Firefox 3

**Husar** · 06-18-2008, 11:25

I agree with Xiahou.

And in other news, the new Opera 9.50 is out since a few days and looks pretty nice as well, comes with some improvements as well but I forgot which.

Now that I think about it, when will they bring the image scaling of firefox to Opera's level and where's the "fit to width" button? Those are two things which are infinitely better in Opera, scaled pictures can look very bad in FF and being able to nicely fit everything to the width of my browser window was a feature I missed sometimes as well(Recommendations of appropriate addons will be accepted as well

).

Also, how does the new FF handle the old addons and bookmarks? Can you just upgrade and keep everything or does it require a reinstall of the whole browser?

**Omanes Alexandrapolites** · 06-18-2008, 12:30

I've been using Firefox 3 since BETA 2 back around January time and I've generally liked what I saw in terms of features. I've had a few reservations about the theme, particularly the blueness on Vista, but I'm warming to it now and I'm beginning to get used to it.

Originally Posted by Husar

Also, how does the new FF handle the old addons and bookmarks? Can you just upgrade and keep everything or does it require a reinstall of the whole browser?

Upgrades with Firefox are fast and simple - all add-ons and bookmarks are saved in a single folder which is read by all versions of Firefox. Architectural changes may cause add-ons to stop functioning until a compatible version appears though - originally, in the early BETAs this was quite bad, but most add-on developers have worked on updating their extensions for the latest versions.

**CountArach** · 06-18-2008, 12:34

Originally Posted by Husar

Also, how does the new FF handle the old addons and bookmarks? Can you just upgrade and keep everything or does it require a reinstall of the whole browser?

All of mine work perfectly fine.

**Pannonian** · 06-18-2008, 15:36

Just upgraded, and I like it better than 2.0.0.6. Had to find a few alternative add-ons though, such as firegestures instead of all-in-one, but I really miss tab groups. Does anyone know of any equivalent of tab groups that works with 3.0?

**InsaneApache** · 06-18-2008, 20:03

Is Clint Eastwood still in it?

**discovery1** · 06-19-2008, 02:22

Originally Posted by InsaneApache

Is Clint Eastwood still in it?

Oh man....

still on FF2 here. thinking about upgrading since I was unhappy with something, cant remember what.

**naut** · 06-19-2008, 03:03

Ad-Block doesn't have a compatible version yet. Otherwise it looks very slick and is very fast.

**Praxil** · 06-19-2008, 07:27

One thing I don't get is the theme in those FF3 previews, is it Vista exclusive or something like that? Because I'm using the default 3.0 theme and it's nothing like the one in the screenshots.