Comments on: Firefox 3 smashes download records

By: C

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:53:01 +0000

Hey, in five words or less here is what the guys at the Firefox party in Toronto thought

http://ambermac.com/articles/2008/06/18/firefox-3-in-5-words-or-less

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:47:01 +0000

I’m monogamous and only sleep with one browser.

Saves the duplication of swear words.

By: RichL

RichL — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:16:46 +0000

Switched from Opera 9.5 to FF3. Like them both (I’ve used Opera since version 2) but for me Firefox is edging out Opera because of the add-ons available.

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:42:43 +0000

Pages load a bit faster, which is nice. The drop-down menu from the address bar now has links with descriptions, and that kind of look like a spam site, so, that’ll take some getting used to. You can select multiple pages to go back to for the forward button, but not the back, which doesn’t exactly make me too happy. Other than that, it works smoothly and does what it is supposed to.

By: Amanda E.

Amanda E. — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:51:38 +0000

So far FF3 renders pages faster. That’s a huge plus in my book.

By: Tripp Fenderson

Tripp Fenderson — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:51:07 +0000

Lovin’ it!

As Mark put it — it’s stable and fast. What’s more, I had access to all of my third-party development tools and toys on day one.

Firebug, YSlow, Greasemonkey, Web Developer, ScreenGrab!, and Twitterfox

I was worried there would be a development delay.

@Mike - what are you waiting on?

By: Todd Graham

Todd Graham — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:32:08 +0000

So far, so good.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:25:58 +0000

Seems like a some nice improvement but I’m still waiting for some essential add-ons to update/upgrade so I can get it working the way I totally customized FF2. Right now it’s like having one hand tied behind my back, not working the way I was used to -.but that’s the add-on creators’ fault, not Mozilla’s.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:21:16 +0000

Opera 9.5 - which was released shortly before FF3 - is a hands down superior browser. Every feature Firefox has, Opera has had for quite some time.

Firefox just has a huge “fanboy” following- most of which probably downloaded the browser 20+ times.

I’d also be curious if that number represents completed downloads versus initial file requests.

By: News Consumer

News Consumer — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:05:44 +0000

two thumbs up

By: Boston Blows

Boston Blows — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:04:55 +0000

Love it love it

By: Jeff Bailey

Jeff Bailey — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:21:22 +0000

Works fine on my XP work computer, but generates errors and crashes on my Win2K home machine. I still prefer Opera. Your mileage may vary.

By: Mark Mascolino

Mark Mascolino — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:17:13 +0000

I’ve been very pleased with it. Very fast and stable so far.