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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- Date added: November 12, 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 11943 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.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.0.4 added official releases for the Icelandic and Thai languages, updated the internal Public Suffix list, enabled additional EV root certificates and fixed several security and stability issues.
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User reviews of Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 11943 votes
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4
Pros: Faster than IE... by at least a factor of 2 :) Has all the things I need and keeps what I don't to a minimum. Interface is great...
Cons: Seems to need a bit of tricking out to get toolbars and the like to work with it, sometimes doesn't offer the option of remembering passwords when it should, but those are minor things... A+ :)
Summary: Get this product if you like fast web browsing. IE is a Model T compared to it; the former has feature creep from hell, whereas FF is like Nav from old :)
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4
Pros: none to list as yet
Cons: Is it because I'm on a Mac?
The speed is way to slow, cumbersome and sometimes does not allow me to type in certain fields -
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4
"Fast, flexable browser once you get it loaded."
Pros: Once loaded, it runs faster then IE7. There's some great addons for it that put IE to shame.
Cons: Newest version, 3.0.4, takes far, far longer to load than older versions. It takes about 30 seconds to load; older versions took just 6 or 7 seconds. Mozilla needs to fix this problem real fast. The long load time is frustrating a lot of people.
Summary: Bottom line: if you haven't upgraded to ver. 3.0.4, DON'T! Wait until 3.0.5 comes out and see if the long load time has been eliminated, and if so, then update. If not, stick with an older version. Also check forums about crashes some people are ... read more >>
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4
"A very fine browser..... but looking forward to FF3.1"
Pros: - Fast at page rendering
- Massive number of add-ons allow you to customize Firefox to the max.
- Improved memory management over version 2.x
- Security features
- It's a fun browser to useCons: - I had some stability issues when I initially installed FF3, however for the past month it has been extremely stable.
- Firefox program opens slower if, as on my computer, it is ladened with lots of extensions.
- Bookmark manager needs workSummary: While I consider it the best browser out there today, FF is, in my opinion, not without problems. I have used it from its inception and always thought it to be fairly stable, that is until I downloaded and installed version 3. I had a number of m... read more >>
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4
"The Best Browser on the planet!"
Pros: simply the best. not complicated as Iinternet explorer and with easy to use features.
Cons: none so far.
Summary: THE BEST BROWSER ON THE PLANET
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