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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: November 05, 2009
- Total Downloads: 20,523,019
- Downloads last week: 76,876
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 11706 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on June 30, 2009
No longer a fledgling upstart, Firefox 3 is full-featured, lightning fast, and an able foe for both the big-dog competitor Internet Explorer and competitors nipping at its heels. Firefox's killer add-ons remain strong, and the latest update makes version 3.5 about two times faster than version 3. 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. Along with Mozilla's new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine that renders Web applications faster on Firefox than ever before, there have also been improvements to the layout engine Gecko for faster page rendering. The new Private Browsing brings a feature to Firefox that competitors have had for a while: the capability to turn off cookie and history logs. Users also have more granular control over cookies, history, and bookmarks in version 3.5 via the redone Clear Recent History option under Tools. Geolocation courtesy of Google has been activated by default in Firefox, so that generic searches such as "city hall" will come closer to pegging the government offices nearest you.
Web developers should be excited about expanded support for HTML5 local storage, downloadable fonts, and native support for OGG-formatted embedded video. ICC profiles, SVG transforms, CSS media queries, native JSON support, and Web worker threads also get lots of love from v3.5. There's no doubt that Firefox 3.5 is a must-have, but it's an update that's more about keeping the browser current rather than blazing new trails.
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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.
Firefox 3.5 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use, and adding new features for users: It is now available in more than 70 languages, includes a Private Browsing mode, better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, the ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation, support for native JSON, and web worker threads, support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 < video > and < audio > elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.5.5 makes three stability fixes.
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- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 11706 votes
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Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5
Pros: fast and easy to use
Cons: nil so far
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5
"Love it just can't use it after updates!!!"
Pros: I love Firefox!
Cons: Since 3.4 I haven't been able to get Firefox to run. Crashes on opening and no response from support as to why! I really don't like IE but am forced to use it. What's up with that Mozilla?????
Summary: Hurry and fix this problem, whatever it is!!!!
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5
"More "fake " positive reviews from CNET"
Pros: Yet again CNET is caught being blatently biased by removing or deleting all the negative reviews of Freezefox. CNET obviously have an investment in Freezefox. The only reson I still use it is because it has all my bookmarks and add-ons.
Cons: It takes so long to load that I have to go to IE8 to read my emails while I wait for Freezefox. When trying to watch a movie on YouTube, I have to keep IE on standby as I know FF will freeze any moment.
Summary: Don't fall for the FAKE positive reviews of Mozilla Freezefox. It still constantly freezes, crashes and is cripplingly slow in addition to runaround so-called support.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5
"In my case, Firefox can't improve on perfection."
Pros: Everything - Firefox always works just fine for me!
Cons: I like it all.
Summary: I've been using Firefox for nearly two years now - haven't had ANY of the problems that other people seem to have. Perhaps I don't use all of its features, but the product suits me just fine. Far superior than that OTHER browser (who shall remain na... read more >>
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Mozilla Firefox 3.5.5
"Not bad, not bad at all,, still a few gliches."
Pros: speed i first and foremost, seems to be fairly secure, we will see.
Cons: I do not have enough time on it to give an opinion on this question.
Summary: Best on out their as far as I can see.
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