Mozilla Announces Release Date for Firefox 3 -- June 17th

After more than 34 months of active development, and with the contributions of thousands, we ’re proud to announce that we’re ready. It is our expectation to ship Firefox 3 this upcoming Tuesday, June 17th.

*developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2008/06/11/coming-tuesday-june-17th-firefox-3/

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Hope it sets the record for max downloads in 24 hours. Hope all FF fans contribute to it. Anyway even if that dream turns false (I really really hope not), FF3 is a rock solid web browser which any savvy internet user should use as the primary browser.

I would surely download it

me too, ready for the RTCF

whoooooooooooooooooooooooooo, Firefox ticket confirmed from waiting

I am eager to see FF3 vs Opera 9.50 soon

Already I am using Opera 9.50 and it is really cool with the new interface. But I always preferred FF over opera for many reasons. So FF3 is the only way to go for me.

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remind me on 17th

hmm...firefox3 will be hitting before 17th -if you know what I am saying

Coool. Am now posting this from Opera 9.5

Looks superb and is pretty fast (as usual)

The main improvement being the compatiblity if scripts. hundred times better when compared to earlier version.

A certain Opera vs FF coming up and I do think that this will make a serious dent in IE's marketshare. MS might consider to acquire Opera Foundation

i am waiting for it............

K

Isnt the abbreviation of firefox fx?
Nice to see v3 is coming out soon.

T

Thanks for the news

Awesome news

I won't download.
SpreadFirefox sucks. They have humiliated INDIA in their MAP in their website.
Go check out.

Will download after their stupid day.

M

^^ where??? link please..

am gonna download this one as soon as it is made live

Thks for the info

i'm a bit skeptical , but lets see .

a_k_s_h_a_y said:
I won't download.
SpreadFirefox sucks. They have humiliated INDIA in their MAP in their website.
Go check out.

Will download after their stupid day.

r u talking about kashmir...?

eagerly waiting for June the 17th..... hope they have added all extension to it....

a_k_s_h_a_y said:
I won't download.
SpreadFirefox sucks. They have humiliated INDIA in their MAP in their website.
Go check out.

Will download after their stupid day.

Ditto!

And I think the "spead firefox" campaign is quite shameless. Let users download themselves and Mozilla show the stats. Why beg everyone to set a record???

FF3, O9.5, IE8

Let the battle begin!

^^your siggy is lol...

hmm. after working on opera for one day, I now feel that it's damn good. Am going to leave IE and stick to this till i feel that FF3 is worth the RAM

FF3 is sure worth the fame. I am on FF3(beta) from 2-3 months now

.It rocks!
especially swiftfox for GNU/Linux!

infra_red_dude said:
Ditto!

And I think the "spead firefox" campaign is quite shameless. Let users download themselves and Mozilla show the stats. Why beg everyone to set a record???

Well at least their begging, not forcing it on anyone

^^

^exactly.remember FF is competing against IE which is bundled(integrated with window$ shell) and forced by M$.(In Linux ,u can have epiphany or konqueror or any!no monopolies!).

I don't understand what is the need of beggin too! If the product is good it'll surely get noticed

begging is better than forcing your OS to your nose(vi$ta crap bundled with laptops

) Just for a reference.

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infra_red_dude said:
I don't understand what is the need of beggin too! If the product is good it'll surely get noticed

"Begging" is a very harsh term. The right term for this is called MARKETING. It is the missing piece in the open-source puzzle.

"Will noticed if it is good" is the attitude which keeps many open-source projects' market share low. Several FOSS projects are of very high quality. Firefox is one of the very very few FOSS projects which does marketing well and that is the reason it poses significant threat to the previous monopoly leader of browser world.

"Marketing" is the only thing stopping FOSS from great success. Thanks to Firefox for acting as a good model for other FOSS projects.

"Marketing" is also the key which has helped Red Hat, Novell and Ubuntu get considerable visibility even in non-tech world. CEOs of many companies would not know Slackware or Debian (very very solid distros), but they would definitely know Red Hat, Suse and in near future Ubuntu too.

Regarding the depiction of India (if it is Kashmir), they have not included the area of POK (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir). This would serve as a reminder to Indians that a part of motherland is not completely held by us.

chandru.in said:
"Begging" is a very harsh term. The right term for this is called MARKETING. It is the missing piece in the open-source puzzle.

Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it’s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.

I consider that begging! To each his own

FF is such a good product that it shouldn't resort to such cheap publicity.

chandru.in said:
"Will noticed if it is good" is the attitude which keeps many open-source projects' market share low. Several FOSS projects are of very high quality. Firefox is one of the very very few FOSS projects which does marketing well and that is the reason it poses significant threat to the previous monopoly leader of browser world.

Advertising and highlighting facts to the rescue! And its different from marketting!

chandru.in said:
Regarding the depiction of India (if it is Kashmir), they have not included the area of POK (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir). This would serve as a reminder to Indians that a part of motherland is not completely held by us.

It is an offence to depict the Indian map that way. Officially PoK is still a part of India.

Am afraid if some politician will see that map and sue the poor guys

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I agree with the depiction of Kashmir too. It is offensive. When I said my first comment, I intended pun.

Also how is advertising different from marketing. It is just a form of marketing.

chandru.in said:
Also how is advertising different from marketing. It is just a form of marketing.

Sorry, my mistake. Typo there.. wanted to say the same!

What I wanted to convey was.. let Mozilla highlight the new features and give a real world comparison seeing which users would be tempted to download FF, instead of simply saying... plz download.. plz download.. we wanna set a world record!

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But it would fail among the non tech savvy crowd. Tech savvy guys would anyway hunt for new features in FF3 and there are available easy in their site. Anyway, let's stop arguing.

chandru.in said:
But it would fail among the non tech savvy crowd. Tech savvy guys would anyway hunt for new features in FF3 and there are available easy in their site. Anyway, let's stop arguing.

Actually non techi guys also use firefox. I was surprised to one of my pure nontechi friend use firefox.. even non techi guys are aware about the alternatives .

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Charan said:
Actually non techi guys also use firefox. I was surprised to one of my pure nontechi friend use firefox.. even non techi guys are aware about the alternatives .

That's exactly what I meant. Marketing has helped FF achieve this. Ask your non-techie whether he even knows about Pidgin or The Gimp. The most probable answer would be a no.

chandru.in said:
That's exactly what I meant. Marketing has helped FF achieve this. Ask your non-techie whether he even knows about Pidgin or The Gimp. The most probable answer would be a no.

he doesnot chat nor he does any image editing..

, my discussion was only related to the browser and its reach.

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Charan said:
he doesnot chat

chandru.in said:

he doesnot chat= he does not use any chat programs.. like yahoo , gtalk etc etc..
lets get back to topic

im not downloading Firefox on 17th.

Charan said:
he doesnot chat= he does not use any chat programs.. like yahoo , gtalk etc etc..
lets get back to topic
im not downloading Firefox on 17th.

I don't think they'll miss you

infra_red_dude said:
Ditto!

And I think the "spead firefox" campaign is quite shameless. Let users download themselves and Mozilla show the stats. Why beg everyone to set a record???

It is the "spread firefox" campaign. Not "Let's wait and see if people get firefox" campaign. Also I don't see how they have humiliated India in that map.

I'll be downloading it on the day. Not that I use it regularly, just need it for testing purposes...

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goobimama said:
It is the "spread firefox" campaign. Not "Let's wait and see if people get firefox" campaign.

Rightly said!

goobimama said:
Also I don't see how they have humiliated India in that map.

I wouldn't say they have humiliated. But they could have avoided doing that.

^^ Maybe I'm not seeing what you are. All I see is that India is orange in colour, which is around the middle of the whole spectrum. Hard NOT to do that when the thing just puts forth statistics...

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ROFL. Not that. How can that be called a mistake?

The real mistake is the way Kashmir is depicted. The POK part of Kashmir is shown as a part of Pakistan while it is still officially an Indian territory.

^...but under control of p0rkistan

OMFG. That? Are we still fighting over that? Geez. In any case, have any of you guys made an attempt to contact the SFX team to get this corrected or are we just firing blanks into the cloudy skies?

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I confess. I have not done it.

Anyways I am downloading

Whats the file size expected to be?

Slightly bigger than RC1

thats gud news.

June 17 is Firefox 3 release day. You can participate in creating a Guinness World Record check out Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008

*www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

its near

what near? It should have already hit mozilla mirrors JFYI!

see:

We're almost ready!

