Tag Archives: Firefox 3

Firefox 3 RC1 High CPU and Memory Use? Try This Fix.

In testing out Firefox 3 RC1 I realized that when loading up a page in a foreground tab when two or more tabs were present, my single core CPU maxed out and loading slowed to a crawl making the browser … Continue reading

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Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 Code Complete!

The developers at Mozilla have handed off the final code for the upcoming Firefox RC1 to "Build" this morning: Thanks to all the hard work of the Mozilla community as of 9:15 AM PDT today (Saturday, May 10th) we are … Continue reading

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Firefox 3 RC1 Next Week?

For those of you who are anxiously awaiting the first release candidate of Firefox 3 (like me) it looks like the wait will soon be over. Checking the latest RC1 blockers (bugs that are currently blocking the release candidate) shows … Continue reading

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Keeping an Eye on Firefox 3 RC1

Checking in my stats the last few days I’ve noticed quite a few folks looking for information on the first release candidate of Firefox 3 and possibly when the release date might be. Well, the closest the developers will get … Continue reading

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Mozilla squashes Firefox 3 Flash Bug

Adobe’s Flash plugin for Firefox has never offered the kind of quality performance that the equivalent plugin for Internet Explorer has but at least it handled most Flash based video fairly well. However, somewhere around the 14th of April the … Continue reading

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Getting off the Trunk-Firefox 3 RC1 Upcoming Release

I’ll be getting off the Trunk here real soon now. After several months of using the nightly builds of Firefox 3 (called "Minefield"), the first release candidate went into lockdown on April 8th which basically means no more new feature … Continue reading

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Lousy Streaming Video in Firefox? Don’t Blame the Browser.

So you’re trying to watch an old Star Trek episode on the CBS Classic TV Shows site using Firefox (2 or 3) but much to your dismay you find that the video is choppy and dropping frames, ruining your plan … Continue reading

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Firefox 3 beta 5 Right Around the Corner?

The fifth beta of Firefox is nearly here by what my nightly trunk builds tell me. Why is that you ask? Well, take a look at this: What that boring little image above tells you, if you follow the blue … Continue reading

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