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Firefox 3

I prefer:

  • Safari 3.1.1

    Votes: 39 34.5%

  • Firefox 3

    Votes: 65 57.5%

  • other.. (Opera?)

    Votes: 8 7.1%
  • Total voters
    113
redwarrior said:
You're right about the ebay incompatibilities, I had forgotten about that. Did you try it in Opera? I think I ended up using IE for my ebay listings.:eek:
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I haven't tried Opera no. Does it work fine in the latest version of Opera? It wouldn't be so bad having to open up FireFox 2 to do my eBay listings except that I can't open FF2 and FF3 at the same time. Have to close all my FF3 windows so that I can do it. They ought to fix it so that you can have FF2 and FF3 open at the same time in case you need to revert back for a web page incompatibility.
 
burningrave101 said:
I haven't tried Opera no. Does it work fine in the latest version of Opera? It wouldn't be so bad having to open up FireFox 2 to do my eBay listings except that I can't open FF2 and FF3 at the same time. Have to close all my FF3 windows so that I can do it. They ought to fix it so that you can have FF2 and FF3 open at the same time in case you need to revert back for a web page incompatibility.
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No, I don't remember if I tried it in Opera. I was thinking I made it work without having to use IE. Just can't remember. I'll post if I figure it out! :eek:
 
I prefer Safari myself, although the functionality of Fx 3 would be nice to have.

However, I hate Firefox 3's font rendering (text is almost unreadable compared to Safari) and the fact that it takes ages to first start up (subsequent starts are as fast as Safari's, but the first start takes something like 5-6 Dock bounces while Safari's takes 1 at most).
 
migulic said:
However, I hate Firefox 3's font rendering (text is almost unreadable compared to Safari)
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I'm using it right now. It's 100% SHARP. It couldn't be any sharper. Maybe it's a monitor thing (LCD versus my CRT?). In fact, both Safari and FF3 have sharp text here.

and the fact that it takes ages to first start up (subsequent starts are
as fast as Safari's, but the first start takes something like 5-6 Dock bounces while Safari's takes 1 at most).
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I get 2 bounces with Safari. I dunno. I might get 4-5 on the first time I start Firefox. I really don't notice since I don't reboot very often. But I think regardless, it's probably that pre-load thing that Internet Explorer does in Windows. OSX might be loading core components that Safari needs at boot time while Firefox has to load them all when it first runs. So you'd be trading boot time for browser start time. People lay the blame on the app when they can SEE that it's taking awhile to start but just blame the OS in general when it takes too long to boot even though the apps are what keeps slowing it down.

Mozilla Suite used to have a quick-launch option. I'm surprised there isn't such an option in Firefox, but they're probably thinking rightly that there's no need to pollute the cache memory until you have to (i.e. if you're not going to run a browser on a given session, why load parts of it? I guess so people don't think Safari or in Windows case, Internet Explorer loads 5x faster). Safari doesn't load very fast on my PC, by comparison (because it doesn't get preloaded either).

In any case, you can have Firefox3 load at boot time to alleviate the condition (the one in your head about it bothering you). Just go to accounts in the System Preferences and add Firefox3 as a login in item with auto-hide. It'll then be ready to go after a reboot and come up instantly. I haven't tried it myself so there could be a snag or two, but I do use it to start iTunes and Signal at startup so my whole house WiFi system is ready to go without intervention after a reboot.
 
bsheridan said:
According to the BBC news story - Firefox aims for download record,

Firefox 3 will only work with Windows 2000, XP and Vista.

Please tell me this is not true!:confused:
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clevin said:
oh my. this really hurts my trust of BBC. how can they make such a low level mistake? sigh. journalism.....
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Well if you read the article it doesn't actually say that

Firefox 3 will work with Windows 2000, XP and Vista and some non-Windows operating systems including Linux.
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I am quite likcly Opera 9.5 at the moment but it is a bit too unstable to use full time. Perhaps by version 10 I will switch to it. Safari 4 is pretty nice as well as FF3. I always seem to revert to Safari though.
 
I moved to Firefox due to Safari point blank refusing to sign into some websites even with a cache clear, I did report these bugs to Apple so can only hope they sort it out. Also I suffered repeated crashing when downloading from sites like Deviant-Art.

:apple:
 
xUKHCx said:
Well if you read the article it doesn't actually say that
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actually it did say exactly those words
Firefox 3 will only work with Windows 2000, XP and Vista.
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at least that what it said couple of hours ago, I think BBC just made the correction in past few hours.

gikku said:
Safari 4 :cool:
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raggedjimmi said:
Safari 4 seems to be the fastest for me. I'll stick with that.
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:), at least wait for the public beta. who knows what bugs are there.
 
I loaded up Firefox RC3 tonight in OSX and it said that there were no updates available at this time. Um... so either Firefox 3.0 final is identical to RC3 or their update system is not working right. Oddly enough, I just lost the cursor for the message reply box in Firefox3 here and about 10 minutes ago I had a MacOSX kernel panic for no apparent reason (I was just surfing in Firefox3). I've had about two total kernel panics in Tiger EVER so again, it might be a coincidence, but it seems pretty strange. The machine has only been running without a reboot for about 3 days. The last time I started getting glitches where I felt a reboot would help was a bout a two week run (barring that odd incident where the DVD player seemed to make sound scratchy in the newly upgraded iTunes until I rebooted (but that wasn't a kernel panic).

Ok, after I clicked off the message box and on again, the cursor reappeared, at least....

I've seen no mention in FF3 articles whether the final RC candidate is identical to the final release. I would have thought no (even if no major changes occurred), but again, there was no update offered here.
 
I searched on Google and at least one site mentioned that Firefox (well they only specifically mentioned Firefox2, not 3) would not be distributed via the "check of updates" system for now and either way wouldn't count for their record attempt, etc. So I made note of the Gecko version number in the "About Firefox" window and deleted the Firefox.app for RC3 and downloaded the new binary from GetFirefox.com and when I brought the About window up, the numbers matched exactly. So I would imagine there is zero difference between RC3 and the final version and thus no need to update if you already have it.

I'll now see what it does in Windows and Linux on my other computer.
 
Tough call for me. The speed is great in both.

#1 reason I prefer Firefox over Safari: target="_blank" links open in new tabs, rather than windows.

#1 reason I prefer Safari over Firefox: Easy syncing of bookmarks between multiple Macs and my iPhone.

Safari wins for now. The first to conquer both will end up with my business in the long run.
 
safari 4 anyone?

well between those two, i like firefox3 but the early versions of safari 4 seem a bit faster for me on java-intensive pages. firefox 3 still gets the nod for me though thanks to plugins such as piclens.
 
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