Firefox 3: Join the chat

The non-beta, non-release-candidate, real version of Firefox 3 is launching today. It's an important product: The browser is not just a frame for static Web pages anymore, and hasn't been for a long time. The browser is a platform for Web applications. For a growing proportion of users and developers, the browser is more fundamental to their use of technology than the operating system.

So I am not surprised by the interest in this new version of Firefox, and I will not be surprised at all if Mozilla meets its goal of pushing out 1 million downloads of the product. That is, if Mozilla can keep its servers up and running.

I've opened a Meebo chat room below for people experimenting with the new Firefox today. If you want to connect with other folks in real time about your experiences with the download or the product itself, drop in and chat.

Update on the chat room: Meebo has a limit of 80 users per room, but it automatically creates overflow rooms beyond that. So if you join the chat now, you'll probably find yourself in "Firefox 3 Newbies #4" or something similar.

More: See all of CNET's Firefox 3 coverage

[JeffcnetSKent]

I don't see the back button. Am I doing something wrong?

[littlebuck]

click like right above the home button (or somewhere on the toolbar but not on an icon) click customize then drag the forward/backward button to the toolbar). I dont know why ff would leave that out!?

[RonaldLong]

I usually just copy my bookmarks over the default ones in the profiles directory. When I do this, over half of them disappear. No way to make them re appear. I went back to 2.0.0.14

[jacobtj]

I'm a big AI Roboform fan, and am disappointed that they didn't keep pace with this momentous day. It's not a knock on MF3, but without Roboform integration, I'll be waiting for a while to be a regular user again. Can I have my MF2 back until that day?

[jacobtj]

My mistake. Roboform did step up to the plate with an MF3 adapter. Apologies to Siber Systems.