We're still putting the finishing touches on Firefox 3, preparing the new website, getting our servers ready, and doing our final pre-launch checks. We're happy that people are eager to get their hands on Firefox 3, but we still have a little bit of work to do. The files in this directory should only be used by our testers for now. If you'd like to be notified about when we're ready for the world, please go to sign up for Download Day and we'll be happy to do that. Or head over to getfirefox.com on Tuesday, June 17th after 10am PDT.

*mozilla.isc.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/

but the question is where will i use it ?
am in linux and hardly uses XP, anyway will download and install on my bro's comp

Ubuntu repos should update it within few days

hmm am getting ready for the new Fox

Just a few more minutes left

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It will be release at 10 AM PDT so no hurry for now.

My wget based script to download it continuously is getting ready, in case each will be taken as separate download.

What time does it begin?

I wont be !beceeez.... I will use iceweasel-3/swiftfox-3 from Debian repos

.but for a supporting gesture ,I may download it! :lol:

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goobimama said:
What time does it begin?

See previous post.

chandru.in said:
It will be release at 10 AM PDT so no hurry for now.

My wget based script to download it continuously is getting ready, in case each will be taken as separate download.

You mean you are going to register more than one download?

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Exactly. Good if it will be counted as many. Nothing to lose if not.

Mozilla will use cookie to detect multiple downloads. Only one download will count.

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If it is just the cookie, well wget avoids cookies.

I guess if there is any such check it will be based on our IP address.

chandru.in said:
If it is just the cookie, well wget avoids cookies.

I guess if there is any such check it will be based on our IP address.

Please avoid this.

Can we download more than one copy of Firefox per computer?

No, please play nice and only download one copy of Firefox per computer. We ask that you refrain from creating download bots or any other mechanism that would be cheating. In order for our attempt to be legitimate, each download must be human initiated.

What is Mozilla doing to make sure the record attempt is valid?

Mozilla will only count downloads that are fully and completely transmitted, not partial or complete updates. We will also discard duplicate downloads with the help of a cookie system. We will be logging our downloads using Apache and these logs will be made available for audit to Guinness World Records™, as well as two judges - Corey Shields and Paul Vixie.

*www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/faq

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^^ He he ok. Chill. My download limits would bite me anyway. So can't run scripted download.

One copy is all I can afford for now. "Nothing to lose if not" is not true. I'll lose my download limit.

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we need to wait till tea time I hope

wth!! its already 17!

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Im dling it right now.. while posting this from v 2

Where from? the official site still shows FF2

karmanya said:
Im dling it right now.. while posting this from v 2

at 4:27 AM (India) u wont get FF3

Still not out

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^^ It is supposed to be released at 10 AM PDT, which translates to about 10:30 PM IST... So, we have to wait till later tonight for the download to be available...

Arun

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till night not even after breakfast

J

India - Delhi - New Delhi Tue 10:30 PM -- Official Release Time for FireFox in India

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Um, Im posting this from version 3 right now.
Firstly check this link out-
*www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

Secondly-
*img292.imageshack.us/img292/3152/37804312et0.png check this out

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^^Its RC3

Mozilla has released the much awaited Firefox 3.0 Final version today. Although it has not been officially launched yet but they have put the download files on their FTP.

You can download it from following links:

Direct Download Link

Other Language Versions

^thanks

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But at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.0/ , the last modified date is 13/06/08.

Thank you for helping test this third Firefox 3 release candidate!

VG, its rc3

Vishal Gupta said:
Mozilla has released the much awaited Firefox 3.0 Final version today. Although it has not been officially launched yet but they have put the download files on their FTP.

You can download it from following links:

Direct Download Link

Other Language Versions

We're not quite ready yet!

We're just as excited as you are for our upcoming release, but we're still putting the finishing touches on Firefox 3: preparing the new mozilla.com website, getting our severs ready for downloads, and doing our final pre-launch checks. You can follow our progress if you'd like!
The files in this directory are - for now - only meant to be used by our testers. Downloading them directly can harm our ability to distribute Firefox efficiently, and will also not be counted as part of our attempt to set a Guiness World Record for the most software downloads in a day.
If you'd like to be notifed the minute that we launch, please go to sign up for Download Day. Or just head over to getfirefox.com on Tuesday, June 17th after 10am PDT.

just head over to getfirefox.com on Tuesday, June 17th after 10am PDT.

thats 10:30:00 PM IST.

gotta wait soo long

WTH ? I was expecting it to be available from 12:00 AM GMT

it is tomorrow 1.30PM JFI

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I just wasted my sleep time last night

praka123 said:
it is tomorrow 1.30PM JFI

What happened to 17th June?

