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Firefox 3 Already Rules the Roost

Posted by kdawson on from the good-press-will-do-that-for-you dept.

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."

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  1. Great by mplsdeveloperdude · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But I just downgraded to FF2. Firebug beta add on is killing the memory usage, and yslow interferes with WebDevelopers toolbar... Sorry, Mozilla, but you upset one of your most loyal users.

    1. Re:Great by chill · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      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. :-)

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  2. GMail Issues with FF3? by JavaSavant · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    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?

  3. I'll stick with Firefox 2.x, thank you very much by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Firefox 2.x only crashes three times a day compared to the five to ten I get with version 3. I'll stick with the older one.

    I just have to keep telling the update program not to upgrade. Believe me, Linux is just as annoying about auto-updates as is Windows.

  4. Still prefer Safari 3 on Mac by rosenkrieger · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I still prefer Safari on my Mac. I used to love Firefox on my Windows machine, but since last year and my switch to the Mac for my purposes I simply love Safari 3. And with the typical Addons like Saft, Stand and Pith Helmet as plugins it's got all I want/need plus its really "snappy" ;-)

  5. Re:Why alarm bells? by clang_jangle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    New fastest way to get modded down on /.: say Firefox isn't as great as people claim it is.



    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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