Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

Bestiapeluda · 2008-05-18 17:58:20

Anyone tried it yet ? Seems really stable to me.

ozar · 2008-05-18 18:07:21

Yeah, I've been running it for several days now and it works great. No problems with extensions and plugins, either, at least so far.

It actually reports that it's Firefox 3.0 in the Help / About Mozilla Firefox menu.

xaw · 2008-05-18 19:29:01

Works great except for flash, it decides to bogg down on some flash-heavy sites. It might just be a very small thing that'll get ironed out in the final release. Otherwise, its looking to be an awesome release :-)

Raccoon1400 · 2008-05-18 20:10:44

I downloaded the source. How can I compile it?

rocktorrentz · 2008-05-18 20:57:31

xaw wrote:

Works great except for flash, it decides to bogg down on some flash-heavy sites. It might just be a very small thing that'll get ironed out in the final release. Otherwise, its looking to be an awesome release :-)

Is that not just to do with flash itself and your system? I can't see how the firefox code could affect how much flash bogs down your system. I could be completely wrong of course

xaw · 2008-05-18 21:19:07

rocktorrentz wrote:

xaw wrote:
Works great except for flash, it decides to bogg down on some flash-heavy sites. It might just be a very small thing that'll get ironed out in the final release. Otherwise, its looking to be an awesome release :-)
Is that not just to do with flash itself and your system? I can't see how the firefox code could affect how much flash bogs down your system. I could be completely wrong of course

No, you may be right about that statement, but I'm comparing an old apple to a new one. Firefox 2.x didn't really have this same problem for me compared to this rc1 release. Although it could just be a placebo effect, I should figure out a way to get some hard numbers on this though.

alex_anthony · 2008-05-18 21:49:47

@raccoon1400
I just used the PKGBUILD for the package in unstable and bumped it up to 3.0rc1 and worked fine (getting rig of MD5)
just had to remember to get all the extra files

Last edited by alex_anthony (2008-05-18 21:54:53)

ozar · 2008-05-18 22:16:35

Yeah, raccoon, there are several different types of firefox3 beta package builds under "unsupported" in AUR. Just look them over, pick a package and then modify the PKGBUILD to download and build rc1.

Raccoon1400 · 2008-05-18 23:17:45

alex_anthony wrote:

@raccoon1400
I just used the PKGBUILD for the package in unstable and bumped it up to 3.0rc1 and worked fine (getting rig of MD5)
just had to remember to get all the extra files

There. got it running. but why does it say minefield? Is it a trunk build?

wonder · 2008-05-18 23:21:21

i just compiled. damn is so fast

ozar · 2008-05-18 23:29:03

Yes, minefield is the nightly builds.

SpookyET · 2008-05-18 23:38:55

I think I had the first RC1 package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15184

LTSmash · 2008-05-19 00:00:50

SpookyET wrote:

I think I had the first RC1 package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15184

I made one but having problems with AUR i couldn't upload it, however here it is:

PKGBUILD:

# Contributor: LTSmash <lord.ltsmash@gmail.com>
pkgname=firefox3-rc-es
pkgver=1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Release Candidate de Firefox (Build oficial de Mozilla))"
arch=('i686')
url="www.getfirefox.com"
license=('MPL')
depends=(sqlite3 nss libxt libgnome)
install="firefox3-rc-es.install"
source=(http://ftp-mozilla.netscape.com/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0rc1/linux-i686/es-ES/firefox-3.0rc1.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('6e3938b619164ae35d8f6cf62b08f997')

build() {
  mkdir $startdir/pkg/opt/
  cp -R $startdir/src/firefox $startdir/pkg/opt/firefox3
  mkdir $startdir/pkg/usr/
  mkdir $startdir/pkg/usr/bin
  ln -s $startdir/pkg/opt/firefox3/firefox $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/firefox3 
}

firefox3-rc-es.install:

post_install () {
  echo 'Esta es una Release Candidate de Firefox 3 en Español, el build es el oficial proporcionado por Mozilla para el idioma Español (de España).
  Para ejecutar Firefox, solo use el comando "firefox3" (sin comillas)'
}

However this one is for spanish users and already compiled (Mozilla's build).

delor · 2008-05-19 06:03:48

firefox-bin is eating 35%-45% of CPU after upgrade to RC.

oliwer · 2008-05-19 07:27:25

Yeah, there are still some sites which don't work so well. That's why I prefer to stay with my dear swiftfox 2.

Procyon · 2008-05-19 10:34:47

I'm waiting for the Swiftweasel release.

SpookyET · 2008-05-19 12:33:39

Procyon wrote:

I'm waiting for the Swiftweasel release.

It's not that fast. If you want fast, get my package. It has PGO.

ozar · 2008-05-19 14:05:25

delor wrote:

firefox-bin is eating 35%-45% of CPU after upgrade to RC.

Not sure what's going on there because it's hovering around 5 to 6% on my box. I know there was a problem like that with the beta releases but it's supposed to be fixed in rc1.

Bestiapeluda · 2008-05-19 14:52:12

I tried SpookyET, and it really is fast. What is PGO ?

Dr Small · 2008-05-19 17:55:27

Can I install Firefox3rc1 from AUR without trashing my current firefox?

ozar · 2008-05-19 17:59:05

Dr Small wrote:

Can I install Firefox3rc1 from AUR without trashing my current firefox?

You could rename your hidden /home/username/.mozilla folder so that it isn't overwritten by ff3 the first time it starts up. Then, if you don't like ff3 you can delete the new .mozilla folder, then rename the ff2 folder to the original name.

Dr Small · 2008-05-19 18:03:40

Ok, thanks for that.

Ramses de Norre · 2008-05-19 18:24:09

Dr Small wrote:

Can I install Firefox3rc1 from AUR without trashing my current firefox?

firefox -ProfileManager

and make a seperate profile for FF3.

Procyon · 2008-05-19 20:16:41

SpookyET wrote:

Procyon wrote:
I'm waiting for the Swiftweasel release.
It's not that fast. If you want fast, get my package. It has PGO.

Ok I did, it works great! Thanks a lot.

Will your AUR page (firefox-spookyet) also have future versions? I can't go back to non-PGO now.

Bestiapeluda · 2008-05-19 20:19:34

So... what is PGO ?

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