I guess I must be the only person on earth who hasn't upgraded to Firefox 3.0 then. Firefox 2 works perfectly well for me, and so do all the extensions I use. It will be a while before all the extensions work as well on 3. It's only hype if you choose - choose - to get caught up in it all. Stay apart, run what you want how you want it. Then you keep a nice clear head. Yes, in a month or two I may upgrade, but there again, I may not. Besides, Opera 9.5 is pretty darn good and enough to be getting on with.

saying firefox3 looks native on linux is almost an insult to kde users ..

I'm keeping FF2 until they discontinue support. Hopefully by then there'll be better skins and a good way to revert the new 'awesomebar' functionality.

firefox 3 has native look in windows ..windows xp looks different from windows vista so it has two look in windows ..

on the linux side, most people either use kde or gnome(i personally prefer fluxbox windows manager but all apps are kde) .. anyway, in the linux world ..there are two toolkits(among others) and firefox looks native on gtk based systems like gnome desktop environment and there is no change on kde side(i havent seen any so far)

saying firefox3 looks native on linux is almost an insult to kde users ..

how long will we have to wait before we get kde integration on firefox?

Agreed it's evolution, but almost all changes are really good.

The OSX skin looks *horrid*. The Windows skin looks good, but not as good as the old one IMO. Oh well.

The thing that stinks is, there's no skin that either 1) looks like FF2 or 2) looks like FF3 Windows, that works on OSX/FF3. Go figure.

I also thought the 'awesomebar' changes weren't so nice. At least provide an option to go back to the classic functionality!

I'm keeping FF2 until they discontinue support. Hopefully by then there'll be better skins and a good way to revert the new 'awesomebar' functionality.

What the heck is wrong with the 'awesome bar' - this pathetic whining

What the heck is wrong with the 'awesome bar' - this pathetic whining

Is it actually possible for you to write a post without being insulting? Just because someone doesn't like a certain new feature because it doesn't work right, it doesn't mean they're pathetic.

Frankly I'm sick of the "it has extensions, it can do anything attidute". I only want mouse gestures, and Firefox doesn't have an extension that actually works all the time (which is the whole purpose of mouse gestures).

No, I don't want mouse gestures that use a ton of CPU, stops working in forms and stops working randomly.

Maybe the idea is good, but as long as the extensions aren't checked for quality, it's a bit annoying really.

And what "slick UI"? I can't see it. On Windows I only see:
...snipped list of issues...

Only very small things, but when there are so many of them, the UI simply isn't polished or slick.

It only works in Firefox, so as soon as you encounter a mailto: link somewhere else, your operating system's default email application will still launch. I don't see how this is revolutionary - or in fact even special. I'd consider it annoying since it breaks concistency. One application opens Yahoo! mail when clicking on a mailto: link, but the other opens Mail.app.

I think they should stop promoting browser and start working on it, start listening to users. And not only to FF users, but to users of other browsers. They should rethink what they do and how, sit down all together and think how to make a browser more usable, less relying on extensions and more powerfull for one thing - browsing!

sit down all together and think how to make a browser more usable, less relying on extensions and more powerfull for one thing - browsing!

I think the move by Fedora and Ubuntu to a more Gnome-centric focus gives Gnome a lot of weight.

Is it possible for people like you (and the other person) to reply without resorting to hyperbole? simply screaming something sucks and never explaining why it sucks (which is what the person whom I was originally reply to did) provides nothing in terms of insight into the possible problem the person is experiencing.

"What the heck is wrong with the 'awesome bar' - this pathetic whining Is it actually possible for you to write a post without being insulting? Just because someone doesn't like a certain new feature because it doesn't work right, it doesn't mean they're pathetic.

Of course, you could always go back to using IE and it's extensions.

Nitpicks aside, it mostly blends in well with the rest of a KDE desktop. The unification between several desktop standards is old news, and there are several ways to make GTK look exactly like Qt.

not as good as webkit, but better then ie.

as a developer too though, the reason i use it is because of firebug. i dont know if i could do web work without it anymore, and don't like to look back on the dark days before it

Although I've just gone over to Firefox because of this new release(from Opera), I must say that WebKit is really on the front og renderingengines.

That being said: Opera's engine is very good as well, but Opera is neither open source and doesen't intergrate very well with my GNOME-de.

Looking forward to WebKit-based Epiphany though! I think that could evolve into a real killer-app.