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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: September 24, 2008
- Total Downloads: 18,612,620
- Downloads last week: 61,305
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 11704 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 Internet Explorer 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-malware and anti-phishing utilities now throw up 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 3.0.2 fixes several security and stability issues, a number of minor layout issues, several theme issues that affected right-to-left locales, and an issue that caused some users with customized toolbars to have their Back and Forward buttons go missing, along with more supported languages and other fixes and features.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.0.2 fixes several security and stability issues, a number of minor layout issues, several theme issues that affected right-to-left locales, and an issue that caused some users with customized toolbars to have their Back and Forward buttons go missing, along with more supported languages and other fixes and features.
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User reviews of Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 11704 votes
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2
"Excellent ! Advanced ! Definitely the best."
Pros: Quick, time saving and up to date. Add-ons are great. Themes allow that dash of color and/or format of your choice.
Cons: haven't found any
Summary: I added color tabs, theme of my choice, download helper (great for videos and music). Mozilla asks to remember my passwords and its a blessing.
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2
Pros: I enjoy using this browser. It is very easy to use.
Cons: Sometimes it closes on its own.
Summary: It's very user friendly. As soon as you download it you can start using it without any trouble.
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2
Pros: everything!
Cons: none......
Summary: i like browsing with Fire Fox,every time i use Fire Fox
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2
"Reviewmaster2008 - Firefox Improved"
Pros: Firefox has improved alot since the second release.
I can see alot of change to Firefox on it better improved blocks of popup and the speed of the loading time has improved alot since the second one.Cons: What does need improving is the bugs that will get fix in the next few months and also the a much more improved downloading page, the speed on this isnt good and does take a while to download somthing you may need right now.
Summary: I think the downloading time is a problem with Firefox but everything else it great with it and should be ok for people who want to just go on the net to look
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2
"KING OF WEB BROWSERS..IE AND OPERA ARE WAY BEHIND"
Pros: FAST...FAST..FAST.. THE BEST OF ALL WEB BROWSERS SO FAR.NO ONE CLOSE YET.I JUST WAS CURIOUS TO TRY OPERA IT WAS NO WERE NEAR FIREFOX.
Cons: THE ONLY THING I COULD THINK OF IS MAYBE THE APPEARANCE BUT THEN AGAIN YOU CAN CHANGE THE THEME...
Summary: I WILL KEEP SAYING IT SO FAR NOTHING IS FASTER IN MY OPINION THE FASTEST BROWSER IS FIREFOX THEN 2.SAFARI(STILL BEHIND IN SPEED)3.I E 4.OPERA(OPERA WAS REALLY DISAPPOINTING TO ME)
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