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Mozilla may have officially dropped the Firefox 3.7 name in December, but that hasn’t stopped the open source web troupe pushing out a first alpha of the browser for brave testers to tinker with. Firefox 3.7 Alpha 1 isn’t for public consumption; instead it’s Mozilla’s first build of the next incarnation of its browser - even …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    Where is the Opera 10.50 BETA news.

    Not early pre-alpha Firefix crap.

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    1. Tom Maddox Silver badge
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      Give it a rest

      No one cares. Posting this from Opera and trying to squeeze out the same functionality I get from Firefox. Seriously, I don't know how you guys live with this POS.

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  2. Bilgepipe

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    Great. Perhaps now it'll support the built-in OSX features like Narrator, the dictionary and Services that Safari has had since about 1973.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      WTF?

      Er, 1973??

      "Great. Perhaps now it'll support the built-in OSX features like Narrator, the dictionary and Services that Safari has had since about 1973."

      I'd like to know what kind of paper you ran you browser on... Did Xerox copy your ideas?

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  3. Robert Carnegie Silver badge

    Was it only because

    Firefox 3.1 is late = call it Firefox 3.5 instead? That's... a pity.

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  4. Professor Tinklepants
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    Will the new version:

    - Stop shifting the whole bloody page up an inch, just after it finishes loading? I'm fed up thinking the page has loaded and then clicking on the wrong link as the bloody thing shifts up.

    - Actually follow links that I click on, instead of sitting there pretending I never clicked on anything?

    - Stop being so bloody slow at every bloody thing I ever ask it to bloody do? I mean, it's nice to have a pretty 'persona' to stare at while it clunks away in a decidedly Internet Explorer-y kind of way but I'd rather have a faster web experience.

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