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Why You Will Love FireFox 3?

guardian.co.uk — The new version of Firefox feels much faster. The notorious memory leaks of flavors of 2.0 are plugged. The developers claim 3.0's Javascript performance is 9.3 times faster than IE7's and 2.7 times faster than its predecessor. They also claim 15,000 improvements to the old version - most of those are under the hood...

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  • upick, on 06/26/2008, -21/+14much faster for sure.. but digg is still crashing...maybe I've got too many plugins?
    • ISurfTooMuch, on 06/26/2008, -3/+17Not sure what your issue is. Digg works just fine for me. In fact, FF3 has been rock solid ever since I got it. Not one crash.
    • lcmatt, on 06/26/2008, -3/+20FF3 handles comments without locking up but navigating away from the page causes hassle still. Many times I've had the "stop script or continue" message while trying to close the tab.

      If Digg removed all the JS bloat which they seem to love the website would run smoother. (now that Reddit is open source why not take a look at how they handle the comments)
      • greenmountain, on 06/26/2008, -3/+4Reddit just works.

        Digg:
        "You want to stop this ***** script" Yes,please.
      • subliminalurge, on 06/26/2008, -0/+5Yep. This computer that I'm on now, while not a speed demon by any stretch of the imagination, still runs everything I throw at it just fine and without delays. Except a digg page. Stories with 300 or so comments can peg my CPU to 100% for several minutes at a time.

        This comment system is, to use a technical term, a huge pile of *****. It's way too bloated and resource intensive given the limited functionality it offers.
    • FreakyT, on 06/26/2008, -2/+7Are you using Vista? Firefox 3 crashes constantly without reason (with or without plugins/extensions) on many Vista machines.
      • malfourmed, on 06/26/2008, -0/+5And most of the time the crash doesn't invoke the Mozilla crash reporting tool either which makes it more difficult to feed diagnostics info back to Mozilla.

        Vista's diagnosis message indicates (in my case at least) that mozcrt19.dll is almost always the fault module, though js3250.dll has also been reported.

        My copy of Firefox 3 crashes about a dozen times a day - on all sorts of websites (including very basic HTML pages, ie no Flash, Java or Javascript) and regardless of whether I'm actively using the browser or not (though it quite often falls over when I'm typing in the awesome bar).

        Luckily with the Session Manager add-on this instability (whether caused by FF, Vista or both) is only annoying rather than totally frustrating.
        • FreakyT, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3Sounds like you're having the same problem I'm having--I'm seriously considering switching back to IE if they don't fix the problems.
        • tehmoth, on 06/26/2008, -2/+1word isn't done til lotus won't run!
        • darchons, on 06/26/2008, -0/+0The crash not getting caught by the Crash Reporter is because of a bug in Flash 9. If you install Flash 10 beta the crashes will start to get caught.
          http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html
    • fyngyrz, on 06/26/2008, -5/+6Not just crashing -- it still consume ridiculous amounts of memory and should be restarted regularly. In Activity Monitor, FF starts at about 40-odd MB consumed (which in itself is fairly ridiculous) but climbs steadily until I notice it's five to ten times that, at which point I kill it.

      It also gets into weird states with some sites where it'll open a connection and just suck data, filling my downstream pipe, until I kill it. it isn't writing files, it's just connected to something and requesting packets and near as I can tell, doing nothing with them at least as far as my filesystem goes.

      Digg is faster, but that isn't to say it isn't still pig-slow. Some sites, particularly those that have many images on a page, are much faster. Looks like they finally took a lesson from Opera and opened more streams at once.

      I like the full page zoom, and I also *really* like being able to drag bookmarks around in the menus so that they are where they ought to be. I wish I could delete them there too (without opening the "Organize Bookmarks" thang) but at least I can keep things organized now as I go. The whole site security thing... that's busted. Sites I know to be perfectly secure aren't indicated as such, so it's misleading. That means that other sites I go to that I don't know to be secure -- but are -- aren't indicated as such, either. It's useful in that it might catch one the community knows sucks, but insofar as rating ebay green and secure... no, hardly. That site is FULL of scammers. So I can't say I think too much of this "feature."
      • br0ck, on 06/26/2008, -1/+2The nightly tester tools add-on has a neat little memory leak detection tool that you may want to try.
        https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/654 ...
        Firefox 2 leaked all over the place, buy I have yet to see anything like that in Firefox 3.

