Firefox 3 User reviews  Editors' choice

By Robert Vamosi on 18/06/2008

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The good:

  • Faster rendering
  • Vastly reduced use of system resources
  • Clever new data-mining tools for bookmarks and browser history
  • More security features than any other browser

The bad:

  • No support for Windows 95, 98 and Me
  • No support for Mac OS X versions 10.2 and earlier

The bottomline:

If only for the speed, lightness of being and security alone, Firefox remains our Editors' Choice for best internet browser.

Buying choices:

Editors' rating:

8/10

Users' rating:

9.3/10

Tags:

3 | browser | firefox | mozilla

PMM
19/06/2008, 11:43 AM

rating
8/10

Just downloaded, pretty good.

Pros: Love the 'awesome bar', when you start typing address, will come up with suggestions from history, favourites etc. Pretty accurate!

Cons: The full version of Windows live mail (Hotmail) is not yet compatible with FF3, so reverts to classic view which is frustrating!!

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Brian
18/06/2008, 03:08 PM

rating
10/10

that con at the start should say

'no support for Mac OS X 10.3 and earlier'

It requires 10.4 or newer versions!

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Blah
18/06/2008, 02:48 PM

rating
10/10

i've been using it for several hours, and the rendering speeds are pretty much like firefox2, at least for myself

Pros: and it supports the scribblies brite theme!!!

Cons: still waiting for it to crash on me

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