Stu.H

Had reports off a few mates that its noticeably faster and also seems more 'solid'.

Might go and have to have a ganders

Fil

been using 3 beta for a few weeks on my linux pc, seems all good, instaled it earlier on my window pc, not used it yet, but can see it being all good!

Madbradz

Is it the same sort of thing as bitcomet?

Adam

ballin

iTrader: (1)

in a nutshell, no.

SteveT

Firefox 3 in use here


It is a web browser. An alternative to Internet Explorer if you like.
I've been using Firefox for years - much better than IE. Everyone should use it IMO.
This new version does seem faster too.

Madbradz

Ahh ok. haha

Sorry I thought it was a new Download Client!

GARETH T

http://www.download.com/mozilla-firefox/?tag=fd_hed

firefox user here!

slim20012

i downloaed it but keep getting an error message saying it cant connect so im stumped back to ie for me

BM08

Ive been using it for over a year aswell.

Mozilla went for a world record yesterday evening for the most software downloads in 24hours http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

Fil

and the servers went tits up for a few hours.

they are saying over 7million downloads yesterday

Roosie

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dloaded it dont seem much different

BM08

if you had the version under 3.0 like the beta or something then no you wont see much difference, most of it is security stuff.

If you come from a really old version for some reason then you should see a difference

TIFF

Where do i download the new version???

Stu.H

www.firefox.com

St3V3_C

Does it support ActiveX?

That makes it fookin useless for me

It's what I'm using (old one) right now, on the Eeepc, but I don't like it...

L33 BYT

Thanks for the heads up.
Just downloaded.

NoGutsNoGlory

It does anything that IE does.
Firefox just does it better

Less spyware, less adware, and so on

Been using firefox since the first release

TIFF

downloaded too

Fil

hmm got the fire fox icon on my desktop. click and opens firefox as it should


but when i click the ie icon it opens firefox? need it to open ie

quick fix please as she wont be to impressed when using the pc tomorrow

Stu.H

Start/Programs
You will see your "internet explorer" listed there

RIGHT click on it, and "send to" > "desktop (create shortcut)".

Should work ok I think..

Turbocabbie

You are wrong, this is not correct - it does not do everything IE does with regards to ActiveX !!

Since ActiveX applies only to the Windows platform, it is unsuitable for Firefox which is available across multiple platforms. Currently, there is no mechanism by which you can use ActiveX controls in Firefox 2.0 or later.

Until recently, a third-party plugin provided ActiveX functionality for Firefox. The Mozilla ActiveX Plug-in provided partial ActiveX support for Firefox 1.5 and earlier versions. By default, these ActiveX plugins were configured to execute only the two Windows Media Player ActiveX controls, which enabled the playback of video content through the Windows controls. There is a configuration file that can be used to enable other ActiveX controls. For details, see Adam Lock's site.
The plugins for Netscape, Mozilla Suite, and Mozilla Firefox were created by Adam Lock and are maintained on his site, which has not been updates since 2005. These plugins do not work with Firefox 2.0 or later.

http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm

Also being closed source its very unlikely that ActiveX functionality will ever become available on the Linux distro being run on the eeec pc being used in this instance

St3V3_C

Great LOL

I've still not found anything FF does better than IE7?

BM08

Theres a couple of things for me, one is the way you put all your favorite bookmarks in the top task bar so you dont need to click on "favorites" and look on a separate menu. Number 2 the extensions, you can add loads of extra stuff like gmail notifier, it sits on one of the bars and tells you when and if you have new email, without opening any site.
oh and if your pc crashes or you have a powercut and you have a webpage open, when you next restart the pc it will offer you to resume from where you left off................... i could keep going

dunketh

I've been using it since it was called 'Firebird'.
Sod knows why they wanted to rename it after an old Clint Eastwood film.

By far the best browser and I've tried most.
I even tried Safari for the PC the other day, free from Crapple.
It was shite so I went back to good old Moz.

IE7 is very good - but thats only because they've finally caught up with Firefox.

G2RSR

There's lots of add-ons for firefox such has image zoom , forcastfox , speak it etc

thousands of skins and tweaks to make it even faster it does look abit boring when you first download it but you can turn it into anything you like

Turbocabbie

on your Linux i would always personally run the optimized builds of Firefox which are faster than standard

http://getswiftfox.com

only other thing I can say is better is the interface and thats a matter of opinion, in general most browsers have all the nice features like tabbed browsing these days.

cozmeister

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Seems to be spanking Firefox 2's candy-ass right now!

Fil

cheers that sorted it