Security fixes and more
Published on July 17, 2008 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

Firefox has been updated to version 3.0.1, and this release was mainly a security fix for some highly publicized security issues over the last few days.  This update also fixed a few other non-security issus.  The update should be available within Firefox, or you can download the full installer at the Firefox website.

For those of you running Firefox 3, what is your opinion so far?  There has been a lot of mixed reaction in the community, but for me it seems to be a decent update.  I like the new UI and although the memory usage is improved, it still needs some work.

 


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on Jul 17, 2008
Good browser, I had a few issues and had to uninstall/reinstall, but after that everything seems fine. I look forward to seeing 3.01!
on Jul 17, 2008
For those of you running Firefox 3, what is your opinion so far? There has been a lot of mixed reaction in the community, but for me it seems to be a decent update. I like the new UI and although the memory usage is improved, it still needs some work.


Works like a charm here [Windows XP SP3] and I haven't uninstalled it yet.
Yet, the release candidates/betas never seemed to work. I had to uninstall it whenever I updated, and things seemed choppy/slow/buggy/crash-prone.
Ever since it's been officially released as stable, Firefox 3 is way better than it's own RC versions.
I haven't found any problems so far
on Jul 17, 2008
As far as I know it's only available to Beta testers right, or just the people who were running Firefox 3 beta 1-5.
on Jul 17, 2008
I never used FF2.0 FF3 vs IE7 I have to give the nod to FF3 for speed and for the download manager. Plus,I lost power not long ago and FF reopened on WC with my unfinished post intact.It's great!I hardly use IE7 anymore.
on Jul 17, 2008

I like it, and it works on JU (contrary to the disclaimer's warning). I keep IE Tab handy if I ever need to have IE compatibility.

I hated IE 7. I prefered IE 6.

on Jul 17, 2008
As far as I know it's only available to Beta testers right, or just the people who were running Firefox 3 beta 1-5.


it's been officially released and freely availabe from the firefox website for the last 2 or 3 weeks
on Jul 17, 2008

FF 3 is a good browser. IE 7 (or 8 for that matter) is nothing like Firefox.

on Jul 17, 2008
I like it, and it works on JU (contrary to the disclaimer's warning). I keep IE Tab handy if I ever need to have IE compatibility.


The only issues I've seen in FF3 with our sites are the stacking of the login boxes on the forums (pretty minor) and some strange behavior with the text input cursor in the forum reply boxes (I have to type into it before FF3 will recognize that it's a text box and provide the appropriate context menu so I can insert prefab replies). Not anything significant in either case, really. I think the warning is just a "yeah we know, don't bug us about it" thing as much as anything else
on Jul 17, 2008

Works fine here. Sites I visited that were standards compliant stayed the same.

on Jul 17, 2008
FF3 works fine for me. It works so well its all I use now.
on Jul 17, 2008
FF3 works well for me, i dumped IE a long time ago after it let a virus onto my computer
on Jul 17, 2008
I'll stick to beta - we are shooting for 3.1 soon enough.
The stacking issue has been looked into and may get a fix here soon.
But don't hold your breath too long! There are a lot of other things much more important.
Oh this means that Wincustomize is not the only site with this happening to it. Thus it may get some interest into a bug fix soon...
What really matters is it is one of the best there is for a browser on the net today.
Note the word~ "Browser".
Myself I do not really consider IE as a browser in some respects.
Not going to go there... So moving on "The world is a better place with FF3"!!!
on Jul 17, 2008
For those of you running Firefox 3, what is your opinion so far?


Fast, lean, great .
on Jul 17, 2008
With exception with live.hotmail it's running fine. I got an answer back from their CS group and they said later this year in the next live.hotmail update they are going to have a 'fix' for the problem of not being able to run in full mode.

My fav though was the other day when it told me, just flopped to another page, that my browser isn't supported, go to one of these linked browsers. FF was one of the linked browsers...and they only offer 3.0 now lol
on Jul 17, 2008

The only place it's actually an inconvenience for me is on my P&P RPG wiki. It stacks all the boxes, leaving the one for the most used one I'm working on off-screen. Easily bypassed, but annoying.

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