I dont know.I read it somewhere else

What happened? Official site still shows 2.xx

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1. Go to *www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

2. Choose the link for your OS and language

3. Replace product=firefox-2.0.0.14 with product=firefox-3.0 in the address bar

4. Enjoy Firefox 3.0

That will not contribute to the record
I just read on the BBC that it is slated for 1800 BST (that's 2230 IST).

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^^ Yep, i know. Posted for the curious ones who cant wait till 10.30pm !!

Hey, when will this thing hit debian repositories ?
I am currently posting from firefox 3.0, and I must say it rocks

I just started using it though...
No crash reports(yet)

update: I am using ff3 and it SUCKS. Can't even open 8 tabs simultaneously.

MetalheadGautham said:
Hey, when will this thing hit debian repositories ?
I am currently posting from firefox 3.0, and I must say it rocks
I just started using it though...
No crash reports(yet)

update: I am using ff3 and it SUCKS. Can't even open 8 tabs simultaneously.

I don't think it is an issue with firefox3. I am able to open more than 8 tabs in ff3 in both Linux and Windows.

sourav123 said:
I don't think it is an issue with firefox3. I am able to open more than 8 tabs in ff3 in both Linux and Windows.

I can open them alright, but when I open 8 tabs, my comp hangs like hell.
This does not happen in Opera though.

K

I opened like 20 different tabs and I didnt hang at all

karmanya said:
I opened like 20 different tabs and I didnt hang at all

Then that means Firefox just uses much much more system resources than before.
What happened to the good old days of firefox 1.5 when it was really lean and mean ?

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whats the present status of download its nearing 10:30 PM

Site has become unavailable.

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now thats real weird thing to happen.......

site is TOO loaded now.
Nothing is comming.
And after 5 mins loading time, its still showing 2.xxx

^^yeah, its same here too

lol...site's down..they bit off more than they cud chew

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*www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Mozilla-Firefox-Final-Download-5787.html

available here but may not count for record.......

lol...

Why is the official site still showing FF 2?

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I think its better to go and sleep then wasting another night for there silly record

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both getfirefox.com and spreadfirefox.com are not opening on my pc...probably experiencing high traffic...

If mozilla site is not up, then I will surely download through softpedia. Let's see if mozilla site comes up.

But it is still FF 2 on mozilla homepage.

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sourav123 said:
If mozilla site is not up, then I will surely download through softpedia. Let's see if mozilla site comes up.

But it is still FF 2 on mozilla homepage.

record will not count, if it works try out this link

*www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.0&os

azaad_shri75 said:
I think its better to go and sleep then wasting another night for there silly record

sleep tight, download in the morning

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T159 said:
sleep tight, download in the morning

yeah just going to do that

try this if it works

*download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.0&os=win〈=en-US

^

Not Found

The file you were looking for was not found.

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s18000rpm said:
^

yes all the links are not working, I am getting these links from

*techblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/06/firefox-3-being-released-today.html

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Release delayed.

It is gonna be at 17:00 UTC on June 18.

Pssst... Too much confusion for a record I guess.

Got mine!!! But not from there official site!!

A new world record has been made! The highest number of people staying awake to download a web browser.

ya very ture........wasting all my time am up here waiting

disappointed

hey its out or not...on mozilla site its still showing firefox 2

Leaked before official site release *files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Dance2.gif

*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?p=861317*files.myopera.com/Tamil/Smilies/Cheers.gif

they can now say good bye to their record, how can they delay it !!! i was going to help their record even though i use Opera but oh well i am not going to download FF 3.0

^^patience pays off
atleast next time u won't feel the haste to do things

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They just updated the site guys

Actually i was never planing to use FF 3.0 as i like Opera 9.5 but i wanted to be a part of guiness book of world records but you see now many people will get the leaked version thus destroying their chance of making a record

Release time updated to 17:00 UTC June 18, or roughly 24 hours from now.........

