Firefox - anyone using it version 3?

Hieromonk Joined : 20 May 2008 Posts : 154

More specifically for the PC.

I have a pc for work and I use firefox for some of what I do. I decided to download and try out version 3.0. I have to say the results were less then positive. While there's some good things there, the application was a pig. My computer would frequently just sit there with the cpu stuck at 100% and the hard drive was going crazy. I close the browser and everything would return to normal. I tried using it for a while but it was killing my computer.

Hopefully 3.1 will be better but I'll have to go back to the prior version.

Anyone else have similar experiences?
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Novice Age : 43 Joined : 04 Jun 2008 Posts : 49

It crashes now and then similar to the beta which is something many have reported.

It will also take a while to load images on some pages, even when the images are the same image (if that makes any sense). I can't go to another tab until that page is all loaded. I wonder if there were some tweaks I did in previous versions that need to be removed.

I assume the memory leaks have been improved upon but haven't tested this.

I wonder if they rushed this one.
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Subject: Re: Firefox - anyone using it version 3? Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:49 pm

I use it, but as a secondary browser because there are still a few pages out there which safari doesn't load well...
but i couldn't stand the way the new version looked till i found this

now its livable... and works pretty well imo
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Xenophile Joined : 09 May 2008 Posts : 147

Oh yeah, I need to update. I just don't want to have to reconfigure everything again.
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Subject: Re: Firefox - anyone using it version 3? Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:26 pm

usually it will keep your settings... it will even auto-download all your plugins for you to update them...
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Subject: Re: Firefox - anyone using it version 3? Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:35 pm

Immoderator Joined : 09 May 2008 Posts : 43 Location : CA

Get this: with Vista and IE I had some problems. Now with Vista and FF3 they are no more. I say go FF3.

Novice Age : 43 Joined : 04 Jun 2008 Posts : 49

I fixed my FF loading problems by creating a new profile and migrating things over. The problem was with the user.js and/or prefs.js files in my old profile.

I read somewhere to install Flash 10 beta to help with crashing problems and so far so good but more time is needed to see about that.
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