.

 

[smarteyeball]

To all those with add on problems, have you tried using the Nightly Tester Tools to overide compatibility.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

I posted this over at Vistax64.

Just to add to things, the reason the official beta for Firefox 3.6 was delayed, again, was due to a bug with the Windows 7 Aero Peek feature. They stated in the meeting notes that if it cannot be solved within 2-3 days they will remove the feature for now.

So expect to see 3.6 Beta around November 1st or 2nd.

 

[DC187]

I'm testing it at home, it seems lightning quick compared to 3.5

 

[swarfega]

To all those with add on problems, have you tried using the Nightly Tester Tools to overide compatibility.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543

I installed this and it enabled stylish but no other. So all thats working atm is adblock, stylish, and WOT.

 

[Sparatan117]

I'm gonna rock chrome until 3.6, Google still leads the way in superior programming

what would be really nice is if they gave the aero feature to look into each of the tabs that you have open, and not just the windows...or is that what you ment up there about aero peak

 

[smarteyeball]

To all those with add on problems, have you tried using the Nightly Tester Tools to overide compatibility.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6543

I installed this and it enabled stylish but no other. So all thats working atm is adblock, stylish, and WOT.

That's a bugger. It can be hit and miss.

 

[swarfega]

Im sticking with 3.6 though. I like to live on the edge.

 

[ineedsomehelpy]

Uber Philf try uninstalling your Adobe Flash Player and installing an older verion at old apps.com first you might wanna see if it actually is this(was for me) so open up IE instead of firefox and when it crashes click send error report and eventually goto more info and it should say exactly why it crashed hope it works
-helpy

as for firefox 3.6 does anybody like it i mean is it worth downloading?

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

No update on any of the 3 bugs with Aero Peek.

Bug 520807
Description: Preview remains the same size as the app.
View attachment 33765



Bug 520943
Description: Large preview show page rendered with 100% level (and not with the zoom level set).
View attachment 33763



Bug 522262
Description: Out of the ten tabs that I have, only the last one currently has a preview, all others just display a progress circle. New tabs get a preview though
View attachment 33764

 

[Uber Philf]

@ ineedsomehelpy,

It runs 3.0.10 perfectly fine, but once i use the 3.5, 3.6, 3.7's it starts the crashes.

 

[Uber Philf]

Index of /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.6b1-candidates/build3/win32

Build 3's out.

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

Index of /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/3.6b1-candidates/build3/win32

Build 3's out.

Moving along fast.

I switched back to Chrome though for now. :|

 

[Uber Philf]

hehe, i still got chrome installed, just incase this build still crashes my explorer.

 

[Uber Philf]

Nope lasted a few hrs, then crashed one me, back to Chrome for me.