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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: September 29, 2008
- Total Downloads: 18,612,620
- Downloads last week: 61,305
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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 11792 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 3.0.3 fixes a problem where users were unable to retrieve saved passwords or save new passwords.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.0.3 fixes a problem where users were unable to retrieve saved passwords or save new passwords.
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User reviews of Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 11792 votes
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9 out of 12 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
Pros: It use to be my "Default" Browser, at one time I LOVED this (when they first came out) then it turned ...........
Cons: a nightmare, as it takes anywhere from 90 to 120 seconds to load, and the downloads are terrible, so i definetly went to another browser (and Internet Explorer is as BAD).
Summary: I see that some people are having wonderful luck with this browser (I wish I was one of them). If it works and does what you want it to do, then God Bless you, and stay with it, but I had to go south and find another brower (Avant Default Browser),... read more >>
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9 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
Pros: Nothing to say.
Cons: 1 ? It forced itself to be my default browser.
2 ? It forced itself to be my default downloader.
3 ? It does not support a number of apps that are important to me. -
6 out of 12 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
"Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3 is full of ****!!!"
Pros: it should be 3rd or 4th
Cons: its too slow ...i dont know how its number one
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9 out of 15 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
"CRASHES IMMEDIATELY AND OFTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Pros: HOW WOULD I KNOW???????????????????
Cons: DOESN'T WORK WITH MY VISTA
Summary: WORKS ON MY XP COMPUTER. ARE YOU HAVING A CONFLICT WITH MICROSOFT?
I DON'T EXPECT AN ANSWER. -
7 out of 16 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.3
Pros: fast surfing and loading
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