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- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: December 18, 2008
- Total Downloads: 18,612,620
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 11793 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 3.0.5 added official releases for the Bengali, Esperanto, Galician, Hindi, and Latvian languages; replaced the End-User License Agreement with a new "Know Your Rights" info bar on initial install; fixed several security and stability issues.
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Version 3.0.5 added official releases for the Bengali, Esperanto, Galician, Hindi, and Latvian languages; replaced the End-User License Agreement with a new "Know Your Rights" info bar on initial install; fixed several security and stability issues.
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User reviews of Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 11793 votes
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5
"Feature rich and unreliable as all get out"
Pros: Plugins make firefox the most feature rich browser in existence. Highly customizable with extremely useful plugins.
Cons: Firefox crashes more often than all other applications on my laptop put together. I can count on it crashing regularly.
Crashes have plagued firefox and its predecessors. I would be ecstatic if v4 were simply to focus on NOT CRASHING.Summary: It's so feature rich, that you essentially have to use it. There's just no other browser that compares. Chrome is faster and more stable, Opera has it's niche features and is also rather fast, Safari, meh, an also-ran, IE is... er... there. But alto... read more >>
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5
"Excellent Browser - Superior to all others"
Pros: Tabbed browsing - plenty of selection of add ons and skins - useful search bar - has an almost ergonomic feel to the interface, feels natural to use
Cons: Can be a memory monster at time but certainly not a show stopper by any means.
Summary: Firefox has grown alot in the past few years and this version is the peak so far of the project, It includes tabbed browsing, a built in google seach bar (or whatever search bar you can find to import into it) The product is reliable and stable, esp... read more >>
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0 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5
Pros: Security, Add-ons, navigation, everything! low amount of cpu % to run
Cons: skin builders. Like seriously people make better skins/themes something we all want! not these crap ones.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5
"crashes and uses way too much cpu"
Pros: looks good
Cons: Takes up too much cpu and forces me to have to close it and start over to clear the cpu. Crashes alot and has to restart. Makes me wish I'd have kept version 2.12.
Summary: I am disappointed in all current web browsers right now. Opera not working on all web sites, Firefox hogging the memory, Google running itself at startup for autoupdates, Safari for not allowing window users to customize it, and IE for continually ... read more >>
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5
Pros: Awesome browser, way better than IE6. The tool bar buttons to get to your favorite site are great. The save feature is nice when Windows crashes. It's nice to be able to save pages and then come back to them after restarting FF.
Cons: I had a few problems with downloading applications. FF would only download part of a program, and then stop.
Summary: Great browser, the built in spell checker, etc are hecka nice.
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