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By an anonymous user on Aug. 17, 2008

There's a bunch of related questions here that might be useful. Quite a few people have had issues with FF3.x. I've had a wonderful experience and the extensions and plug-ins is something that you'll miss with Opera. Make sure you have 3.0.1 - a lot of the mess in 3.0 was cleaned up in the patch.

By an anonymous user on Aug. 18, 2008

FF3 does have issues. Check this out:

http://ostatic.com/165485-questions/is-it-just-me-or-is-firefox-3-crashi...

By an anonymous user on Aug. 20, 2008

I`m too in mistake with FF3

this is more strong and useful, but also more low speed

is there any resolves? :(

By Bill Wood on Aug. 21, 2008

Firefox 3, like any other new release is going to have its issues. I've had problems porting my delicious bookmarks and it has craashed from time to time. It still is FAR superior to FF2 which was great in itself. Give them a few more releases and you should be well on your way to browser nirvana!

By demi on Aug. 21, 2008

Yes, firefox is slow and resource-hungry especially for rich multimedia pages with much flashs, images, javascript... But what powerfull tool for browsing, development, view or other goals is easy?

By Arif Iftikhar on Aug. 22, 2008

yeah, Firefox 3 is very slow and resource hungry.

With earlier version i never had problems but from the day i upgraded to Firefox 3 now while browsing I normally have to kill the session to get some other programs working.

Opera is good but as said by others; you'll definitely miss the FF addons.

i used opera initially but then moved to FF for the addons and greasemonkey java scripts. And now i'm stuck with it. :D

By Dick Davies on Aug. 22, 2008

What plugins do you use, and on what platforms?

By an anonymous user on Aug. 22, 2008

I run on Ubuntu

1. Firebug

2. S3Fox

3. ElasticFox

4. TabMixPlus

5. ScrapBook

6. TwitterFox

7. DZone Voting

8. Delicious

9. Morning coffee

10. TinyURL creator

11. Copy plain text

12. Who is this person

13. User agent switcher

14. Better search

By Afkham Azeez on Aug. 22, 2008

I run on Ubuntu

1. Firebug 2. S3Fox 3. ElasticFox 4. TabMixPlus 5. ScrapBook 6. TwitterFox 7. DZone Voting 8. Delicious 9. Morning coffee 10. TinyURL creator 11. Copy plain text 12. Who is this person 13. User agent switcher 14. Better search

By Milan Petrovic on Aug. 22, 2008

I had bad experience with ff3 also, but it is better than ff2. I use Opera for browsing, it's much faster, but when I require some functionality available over plugins, ff is the best.

By Herb Morehouse on Aug. 22, 2008

I use Firefox and like it a lot however my laptop isn't fond of it. The fan roars every time I open more than 6 tabs. I need a new browser (or a laptop).

By an anonymous user on Aug. 26, 2008

sheet

By z19 on Aug. 27, 2008

Just use firefox AND opera. Also, more addons = more wasted memory.

By Dato Yuan on Aug. 28, 2008

one time ,my firefox memory increase to 700M,and crash

By kan guo on Aug. 28, 2008

Firefox 3 is very slow and resource hungry,but firebug is so good.

By cnshirui on Aug. 28, 2008

yeah, it ofter crashs. so i still use ff2

By molin show on Aug. 28, 2008

yes firefox3 is too slow,i'm using flock

By Jason Mei on Aug. 30, 2008

Firefox 3 is faster than 2, and less resource

By an anonymous user on Aug. 31, 2008

I have had so much trouble with FF3 that I am thinking of switching as well. It crashes often and appears to be very slow, even after I removed a number of my extensions.

By qian donghui on Aug. 31, 2008

Yes,I think so

By leehj hj on Sep. 01, 2008

fire fox i s more faster than ie ,that is my feeling, i can't see you .

By an anonymous user on Sep. 01, 2008

I have the same problem. Especially when it starts up, it takes too long.

I think this has to do with the plug-ins installed. The more sophisticated

development tools you have, the more memory is required to run them. Also keep in mind

that Firefox checks for updates to the plug-ins and if you have several plug-ins installed

it would noticeably slow down Firefox.

By goods foryou on Sep. 01, 2008

I'm using FF3 on ubuntu, it's very good and very seldom crashed.

By qian donghui on Sep. 01, 2008

YES

By an anonymous user on Dec. 18, 2008

Ive switched recently to Opera, for offline testing of wordpress templates i make.

I'm tired of firefox 3, it's gotten slow and whew, i dont know what else, seemes like it's slowly becoming IE7 in terms of speed.

Opera's got DragonFly, their own version of Web Developer Toolbar + Firebug in one.

Check it out -- displaying display outlines + class&ID doesnt mess up your page like WDToolbar in firefox does.

By an anonymous user on Dec. 30, 2008

Yes, it seldom crashes, but IE is way faster. Isnt anyone monitoring this message board? I'd love to continue using it, but I have a life, and it isnt going to be watching FF load. I am running ff305, and after watching it sit and sit and sit, I can load up IE, and go to where I want, passing up FF and leaving it in the dust. Has Microsoft put in something in a service pack? Is there a simple setting?

Help me stay with FF, but my patience is running out!