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Mozilla Firefox is a web browser, gopher client and FTP client project descended from the Mozilla Application Suite, managed by the Mozilla Corporation. Firefox had 16.80% of the recorded market share... More


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Excellent Browser

I've used Firefox in the past but not since I purchased my new laptop. I've just installed Firefox 3 and easily imported my MS Explorer settings over. So far so good. One thing that I've noticed is that Firefox seems to have fixed the page formatting problems that they used to have where page content would overlay another. That's the reason why I stopped using Firefox because it occurred with a website that I accessed daily. I've just tried this website and the problems are gone. So, I'm back to Firefox.


I've noticed that Firefox is slower in spots but not enough to be concerned with.


If all goes well I'll be retiring MS Explorer soon.


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Excellent Browser


Firefox  by an anonymous user on August 30th 2008 at 01:25 PM

I've used Firefox in the past but not since I purchased my new laptop. I've just installed Firefox 3 and easily imported my MS Explorer settings over. So far so good. One thing that I've noticed is that Firefox seems to have fixed the page formatting problems that they used to have where page content would overlay another. That's the reason why I stopped using Firefox because it occurred with a website that I accessed daily. I've just tried this website and the problems are gone. So, I'm back to Firefox.


I've noticed that Firefox is slower in spots but not enough to be concerned with.


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3.0 Is Batter Then 2.0

but still slowly


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4 Essential Plugins For Firefox

Without these, I wouldn't use Firefox.


1. downloadThemAll : The best download manager / download booster for firefox. Supports Pause / Resume.


2. Firebug: Inspect a website, by just clicking on it. Change the website and view it on runtime! Execute Javascript. Find out whats slowing your website. See all the requests sent from your browser.


3.Adblock: Block those notorious ads, which eat up your bandwidth, space and attention, by using wild characters.


4.Flashblock: Stop flash from auto-loading.


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Never Had Reliability Problems

I know that I have had teammates that told me the reliability of FireFox 3 was lower than that of FF2. I am a professional software tester by trade, 8 hours a day, and been doing this for a long long time. Have a few key installed extensions, and this browser has been rock solid (2.x and 3.x). Very few issues, and many brought on by the underlying software that I am testing.


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Mozilla Delivers SeaMonkey 2.0

Mozilla is out with version 2.0 of its SeaMonkey hybrid browser and email platform, based on Firefox and Thunderbird. There is a long list of additions to the new version, which you can peruse here. SeaMonkey didn't use the exact same core as the Firefox browser before, but now shares the the core of Firefox 3.5.4. Among other things, that means extensions should work more dependably than they did before. Here are some of the other important improvements.



Report: Mitch Kapor Pronounces Microsoft's Battle With Open Source "Over"

Mitch Kapor--founder of Lotus and designer of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet--is one of the true pioneers of the software industry. People forget how mighty Lotus once was, with a market capitalization that towered over Microsoft's, and over 80 percent market share in spreadsheets. In a discussion with the Guardian U.K., Kapor pronounces Microsoft's war against open source over. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's over, but it's not the war it once was by any means.



OStatic Buffer Overflow...

Mozilla previously blocked the Firefox add-ons Microsoft included with .NET, citing security concerns. Now the company is reversing the decision.

Closed Design or No Design? Something is better than nothing.

OpenBSD 4.6 is out. There are many improvements to packet filtering, routing daemons, and the TCP stack.

Has open source hardware come of age? Stanford's Frankencamera is just one example of maturing open source devices.



Can firefox take 50% of the browser market?

Stupid (hypothetical) question but I wanted to see what others think about this? Firefox is clearly the better browser and with a vastly improved version 3 almost ready for GA, will Firefox EVER be in a position to take majority market share? Why?

Firefox 3 Beta 4 - What's the Verdict?

I just downloaded it and it seems to be working great. Love the new bookmarking and save password functionality but am not sure about the memory leak issues as yet. Anyone else use this release?

Firefox on PC Memory issues

Of late, it seems like Firefox is really slowing my PC down. I tend to keep several firefox windows running concurrently and this didn't pose in the past but now days it is slowing my pc down to a crawl. The task manager shows that the firefox process memory usage is ~ 250MB which seems a little high.

I tried IE 7 and for similar usage - this number comes down to 90MB. Can it be that Microsoft has finally built a better browser??

I'd much rather stick with using Firefox - so if anyone has seen this issue or has any ideas/suggestions on how this can be addressed - please let me know

Thanks!

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