Posted by Shawn M. on Jun 17th, 2008
From Mozilla.com…
“MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. - June 17, 2008 - Mozilla today released Firefox® 3, a major update to its popular and acclaimed free, open source Web browser. Firefox 3 is the culmination of three years of efforts from thousands of developers, security experts, localization and support communities, and testers from around the globe.
Available today in approximately 50 languages, Firefox 3 is two to three times faster than its predecessor and offers more than 15,000 improvements, including the revolutionary smart location bar, malware protection, and extensive under the hood work to improve the speed and performance of the browser.”
Just don’t expect any of your previous plug-ins to be compatible. You can download the new version at Mozilla’s homepage.
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Devin de Gruyl
June 18, 2008 at 4:17 pm
I’ve been running Fx3 since at least Beta 3 stage; for some reason my Ubuntu update to Hardy replaced my stable Fx2 with the beta of the next version.
After most of my plugins started getting Version 3 updates I ended up liking it a lot. It seems much more stable (YouTube/Flash-related crashes now happen on average once every ten days, as opposed to about 6-7 times in the same period previously), and doesn’t eat up nearly as much of my CPU/memory as it did before.
If you use Firefox, you’ll want this. Even if you don’t, it’s worth checking out to see how much it’s improved lately.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Ubuntu 8.04 came out with Beta 5 as the default browser, much to the complaints of the Ubuntu community. Part of it could have been them not being used to it, or it could have been that they put out a beta browser in a LTS version of their operating system.
Security seems to be paramount in this version after the whole 2.0.0.12 fiasco. The new plugin API requires plugins have “secure updating” which means they utilize https or they update from the Mozilla website.
They also seemed to fix the notorious memory leak that Firefox suffered from, which I’m glad to hear. Running on older hardware for most of the day, it would drive me nuts when Firefox would spike my processor and then just die.
All in all, I’m pretty happy with the new version. The plugins should catch up soon enough.