I can't wait any more, Mozilla guys r driving me nuts

it's already posted, do you guys read other posts or not , like mine as i am upset for the delay !!! , some guys need to read other posts

It is up now.

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^^yeah

Downloaded

How lame is this! Apparently the site is up wit ff3 graphics but the file is still the old one. I thought they had thought this through. Serving a million+ downloads in a day is no joke. They should have better used a torrent to distribute it.

Downloaded and installed. Cheers!!!

OMG wat a retro look to the website

*mozilla.isc.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/win32/en-US/Firefox Setup 3.0.exe

same 203 setup

(wch vg gave link to)

downloading and installing...

mozilla.com site updated with FF3 file. spreadfirefox.com still down...

Downloaded, installed, regretted, rolledback,happy.

I just got their reminder email. Will wait till 2 am to get it.

i have downloaded it and i am liking it....

using it ...

download completed and installed.......now from it

ROFL whatta thread . Download started ,download ended, installing ,site down, site up. Looks like a live news thread :))

goobimama said:
I just got their reminder email. Will wait till 2 am to get it.

*www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.0&os=win&lang=en-US

*mozilla-mirror.internap.com/firefox/releases/3.0/win32/en-US/Firefox Setup 3.0.exe

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downloading in progress, it seems some persons did not like it, could reasons be briefed out.

azaad_shri75 said:
it seems some persons did not like it, could reasons be briefed out.

For me:
1. Being a web developer, I need to use Firebug, web developer toolbars and some other essential extensions. These do not work with FF3.
2. My theme foxdie safari blue too does not work with it.

wow...just now got ff3 downloaded and installed...when started for first time most of my existing addons gets updated automatically except aardvark and gmail2. Anyway nightly tester tools comes into rescue to install them as well.
I dont see any performance difference, both seems to use same memory but ui has got some improvement with the default skin being completely revamped.

downloading

got it, will install later

slightly fast as compared to IE7 and Opera 9.5..

The box of URLs that dropsdown as you type into teh address bar was annoying for me. Its bloated and makes things difficult to find. I think I already hate such feature in Opera :razz:

installed it, flashgot got updated
all other extensions working fine

FF3 when idle is taking 33Mb of RAM
FF3 when browsing thinkdigit forum is taking 42Mb of RAM
Opera 9.5. while browsing thinkdigit forum is taking 27Mb of RAM.

at this point of time, for me Opera has the upper hand.

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well with 9 same websites open in all 3 browsers , mozilla consumes 72 on my pc.opera uses 69mb.IE takes up 110 mb :lol:

Just downloaded it!

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Ubuntu repos are already having Firefox 3 as an Update. Cool!!

foxytunes crashes ff3

(when i press play/pause..... in foxytunes)

using WMP11 as player in vista.

*addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/219

FF3 looks like a disaster for my lappy. Opened 5 pages and

CPU: 99%
Memory: 140Mb

Waited for few minutes and the CPU usage never came down. I had to close it because I couldn't do anything else.

It's on IBM thinkpad T43 running Windows XP. 2Ghz processor and 1gig ram.

Installed yesterday now and enjoying it ...long live firefox and mozilla foundation ...

Nazis with them , supporting always

also see that firefox depend on many extentions . i have arnd 20 extentions loaded
and the Memory uses is 55 Mb , In FF2 it was arnd 105 Mb

the Extentions are
Gresemonkey
stylish
IETab
YOSS
FEBE
Unplug
PicLens
XSSme
SQLme
Nuke Anything
PDF download
Fireguesters
DownThemAll
Autofill
StumbleUpon

and many more

downloaded. yep its fast.

max_demon said:
also see that firefox depend on many extentions . i have arnd 20 extentions loaded
and the Memory uses is 55 Mb , In FF2 it was arnd 105 Mb

the Extentions are
Gresemonkey
stylish
IETab
YOSS
FEBE
Unplug
PicLens
XSSme
SQLme
Nuke Anything
PDF download
Fireguesters
DownThemAll
Autofill
StumbleUpon

and many more

how much memory does it consume when you open 4-5 heavy websites?

All my extensions are working except

1. Adblock
2. Fasterfox

desiibond said:
FF3 looks like a disaster for my lappy. Opened 5 pages and

CPU: 99%
Memory: 140Mb

Waited for few minutes and the CPU usage never came down. I had to close it because I couldn't do anything else.