        You can right-click and delete a bookmark in the toolbars and in the menu.
        • fyngyrz, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1Right-clicking does nothing under OS X.

          As for the memory leaks, I just keep an eye on it and kill it when it gets out of hand. They'll figure it out eventually. They just haven't done so yet.
    • Bouncer169, on 06/26/2008, -14/+2Opera is better than all of the other browsers, and has the "Awesome Bar", Switch now! http://www.opera.com
      • Zounas, on 06/26/2008, -1/+2Shh, we Opera users should keep it to ourselves.

        /facepalm
    • zwaldowski, on 06/26/2008, -1/+3Try backing up your profile (bookmarks and passwords, mostly) and reinstalling Firefox.
    • br0ck, on 06/26/2008, -1/+5Are you using any of the 'problematic extensions'?
      http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions

      Have you tried the standard diagnostics? (Run in safe mode or create a new profile and see if things are better.) http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Fi ...

      One nice add-on if you need to do a clean re-install is the password backup and restore add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/284 ...
      • Markpdotcom, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2Christ thats a lot of "problematic extensions!"

        Most of them I'm using! Damn...
    • Markpdotcom, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3My FF3 is soooo slow to start, anyone else experiencing that?
      I have a 3GHZ, 2GB, laptop.
      Once its open its great, and I like how it automatically saves your opened tabs now when exiting! Should have been like that from the start!
    • JigoroKano, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2I've been running FF3 on Windows XP since it came out and haven't had a single crash.
      I used to get FF2 crashes about once a month.
  • bitterscream, on 06/26/2008, -4/+42Bookmarks and the "amazing bar".
    • sint4x, on 06/26/2008, -1/+8I second the "amazing bar" - It really speaks to my laziness.

      That and the improved speed.
    • ho0ber, on 06/26/2008, -0/+12Isn't it the AwesomeBar? And Doesn't everyone hate it because it is huge?
      • Markpdotcom, on 06/26/2008, -1/+10And that it shows all the porn links you've got stashed! Damn you AwesomeBar! Damn you!
        • Smills, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3I personally love the AwesomeBar, it makes it a lot quicker to find old sites. Additionally, no-one I know cares if they see a porn link in my browser, so that isn't a problem. Maybe you should stop looking at gay porn?
        • Lazydriver, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1Under 18 and Nazi Parents equals Disguising your Browser History
    • gn0stik, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2First, I agree with all the points in the article, and have been using FF3 since beta. However, I've noticed some strange problems with it. Both clean and with the extensions I'm using. It seems to bug out on some websites. For example: When I navigate to some sites, it seems to get itself into some odd endless loop loading images. Other times when clicking on an image link, it won't display it. It just throws an error saying that the image is corrupt. However, it loads fine in Opera and IE. I've also noticed some strangeness when it tries to open PDFs in line using acrobat full.

      Has anyone else noticed these oddities?

      I'm using fairly innocuous extensions and addons, and have uninstalled or disabled each one to see if the problem would go away.

      Adblock
      IEtab
      Google toolbar
      Stumbleupon.

      In this particular install I'm also running

      Yslow and
      Webdeveloper

      It's been doing this since beta, and before google toolbar for ff3 or Stumbleupon for ff3 was released. I don't think it's an extension, and I'm pretty sure I remember it doing it naked. Strange bug anyway.

      Still love it. Oh, and I personally love the awesome bar. Change the font if you don't like it. Still would like to be able to delete specific entries in it, though without having to clear all private data.
      • plague, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1I never noticed the problem you describe, but I just wanted to add that you can delete specific entries in the awesome bar list. Just move your mouse cursor over the one you want gone and press delete.
  • Rudegar, on 06/26/2008, -30/+5firefox is 2th only to opera on my greatests browser list
  • hasslinthehoff, on 06/26/2008, -2/+34Not for the use of grammar and punctuation in the title, that's fer sure.
  • gllopc, on 06/26/2008, -1/+81Statements shouldn't end with question marks?

