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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
- Date added: June 12, 2009
- Total Downloads: 19,248,895
- Downloads last week: 75,622
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 11945 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 3.0.11 Fixes an issue where, in some specific cases, the bookmarks database would become corrupt, and several security issues and stability issues.
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Version 3.0.11 Fixes an issue where, in some specific cases, the bookmarks database would become corrupt, and several security issues and stability issues.
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User reviews of Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 11945 votes
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11
"Compared with IE7 its a dream"
Pros: Quick and easy to use
Cons: Not as straight forward as IE7 for copying and saving files
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11
"Good, but memory (RAM) hogging a lot."
Pros: 1.) tab feature
2.) a lot of useful and cute extensions/plug-ins
3.) pretty good compatibility
4.) Free
5.) good custom controlCons: 1.) major problem with memory (RAM)...
2.) won't release memory (ram) after closed the tab
3.) comptability issues on certain web sites.
4.) Text rendering... (foregin languages)
5.) bookmark and data storage not easy to back up.Summary: the innovation/implementation of Tab is wonderful, and it is free. More importantly, it is fairly stable. I have used Google Chorme, Opera 8.XX and 9.XX and IE 5, 6, 7 versions. Overall, I like Opera 9.53 or later version more. Mainly because, ... read more >>
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1 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11
"Rock solid stable and loaded!"
Pros: 1. An extension loaded FF is great fun to use, and there are several thousand add-ons to choose from.
2. The browser is stable under a heavy load.
3. FF is reasonably fast at web page rendering.
4. The developers at Mozilla quickly resolve problems.Cons: 1. A FF with lots of add-ons opens slow.
2. It gets only an average score (71) on the ACID 3 test of page rendering acuracy.
3. FF is slow at processing pages heavy with java script.
4. It is prone to more security problems than most people think.Summary: It's true there are browsers that open much quicker, browsers that render web pages faster, browsers that achieve perfect scores on the ACID 3 test, and still other browsers that process Java script at speeds so fast it makes Firefox 3.0.11 look li... read more >>
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11
Pros: faster, more speed
Cons: none that i can find
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.11
Pros: Ease of use. But so was former versions
Cons: I miss former add-ins
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