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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
- Date added: July 23, 2010
- Total Downloads: 23,866,493
- Downloads last week: 129,038
- Product Ranking: #1 in Web Browsers
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 12732 votes
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Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on January 21, 2010
No longer a fledgling upstart, Firefox is the gold standard of alternatives to the still-dominant Internet Explorer. Firefox 3.6 is full-featured, lightning fast, and secure. Its killer selection of add-ons remains strong, with built-in support for the next generation of themes, called Personas, plus the latest update makes version 3.6 about 20 percent faster than version 3.5. However, competition is strong and it can no longer be said that Firefox is the fastest browser available.
Several notable improvements in the latest revamp keep Firefox abreast of current browsing tech. In addition to the aforementioned improvements made to the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine so that it renders Web applications faster, there have also been other significant under-the-hood changes. These include: blocking third-party software from encroaching on Firefox's file system turf to increase stability; support for the Web Open Font Format, which means many non-English browser users should have a faster time loading Web pages with downloadable fonts; and support for the File interface, which can help with tasks such as uploading multiple photos and is part of the draft HTML5-standard effort. HTML5 support debuted in Firefox 3.5. Another deeper change to the browser is that it is now running scripts asynchronously, which can help to load a Web page faster by putting off some work until the high-priority chores are complete. Firefox 3.6 also isolates out-of-date plug-ins so they do not become a security risk.
Unlike Firefox 3.5, which was more about keeping the browser current rather than blazing new trails, Firefox 3.6 is once again on the warpath. Upgrading is highly recommended.
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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 3.6.8 fixes a single stability issue affecting some pages containing plugins.More popular Web Browsers downloads
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- All versions: 4.5 starsout of 12732 votes
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- Current version: 4.1 starsout of 20 votes
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5 stars
7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8
"The most complete browser you can get"
Pros: Works for everything I need it to work for. It's very quick to load pages (not as quick as Opera or Chrome but then again those two have a tendency to try and load pages too quick resulting in incomplete displays sometimes).
Cons: Haven't had any problems out of 3.6.7 or this 3.6.8 so far.
Summary: It's not the fastest or most minimal or quickest to start up but it is the best you can get for the most complete surfing experience.
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4 stars
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8
"All around,the best out there."
Pros: Mozillas maintenance,security,privacy,user options,settings,GUI,community support,Add-ons and Plugins are all excellent,if not the best.
Cons: What's not to like?
Summary: If you have not tried it,you're missing something!
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5 stars
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8
"Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8 is super great!"
Pros: EVERYTHING!
Cons: Nothing I don't like!
Summary: I find the features and the functionally of this new Firefox to be very interesting, helpful, informative, and very up-to-date. I wouldn't use anything else!
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5 stars
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8
"ASWOME AND FREEE"
Pros: well its got everything u could want in a internet browser u can customize pretty much everything lots of security add ons u can install its supposedly
Cons: none what so ever
Summary: ITS COOL DOWNLOAD IT
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5 stars
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8
"good fast and safe broswer"
Pros: I love mozilla beacuse is safe and fast
Cons: Nothing i like everything
Summary: Its fast,safe for me important...u have add ons everything that u need....
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4 stars
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8
"3.6.8 better over 3.6.7"
Pros: Stable and faster than 3.6.7
Cons: More memory consumption than 3.6.6
Summary: 3.6.6 was impressive, being quiet stable and fast. - the reason I switched to Firefox.
The update to 3.6.7 was not encouraging. the browser froze on playing flash videos or videos would just play as a photo slideshow. In general a slowness experienced.
In just a couple of days from 3.6.7 release, I found 3.6.8 available and indicated to fix some stability issues with plugins.
3.6.8 indeed improved things from 3.6.7. But seems to take a bit more resources than 3.6.6.
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5 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8
"firefox 3.6.8 is awesome"
Pros: This is flawless the updates are very handy and make it easy to locate YOUR DOWNLOADED FILES & ADD-ONS AND ECT.
Cons: HAVEN'T FOUND ANY
Summary: i CERTAINLY WOULD RECOMMEND THIS TO ANYONE. i THINK ITS A NICE CERTRAL POINT AS A BROWSER TO LOSWITCH FROM ANY BROWSER OR SEARCH ENGINE AND OFFERS UP UNLIMITED FEATURES. THAT NOW HAS CAUGHT UP WITH CURRENT PROGRAMS AND EASILY SURF THE NET
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4 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8
"I like it. Fast and no crashes so far."
Pros: Fast and smooth.
Cons: None so far.
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5 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8
"It is the best I have found"
Pros: I have used Foxfire ever scents I been using computors
Cons: I have no cons
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4 stars
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.6.8
"Lots of features, quick, easy to use"
Pros: Add ons, and its flexibility.
Cons: Appears to lock up once in a while, but not real often
Summary: Beats IE
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