    Should have been:

    "Why You Will Love Firefox 3", or at least "Why Will You Love Firefox 3?".
    • Gudath, on 06/26/2008, -8/+6Thanks for the grammar lesson?
    • Frost9999, on 06/26/2008, -3/+15I'm Ron Burgundy?
    • Zounas, on 06/26/2008, -1/+3I agree?
    • Archon810, on 06/26/2008, -1/+3or Why You Already Love Firefox 3 Since Launch Day And If You Don't Yet, Then Download It You Lazy Bastard.
    • cobophers, on 06/26/2008, -2/+6Did firefox 3.0 cook me breakfast this morning?
      • Markpdotcom, on 06/26/2008, -0/+7No, that was your mom... ;)
      • cobophers, on 06/26/2008, -0/+7Touche :(
      • TSSaloic, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1No, but Google and Facebook made you a nice Bacn and Spam bagel sandwich.
    • sgtpppr, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2It was submitted by a valley girl.
  • Unliving, on 06/26/2008, -26/+4opera is better ,so no love for ff3
    • Lyk4n, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3At this point, choosing which browser you prefer is like choosing your religion, no certain one is better, as long as you don't pick Scientology or IE7 and below..
  • BarryDobson, on 06/26/2008, -9/+45oh good. Another Firefox 3 story.
    • zerocool1990, on 06/26/2008, -8/+4After the hype surrounding FF3 I finally converted from IE7.
      Talk about meh!! Nothing really special, crashed 20 times and I miss the drag and drop feature.
      • mahler, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3I understand that crashing is a very big bubble popper. I have experienced crashes with both IE7 and Fx3... can't say which occur more often, so I quite they're about the same.

        I think the hype is mostly because of the big differences between Fx2 and Fx3.

        It's interesting though, that so many long term Firefox users seem to have trouble going back to IE.
        Why do you think this is?
  • FlyingPhotog, on 06/26/2008, -2/+2I love it for its versatility.
  • mikeglobal, on 06/26/2008, -2/+3i like it...very fast but ya there are some issues with the pluggins but i'm sure this will be fixed pretty soon
    • texpundit, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2That's the main problem I have. I love FF3 and it runs fine on my machine, but the plugin devs are being WAY slow. Half or more of the plugins I use have *still* not been updated in any way.
  • myranttoyou, on 06/26/2008, -13/+6Another biased anti-MSFT fluff piece from the guardian, why am I not surprised? Hasn't FF3 been covered by now?
  • diggnationer, on 06/26/2008, -7/+4more like why i do love firefox 3
  • brulec, on 06/26/2008, -3/+64I'm Ron Burgundy?
  • OpeyKicksAss, on 06/26/2008, -4/+23I love it because everyone else loves it...yaayyy following
    • bugsysservant, on 06/26/2008, -2/+14Dugg for having already been dugg up by others.
  • warbird, on 06/26/2008, -2/+13Yet another FF article with the same content we have seen 10s of times.
  • schnikies79, on 06/26/2008, -2/+7I'm really not liking the awesome bar, or the new default theme. I would rather have the default 2.x theme.

    Other than that, it's pretty good.
  • gusc, on 06/26/2008, -3/+12Yep, much faster startup, but after one week still some 300Mb of RAM consumption.
    • johnholden, on 06/26/2008, -2/+5I'm at 300MB within 24 hours... which memory leaks did they plug?
    • passedoutghost, on 06/26/2008, -1/+0How many tabs and plugins do you guys have? I'm at 170mb now and it's been opened for about 2/3 hours with 9 tabs and about 10 plugins. Very happy with it compared to FF2.
    • thefinger, on 06/26/2008, -2/+2shut down and restart the ***** browser.... it won't kill you
  • desmondageratte, on 06/26/2008, -1/+2I don't like the address bar, it only show 12 address, is there a way to make it scroll down like the old one?
  • mattacheck, on 06/26/2008, -8/+1I had to downgrade right away...none of my extensions worked. It's like getting a brand new car...

