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Chris
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Thu May 01 2008 02:33 PM
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Anyone tried Firefox 3 beta 5?
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I have recently downloaded and installed Ubuntu version of Linux on a spare hard disc. I was surprised to see that it comes with Firefox 3 (beta 5) as the default web browser. As far as I can tell FF3 seems very good apart from one thing: when I begin to type an address into the address bar a box opens with a lot of my bookmarks. Does anyone who has been using Firefox 3 know how to stop this? It is easy enough to click on a bookmark so when I am typing an address it is because there isn't a bookmark in the first place so it is a bit pointless to display a list of them. Perhaps this is to do with it being the last beta version before the final release of version 3 or is it because I need to select something in "Options"?
I am intrigued to know how Firefox got hold of the bookmarks because Ubuntu is installed on a previously blank spare hard disc which I installed before Ubuntu as a slave and which Ubuntu formatted. I didn't think that there would be any communication between the two hard drives given that the Linux drive is formatted differently
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rayinski
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Tue May 13 2008 11:09 PM
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Re: Anyone tried Firefox 3 beta 5?
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I've ff3 beta 5 installed too and from what i can tell, it searches your history and bookmarks to help you get to the site you want faster. it can at times be rather useful especially if you have several sites linked of one main one, the BBC being a good example i have the BBC news and Dr who sites in my bookmarks and they come up whenever i type www.bbc. so it's nothing to be worried about and can take a little getting used to and now i love it.
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Chris
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Wed May 14 2008 11:27 AM
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Re: Anyone tried Firefox 3 beta 5?
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Thanks for your message rayinski. My problem is that as soon as I type the first 'w' of 'www..... I get a long list of suggestions none of which I want. Anyway, as it is still a beta release perhaps that will change when the final release is out. Apart from that, it seems pretty good.
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