kryo

Join Date 05/2003

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Firefox 3 Sets World Record?

Following Tuesday's release of Firefox 3, and despite a couple of server downtimes (due to the huge demand), the Mozilla Foundation has announced that the new version of their browser was downloaded more than 8 million times in the first 24 hours of availability! Their claim to the record of most downloads in one day is still being verified by Guinness, but it's still quite an amazing feat.

Personally, I've only just gotten the browser this morning (I first tried during one of the above mentioned downtimes), but already it seems tremendously faster than Firefox 2. I haven't really had much chance to look into the new UI elements just yet, but at least most of my add-ons (all the important ones, anyway) had updates available, and so far they all seem to be working well.

What does everyone else think so far, especially those who weren't previously Firefox users? Is Firefox 3 going to make you switch from IE or Opera? If not, why not?

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vStyler

Join Date 11/2004

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Holds the record for the worst browser for skinning too

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Was one of the first downloading it^^

I like FF3, it's fast, nice looking and has web 2.0 search. If I think of a fragment in the name of a website it finds it for me easily

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well it couldn't lose either way lol. its the first to do this world record so idk. reminds me of IE8 lol

but either way congrats to mozilla and yay for new browser

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yeah, i was one of the first as well. i went there, and it showed v2.14, but the firefox 3 picture was shown on the page, so i downloaded it. i installed it, and then it overwrote firefox 3, and then it tried to find older versions of my add-ons, and crashed.

then i went to my gaming rig, 30seconds later, and the version number changed to 3.

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After getting through the rather shambolic download process yesterday, I am currently using Firefox, and although the new features aren't as impressive as those added in FF2, there are a lot of little things that I really like.

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I've been using FF3 for ages. It's the first version for me which has completely replaced IE for every day use. With FF2 I always had to go back to IE for some things.

Sadly the shop I get my groceries online from only lets me login with IE...

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Sir_On_The_Edge

Join Date 07/2006

It's an amazing achievement to have improved on Firefox 2 as much as they have with 3.

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Oh yeah. I forgot to update to the final release.

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I've been using FF3 for ages. It's the first version for me which has completely replaced IE for every day use. With FF2 I always had to go back to IE for some things.
Sadly the shop I get my groceries online from only lets me login with IE...

agree with Fuzzy, FF3 awesome...quick , nice, more stable..recommend!

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Phoon

Join Date 10/2001

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Is Firefox 3 going to make you switch from IE or Opera? If not, why not?

Firefox 2 was such a memory pig that I stopped using FF altogether.
IE7 serves every single solitary need I currently or will most likely ever have. I've never had a security issue or a serious performace issue with it either. So, no, I won't be switching.

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I once switched back to IE, back in the days of FF1. Then I switched back to FF with v2. FF3 is even better, and I can't imagine going back to IE (especially with the IE Tab Add-on, I don't even need IE for the MS site!).

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I'm gonna switch over sometime soon.

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Just 5 hours after the official release of the latest refresh of Mozilla’s flagship browser, an unnamed researcher has sold a critical code execution vulnerability that puts all Firefox 3.0 users at risk of PC takeover attacks.

According to a note from TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) , a company that buys exclusive rights to software vulnerability data, the Firefox 3.0 bugalso affects earlier versions of Firefox 2.0x.

Technical details are being kept under wraps until Mozilla’s security team ships a patch.

According to ZDI’s alert, it should be considered a high-severity risk:
"Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, permitting the attacker to completely take over the vulnerable process, potentially allowing the machine running the process to be completely controlled by the attacker".

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So now they have the potential for a second Guinness record " Company to piss off the most customers simultaneously"

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I'm not gonna switch from Opera. It's just not good enough to give up Mouse Gestures and the mail client for

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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

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IE7 serves every single solitary need I currently or will most likely ever have. I've never had a security issue or a serious performace issue with it either. So, no, I won't be switching.

Ditto! Besides being built into the Operating System, which in turn integrates your entire OS with the web.

For me IE7 has been a good thing and never a problem since the beta days of 1992!

I've never been to a site that wouldn't work because of my browser, that sucks. By default IE7 is cool and immediately works, no plugging in, although you can fill it up with junk as an option.

This is one thing for me that doesn't need to be fixed, because it ain't broke!

Congrats to the FireFox developers, but IE isn't going anywhere as long as MicroSoft make the Windows OS. Ask the folks at NetScape!

Cp

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I had been using the FF3 RC 1 and now RC2 and was expecting some type of automatic update to the release version, but it seems I have to go redownlaod the thing myself. I am pretty much a new FF user and mainly switched due to the bugs this site has with IE. I had tried FF2 and dumped it pretty quickly for Maxthon, which is still my first choice. FF3 though hasn't been a bad experience as long as I can eventually get plugins for all the things that are already built into Maxthon and Opera(both those have features that can spoil a guy

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LOL that's what I thought this post was about. Fastest time until notification of security threat. Can't point many fingers directly at FF3 though since it's also prevalent in FF2.

Proud FF3 user here though.

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Just DL'ed it, it's awesome. I need different themes, but it's awesome.

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Sadly the shop I get my groceries online from only lets me login with IE...

Try this add-on - IE Tab

You can also find it on the Mozilla Add-on site.

I was able to get the latest update while the servers were OK. Great program and very fast.

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Thanks to extensions, FF has a feature set that can't be beat.

With FoxyTunes, I can play music through the browser, and not switch to another screen. ForecastFox gives me info on the weather. IE Tab pretty much eliminates compatibility problems. There's a wide variety of themes and even the Personas for FireFox extension that had a bunch built in and can be changed with a couple of clicks. Then there's the Awesome AdBlock Plus and FlashBlock combo that makes online ads history.

To top it off, it moves almost five times as fast as my IE7.

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AdBlock Plus is really all you need, I've never heard of FlashBlock and never had any problems.

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no surprises there. FF is one classy bit of kit

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I can never seem to play isketch with Firefox.

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