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Firefox 3 Already Rules the Roost
Barence writes in with a data point on Firefox 3 adoption: it's been available for 10 days, and already one site is seeing 55% of its Firefox-using visitors on version 3. "Microsoft still has three out of ten people running an old version of its browser more than 18 months after Internet Explorer 7 launched, while Firefox has converted more than half of its users to the latest version in just over a week. That should set a few alarm bells ringing in Redmond."
I've had some significant issues on both my PC and Mac with FF3. They all seem to revolve around JavaScript. When in GMail, navigating away from GMail via a new site in the address bar in the same tab hangs FF3 entirely. This is on my Windows machine. When in Facebook on my Mac at home, clicking any of the various links that execute javascript popups for DHTML hangs the site. I can navigate through links that are more classic hrefs that instantiate other requests through the browser, but clicking on things like the Name of someone in their status just fails. Anyone else experience this?
There is a difference between my Ethernet not working and colored tabs.
Not if "my Ethernet" is a euphemism for "my cable" aka "my penis" and "colored tabs" means your little blue tablets. :-)
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
For those of us still using OS X on powerpc (that's many thousands of users, BTW, my machine's from November 2005) FF3 crashes instantly -- and then the crash reporter exits without being able to send a report. And Moz has never provided a binary of FF for those of us who like to use FreeBSD. Because of course we've got nothing more important to do with our time than compile a huge pile of browser code, right?
I love Firefox on Linux, but most of my time is spent on OS X and FreeBSD. I guess they're big enough now they just don't care... At least seamonkey still works fine on my Mac, but looks like I have to wait until next spring's ugrade to install FF3. Think I'll still want to? I thought about building it for the Mac from source, but if Moz devs can't even get that right then I'd probably just be wasting my time. Meh. Opera's a lot faster anyway, and they even give you a binary for FBSD.
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