FireFox 3 Upgrade Available

vindictive666 (John) · #1 18-07-2008, 07:35 AM

morning all

just to let all the firefox 3 users know that an upgrade is available

version 3.01

regards john

MrB (Simon) · #2 21-07-2008, 06:38 PM

Interesting, never even knew v3 was released.
Still have v2 and it just auto-updated a day or two ago to 2.0.0.16, I guess that means Firefox doesn't auto-update to major revisions....
Thanks.

Starkler (Geoff) · #3 21-07-2008, 07:10 PM

I'm also using FF2 . Is there any reason why I should or should not update?

Bloodbean (Troy) · #4 21-07-2008, 07:38 PM

The speed of Firefox v3 has just amazed me, especially when logging into Gmail! I highly recommend it, note some extensions may not work (although all mine did okay).

Troy

MrB (Simon) · #5 21-07-2008, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by MrB

I guess that means Firefox doesn't auto-update to major revisions....

Actually, the more I think about it, the more I remember(Danger!) Firefox auto-updating from v1.5 to v2... strange.
Thanks Troy, gonna give v3 a try, does it overwrite previous installs?

vindictive666 (John) · #6 22-07-2008, 07:03 AM

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Originally Posted by MrB

Actually, the more I think about it, the more I remember(Danger!) Firefox auto-updating from v1.5 to v2... strange.
Thanks Troy, gonna give v3 a try, does it overwrite previous installs?

yes it does unless youve done something differnt your self it even keeps your settings

however some plugins wont work with version 3

until they catch up (allso version 3.01 Available)

regards john

iceman (Mike) · #7 22-07-2008, 07:19 AM

FF3 is great. Geoff it's well worth the download and install. Much much quicker, more stable, less memory intensive.

Lismore Bloke (Paul) · #8 24-07-2008, 08:52 PM

Firefox is an excellent browser. Very stable. I literally haven't picked up a virus or trojan since installing it (not that I know of anyway!!) - much better and more secure than Internet Explorer, even if it takes a bit longer to load up. We use it at work on all our Windows systems. Have given IE the flick.

Terry B · #9 24-07-2008, 09:59 PM

I am using FF3 and it is certainly faster at loading pages. However it seems to be much slower to start up compared to the older version.

Starkler (Geoff) · #10 25-07-2008, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Terry B

I am using FF3 and it is certainly faster at loading pages. However it seems to be much slower to start up compared to the older version.

I noticed that too after upgrading (thanks Mike).

For anyone still using IE, firefox is much nicer and seems so much faster than IE in loading pages, which appears to wait until every ad and bit of crap is downloaded before displaying anything.

iceman (Mike) · #11 25-07-2008, 05:05 AM

Absolutely, that's one of the strengths of FF - it starts displaying the page straight away whereas IE doesn't show anything until the very end.

Kal (Andrew) · #12 25-07-2008, 09:15 AM

I use both IE & Firefox, some webpages I prefer with one or the other

MrB (Simon) · #13 25-07-2008, 02:29 PM

Ditto, still have IE installed(grrrr) 'coz FF occasionally garbles a page (text over images anyone?)
But it hasn't happened for a while.

Edit: oh, and I have a couple of (non-MS) programs that insist IE is installed, they don't work without it, very annoying.

mojo (Terry) · #14 25-07-2008, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by MrB

Ditto, still have IE installed(grrrr) 'coz FF occasionally garbles a page (text over images anyone?)
But it hasn't happened for a while.

It did happen in v2 occasionally and fixed itself on a page refresh. I haven't seen it happen in FF3 though.

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Originally Posted by MrB

Edit: oh, and I have a couple of (non-MS) programs that insist IE is installed, they don't work without it, very annoying.

Don't you just hate that. Microsoft SDK's for instance