Yes, I said it.

It crashed on me 3-5 times a day. It would randomly stop responding to clicks. It was a horrid experience.

Whats worse, FF3 did its stop responding bit in the middle of a demo! Bad times...

I have it installed on kubuntu 8 and it has yet to crash or malfunction on me...

Hehehe.

It's a beta for a reason (read: it doesn't work yet).

So far, it works pretty well for me. I haven't tested the "close-of-death" (when it suddenly gets stuck and begins closing all the tabs without being able to stop it), but so far it is much faster than FF2.

I miss mouse gestures, though. And Flash doesn't work correctly yet (at least, some of the sites I check).

Sucks to be you.

I've run FF since around x-mas on my mac and linux. It's been rock solid, the memory handling is now phenomenal, and the new cairo backend is awesome.

ps: flash sucks! it crashes from time to time especially on linux.

Never had any problems with FF3 i WinXP.
Haven't tried it yet on my linux computers.

I am using it at home for quite some time and it hasnt crashed for me yet, altough I did find out why it crashed on me on Gmail almost all of the time. ( It was the HTML Validator extension that died on Gmail, heh, poor thing. )

Generally people having a fucked up configuration always complain about the fact that common used software are buggy, which generally isn't the case.

Anyway you shouldn't use a beta and complain about bugs. Beta are there for a reason ya know.

For a second there I thought I was in the Stupid Vista thread

You can get mouse gestures. Get the latest nightly build off their site, that's what I did. And flash works fine, at least here.

I have gotten the problem from the OP a few times, but that was moreso back in Beta 3 and Beta 4, it hasn't happened much in Beta 5.

Why were your expectations higher than reality?

Piccolo's style ?

Yes I was excited about that. Unfortunately it would crash before I could ever reach the point where that mattered.

Looks like I'll be stuck with FF2 for a while. The good news is the profiles transfer between 2 and 3 flawlessly

I'll miss FF2 when FF3 comes out fully. I usually go and make a cup of tea while I'm waiting for it to start up, and if FF3 is supposed to fix all the startup problems ...

I heard, I think over here, that in FF3 when you type in the address bar it looks up based on page title instead of address, can that be changed? (changed back to the old behavior of course )

Probably with some setting. You can change settings by going to the webpage named 'about:config'.

I know about about:config, I just wanted to know if it was possible before I actually went ahead and installed it, because if I can't change it then I don't want to install it.

Note, running off a USB key is slower than FF2 on a hard disk. Even Javascript is slower for some reason.

I couldn't find the settings, but I'm not too worry about it for now. I just hope that there's a way to sort by URL unlike FF2. (Unless someone points me to a extension that allows that. It's annoying when the URL I want is http://www.example.com/, but http://www.example.com/somepage comes first and I never typed the URL in the taskbar)

And this is just silly.

I've been using FF3 for awhile. Works good for me.

I've been using FF 3 on winxp for more than a month now. It's less stable than 2.0, but most of the crashes/hangs seems to be because of Flash.

As for mouse gestures, consider this your lucky day:
http://www.xuldev.org/firegestures/

Oh, I got it working. I had it installed at work, but hadn't installed it for Linux.

No. They had an about:config setting (browser.urlbar.richResults) to disable that godawful and inconsistent behavior, but they actually removed it.

I'm using the real one. Nightly builds are perfectly stable and work with FF3.

[edit]
Now that 2.0 preview 3 is out, you don't even have to use the nightly build anymore.

http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

But it's easier to complain. Actually I don't think that extension changes the behavior at all...

Anyway, I think the new one is much better.

Yes, I tried that one first. It was a bit too sluggish, that's why I switched to Firegestures. My gestures came out wrong too often. But I've read somewhere that Mouse Gestures Redox is faster if you turn off diagonal sensitivity.

I am already used to that. You just need to use it the old way (type the few letters you used to, then click or choose the result you want... after three or four times, they will get resorted).