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Nikhil Rastogi, Jul 06, 2008 0909 hrs IST
The enhancements to the latest version though not revolutionary are certainly noteworthy.
Great upgrade, faster rendering and memory efficiency, excellent security, new address bar is a welcome and incredible extensible.
Firefox 3 no longer supports older OSes such as Windows 9x series; same with Mac OS X versions 10.2 and below
After roughly three years in development, the venerable browser - Firefox - has only gotten better with age. The version 3 has many new enhancements that I'm sure you'll love. The enhancements aren't revolutionary but are certainly noteworthy. Firefox 3 also brings to the table very many small improvements that go a long way in terms of usability and security.
Although Firefox is very good at what it does best, it did have some nagging issues. Luckily with the success of Firefox 2, the makers didn't rest on their laurels but worked to improve Firefox and lo we have the new improved version.
Smarter memory management, Faster Speed
Firefox version 2 was known to be a memory hog. After initial cold start of browser, it just kept on growing in memory, consuming more and more of memory (so very Microsoft lol). Version 3 has been improved quite a bit from this standpoint. This is achieved by using a new rendering engine, Gecko 1.9 which not only effectively reduces memory fragmentation and removes memory leaks but also renders pages faster and uses fewer system resources overall.
by Bart, Eat my Shorts !!, on Nov 10, 2008 05:50 PM, Report abuse Reply
by marcia adams, medway, on Jul 09, 2008 03:45 AM, Report abuse Reply
There is one downside I found about Fire Fox 3.0, that is there is no option to alphabetically sort your book marks like the previous versions.
by Ranabir Ghosh, Kolkata, on Jul 07, 2008 11:37 AM, Report abuse Reply
Overall a very good browser.. haven't even used IE for ages now. Nice review from the team
by Anubhav, Kolkata, on Jul 07, 2008 09:58 AM, Report abuse Reply
by hamid, bardubai, on Jul 07, 2008 09:44 AM, Report abuse Reply
Well, since I have been never used Firefox before, I think I'll stick with Window Explore.. but is that memory usage take big paticipate upon my computer?
by FES, Miles City, on Jul 07, 2008 06:10 AM, Report abuse Reply
Are you sure the search in add-ons isn't a beta feature? I am using the final version. It just has the search in downloads window, not the add-ons window.
by Akshay, Delhi, on Jul 06, 2008 04:18 PM, Report abuse Reply
I think it's an extension that adds those search boxes and "sort by date" buttons. I've used the betas and it wasn't there either.
by Noam Nelke, Beer Sheva, Israel, on Jul 06, 2008 04:27 PM, Report abuse
I am also using the final version and it has de addon search box...
by John, delniaso, on Jul 07, 2008 05:05 AM, Report abuse
Problem of systematic crashing has not been addressed. I run an ALIENWARE 9750 with Vista 32 and Sp1. FF3 has crashed every day without fail. A cute dialog box pops up and tells me the obvious (Fire Fox has crashed!!!). The box asks what page I was on, than transmits the info to FF3 central.
by Dr. P2P, Tempe, on Jul 07, 2008 05:00 AM, Report abuse Reply
Whoever thought the memory usage would improve is a jackass. FF3 is using 111,315K of memory as i type this, with NO other tabs, or even background programs running. It's like the Vista of the browser world...
by Angad, Delhi, on Jul 07, 2008 03:05 AM, Report abuse Reply
Oh please... get over yourself. The memory consumption will obviously vary depending on what sites you view and the many variables associated with browsing. e.g. image quality, dynamic content, plugins, addons, blah blah. if you are seriously sweating 100 megs, you seriously need to chill and upgrade whatever POS you're using. If you can do better... build your own browser.
by Anonymous, So Cal, on Jul 07, 2008 04:34 AM, Report abuse
I have the following results which are apparently different from some of you. FF 3.0 with 7 open windows 68MB
by William, Atlanta, on Jul 07, 2008 03:39 AM, Report abuse Reply
I still don't know why people use IE........ Evry other browser is better than IE and of course FF3 is the best of the lot.
by Bhaskar, Bengaluru, on Jul 07, 2008 02:42 AM, Report abuse Reply
I'm certainly not seeing any improvements in memory usage with FF3. It quickly zooms to 100,000K on my Intel-based Dell 8300.
by Kate, Dallas, on Jul 06, 2008 03:40 PM, Report abuse Reply
I am disappointed too, pretty soon after opening Firefox memory usage is well over 100,00
by brian, Greenville, on Jul 06, 2008 06:15 PM, Report abuse
My firefox is running at over 200k, is there anything i can do to lower the memory usage?
by eddie, phoenix, on Jul 06, 2008 09:19 PM, Report abuse
by Zak, LA, on Jul 07, 2008 02:33 AM, Report abuse
ff3 is much slower in linux fedora 9 and ubuntu hardy but i think there working on the bugs
by michael, oxford , alabama, on Jul 07, 2008 12:20 AM, Report abuse Reply
firefox is great but most of extensions that were available with previous version are not available and there seems to some bugs to be ironed out.also new IE 8 is quite fast like firefox
by sachin, goa, on Jul 07, 2008 12:19 AM, Report abuse Reply
Wow! for a dummy like me, this review is very instructive. Now, if there is a FF3 manual out there, think I need to do serious reading.
by Mark, Apopka, on Jul 06, 2008 06:44 PM, Report abuse Reply
Firefox is great! Can't wait for V3 to be available to me.
by Giovannina, Reno, on Jul 06, 2008 10:55 AM, Report abuse Reply
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for me ie rocks :)
by Sumit, Bhubaneswar, on Dec 05, 2008 09:03 PM, Report abuse Reply