It's on IBM thinkpad T43 running Windows XP. 2Ghz processor and 1gig ram.

+1

Firefox sucks so much resources that it should be made Pi$$ta exclusive.

I have 2 gb ram..doesnt matter..

but the browsing seems slower..

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Done and done and loving it. It rocks!!

*www.imgx.org/pthumbs/large/9030/Screenshot.png

dreamcatcher said:
I have 2 gb ram..doesnt matter..

but the browsing seems slower..

speed increases when memory management increases

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anybody got this screen ?
*img502.imageshack.us/img502/9081/31094734dk1.jpg

^foxytunes leads me to that window
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=861481&postcount=156

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i dont have foxytunes.the only 2 addons are download helper and google toolbar.maybe its due to download helper

FF3 is crap ....

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downloaded...contributed to the record...but disappointed a bit..hangs like hell....thinking of going back to FF2...

only reason i am sticking to firefox is because of adblock plus and flashblock

anyway, have a look at this:*mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/06/sweet-plugin-microsoft-cake-20-for-firefox-3/

there is a way to use adblocking in opera , if you want help i can you help with it.

i am always ready to help a fellow opera user

, i just love opera , heh

downloading.......

hope we cross 20million mark

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apoorva84 said:
downloaded...contributed to the record...but disappointed a bit..hangs like hell....thinking of going back to FF2...

only reason i am sticking to firefox is because of adblock plus and flashblock

anyway, have a look at this:*mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/06/sweet-plugin-microsoft-cake-20-for-firefox-3/

Not the case for me. Though FF3 beta hanged on Ubuntu, but no problem with final verson

Use tamil's ads list in urlfilter.ini to block ads.

Fanboy's is better IMO & a Element Hider for Opera does increase the speed by some seconds , BTWElement Hider removes whitespace from the blocked ads , thus it's a must use for me Fanboy's urlfilter.ini + Element Hider

*www.fanboy.co.nz/adblock/opera/ , for the people want to try it out.

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FF3 sucks
man many extensions are not working
and cpu usage oh my god 100% CPU usage many times...the sites are loading slowly...
FF3 u are the worst browser that i have seen so far..
I had thought that u were lighter than FF2 but FF2 is far better than this

bye bye FF3...will downgrade to FF2 or use opera..

Kept my promise... DID NOT download yester!

FF3 rocks for me.. no issues.. migration from RC to final went smoothly... I'm happy

^^ Btw, the downloads are still counted until around 10 p.m. tonight...

^^^ Dammit!!! I forgot!!! They follow PST!!

^^lol...they waited for you

FF3 rocks here too

No problems et all.

lol... can anyone be dumber than me???!!! :))

nish_higher said:
anybody got this screen ?
*img502.imageshack.us/img502/9081/31094734dk1.jpg

First Crash of FF3 >>>>>>

I'm browsing on it all day and haven't yet seen a single problem with FF3. And my lappy has Pentium M processor 1.6Ghz and 256mb RAM. Even opening multiple tabs gave no problem. Don't know what you guys are talking about.

prem4u said:
First Crash of FF3 >>>>>>

Mine has crashed once aswell

Crashed for me as well (Mac version)

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This is not a coincidence that the FF is not working properly for many many users
i have already uninstalled it...

I expect a new FF 3.0.0.1 soon with all bug fixes..
till then bye FF3

krazzy said:
I'm browsing on it all day and haven't yet seen a single problem with FF3. And my lappy has Pentium M processor 1.6Ghz and 256mb RAM. Even opening multiple tabs gave no problem. Don't know what you guys are talking about.

This is the 8th miracle...
I have P4 2.4 Ghz,256+512 MB and i have seen 100% CPU usage several times..and it crashes so often..first i thought some net problem...restarted the system and checked in opera..and then found out that there is problem in FF3 itself..

