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O.T. Anyone running Firefox 3 ? Is it stable ?

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Posted on September 14, 2008 at 11:39:28
AbeCollins
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 I'm still on Firefox 2 (2.0.0.16 to be exact) and I'm very pleased with it. I'm thinking of making the move to Firefox 3. I keep getting pop up reminders to download it.

Your thoughts on Firefox 3 ? Thanks.

 

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RE: O.T. Anyone running Firefox 3 ? Is it stable ?, posted on September 14, 2008 at 12:07:08
Cycler2
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 Yes and yes. It's more secure than 2.x, too.

 

RE: O.T. Anyone running Firefox 3 ? Is it stable ?, posted on September 14, 2008 at 12:29:17
slapshot
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 I'm running it on a Mac, and it is more stable that 2.x.

 

Don't worry -- Firefox isn't like Microsoft, posted on September 14, 2008 at 12:43:47
Charles Hansen
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 Microsoft tends to go backwards in their new releases -- more restrictions, more hidden spyware, less functionality, more bugs, et cetera.

I have never upgraded to a new version of Firefox that wasn't clearly better than the previous version. It's still not perfect, but it's the best browser I've tried and the price is right.

 

I'm still not even running 2+ yet. Something in my compy won't let certain site's pics come up!!! nt, posted on September 14, 2008 at 12:47:56
Dman
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 nt

 

It works fine for me., posted on September 14, 2008 at 13:02:43
Pat D
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 And, it seems to load faster.

"Probability is the very guide to life."---Cicero

 

For me....easy, fast, very stable. [nt], posted on September 14, 2008 at 13:11:53
alan m. kafton
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 nt

 

Stable, but I have weird font issues here (alone), posted on September 14, 2008 at 13:59:11
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 Several of the popular forums here are illegible due to teeny-tiny fonts. I can override the settings to make it work, but I have to change them back for every other website. Strangely, some of the lesser forums and the search tool work fine. I posted on the support forum, but didn't get a definitive answer.

rw

 

No problems on Mac OS (nt), posted on September 14, 2008 at 14:33:13
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Good on linux and windows. Some useability differences which catch me off guard, but stable. [nt], posted on September 14, 2008 at 16:13:36
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Stable, but...., posted on September 14, 2008 at 17:48:44
Rod M
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 My wife had mentioned that some sites didn't look right, so I didn't upgrade. I noticed that E-Stat mentioned the same thing about one of our UIs which makes me think they did something with tables and css as I recall doing some workarounds to get IE and Firefox to look the same in the past.

-Rod

 

Thanks everyone......, posted on September 14, 2008 at 19:00:31
AbeCollins
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 I may upgrade to Firefox 3 later in the week (but I will keep my Firefox 2 install file handy just in case I decide to go back). ...Abe

 

yes, no, generally yes, posted on September 14, 2008 at 19:41:38
dave c
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 I have had it for a while.
I have recently had some problems of very slow connections.
Several attempts at fixing them had led up many a blind alley.
What I have found is that too many Firefox add ons can slow the computer. Also the British English dictionary seems to be unstable.
I have had a spring clean of the Firefox add ons and the speed has picked up markedly.
Here in Australia our web connections are amongst the worst in thw world and your experience may be very different.
But this has been my experience and I have found at least a partial solution.
Good luck.

 

Opinions are like..., posted on September 14, 2008 at 20:03:18
Jim Smith
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 I've run Firefox for a long time. Three of my Macs are on 3.0.2.

Maybe an extremely rare crash, but it will then go back to where you were. I'd say it's 99.5% stable here. Keeps getting better. A lot nicer to use than the the others I've tried (guess I've tried them all) and relatively speedy as well.

Anyway, you know what they say about opinions.

Best regards,

Jim Smith

 

No problems with it so far, posted on September 14, 2008 at 21:05:31
danj
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 It's far better than IE7 and seems quite well behaved. I've seen none of the little annoyances I found with Firefox 2. Ver 3 is working great with my Vista SP1 system.

Judging from the beta IE8, Firefox has nothing to worry about.

 

more O.T. - Firefox ) Mouse Gestures, posted on September 15, 2008 at 07:08:39
Byrd69
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 If you have not yet, get yourself the Mouse Gestures plug-in. It allows you to move back and forth through pages by sweeping your mouse about 1" to the left or right. Another nice move (diagonally toward the SE)will zoom in on images. There's quite a few gestures available to invoke different commands using your mouse.

Give it a try.

I have to use IE at work and hate it now (still). I'm lost without the mouse gestures.
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RE: Stable, but I have weird font issues here (alone), posted on September 14, 2008 at 17:51:15
Rod M
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 Sorry, I'd missed your previsou post. Give me the exact url of the page that looks wrong and I'll see if I can fix it.

-Rod

 

Tried flushing your browser cache?, posted on September 14, 2008 at 19:26:51
andy_c
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 I switched from 2.x to 3.0.1 and the fonts look the same.

 

Thanks for looking into it, posted on September 15, 2008 at 06:08:16
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 It is really strange in that some of the older or less frequently used fora like Video, Films, Inmate Systems, Inmate Gallery, Search, and Classified all work fine. Virtually all the other active ones force 3.0 to display something like 6 point. Even smaller for a reply. I don't know if my video settings play a part - I use 1600 x 1050. Something is different between those groups of pages.

Thanks again.

rw

 

BTW...disregard my comments...., posted on September 14, 2008 at 19:19:02
Rod M
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 I checked and the pages that my wife had complained about were fine now. Maybe it was cache issues or she got an upgrade, she's got 3.01 now and hadn't checked in a while, it was fine, so maybe it was 3.0. I also checked the various Asylum UIs and didn't see anything that was a problem, but I'm still waiting for E-Stat to give me a pointer to what he'd seen as an issue.

-Rod

 

Thanks for the update Rod - nt, posted on September 14, 2008 at 22:18:50
AbeCollins
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Waaaay past that, posted on September 15, 2008 at 06:04:14
E-Stat
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 I flush the cache along with cookies several times per day. Thanks for the suggestion, but there is more to it.

rw

 

I figured, being a software guy, you would have done so., posted on September 15, 2008 at 07:30:50
andy_c
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 But I just thought I'd check.

Just for grins, here is my font setup dialog. I originally set it up this way under 2.x, and things are looking the same for me in version 3. As you can see, my eyesight is pretty bad :-). My video resolution is 1680 by 1050.


 

Those settings work pretty well, posted on September 15, 2008 at 07:54:25
E-Stat
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 but I never had to fine tune them that way before. My office laptop with the same resolution doesn't require any fiddling under 2.0.

rw

 

What about Apple Safari? Any info?, posted on September 15, 2008 at 17:54:04
mtrot
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 Anybody try Safari? If so, how does it compare, speed wise, to Firefox 3?

I just got a new, pretty powerful, Vista 64bit computer with IE7, and I couldn't believe how slow it was loading large web pages.

So, I heard about Safari and installed it. It is at least twice as fast as IE7, although some functionality is not quite there. For example, I can't seem to complete a log in on audio asylum. I put in my user name and password, and it seems to work, but at the top right of the of the page, it still displays "login", and I have to enter my user name and password to post.

Also, the appearance of text and graphics does not seem quite as sharp and pleasing as IE7.

 

Stable for me., posted on September 16, 2008 at 16:22:27
richardl
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 No problems at all.

 

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