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Pretty fresh Mark.  Thanks for sharing.

No problem. There are a couple of others like that which are free but that is pretty much the best one out there if you ask me.

Best wishes,

Mark

Weird - the mozilla site still defaults to version 2, and they only have a link to the ‘sneak preview’ of version 3 RC 3?

EDIT: Their sites are getting crushed - I can’t really get to any of them, just that one time I happened to get to the mozilla site, but now I can’t again.

I got it - Hooray! Have been running the beta and RC’s over the past few weeks and FF3 is very good.

I’ve been having some huge memory leaks with FF on winXP.  This morning it was eating up 1.5Gigs!  Hopefully FF3 will improve this - though the problem is probably in the bazillion “addons” that I have installed.

Firefox 3 is excellent. I do drift over to Safari sometimes but on the whole I much prefer Firefox.

Oh and Safari and Firefox do have some rendering differences.

Firefox 3 has addressed many of the issues that concerned people… namely, the memory leak issue. The new version should run with a much tighter and stable footprint.

In addition, the issues the site was having earlier seem to be fixed. I guess when you try to get a million people to download your software in 1 day… your bound to have a few issues.

As far as Safari for Windows goes… I do have it and test my sites in it along with IE and Opera. However, FF will remain my browser of choice.  The Firebug extension for web developers is simply too awesome to go without. If you haven’t used Firebug to its full potential… you don’t know what your missing.

I installed in on my MBpro and must say the performance is a lot snappier than v2. I’m also glad that form buttons now have the same OS look as in Safari, I always disliked the look of FF’s buttons.
Awaiting the updated version of Firebug before I install it on my production machine. 😊
All in all a great FF update, everything that saps market share from IE is a good thing in my book !

Well, the final release of FF3 is still crashing on me semi-regularly. Not as often as the betas or RCs did, FWIW.

I’ve been having some huge memory leaks with FF on winXP.  This morning it was eating up 1.5Gigs!  Hopefully FF3 will improve this - though the problem is probably in the bazillion “addons” that I have installed.

It’s probably time to purge some add-ons, I know I’ve got several I’ve totally forgotten about. I was able to grab FF3 twice yesterday, but was it the day after they were going for the record? I’m having some lag here now, I type ten words and two show up I wait on the other eight???... NEED RAM help, lol.

Firefox 3 is sweet.. I’ve been using the release candidate for a while and it’s been a solid performer. I’ve been actively checking out lifehacker.com and there’s tons of things you can customize, and it even has multi-line copy and pasting into single line boxes, etc. Very neat little features.

I do quite like Opera 9.5. The features out of the box, as noted by the very active commentators at lifehacker.com, are superb. When you take into account most of the additional features you’d use as extensions in Firefox that are stock in Opera, it’s a very good comparison, considering benchtest’s have shown Opera 9.5 to be the fastest consistently and it uses very little memory until you bloat in tabs.

Firefox is still my daily surfer, but I’ll have to seriously consider Opera 9.5 this time around for sure.

I know, this is a FF 3 thread, but I just gave Opera 9.5 a try, and must say I am impressed. Much, much faster than the previous version, especially with dynamic sites such as Gmail. linux.com has a nice comparison, by the way.

Awaiting the updated version of Firebug before I install it on my production machine. 😊

I’m running this version of Firebug on production, and it’s working a treat for me.

FF3 has been very sweet. Faster. Memory is under control. (sigh of relief) And the newer Firebug as Andy says makes it just great. Very happy with it.

got it and loving it. so much smoother!

imho - Safari & Webkit is the way to go.

Yes - argue that its proprietary but man, it can do some wonderful things.

Just my opinion, but it seems the the middle end of the web industry is catching up with the majority of the top end. Super hero ‘elite’ web designer idols are not producing the dazzling works that were once head and shoulders above the rest. I think browser vendors are partly responsible for this by not giving them the tools that once made them pioneers in their field. To me, the new techniques/tools have all been a little slow in development.

Go the open source community, but really… Webkit is striving forward at an unbelievable rate above it all - I’m all in for supporting it.