Anyone using Firefox 3 yet?

[jonmulzer]

I have been using it for a little bit now and though I have not toyed with all the new fun bits I certainly like it better. It is a LOT snappier even without FasterFox support yet. I doubt I will need to get into about:config to spruce things up. I am certainly amazed with how quickly it renders pages and having a ton of tabs open does not seem to slow it down the way it did in Version 2.

[MilDoc]

Thanks for the brief review! Gotta try it now.....

[jonmulzer]

Here is a more in depth review.

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Firefox-...view-1099.html

If you were interested anyway.

[MilDoc]

Done. And i AM impressed! Installed w/o problems (wish MS stuff was that good) and much faster! Gotta wait 'till tomorrow to look into everything new.

Thanks!

[jonmulzer]

No problem. I was impressed also because the last few upgrades were not as noticeable but this time things are so much quicker. I even opened up a ton of tabs and it stayed as responsive. No slowdowns like before.

[crokett]

It still won't load gmail for me. On multiple systems. That is why I stopped using Firefox. Too many annoyances like this.

[jonmulzer]

Odd, I have used Firefox since beta and I have not had an issue with gmail since gmail came out. In fact, the only time I switch back to IE is when a webpage depends on ActiveX controls and recently that has only been for updating Windows.

[dbhost]

Never mind my last post... No it isn't an rpm, but it IS a pre-compiled binary for Linux... I just dropped it into my path and voila! I have Firefox 3 up and running on CentOS. Now if only I could get the package updater to ignore the fact that I am NOT using the out of the box OpenOffice I would be in good shape!

[jackellis]

I tend to work with as many as 40 tabs open at a time and my big beef with version 2 was how much memory it ate up. Version 3 is much better about using memory efficiently and it is quite a bit faster.

What's IE?

[rjwaldren]

I've been using it since beta2... It's snappy, there were a few problems I noticed early on, but they're either resolved or I just learn to work around them.

I use it with iGoogle, gMail, gReader, etc with out issues...

[Hellrazor]

It still won't load gmail for me. On multiple systems. That is why I stopped using Firefox. Too many annoyances like this.

Opera refused to load groupwise remotely for 2 revisions out of 4 too. Companies put stupid crap in the code and then it will only work for a certain browser.

[RayintheUK]

Thanks for the heads-up, I didn't know they'd brought out version 3. I find it considerably quicker too.

I've also downloaded Apple's Safari browser on my PC - that's got quite a nice interface, but not as quick IMO as Firefox 3.

Ray.

[Whaler]

I have been trying to upgrade this morning but the download won't start for me. Mac OS X 10.5.3.

I quit Firefox 2 and opened Safari and was able to make the download, looks good so far.

[jziegler]

I've been using it since the final beta, through the RC series. Works great, but some extensions aren't supported. It added color management support, which is great for viewing photos on my calibrated monitor. I'm not crazy about the default theme, but it's growing on me. Overall, a nice package.

For David, I'm surprised that you have trouble with gmail on it. On my home PC, I have things working so well with gmail that a little extension allows both myself and my wife to be logged in at the same time. Now, at work, I can't use the garbage Oracle apps we have on Firefox, but that's a different story.

Jim

[crokett]

Ok... so I uninstalled Firefox and deleted the directory, then reinstalled and told it to only import bookmarks and cookies from IE. No cache, no history, etc. Now it is working fine. The only thing I wish Firefox had was a prompt option on cookies - you can either accept all or accept only what you want.