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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 PPC, Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Date added: December 16, 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 246 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.
What's new in this version:
- Fixed several security issues.
- Fixed several stability issues.
- Official releases for the Bengali, Esperanto, Galician, Hindi, and Latvian languages are now available.
- Replaced the End-User License Agreement with a new "Know Your Rights" info bar on initial install.
- When installing multiple signed XPIs simultaneously, previous versions of Firefox would fail.
- Fixed several issues found in the accessibility implementation.
- Added the abil... see all new features
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5
"GREAT.. LIGHT YEARS AHEAD OF MS AND MORE USER FRIENDLY"
Pros: ON A MY WORK SITE mls i have to use MSE 7 and hate it. Firefox all the way!
Cons: it does is not 100% compatible with all sites. Only 99.9% and I have to use the .01 % one hour a day.
Summary: NEVER-never will go back to MSNE.
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5
Pros: Firefox has come a long way, and by far it has amazing and exceptional speed. Its slick and attractive design makes it more amazing. It's pop up blocker is amazing, and the use of tab browsing is excpetional. It also is less prone to hackers.
Cons: I could not find anything bad about Firefox, altough I do consider that it can cause some PC's to crash for individual reasons. Other than that, Firefox ticks all the boxes of the Worlds Best Browser.
Summary: After testing, IE 7/ IE 8 Beta, Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox, I knew I had a clear winner. Firefox. For me IE had too much bugs and kept on constantly crashing, which was a pain, a terrible pain! Chrome was alright, but I wanted something more. Op... read more >>
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5
"Fast and full-featured browser"
Pros: There are lot of helpful add-ons that makes the surfer's life much easier. Run flawlessly on my PCs
Cons: Crashes and freezes a lot on my Imac since version 3.
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