Firefox 3

[Mags]

What's everyone's initial impressions? Certainly seems faster if nothing else.

[Darren Dirt]

top 10 reasons why you should upgrade to Firefox 3


Also, "Download Day" was/is a Guiness Record attempt... I wonder how successful it was.

[Lazybones]

I have been running it since Beta 3.

- The awesome bar is great when you get used to it. Initially it may bug some poeple who liked the old auto complete. You can revert it to the old way with a plugin.
- The new Security indicators are great. There is NO Question that you are connected to the REAL paypal or MS sites if they are publishing full identity information.
- IT is FASTER, both launching and browsing

[Mr. Analog]

Pretty good but I've been on beta at home for a while now.

My only complaints are people who abuse CSS for their own amusement.

[Lazybones]

To get the most out of the new bookmark tagging and Awsomebar you might want to try out TagSifter
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/998

The key feature being is that it will go through your existing bookmarks and turn your folder names into tags.

The awesome bar already will search by URL and Name of book marks, but this is handy because it will also search by tags.

So I could enter Development, Java and all my bookmarks tagged Development and Java would be listed.

[Darren Dirt]

Browser bruiser: Opera 9.5 versus Firefox 3
http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-9973363-12.html

[Mr. Analog]

Browser bruiser: Opera 9.5 versus Firefox 3
http://www.download.com/8301-2007_4-9973363-12.html

Does Opera still cost money? If so, @%&# it.

[Darren Dirt]

Does Opera still cost money? If so, @%&# it.

It's been free -- and AD-FREE -- for a few years now, apparently. Since like version 8.

[Mr. Analog]

Does Opera still cost money? If so, @%&# it.

It's been free -- and AD-FREE -- for a few years now, apparently. Since like version 8.

Meh.

[Darren Dirt]

Meh.

[Mr. Analog]

Meh.

Meh.²

[Darren Dirt]

Just installed Mr. 7.1MB Setup.exe -- HOLY BLOATFREEWARE, BATMAN, FF3 LAUNCHES FAST!




PS: Coolest Zoom Feature Ever!

[Mr. Analog]

Me, I'm loving the zoom. At home I have a 22 inch monitor which looks warped in all but it's native resolution, so reading stuff online is not easy, Zoom helps quite a bit.

[Darren Dirt]

Me, I'm loving the zoom. At home I have a 22 inch monitor which looks warped in all but it's native resolution, so reading stuff online is not easy, Zoom helps quite a bit.

Yup, nice to know a decent Zoom is now built-in, no addon required...



Also: Record broken, security hole found...


http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Theres_a_Hole_in_Firefox_3/551-90479-643.html

Barely five hours into the release of Firefox 3, the browser had garnered nearly 1.6 million downloads -- a number achieved by its very own predecessor - Firefox 2 - only at the end of one entire day. The Mozilla Web site continued under pressure, 9,000 free copies per minute and rearing to go -- to break that all new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours.

Some place else though, Tipping Point's Zero Day Initiative announced finding the very first vulnerability -- also within five hours of the browser's release. The tradition being not to disclose specifics of a vulnerability until the vendor has had a chance to patch the same, yet, Tipping Point verified the vulnerability and rated it as 'critical'. A blog post said the vulnerability that also affects Firefox 2, could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code if explored.
Tipping Point promptly reported the vulnerability to the Mozilla team, and the latter is said to be working on a fix for the same.

Vulnerability or no vulnerability, Firefox 3 has managed to break a new record, registering 8.3 million downloads in the very first day. Perhaps it's time for one more cake, is the Microsoft IE team listening?