the need for speed

Apr 9 2008, 06:39 AM

I am using Beta 5 right now, and I love it. It is splended However, it takes long for FireFox to start and it crashes a lot.Hope Mozilla can fix these problems One thing is for sure though, Firefox beats Internet Explorer( Sorry is I sound rude but fact is fact ).

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rayzoredge

Apr 9 2008, 03:08 PM

Been a Firefox fan since the first release, and funny enough, I remember the slow and gradual migration over to FF2 after trying out the beta.

I recently snagged FF3B5 and so far, it's all right. I miss the history arrow for both the back and forward buttons, but everything else seems to be an improvement.

Apparently it's completely rebuilt onto a different development platform (Gecko or something like that), so I hope that it fixes some common issues with FF, especially the memory leak issue. Right now, with 10 tabs open at the moment, FF is sucking 164MB. Hasn't crashed on me though, and I didn't really notice if it actually loads any quicker yet. StumbleUpon is my only extension... since nothing else works yet.

Just keep in mind that this is still Beta 5. Nothing revolutionary that I've noticed, which kind of makes me want to give other browsers like Safari and Opera a try to give them a fair chance before proclaiming browser superiority. (Internet Explorer 7, on the other hand, needs no try-out... hehe. I wonder what IE8 has to bring to the table?)

 

 

 

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rval

Apr 10 2008, 09:17 PM

firefox is the best browser ever. at first I was using IE but when I heard for firefox ...

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Ufaweb

Apr 11 2008, 07:07 AM

I have used FF 3.4 - bags, bags,bags... I'm using FF 2.0.15 now. For he is many plugins

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the need for speed

Apr 11 2008, 07:18 AM

If you have the updated version of Firefox 3 beta 5, it supports most plug-ins that were made for version 2

P.S. I've heard that they are alredy in the making of Mozilla Firefox 4

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Raptorstrike

Apr 13 2008, 11:15 PM

Really like Firefox 3 Beta 5.


All the icons are very fancy, plus the browser itself seems to be a lot faster than any other browser I use. Haven't found many bugs with it, but I'm sure all the bugs that other people have found will be ironed out before the full release

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Ufaweb

Apr 11 2008, 09:52 AM

Realy? Hm... I'll become to install FF 3.5 or 4 (if it is released). =)

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