If anyone is interested the newest firefox 3.0 alpha program browser is being teseted.

It seems to be stable and sugests that it is built along the 2.0 base as it still seems to have a memory issue as it is extremely memory intensive as memory usage jumps while in use and doesn't release as it should as the windows are closed down...(my own observations)

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fir...

as a side note....this version will not be supported in W95, 98, or ME nor in earlier mac versions..the new version is putting older O.S. out to pasture where they should be any way.

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I installed it a couple of days ago myself and the "Gran Paradiso" naming (during & shortly after installation) threw me off at first.

Overall, it seems stable so far with the only (big) disappointment being not getting hardly any of the handful of extensions that I had gotten used to with the earlier FF version to work with "Gran Paradiso" beta...... Oh well ;-(

I had just DL'd it today and haven't had a chance to check out any add-ons as I was taking it a step at a time in my evaluations.

I also thought that the name was a bit out in left field
Maybe they get the names better as the program gets better and lighter unlike longhorn to vista which is just really goofy to me

In The Matters Of Style,
swim with the current;
in matters of principle,
Stand Like A Rock

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the
freedom of thought which they avoid."

"putting older O.S. out to pasture where they should be any way"

Gosh, yes! It would be just so very untrendy to be running anything but the latest & greatest - considering that XP is about to be supplanted, it's surprising they're still supporting that soon-to-be-obsolete system (maybe v4 will be for Vista only).

During the development of v2.0, it was rumoured that support for 9x was to be deliberately written out - as it seems, not entirely unfounded after all

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"Gosh, yes! It would be just so very untrendy to be running anything but the latest & greatest - considering that XP is about to be supplanted,...."

And I suppose that this comment is meant to be witty or sarcastic because they didn't do what was originally planned with the older versions, or is it that you believe that I must have the latest and greatest of anything is out there.

You should not take things out of context from what they were originally stated to represent your own failures to manage the quickness of the technological advances.

Standard protocols in IT development calls for backward compatibility in any and all developments of software or hardware. It does not state that it has to be backward compatible to such a degree as to make it suitable for use by first or second generation hardware or software that is NOT supported by it's own manufacturers and designers.

XP may be on the chopping block in certain versions but support will still be available for the next few years as vista progresses to become the leading windows operating system...which is the way it should be in a normal progression order. Why you need to be witty or sarcastic over that is beside me.

The older operating systems and hardware needed to run them should be preserved for the enthusiast to use them and explore or whatever...the same as older autos are constantly being revitalised by their followers.

As for me and my being up to date on every trendy thing around...I beta test a lot of software for a lot of different manufacturers...and that is about it for the up to the latest date on anything that I own.

My personal computer is 5 years old and only uses an AMD xp1800 (1.54) chip on an old shuttle AK-39A mobo whose last bios upgrade was in 2002, utillizing a 6600 graphics card.

Hell bud, I just got my FIRST cell phone less than 6 months ago.

So please tell me what you have to be so sarcastic and witty about towards my statement.

In The Matters Of Style,
swim with the current;
in matters of principle,
Stand Like A Rock

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the
freedom of thought which they avoid."