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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- Date added: November 24, 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 11971 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 11971 votes
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4
"NEW CODE DANGEROUS IN 32-bit AND 64-bit ENVIRONMENTS."
Pros: I loved the older versions of Firefox and relied on them for 90% of my browsing. (2.0.0.18).
Cons: New version 2.0.0.19 brought down XP filesystem with no stable rollback option. 64-bit ver 3.01 minefield version crashed my Vista 64-bit operating system.
Summary: The new 3.04 version is incompatable with Vista 64-bit from what I hear (is 32-bit). The 2.0.0.19 version had an self-interrupted auto-install with what was open in the browser window. The XP filesystem crashed to an unrecoverable state. It seems... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4
Pros: I love the new interface and the ease of using it.
Cons: With this version 3.04, it just continouly crashes. I don't if the softwas has a problem. I hope they fix it real soon.
Summary: I love using firefox, but it just keeps crashing. I hope Mozilla fixes the problen soon, because I hate IE. I don't know how to save a web site in IE. I hated to give it one star, but with the issues at hand right now, that is all I can give.
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4
"Fast, secure, and overall pretty good"
Pros: It is well known as the worlds fastest, most secure web browser with an inbuilt virus scanner for downloads, easily customisable, almost never crashes, automatically deletes history,and altogether the best browser around.
Cons: None whatsoever, although the claim of being the fastest is barely noticeable.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4
Pros: everything
Cons: everyone knows nothing
Summary: fast,easy and so intersting !!
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4
"Not as good as previous version (3.0.3)"
Pros: Speed, excellent security (they don't just say that) , great tabbed browsing, design, ability to completely loose all history when browser is closed. Have had versions of Firefox for 2 years. Initially installed it on a computer with issues.Big help!
Cons: Immediately after updating from version 3.0.3 (virtually flawless performance) to 3.0.4, some page loading lagged, or "page not found" where it didn't occur before. Tried complete uninstall and reinstall, helped a little.
Summary: My solution (for now) is Mozilla Firefox Portable 3.0.3, available here on download.com (only place I could find any 3.0.3). It works like my good old standard 3.0.3, only requires a little modification. I decribe what I did in a Mozilla Firefox Po... read more >>
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