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 Jul 11 2008, 02:37 PM
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Member [ Level 1 ]  Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 2-July 08 Member No.: 31,264  |
I heard about firefox 3..
anybody is using it! a friend of mine told me it is not so secure.. is it true? and it has a lot of bugs.. =/ i'm using firefox 2.0.0.15 and never gave me problems.. i think i will keep it for now. |
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Jul 12 2008, 04:23 AM
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Colonel Panic  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,735 Joined: 25-March 05 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 3,233 |
I'm on Firefox 3 and haven't found any problems with it yet. I haven't ran into ANY problems yet, so I don't know what the problems your friend is running into.
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Jul 12 2008, 06:57 AM
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Advanced Member  Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 140 Joined: 18-March 07 Member No.: 20,937 |
I started using Firefox 3 when it came out, and haven't turned back to Firefox 2 ever since. It is suspected that there are vulnerabilities in Firefox 3 (Link to Article), but the vulnerabilities have not been widely published. I believe that these issues are under investigation by the Mozilla team (Link to article).
If you are concerned about security, you should wait for a patch / patches to come out for Firefox 3 before upgrading your Firefox. |
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Jul 12 2008, 07:13 PM
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Premium Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 250 Joined: 26-August 07 From: North Carolina, United States Member No.: 24,384 |
I am using Firefox 3, and the only difference at this time is that some of my themes are not compatible right now. And when they are upgraded, it is usually a visual change.
I have heard about security issues, but I just haven't gotten into issues with that... at least not right now. I would think that Firefox 3 is like the others. Maybe I just don't see it on the surface, but so far, so good. So unless I am totally missing something, I will continue to use it like always... and if the upgrade and update comes along... I am sure I will keep on with it, too. I just know that Internet Explorer 7 keeps getting slower going for me... and Firefox is just plowing on through like ever before... Now that Safari.... always wants me to update... not really doing any of that. Firefox 4... ok if it is out, I'll do then! You just never know. - skedad - |
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Jul 13 2008, 12:38 AM
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Newbie [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 13-December 06 Member No.: 18,262 |
I used Firefox 3 for one day, and I decided to go back to Firefox 2 because one of the add-ons I had that I REALLY needed wouldn't work on Firefox 3. I'd say if you have add-ons that aren't Firefox 3 compatible, Firefox 2 isn't a bad choice to stick with.
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Jul 14 2008, 03:53 PM
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Whitest Black Mage Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,323 Joined: 20-May 05 From: NB, Canada Member No.: 5,281 |
True the compatibility issues between new releases and third party addons are sometimes sketchy for a bit but usually it is worthwhile to upgrade. I Know all my time spent on 3 has been problem free so I wouldn't recommend against using it. That said, as has been stated, if the security issues worry you just stick with 2 until they are sorted out. It can't hurt sticking with what you already know.
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Jul 14 2008, 07:24 PM
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the Q Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 1,022 Joined: 13-July 05 From: Lithuania, Vilnius Member No.: 7,059 |
Even though I'm not fan of Firefox as I'm using Opera, but I have Firefox 3 and I browse with it and don't have anything bad to say about it, it's really is much faster now than Firefox 2, really very well optimized, bigger site's which felt that works slower, works much better, for example last.fm
As I know it's still beta? and much of addons are still not available, but when it doesn't have to much maybe thats because it's so fast, with time when it'll have more addons and more code in it, it can get a bit slower, just I wish not to much and it would remain as optimized as it can be 
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Jul 14 2008, 11:08 PM
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Colonel Panic Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,735 Joined: 25-March 05 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 3,233 |
Interesting, all my extensions work.
I have: Facebook Toolbar Skype xboxrulz |
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Jul 15 2008, 04:16 AM
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Advanced Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 110 Joined: 12-April 08 Member No.: 29,760 |
I have Firefox 3, and haven't noticed any vulnerablilies or frequently encountered errors so far in the program. When using Firefox 2 I sometimes had extension related probmes, such as when I installed the Paypal Extension I would visit many websites and Firefox (2) would freeze, I'm not sure why this happed but it only happened prior to the Extension install. However, since the upgrade this problem no longer persists, so I sould say, if anything the upgrade was successful. Honestly, though, my preferred browser is still Opera at this point, I love the Speed Dial feature, and it loads up a bit faster than Firefox for me, though that may just be becasuse it is present in the Cache.
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Jul 15 2008, 07:36 AM
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Advanced Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 138 Joined: 3-April 08 From: Milling about Member No.: 29,596 |
I have been using Firefox for a couple months now. Thus far I have had no major issues with it. I have beenn at a couple pages where a script or the like caused it to lock up. I have seen a couple sites render oddly as well.
Most importantly the only add on I care about works, Flash Blocker. Given I hate, disdain, abhor, and loathe Flash this is very important to me. |
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