Firefox 3 Download Day a huge success

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Since I downloaded Firefox 3, I've been enjoying some of the plugins that are now residing at the bottom of my browser (Twitterfox and the Accuweather Forecastfox plugin). Firefox 3 seems faster to me, and I like the way it displays sites that are using certificates by putting a wide, clickable banner in the address bar. What are your opinions about Firefox 3?
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The graphic above says it all -- Firefox 3 Download Day was a success, with 8,002,530 downloads in 24 hours. Amazingly, this happened...
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IMO, FF3 is sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet - and that's on a G4-400 with an anemic 384mb of RAM (using OSX 10.4.11). Up to 50% faster than FF2, far smoother, and doesn't get upset at my having 30 or 40 tabs open at a time (as is the case as often as not).
Best. Firefox. Evar. Six stars out of five.
I like Safari more, since it seems to be faster. However, I actually use Firefox (Minefield), because of its extensions.
July 04 2008 at 1:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI had to switch back to 2 because of weird anomalies - 3 won't show a formatting bar over text boxes in a site I use daily, and it doesn't support the del.icio.us toolbar.
July 04 2008 at 9:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI'll stick with Safari 3/4.
July 04 2008 at 8:50 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAfter using Firefox 3 and comparing with Opera 9.5, I can say that I love FF3 more than Opera, all plug-ins seems working correctly under FF3, meanwhile Opera doesn't give any more advantages like it used to.
And, yeah, I'm considering to frame my Firefox Certificate (http://javamilk.com/2008/07/03/i-did-it/)
I prefer forecastbar enhanced: it's the same weather bar, but with a big sexy radar display. I like the Firefox 3, although it's my backup browser now that Flock 2 beta is out, which of course is firefox 3, but all Flocky.
July 03 2008 at 9:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI'm using Minefield with the GrApple theme and couldn't be happier. No scrolling bugs for me and pages load quicker than safari.
July 03 2008 at 8:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI was having problems with firefox 3 and forecastfox - massive cpu usage, any changes yet?
http://forums.ensolis.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=144
I hate it. It doesn't work with my iWeb page, despite every other browser does. It looks like an Ugly version of Safari.
July 03 2008 at 7:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI am sure you already know, but this script fixes this issue.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27819/fix-iweb-and-firefox-3
I had problems with my iWeb page as well, so I go it fixed. wish Apple or firefox would fix the problem, but this works for now. I am more of a Safari man myself, but if you want others to see your webpage, then you might want to get it fixed, since, as the numbers tell us, a lot of people use firefox. If you don't care, then forget I even mentioned it.
pretty good. Its faster, and more stable. I can't live without firebug and there are some other extensions I rely on, so I don't have much of a choice. The worst thing is the ui. The default interface is really bad, but the theme I use takes care of that, except that it doesn't show favicons in the tabs, which is lame. The form widgets are pretty bad too. I don't know why they won't just make it native os x ui code.
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