    And it winds up being a chevy cavalier with roll-up windows and no ac.
    • AppleGeorge, on 06/26/2008, -6/+1How the ***** do you know I have a Cavalier with roll up windows and no AC?!!

      Stalker.

      I got a rockin system, though. Oh, and I dugg you up just because you obviously stalk me and know how much my car sucks, so you obviously must like me.
    • mickstephenson, on 06/26/2008, -1/+7Your plugins are not maintained by Mozilla, they will be updated WHEN and IF the maintainer can be bothered. You should be glad that the plugin community exists at all rather than slamming Firefox 3 for something that is out of Mozilla's hands.
    • hiPpymIck, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1if youre feeling adventurous..Nightly Tester Tools..
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZgWJqXQ8Sc
  • Omega037, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3Those mem leaks in 2.0 were the bane of my existence. New version still has a few kinks to work out, but is nothing like the "restart firefox every 3 hours" that was going on before.
  • browny1978, on 06/26/2008, -11/+3I WENT BACK TO FF2, CANT STAND THAT ADDRESS BAR THINGY, JUST FULL OF CRAPPY LINKS, I LIKE THE BAR TO HAVE ONLY THE LINKS IVE TYPED
    • kupa, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3fyi: you can turn that off so FF3's address bar is the same as FF2's. I can't imagine switching back to FF2's memory leaks and slowness because of one feature personally.
    • mickstephenson, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3Even with 'cruise control for cool' firmly engaged that comment sucked.
    • hiPpymIck, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2i find it useful for navigating around Digg..

      i just type 'd' in the address bar and it usually immediately gives me a direct link to maybe the last ten Digg pages ive been on

      ..so i can jump around my Digging activities quicker

      i assume it would also work with 'e' on ebay say
    • Stemp, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2Oldbar extension :
      https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/622 ...
    • TSSaloic, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1CALM DOWN!!!!!!
  • xoticpt, on 06/26/2008, -6/+12your right memory leak plugged, b/c it's consuming 115MB of memory for 1 open tab. Thats INSANE. Granted I have 4GB of memory but it's using more memory than an idle session of photoshop.
  • lcmatt, on 06/26/2008, -3/+6The awesome bar has stopped me from using the bookmarks section completely. Just type in word or tag and instantly the page I want is waiting to be opened. Probably the best feature in FF3.
  • AppleGeorge, on 06/26/2008, -3/+33Firefox 3 is so two weeks ago. Come on.
  • x00x, on 06/26/2008, -2/+3The aspect of why I love Firefox is the ability to customize my browser experience,one that is sorely undermined by the abject inability for those specific add-ons, themes to be enabled in Firefox 3.

    After failing to customize it to my specifications I re-installed 2.0.0.14 and couldn't be happier.
    • Joetwopointoh, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2Naturally FF cannot be responsible for everyone who's ever written an add-on updating their applications compatibility in an expeditious manner.

      Add-Ons are simply optional attachments and as such their respective authors are responsible for keeping them functioning with their host platform. It's not as if there weren't beta versions available for these authors to work with in accomplishing this task.

  • AntoniusMaximus, on 06/26/2008, -3/+6I just can't accurately describe how Firefox is superior. It just "feels" better. IE still feels like a patchwork front-end for a tentacular back-end solution, while Firefox feels like an extension of the Internet. It -is- the Internet. I don't know if I am conveying this properly, but this is the feeling I always had, and it strengthened with every release.
    • FireXtol, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1Try Opera. You'll drop FireFox like a network drops a bad sitcom.
  • dupswapdrop, on 06/26/2008, -5/+2I changed over to opera because it's very fast on displaying html. It even works very well with digg!
  • praetorian1, on 06/26/2008, -6/+11It's a web browser not a ***** religion.

    I understand if people like it better than the other alternatives, but why the hell do people care so deeply that OTHER people like it, too?
    • Aidje, on 06/26/2008, -0/+7We need approval from others. Please, love Firefox with us. It will confirm the validity of our own love.

