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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.4/10.5
- Date added: June 17, 2008
- Total Downloads: 1,101,161
- Downloads last week: 3,830
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A newer version of Mozilla Firefox is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 254 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Read CNET senior editor Rob Vamosi's extended review of Firefox 3.
No longer a fledgling upstart, Firefox 3 is full-featured, lightning fast, and an able Safari foe. Previous versions have seen Mozilla's approach to features such as tabbed browsing and extensions become extremely popular. Even though Firefox 3 lacks a killer feature, it offers significant improvements not to be missed.
Version 3 introduces a multitude of safety and usability features. The location bar drop-down menu now includes URLs from both your browsing history and your bookmarks. A new Add-Ons manager includes a built-in plug-in search engine, saving you the previous trip to the Mozilla Web site. Single-click the star icon on the right of the location bar to bookmark the current page, or double-click on it to simultaneously add and edit the bookmark entry. You can tag bookmarks, too. Other impressive new features include password confirmation before adding it to the saved passwords list, the ability to pause and resume downloads, and merged forward and backward history lists.
Firefox 3 now runs faster and, according to Mozilla, is less susceptible to hacks and other vulnerabilities. The browser now warns your system's antivirus program when you download a file, and anti-phishing utilities automatically give you a warning page before allowing Firefox to load risky sites. The favicon reveals Web sites' ownership details and displays the security level of your connection to that site.
Developers will appreciate that Firefox 3's new graphics and text rendering code provide rendering improvements in CSS and SVG as well as improved display of fonts and complex scripts. Firefox 3--still open-source, as ever--is a browser that all users should consider making their default Web-surfing tool.
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Publisher's description
From Mozilla :Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser. Firefox includes pop-up blocking; tab-browsing; integrated Google search; simplified privacy controls; a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser; and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online.
Version 3 includes a bevy of new features and changes, including a redesigned address-bar pull-down menu that includes bookmarks and history, a new add-on manager, the ability to pause and resume downloads, malware protection, a better password manager, and OS-specific themes.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.0 includes a bevy of new features and changes, including a redesigned address-bar pull-down menu that includes bookmarks and history, a new add-on manager, the ability to pause and resume downloads, malware protection, a better password manager, and OS-specific themes.
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User reviews of Mozilla Firefox 3
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 254 votes
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3
Pros: I use windows and mac and unfortunately i can't download firefox 3 on my mac as it does not support my 10.3.9 software.Fortunately though operah does and is running really well.So good in fact im going to install it on windows again.
Cons: Wazzup firefox leaving your old panther loyalists behind?
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3
"Higher System Rqmts and a few incompatibilities"
Pros: Good appearance and speed.
Cons: Mac Firefox Requirements are OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and above.
Suggest CNET correct above requirements.
(Windows Firefox not fully compatible with AVG 8.0.)
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3
"5 stars all the way. The best edition yet."
Pros: I like that this edition of Mozilla Firefox is much better all around. It has a sleeker look, as well as everything you need and more! In my own personal opinion this edition of Mozilla Firefox (Firefox 3) is the best edition yet. Hopefully they will satisfy us and then more with the next edition!
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3
"Firefox just pushed me back to an IE only user."
Pros: I liked the previous version. And foxmarks bookmarks addon.
Cons: I am actually unistalling firefox completely, just so that I don't accidentally use it anymore. I'm going to IE after many years of firefox only . Dissapointing, I only used firefox before. Firefox 3 crashes itself often (white screen). I cannot stand it on my older laptop, it can't even keep up with typing speed on google. HORRIBLY SLOW. And startup speed is now triple or worse than it's last version, and also IE. And.... upgrading from 2.0 to 3.0 seems to be practically speaking, irriversable. It pains me. It also copies the look of the new IE, which is annoying enough. Why does default button location have to change itself so much? The back forward is so tiny, and crammed and 'perfect circles' gag.
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3
Pros: I installed FF 3 on a MacBook Pro. I have been using FF 2 for some sites that did not work well with Safari. But I still used Safari the most. FF3 left me scratching my head about it. I think it looks better in OS X then FF 2 but as far as function I had problems with a couple of sites I used FF2 for. It certainly was faster loading pages and I had no crashes in the time I used it.
Cons: I don't like the fact it did not work with some sites I use Firefox for. I even tried the IE rendering spoof option. But the site still was rendered wrong. So in the end I still find Safari better overall for Java too. Firefox still is trying to be too much of a browser. I was hoping for a more streamlined version.
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