OSNews

OSnews' CSS tells the site to be in the centre of the screen, it has nothing to do with Firefox 3.

You need to elaborate on "other sites" and the compatibility problems you're having, I've found Firefox 3 to be faster and better in every way.

How do i get OSnews to render full screen?

also i'll give you an example of the rendering i mean. this is two screenshots from foxnews.com you can see in epiphany all the words are visible but on firefox the last sentences are cut off only giving half the discription. not only that but the thumbnail pics are very distorted under firefox
Epiphany 2.20
http://i29.tinypic.com/246302s.jpg

Firefox b5
http://i27.tinypic.com/nd0b4n.jpg

There are examples of many other sites around the net that have txt overlapping other text and things like that. I'm not using noscript or any other plugins to block scripts or popups. just default.

using firefox beta 5 here on winxp foxnews.com looks just like the epiphany shot, the second shot you posted looks like you've just upscaled it.

edit: looking at the shots again it's like the browsers are using different dpi's for their text rendering (assuming you haven't changed default font size or some such in Firefox). also the hinting looks pretty awful on the epiphany shot, while the larger (and better hinted) font rendering of the firefox shot seems to stretch the image cells making the pictures look ugly.

Edited 2008-04-03 22:15 UTC

Try pressing Ctrl+0 to reset zoom to 100%.
You've got some kind of scaling going on, either in your OS, or in Firefox because it doesn't look like that for me on defaults.

I've begun to notice a pattern in the comments though - everybody having some kind of problem with Firefox is using Linux. Maybe the port is lagging behind?

Strange; the rendering looks about the same for me than FF2 on the sites I frequent...

I just downloaded the beta and compared them memory-wise on a winxp home machine. I opened the following pages in each browser and checked the memory usage (note! no flash installed and only addon installed is noscript, which worked fine with beta 5):

www.osnews.com
www.zbrushcentral.com
www.conceptart.org
www.cgtalk.com
www.haiku-os.org

Firefox 2.0.0.13 - 42160 kb
Firefox 3 beta 5 - 43096 kb

so in this simple test there were no real differences in memory usage. of the pages I visited all rendered fine in beta 5, could those who complains about badly rendered pages please post some examples?

The memory improvements I've seen come from extended usage. With FF2, a day of hard browsing could see the memory spiral up to 400MB or worse, with a restart being the only way to recover that mess. FF3 seems to consistently snap back to around 100MB for me.

Mozilla are stuffing a firecracker down the pants of the Internet and are about to let it off.

So, what you are trying to say is we all better hold on tight since we (men) are about to lose our nads? Mm, perhaps not quite the analogy you were looking for.

maybe the assumption is that the internet is not masculine?

I'd assume a crotch-proximal explosion would be damaging and undesirable regardless of gender.

I have the same problem on Fedora 8: slow tag switches.

Maybe Windows users like Kroc can use it regularly, but for the rest of us it really does remain beta software. :-(

(Edit: removed erroneous claim of a bug.)

Edited 2008-04-04 18:47 UTC

I'm on a Mac, where the gains appear to be the largest.