All i can ask is ARE U SURE U ARE USING FF3..?

wonder why its cashing on you so often?
working fine for me on a three year old & slow proccy -Amd athlon 64 3000+
64bit software rocks!!

suggestion: try launching it in Safe mode(disable addons), maybe addons are cause of issue

Am not using it anymore. happy with Opera 9.5 and IE7.

is this why Mozilla set that world record day, just to make sure that everyone downloads the new browser however it is

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gary4gar said:
wonder why its cashing on you so often?
working fine for me on a three year old & slow proccy -Amd athlon 64 3000+
64bit software rocks!!

suggestion: try launching it in Safe mode(disable addons), maybe addons are cause of issue

u may be right but all addons are important to me...that's the sole purpose i use FF...

Without addons i would prefer Opera instead..

adi007 said:
u may be right but all addons are important to me...that's the sole purpose i use FF...
Without addons i would prefer Opera instead..

Most addon are made by third parties, mostly they are hobbyist like you and me.
also this is new release, so addon devs didn't test their addons on new versions much, so sometimes things can go wrong.

if you face any problem, the best thing is to report it.
if you face too many problems then you should downgrade to version 2

^^ Yes. for me, even without installing any add-on's it is really sluggish.

Even me finished with download..

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using ff3 no issues till now.

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gary4gar said:
Most addon are made by third parties, mostly they are hobbyist like you and me.
also this is new release, so addon devs didn't test their addons on new versions much, so sometimes things can go wrong.

if you face any problem, the best thing is to report it.
if you face too many problems then you should downgrade to version 2

I have already downgraded to version 2..

and i am currently replying in that only...
i just hope that the FF addon's developers upgrade their plug ins soon ...and FF releases 3.0.0.1 soon..
So till then(probably next month) no FF3...

desiibond said:
^^ Yes. for me, even without installing any add-on's it is really sluggish.

This confirms that there are some bugs in the FF itself..

So they've almost touched 7 million downloads eh!

yep.

Any idea how many copies of FF2 were downloaded till date?

Those who says ff3 crash are either fanboys of opera/IE or just want to degrade the popularity of fx. Millions of users are downloading and using it with no probs, except 4 to 5 like in this forum with no real proof.

axxo said:
Those who says ff3 crash are either fanboys of opera/IE or just want to degrade the popularity of fx. Millions of users are downloading and using it with no probs, except 4 to 5 like in this forum with no real proof.

proof #1 = *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=861481&postcount=156

OS - Vista.
now dont say its vista's fault

s18000rpm said:
proof #1 = *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=861481&postcount=156

OS - Vista.
now dont say its vista's fault

no its user's fault

axxo said:
no its user's fault

how?

s18000rpm said:
how?

get rid of that addon..simple

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Why don't any of you understand that incompatibility with extensions is not the problem of Firefox! It is the author's responsibility to update them to match the current version of Firefox.

Don't blame Firefox for nothing. Also, you may try them in compatibility mode using Nightly Tester Tools.

Firefox works without a hitch on both OS's here using my extensions.

Yep. Extensions and such will always update themselves soon enough.

axxo said:
no its user's fault

axxo said:
get rid of that addon..simple

but thats one of the reason i want to use FF3

- add-ons

& (@Hitboxx) that add-on, i got it from FF's "recomended add-ons" link

d/l this 1.3MB video & see the crash in action

link - *www.mediafire.com/?mgttxem4t3y

^^upload it on youtube, get millions of hits, become celebrity
yay

now thats cheap publicity

^^yeah watever
how many videos havin real good content are on top in youtube ???

When I go to www.mathrubhumi.com (Malayalam news site), Firefox 3 crashes instantly.

I installed FF3 and right now I'm using it........am not facing any problems as suggested by others here, but think its Vista users mostly complaining.....in XP I feel much better than FF2

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unni said:
When I go to www.mathrubhumi.com (Malayalam news site), Firefox 3 crashes instantly.

Nope, it doesn't here.

*www.imgx.org/pthumbs/large/9044/sss.png

And what a stupid site, full of ads (that too animated) and poor coding. (don't take it personally)

@unnikuttans:In Linux ,no crash

unni said:
When I go to www.mathrubhumi.com (Malayalam news site), Firefox 3 crashes instantly.

No problem with mathrubhumi.com here........might be ur ISP time out problem or something.....

Here is the screenshot attached.....

^ same here , downloaded now and using it .
checked the site too , no problem , tested on my friends old p4 with 256 ram .
its working really good.
i don't know why many have problems.

