Mozilla Firefox for Windows (Gran Paradiso) 3.0 Beta 5 beta
Publisher's Description:
Mozilla Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It includes a popup blocker, tabbed browsing, a smarter search, hassle free downloading, and improved privacy and security.
Mozilla Firefox has the following other editions available: Mozilla Firefox for Windows, Mozilla Firefox for Linux, Mozilla Firefox for Mac OS X, Mozilla Firefox for Mac OS X (Gran Paradiso) and Mozilla Firefox for Linux (Gran Paradiso).
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Latest User Reviews:
| Reviewer: | robmanic44 | Apr 26, 2008 |
| Version: | 3.0 Beta 5 | |
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Making Firefox cross-platform was a waste of time and effort. It should have been developed for Windows only. Macs and 'nix already have their own browser. Not many of those users are going to use this browser anyway. Just look at the numbers.
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| Reviewer: | why hello there | Apr 19, 2008 |
| Version: | 3.0 Beta 5 | |
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Vast improvement over FF2 in the memory usage arena. Still can't beat Opera but it's a nice start. See? It wasn't just the "dumb" users' imagination. Though being beta, it does have its share of wonkiness. Your old extensions may or may not work. You can add tags to bookmarks and use it to search your bookmarks (big +) but there's no easy way to import and append or override your fresh bookmark tool folder without tediously dragging and dropping each time (seems to act weird when I'm cutting and pasting in the bookmark manager or maybe it's just me). The dropdown list for previously visited URLs is by the forward button. What? Shouldn't it by the BIG backwards button? Find as you type uses a blank bar. Why didn't they use the regular find bar with all the nifty options that it had? Image resizing. Really now, why isn't there checkbox option to turn this off? Sure, you could change it about:config but it really should be an option that everyday users can find and change because some people such as myself find that default behavior annoying. Especially since the resized image is jaggy. Clicking on a link should have the new tab open on the right of the active tab. Instead, it's opened all the way at the end of the other tabs. And when closing tabs, it doesn't remember the last active tab. I'm sure some of the issues above can be addressed with plugins but if possible, I rather they be fixed by the Firefox developers. Overall, I think this is a solid browser and a nice improvement over the previous version.
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| Reviewer: | L4zy1 | Apr 8, 2008 |
| Version: | 3.0 Beta 5 | |
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I wish firefox would die
firefox is crap that takes multiple plugins just to start to become useful
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| Reviewer: | tscar13 | Apr 6, 2008 |
| Version: | 3.0 Beta 5 | |
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I use firefox but because they don't require the developers of add-ons to sign their name, you really have no idea what you are d/ling which is sad because they do have some nice add-ons but I refuse to d/l a program that is unsighned.
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| Reviewer: | jspratjr | Apr 3, 2008 |
| Version: | 3.0 Beta 5 | |
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Sven - what are you doing? An unbiased, non-fanboy opinion? Very nice and agree 100%. Bare bones it's extremely fast but what browser wouldn't be? Fully loaded (i.e. add-ons), it's hard to beat its functionality.
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