Firefox 3 is out.

Firefox 3 (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/) is out and it blows everyone out of the waters in terms of features and performance (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,368182,00.html).

Quick question. If you have Firefox 2 and d/l Firefox 3, did you have to reinstall all your add-ons, themes, etc.? If that's the case, I may wait a bit until I have time to reinstall all the stuff I hvae...

Quick question. If you have Firefox 2 and d/l Firefox 3, did you have to reinstall all your add-ons, themes, etc.? If that's the case, I may wait a bit until I have time to reinstall all the stuff I hvae...


I'm a Linux user and I'm not sure what happens in Windows world. In Linux Firefox 3 picks up all your plugins from Firefox 2 upon first start up and ask you to update your plugins. Note that some plugins that work in Firefox 2 won't work on Firefox 3...when they eventually do FF3 wlll inform you and ask if you want to update them. Anywho, if I had to guess I would guess the Windows version operates similarly.

Sweet. Something to do this afternoon while I'm working on web mockups.

I'm a Linux user and I'm not sure what happens in Windows world. In Linux Firefox 3 picks up all your plugins from Firefox 2 upon first start up and ask you to update your plugins. Note that some plugins that work in Firefox 2 won't work on Firefox 3...when they eventually do FF3 wlll inform you and ask if you want to update them. Anywho, if I had to guess I would guess the Windows version operates similarly.
That's exactly what it does in Windows.

V. 3 rules. Everything is much faster and just looks better.

Firefox is all I use

I'm using IE 7 lol. What is so much better about Firefox?

I think the reason I'm still using IE 7 is because I'm pretty content with it. I like the security features, and that whole feature about the address bar knowing where you want to go in Firefox isn't really that big for me because like 95% of the web pages I go to are bookmarked and organized on the left hand side of my screen, so I never have to type in a url unless i'm going to a site that I don't already have bookmarked.

yay! been using it since pre1.0, and it's great. 2.x got rid of TONS of memory leaks which was the only real compliant i ever had.

most of that article discuss stuff (like the awesome bar) that's been around a while.

and if you have old plugin you really need, you can hex edit their version numbers to match firefox (what i've been doing to session saver since 1.6) and most should work.