Foxytunes doesnt work with FF3 ONLY in VISTA

runs in XP.

awesome add-on

unni said:
When I go to www.mathrubhumi.com (Malayalam news site), Firefox 3 crashes instantly.

Maybe u got a corrupt plugin..

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there might be some problem with the site, as just now i tried it, mu cpu usage shot up to 60% and ram to 679mb and after closing the site now its cpu usage 7% and ram 650mb.

ofcourse CPU usage shoot up visiting mathrubhumi site.but no crash here on Debian Linux 8) . I think @jinsu and @unni - flashplugin may be the cause

*img.skitch.com/20080618-1t8ry6wrb6qt9hrnuh3waxtm7n.jpg
One person in this entire country (anyone heard of it?) downloaded Firefox!

actually its showing 2 people in Chad now.

And only 79096 people downloaded FF3 in india while 258224 downloads in Iran and i thought India was atleast more developed than Iran. Or are they still updating that map.

goobimama said:
*img.skitch.com/20080618-1t8ry6wrb6qt9hrnuh3waxtm7n.jpg
One person in this entire country (anyone heard of it?) downloaded Firefox!

yeah 10th History and Geography lessons had whole Africa

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Dunno about Windows. But on my Ubuntu box, it takes just 89 MiB after loading up 15 tabs having mostly Orkut pages, GMail and few Digit forum pages.

IMHO this is lighter than FF2. Note: I do not have any add-on installed except the ones installed by default in Ubuntu for better integration with other parts of system.

This is awesome, it is out!!

FF3 broke a record on download day. I can't imagine it.

I am so going to download it

anispace said:
actually its showing 2 people in Chad now.

did u download it??

1lakh people download FF from INDIA
Overall downloads 10,235,752 against target of 5million
super!

just one thing, how did their servers managed all this

goobimama said:
*img.skitch.com/20080618-1t8ry6wrb6qt9hrnuh3waxtm7n.jpg
One person in this entire country (anyone heard of it?) downloaded Firefox!

its zero now!
looks like people their prefer binary

lol, but really what are they trying to show????
let those who want download it.

Firefox 3.0 critical vulnerability

*blogs.computerworld.com/oops_firefox_3_0_critical_vulnerability

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have they were able to qualify for guinneas record.

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Got FF3. Well worth it, except for one thing - it took away all my addons. I don't know if that was intended, as it forces me back to the mozilla site, and then to search and download the add-ons again. So a few extra downloads for them again

Hitboxx said:
Nope, it doesn't here.
And what a stupid site, full of ads (that too animated) and poor coding. (don't take it personally)

praka123 said:
@unnikuttans:In Linux ,no crash

j1n M@tt said:
No problem with mathrubhumi.com here........might be ur ISP time out problem or something.....

x3060 said:
^ same here , downloaded now and using it .
checked the site too , no problem , tested on my friends old p4 with 256 ram .
its working really good.
i don't know why many have problems.

plsoft said:
Maybe u got a corrupt plugin..

azaad_shri75 said:
there might be some problem with the site, as just now i tried it, mu cpu usage shot up to 60% and ram to 679mb and after closing the site now its cpu usage 7% and ram 650mb.

praka123 said:
ofcourse CPU usage shoot up visiting mathrubhumi site.but no crash here on Debian Linux 8) . I think @jinsu and @unni - flashplugin may be the cause

Hi guys,
I disabled NoScript plugin, and now no problem

As soon as I go to the site with NoScript plugin enabled, Firefox crashes. Till a newer version of NoScript comes out, I will keep it disabled. Initially, I thought it was my profile. I have been using the same profile for more than one year. I unistalled Firefox, deleted everything and did a fresh install. Then I started installing the addons one by one. Thus, I came to know that NoScript is the cause.

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Did u all get FF update notification in FF 2?

My FF 2.0.0.14 does not show me the update yet, normally it has showed on its own all the updates. I tried manually Help>check for updates that too says no update.

I have downloaded FF v3 but don't want to risk my 17 add ons after reading that it wont work with many of them till all add ons are updated.
The auto update within FF checks & warns telling what all extension will get affected & then I can decide what to do.

Can I install FF v3 in a separate folder so both version can coexist?

in FF 3 there some addons r not working there no way to transfer my backup FEBE to FF 3.0 there is lot problem so i stick with 2.0.waiting for when 3.0 supports all addons of 2.0