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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
- Date added: March 04, 2009
- Total Downloads: 18,690,003
- Downloads last week: 59,849
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 11920 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 3.0.7 includes official releases for the Estonian, Kannada and Telugu languages, and fixes several security and stability issues.
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Version 3.0.7 includes official releases for the Estonian, Kannada and Telugu languages, and fixes several security and stability issues.
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User reviews of Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 11920 votes
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7
"IE8 THE BEST BROWSER FOR OS WINDOWS XP"
Pros: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7 faster than Mozilla Firefox 2 and much more faster, than IE7.
Cons: Not as good, as IE8 - speed, usage of PC memory and interface (what an ugly, green spot on the left top, I always pay attention at it).
Summary: There are many complaints about IE8. May be the reason is with Vista OS or not correct version of IE8. I installed IE8 from MS website and my OS is Windows XP.
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7
Pros: Tried others but come back to the Fox. It's secure, fast, reliable and with extensions, themes and add-ons it can do or be anything you want. Myself and millions of other users can't be too far off by making Firefox their primary browser.
Cons: few if any. Be aware that too many or certain extensions impact on it's performance. Wish list- make Fox crash (Rare) only the problem tab instead of the whole browser. Small inconvenience it will restore all tabs with session manager on restart.
Summary: The Fox is the best browser I have used and will continue to support it. I use IE for Microsoft updates and certain pages that render better using it, which are becoming less. No browser is perfect and they all have useful, unique features and assoc... read more >>
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7
Pros: Fast, Secure, and easy to use
Thousands of free add-ons and themes for customization
Open source
Stable -- crashes are very rare, and if they happen, all of your pages will be completely restored
Tabbed browsing
Better at viewing web pages than IECons: Without the IE Tab add-on, it isn't compatible with Windows Update
Summary: Firefox 2 was great: Secure, fast, and stable. Firefox 3 is much better: It has everything Firefox 2 had, plus better security, better speed, and better stability, not to mention an extensive list of new features that work flawlessly. Firefox 3 can... read more >>
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7
Pros: Fast. Secure. Stable.
Easy update and tons of add-ons.Cons: Had history of crashes (session recovery is very useful). Lack of font smoothing. Startup not as fast as IE.
Summary: Still the best among the web browsers.
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7
Pros: Unbelievable speed of opening.
Cons: Nothing is below expectation
Summary: Excellent performance
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