Comments on: My Firefox 3 Switching Experience

By: Firefox 2 Users Nagged To Update

Firefox 2 Users Nagged To Update — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:44:08 +0000

[...] mean that the user will receive another update notification in the future. I have written about my Firefox Switching Experience and excessive Firefox CPU usage before which might be helpful before making the [...]

By: Alan Wyatt

Alan Wyatt — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:19:21 +0000

I seem to have problems with the Gambling sites playing At The Races Live Streams on FF3 – FF2 used to be incompatible with the Racing UK Stream, but played ATR. Now I just get amessage on ATR suggesting I’m logged in on another machine. It still plays on IE.

By: rruben

rruben — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:15:07 +0000

I like the new Firefox a lot, but there are to problems for me.

Firebug is not supported yet and when I close firefox a crash window pop up telling me that firefox crashed to send the problem to mozzila. A little strange., because as far as I am concerned nothing happened

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:26:52 +0000

I’ve always loved Firefox and have used it for years, but 3.0 has been really problematic for me. I have a recurring issue where the content for an inactive tab will “bleed” through to the active tab I’m looking at… so if I’ve got Gmail in tab #1 and CNN.com in tab #2, with tab #2 selected, sometimes I’ll see my Gmail interface poking through at random. It isn’t limited to Gmail; it’s happened with several different sites. It seems to happen when I have five or more tabs open, so perhaps it’s a memory issue of some kind. Never happened with FF2. I’ve been using Opera 9.5 in the meantime, and actually kinda falling in love with it…

By: Nosh

Nosh — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:28:45 +0000

I’ve upgraded (or found substitutes for) 42 extensions – all used, I promise :)

FF3 seems way faster and lighter than its predecessor in every respect. I was genuinely shocked at everything actually working so soon and at just how much more superior it is to FF2.

Snaplinks: Left-drag or middle-drag works just fine, left-drag gets in the way of my normal functionality so I use the middle button which isn’t as easy to control as the left or right, but I can easily live with that till there’s an upgrade.

By: Faust

Faust — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:02:32 +0000

I’ve had a not so great experience with Firefox as of late. Seems to crash at odd times. But no fear Opera is here! I’ve switched to Opera full time and only use FF for one site that is FF/IE only…. Aside from all that Opera is the browser of choice. Mozilla seems to be getting out of hand with code imo, but its my opinion…

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:22:44 +0000

I wished to make a clean install of Firefox 3. For this, I backed up my plug-ins folder and my bookmarks, dumped my extensions list, removed Firefox 2 completely (Program Files\Mozilla Firefox folder and Profile folder included)… and installed FF3. Took me roughly 24 hrs to re-install extensions — not all, either because some had become obsolete, either because some were incompatible (though I did bump all versions that were 3 beta compatible to 3.0*) –, and get acquainted with this beauty.

No problems. A few crashes though, but I take into consideration that some bumped extensions might be in the way. Overall nevertheless is a real matter of satisfaction. Load time, page display and memory consumption are so improved that I remained stunned. Firefox 3 is an exceptional browser, took them 34 months to get it running, but it certainly is worth it!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:33:59 +0000

Martin, my switching experience is waaaay better than your switching experience… :D

I totally agree with you, I try to stay as browser independent as possible. Frankly this hasn’t really worked since some extensions are just so useful. However I don’t have any extensions I couldn’t do without, but I do love my Firefox :)

I like Opera too though, I think it’s a good, solid browser.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:27:00 +0000

Yeah, the main firefox addon that i’ve had trouble with is the Boost Toolbar for Facebook…you can force it to work, but only a select few features work…

I haven’t noticed anything on my copy of snap links, however.

By: Thomas Murphy

Thomas Murphy — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:49:29 +0000

I have enjoyed using Firefox 3 so far, but maybe you can tell me why I can’t download the web developer toolbar :(

By: Grimskallen

Grimskallen — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:39:41 +0000

What about running a browser with updated security and stability?
Those aswell as obvious speed changes are the reason of my upgrade.
Some small extensions did not work when I upgraded, but no importnant ones I will miss.
Perhaps even good I got rid of ‘em.