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Just downloaded it, suprisingly good download speed considering the entire universe is downloading it to get in the guinesss book.

Thought I’d post a mirror to Firebug 1.2, which is my most precious FF extension, as the main firebug site is down at present:

http://myzonelabs.com/node/12

May be useful to someone 😊

Hopefully the memory fixes are effective. After 8 hours of development on my Mac using FF2.0, I discovered FF was eating up nearly 400MB of ram…

The dutch version, in my case at least, feels like a beta.

The ‘show my windows and tabs of last time’ option of the homepage only works when i close the browser using the exit menu item from the file menu.

If i click on the all add-ons link in the add-ons window nothing happens.

You got to love desktop software 😖

It’s still to buggy for me as well. I switched back.

Thank’s for Firebug ! 😊

Hopefully the memory fixes are effective. After 8 hours of development on my Mac using FF2.0, I discovered FF was eating up nearly 400MB of ram…

+1

No probs for me as of yet. Seems more responsive…

mmm, firefox 3. yummy

I really like FF3 so far. It looks good and seems to be very fast.

I set up a second profile so that I can run FF2 and FF3 (though not at the same time).

And you can get firebug for FF3 at addons.mozilla.org.

FireFox 3 ok for me.

FF3 RC1 was fine
FF3 RC2 and RC3 had loading issues - so downgraded back to RC1
FF3 Final is fine in English British

FireFox 3 ok for me.

FF3 RC1 was fine
FF3 RC2 and RC3 had loading issues - so downgraded back to RC1
FF3 Final is fine in English British

yes, mate, I’m with you on that. god I love this version. all of my favourite addons work :D YAY

btw, already: 6,861,377

It would be great if they could beat 10 mil, but I dont think that is going to happen. :(

Personally, Firefox is crashing a lot for me. I think I will revert back to the old version until they release a patch.

Personally, Firefox is crashing a lot for me. I think I will revert back to the old version until they release a patch.

Did you install it over FF2 with out removing all the FF2 files first, by this i mean the app files and not the bookmarks and histories.

at the risk of starting a flame war, I don’t really like firefox…it lacks a lot of polish that safari has. Besides, on my machine, safari is much faster than firefox. the worst feature of FF3 (in my opinion…i know some people like it) is the “awsomebar”...apart from not matching the rest of the UI on the mac, it’s waay too cluttered and complicated, making it damn near useless. The UI is kind of not thought-through, FF3 on windows ( in my opinion) looks hoorrrible, i don’t understand how people can use it (or use windows, for that matter, it’s butt ugly). while they made strides, FF3 still does not feel like a native OSX app..not to mention it’s not a native cocoa app

Safari for me.

at the risk of starting a flame war, I don’t really like firefox…it lacks a lot of polish that safari has. Besides, on my machine, safari is much faster than firefox. the worst feature of FF3 (in my opinion…i know some people like it) is the “awsomebar”...apart from not matching the rest of the UI on the mac, it’s waay too cluttered and complicated, making it damn near useless. The UI is kind of not thought-through, FF3 on windows ( in my opinion) looks hoorrrible, i don’t understand how people can use it (or use windows, for that matter, it’s butt ugly). while they made strides, FF3 still does not feel like a native OSX app..not to mention it’s not a native cocoa app

Safari for me.

I see your points 😊 some people may disagree, but for me the “feel” is the most important bit, firefox 3 does not feel umm, “polished”, the default UI looks like a child of a web 2.0 crazy designer that just does not know where to start.

tbh, as much as I love firefox and god, i’ve been using it since I can remember myself, I have to admit, the only reason I am still using it are the addons, adblock plus, gmail manager, grease monkey that allows me to use HTML gmail signatures and last but not least: ie7 and safari are using clear type stuff, I hate that, my eyes start hurting when I look at those smooth fonts in ie7(ive got xp pro sp2, heavily modified/customized with cleartype off) and safari with its own, mac fonts, well, I am still designing for windows, and only use safari for cross browser testing.

however, if all of the addons mentioned were freely available on either opera or safari, I would say adios 😊

p.s.:  Total Downloads 9,071,973 I made 5 of them happen on different pc’s 😛

I’m with daulex. The only reason to use firefox is because of the add-ons. I can’t close a tab so i end up with a lot of tabs and since i discovered the tree style tab extension i can’t browse without it anymore. The browser has become the platform for amazing extensions. Even IE developers got that message.

I don’t care if they render the fastest or of they have implemented css3. As a developer you have to develop for the weakest link and at the moment it’s still IE6.

I’m using flock at the moment. It is more stable but i read a beta is out based on FF3 but i haven’t tried it yet.

I’m a firefox user myself for various reasons: I’m not a fan of Opera’s UI (not used to it I guess), I’m no fan of clear type so that crosses out Safari and they both (Opera and Safari) lack the add-on capabilities of Firefox… Pretty much the same reasons as every other firefox user, I guess…

I’m with jTaby on the current UI though. It’s butt ugly. I wish I could find a decent skin for it, but they’re all worse… I especially like the styling off the back button. Oh well, learn to live with it I guess.

So far FF3 is treating me nice, no crashes, no apparent bugs, though the Options menu acted a bit quirky the first time I started the new firefox. Seems to be solved now.

And I hate the spell checker. Is there a way to turn the bloody thing off? I’ve got a Dutch FF3 and now all I typed has got red dots under it. It’s horrible!