      (Please don't think I'm making fun of Firefox users. Well, I guess I am, but only because I am one.)
    • Eric3k, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2It's the best way to promote open source for one thing. It was my introduction it anyway. Before that I was also googling all kinds of virus and malware to get rid of it which I don't now. Mozilla also seems to try and make the product better whether you agree with all the decisions or not. Even tho I couldn't make an addon if my life depended on it it was nice I could contact an addon creator and get personal feedback and actual results. It's also a good feeling if you run across someone who has constant problems with malware to suggest this browser and they stop having those issues. It's not a religion... but the product has done well for a lot people.
  • takatoo, on 06/26/2008, -7/+2My Rikaichan doesn't work. :(
    だから日本語分からん
    • christophe971, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1mine is working very well.
      version 1.02 on "Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0"

      3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3

    • thellamafarm, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1umm dakara.nihongo.???.karan?
      • warbird, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2wakaran, colloquial form of wakaranai

        and rikaichan should work.
      • thellamafarm, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1ahhh my 2 years experience of japanese
  • bookemdano63, on 06/26/2008, -7/+0"Feels faster" and fixed a memory leak? Why would I download this?
  • staceystamps, on 06/26/2008, -7/+1Obviously I am in the minority, but I have not been able to understand the fascination people have with FireFox. I read the hype, downloaded the browser, customized it with top-rated plug-ins that everyone raved about, and still cannot see any noticeable improvement over IE7.
    • hiPpymIck, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3did you try AdBlock Plus..that produces a very noticeable improvement over IE7 haha

      if you learn how to use it - Cooliris is like a magic spare screen and Btw its also compatible with IE7

      you have to prepared to spend hours trying different add ons..but its worth it in the end IMHO
    • dgaspard, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2You don't developer websites do you? Anyone who has ever had to mess javascript, CSS and some html knows why you hate IE7.

      AdBlock is nice but, Firebug and the web developer toolbar is makes FF > IE
    • staceystamps, on 06/26/2008, -1/+1No, I am not a website developer, just the average person that uses the internet for 4+ hours per day (combination of work and leisure).

      I have experimented with Opera and Avant in the past and finally decided to give FF a shot after the constant deluge of stories hitting Digg's front page.

      Perhaps the hype gave me unrealistic expectations, but everyone seemed to believe this was the second coming and really all I see is a slightly different looking version of IE that has a thicker toolbar, requires me to install plug-ins to watch videos that IE never had an issue with, and doesn't seem to like my corporate intranet pages too well.

      As for the plug-ins/add-ons, I spent about 2 hours this week researching the best ones, experimenting, but all I found of use was Cool Iris. The rest of them remind of the David Cross bit on "Electric Scissors" - i.e., they save you on average 3 minutes over the course of your life.
      • Atomic1fire, on 06/26/2008, -0/+4Its not internet explorer with a different toolbar
        Internet explorer and firefox are completely different browsers
        with completely different setups
        Internet explorer is embeded into windows which unfortionatly means restarting the computer when you need to update or uninstall an update
        firefox is able to do well without playing with your windows installation
        Firefox's toolbar can be modify rather easily using using view>toolbar>customize
        and you can also do it by left clicking the top menu area
        try using IE7with menu bar before you call firefox thick
        as IE7 is slightly thicker but you can remove the bookmark bar in firefox and the menubar in IE7 and it still is thicker then firefox
      • FireXtol, on 06/26/2008, -2/+1Less stuff works in FireFox. And uh.... Opera is the world's best browser.
  • jcaino, on 06/26/2008, -1/+4It's faster and slicker than greased-up deaf guy.
  • trumpydumpy, on 06/26/2008, -1/+3"The notorious memory leaks of flavors of 2.0 are plugged."

    That's interesting, I get a memory leak when trying to sign out of gmail sometimes. Also google maps doesn't work at all, shows "loading..." in the map window but doesn't ever load the map. Yes, I have tried reinstalling. Don't have either of these problems in 2.0
    • rocke86, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1I get the gmail crash all the time even after clean install and profile deletion and safe mode. The temporary fix is to set gmail for html mode but I miss standard gmail. I'll try renabling it after the next update.
  • NeoSeo, on 06/26/2008, -6/+1I find it significantly slower than Opera and far less secure. Too much malware now targets FF/Moz.
  • Th3Zodiac, on 06/26/2008, -2/+4I love FF3 but why does it still take over 30 seconds to start up?
    • Tyr7BE, on 06/26/2008, -1/+8Because you're using a 486? I hit my firefox shortcut and 1 second later I'm looking at my home page.
    • thefinger, on 06/26/2008, -1/+1because you're using a slow-ass computer for one thing?... but the big reason is, you don't maintain it very well, or you don't maintain it at all

