Comments on: Week in review: Firefox's wildfire

Newest Mozilla browser sets a download record as Yahoo employees defect at a seemingly record pace. Also: The broadband hookup.

[drp2p]

FF3 is not living up to the expectation, it crashes at least 2 or 3 times a day. There is a problem with the program crashing on certain webpages and/or Java scripting; after a crash FF3 will display an error and transmit the information back to FF. This is problematic and should have been worked out during the Bata phase.

[Lerianis]

It was worked out during the Beta phase. I would really like you to list what pages are crashing, so I can go to them and see if they are actually crashing or if you are just a Microsoft fanboy or paid poster who is bashing Firefox 3 for no reason.

[Fil0403]

@ Lerianis: It was not worked out during the Beta phase. I would really like you (and similar people) to start doubting, questioning and making the same requests whenever someone claims a Microsoft application crashes all the time, so unbiased people can see for themselves if you are actually worried that someone is unfairly bashing a random program or if you are just a Microsoft hater or paid poster who is religiously defending Firefox 3 for no reason.

[jmarkmediallc]

I am loving FF3 for the most part too. I have noticed two problems on two of my websites. First, at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmarkmediallc/ , our Greese Monkey Scripts do not work properly in our Portfolio Pro Invitation Group. Also, I ntoiced at my other website (http://centennialtoyota.com/toyota_las_vegas_best_price_quote.cfm) that atl tags dont seem to appear as they did before. Not sure if this is just a glitch or what, but wonder if there is a work around?

[Ed Aguila]

I tired both sites from my FF3 browser and did not have the problems you cited. Then again, I am not using Greese Monkey.

[MSSlayer]

You are complaining about something that Mozilla has no control over(GreaseMonkey)? Nice

[shoffmueller]

Considering the triple post by drp2p, CNet discussions are not living up the expectations either. Someone ought to fix that annoyance.

[softwaremaniac]

There is nothing "awesome" about the awesome bar as it just searches for the letter/ word in the history and bookmarks. I don't think that people will be surfing the same pages again and again. It would be really awesome if it suggests names of web pages like "Google suggest".

Also FF 3 loads images slow for any web page, when opening for the first time.

[Lerianis]

Actually, it helps me. I surf the same pages again and again every singe day because I go to a lot of internet forums and You-tube like sites.

[anshul_sushil]

FF3.0 is not working with Google Desktop I had...I am thinking if I should unistall FF3.0 as I need Desktop more ...I hope FF listens and helps me :(

[MSSlayer]

Maybe Google should make that piece of spyware work with FF3?

[Lerianis]

Update your Google Desktop. It works absolutely fine with the Google Desktop that I have installed on my computer, so the problem might be that you just haven't updated for a long time.

[Kasiola2003]

I've noticed a bug where I get a form stating that FF crashed, but I usually get it when I'm closing down FF and another page at the same time. I love the Mac and Opera tool that asks for password remembrance, since I rarely write down passwords, and then I CRS. I'd also like an NOIA extreme theme upgrade to include FF3. I love that theme.

[Fusco_D]

So Far, So Good!
Downloaded Firefox 3 yesterday -- the Mozilla people didn't think it important to advise their users, not even through the check for updates menu...
It works all right, and fast too. I'm still searching for the so called awesome bar. Must be well hidden.
Some of the add-ons I like don't work anymore, but that's not the fault of the Mozilla people.
Thank you! I'll keep using FF3 resorting only occasionally to Safari.

[mbtaggart]

Thanks, Fusco. I can't find it either. I DL'd FF3 early Friday morning, and had a fine time playing with it. But the first time I used it for something important - to log into a government website (to pay our sales taxes for May), FF3 said it couldn't display the page. Great.
So now I'm back to IE for the moment. I assume there was a reason for what happened when I tried to load the Div of Taxation site with FF3 - I just didn't have time to figure it out. I really like the look of FF though, so I'll keep trying to get the knack of it.

[Lerianis]

Which Division of Taxation website are you trying to go to? I did the first 40 or so that popped up using a Google Search, and it loaded just fine for me.

[epcraig]

I have yet to see news of any malware which affects any Linux (or BSD, including OSX) distribution. I find this feature almost as ridiculous as the CNET spell-checker's insistence that malware is a mis-spelling.

[MSSlayer]

CNET doesn't have a spell checker. The spell checker complaining is from the browser you are using: likely FF. Yes, FF spellchecker is pretty sorry.

[idoppler]

Firefox download number is an obvious fraud. For example, there is absolutely no way Lithuania had 300,000+ downloads from different individuals. This country has just 3 million population and is generally lagging behind its neighnors in computer and internet usage. So if the number is correct, it must include some robots. If robots count, you could as well put some computers next room starting a download every 1000th second and get any number you want so the number does not mean anything.

[johnb3950]

I downwloaded Firefox 3.0 and have uninstalled and reinstalled 2.0. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING when they made that fancy recently-used list of URLS in the dropdown? It's a pain in the butt, too long and unwieldy, and doesn't even show some of the most frequently visited ones that were in my existing list.
If they provide an option for the "classic" dropdown format I will reconsider. (Didn't like the silly new cosmetics either - back button etc).

[BrianFH]

It's designer feature-creep. Pretty trumps functional. All users are assumed to share backgrounds and tastes with programmers.

Weird: some pages have boxes and buttons with Hebrew (?) lettering instead of English, and are right-justified.

[krisjames]

Firefox has really done well in the last 2 public versions (FF2 and FF3). We've covered it a few times at www.pcauthorities.com and I really think it has the potential to beat IE 7 and Safari.

The speed and stability for Mac and Windows is fantastic in my opinion. I haven't heard many disappointing comments about FF3.

And you have to give them credit, they did surpass the Guinness World Record.

Jeff McCord

[Mike Sharp]

epcraig says: "I have yet to see news of any malware which affects any Linux (or BSD, including OSX) distribution. I find this feature almost as ridiculous as the CNET spell-checker's insistence that malware is a mis-spelling."

Since OS-X and Linux account for less than 7% of all web site traffic, and Firefox accounts for almost 29% of web traffic, I strongly suspect that there may be one or two folks out there who use Firefox on something.other than Linux and BSD...

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[Fil0403]

"Since OS-X and Linux account for less than 7% of all web site traffic, and Firefox accounts for almost 29% of web traffic, I strongly suspect that there may be one or two folks out there who use Firefox on something.other than Linux and BSD... ." Since Firefox (in reality) actually accounts for less than 19% of Web traffic (http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=0), I strongly suspect that you are one of these folks who cannot stand the fact the Internet Explorer (as any other commercial product) continues proving its supremacy with (such a significant and obvious) market share (almost 75%).

[Fil0403]

From some of the unbiased comments that can be read here, one (unbiased person) can conclude that Internet Explorer won't cease to be the leading Web browser anytime soon (and, with that, proving to - still - be the best around).

[The_Decider]

IE leads nothing but the worst browser category. That it is on every windows install and can not be removed is the reason for its "supremacy". Windows users are generally very computer illiterate, they use whatever is in front of them.