Mozilla pushes out second Firefox 3.1 alpha

"redmonds huge market share"

define: "huge"

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

IE7 is getting destroyed by FF

IE6 is dying

@Unlimited

Because of course a site that is dedicated to Web Designers is gonna show a really fair assessment of Browser usage

/sarcasm

@Alastair Smith @ Anonymous Coward

>No you can't. You can only drag URLs to existing tabs. The original tab stays there, and you don't create a new tab where you drop it either.

Umm, no, he's right, you can drag tabs to other instances, I've been doing it for months. Firefox 3.0x - open two copies of Firefox, open 2 tabs in each one (for clarity, make sure all 4 tabs are different sites). Drag a tab from Firefox(1) into Firefox(2), and the net result is Firefox(1) has 1 tab, and Firefox(2) has 3 tabs.

However, *you have to drop the tab onto the tab bar* Dropping the tab onto the browser page causes the behaviour you describe

Mine's the coat with the middle of the fence in the pocket.

@AC

Oh yes you can... drag the tabs to a new window works fine in FF 3.0.1 - as long as you have the tabs bar visible on the target window.

Paris because she checks her pantomime costume

@Alastair, @Nic

Do you mean to imply that a journalist made a statement without trying to verify his facts?

Recall the recent journalistic furor around the release of Google's "new" browser, notable only for its inability to block Google's ads.

I could point a finger at journalists and make faces and shout rude names. However, it's not like this is a new phenomenon. Frankly, I'm probably an even bigger fool for constantly being disappointed.

Drag and Drop

Apparently drag and drop will not reload the tab when dropped onto the new window as it does in 3.0

perhaps

ff will finally get quicker, we know it's possible courtesy of google.

Mines the one with the disabled javascript badge

@ @Alastair Smith @ Anonymous Coward

Actually, it's *one* instance with two windows.

Wonk!

Genius, I thought the Reg had forgotten about this word... the last time I read it was when you decided Wonk was the word for www...

ahh good times spent wasting my life reading reg articles....

@Unlimited

Straw poll, how many non-developers know or more importantly care to install a different browser to IE.... I'd argue not that many. How many non-developers are going to visit w3schools.... I'd argue not that many...

"Anyway, our data, collected from W3Schools' log-files, over a five year period, clearly shows the long and medium-term trends"

Go to a football match at Wembley, between say ManU and Chelsea, and carry out a straw poll of people outside the grounds who their favourite team is. 45% ManU, 45% Chelsea, 10% other. Now ask the whole country, and get a much more different, and more RELEVANT statistic...

Statistics are dangerous, because people use them to misrepresent facts.

@Nic Brough

Chrome is actually one *process* per tab, plus a process for the tab manager, plus a process for add-ins.

It gives all the isolation that a process offers but it's a huge overhead when browsing many tabs - especially cos a lot of tabs will just contain an image/attachment/simple html page.

I would have liked to see something like the .NET AppDomain model but I'm not sure of how cross-platform that would be....

But I still can't see...

That's great news, but until they fix the issue with screen updates failing on super high resolution displays with multi-monitors (monitor 1 = 2048x1536, monitor 2 = 1280x800) on Windows, It's still FF2 for me.

On my linux boxen, it's FF3.