      all the major browsers run just fine on this system... some regular maintenance has been the ticket.... Even that piece of *****, Safari, runs ok.
      • FireXtol, on 06/26/2008, -1/+1Cuz it's a bloated piece of ***** put together by a bunch of losers with no real jobs? Get Opera.
  • marike, on 06/26/2008, -0/+0I would love it if Firebug worked with FF3. Without it, not so much. No amount of improvements can make up for the lack of the best part of Firefox: Firebug.
  • kip0130, on 06/26/2008, -1/+3Does anyone else get this bug?

    Once you close Firefox sometimes it will not respond and send your CPU into 99% usage.
    • Zounas, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1Totally, even if it has the lowest priority.
    • exabytes16, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1Slow to reply, but yes. I think it has something to do with plugin's not playing nicely with each other. I must kill the process manually when it happens.
  • JMJimmy, on 06/26/2008, -1/+10I love FF but this version isn't stable. Multiple systems all showing crash bugs when the browser is left minimized, remains in memory after closing, forgets clicks (ie: click link, wait, wait, wait, no timeout error nothing, you have to click again or it acts as if nothing has been clicked besides changing the status message)

    Maybe by 3.0.1 they'll get it fixed.
  • p51d007, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2Soon as all of my plugins are compatible, I'll switch. Plus, by that time, I'm sure they will push the .01 version out. As good as FF is, I just don't like screwing with .0 versions of anything.
  • gergllih, on 06/26/2008, -3/+1IE crashed when I was reading this article. I think its a sign.
  • nerdee, on 06/26/2008, -2/+1It sure is alot faster
  • Wartyboskfapped, on 06/26/2008, -1/+1I just want BlackJapan extension to work, that's all I want from it.
  • erichw1504, on 06/26/2008, -2/+4Where's Firefox 4?
  • exscape, on 06/26/2008, -4/+2"The notorious memory leaks of flavors of 2.0 are plugged". Oh really... Not on OS X I'm afraid. I restart it 3-4 times a day, usually when in goes above 320-340MB. I still love it, but come on. Oh, and yeah, I've tried it with no extensions, too. And no, I'm not a tab-o-maniac. 1-2 most of the time, with a peak of perhaps 6 when loading up pages to read.
    • jlcotton1968, on 06/26/2008, -1/+1Ditto my friend. Ditto.

      I couldn't take it anymore and reverted back to Safari.

      BTW, when Safari 4 is released, a lot of current Mac Firefox users are going to go back en masse.
  • poiuytrewq44, on 06/26/2008, -0/+2It's ok, my only disappointment is that it won't allow you to choose whether you trust a site's security certificate for SSH tunneling if it finds any "problems" with it.
  • paulieman, on 06/26/2008, -3/+4P0rn sites load faster!!
  • wraithscelus, on 06/26/2008, -6/+6Opera 9.5
  • djcraze, on 06/26/2008, -11/+5Safari FTW.
  • tankdilla, on 06/26/2008, -1/+2I've found that if you disable all add-ons, it crashes less. But it will still crash for no apparent reason.
    • thefinger, on 06/26/2008, -1/+1It crashes because:

      1. there is something screwed up about your computer
      2. there is something screwed up about your approach to maintaining it, that is if you have any approach at all.
    • wonderbriefs, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1firefox 2 never used to crash. 3 crashes out of nowhere. Hopefully this gets addressed soon.
  • diecastbeatdown, on 06/26/2008, -0/+1FF3 is great, but many of my favorite add-ons are broken and I'm having to use both Firefox2 and 3 (installed into two different dirs).
  • bblande, on 06/26/2008, -0/+3Comment buried for inaccurately calling it the "amazing bar."

    It's the awesome bar, and it's not *that* awesome...but the speed of FF3 is.
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