Comments on: My Experiences with Firefox 3.0 on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X

By: Brad Koch

Brad Koch — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:41:38 +0000

@Phan Tan Tai:
From a shell:
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install firefox

Or you can use Adept to search for the firefox package and upgrade through there.

By: Phan Tan Tai

Phan Tan Tai — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:02:59 +0000

Send to me the file to upgrade Firefox 3.0 on my Ubuntu 8.04. please.
Thanks

By: Balwinder S Dheeman

Balwinder S Dheeman — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:43:57 +0000

I was eagerly awaiting for an update, and the FF 3.0.1 did the magic, everything is working fine now, particularly the image rendering and scaling, which is known as zooming among FF developers.

Thanks, the Foxes are way ahead in rectifying the flaws and, or prompt enough in making a new release.

By: Abhinay Omkar

Abhinay Omkar — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:41:25 +0000

FF3 on Mac OS X is dead slow on loading first time. I really like the default theme of FF3 in Mac OS X, it really integrates with the Mac theme.

FF3 is really fast on Linux

Sorry, I don’t want to talk about FF3 on Windows.

By: Balwinder S Dheeman

Balwinder S Dheeman — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:21:49 +0000

I’ve test installed vanilla FF3 on a Debian/testing machine and immediately switched back to FF2 on seeing that the image rendering and, or resizing in FF3 based on (lib)cairo engine is still in its infancy and, or full of bugs; I think, the FF3 people are more focused on Windows these days than Linux, the heard of such users won this time again

By: Cobalt

Cobalt — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:10:36 +0000

I’ve been using FF3 on Ubuntu 8.04 and I’ve noticed that it crashes less than FF2, though it crashed very few times, anyway. Loading tons of tabs (30+) doesn’t seem to kill Firefox on my system, but I don’t know why someone would have more than 15 tabs open. I’m using GNOME and the default theme seems to integrate flawlessly.

By: Mr.Spore

Mr.Spore — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:19:43 +0000

I’m using Firefox 3 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron, whenever I try to open 24 tabs at once if crashes on me, and it seems slow loading certain pages also.

By: Brad Koch

Brad Koch — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:12:30 +0000

I’m running Firefox 3 on Sabayon Linux. I personally haven’t had any problems with it crashing. I do, however, take serious issue with the new file upload field. In case you haven’t noticed, clicking inside the text input portion launches the file manager instead of allowing you to do anything with the text. It’s pretty confusing until you realize what’s going on, especially since the default Linux theme doesn’t make it obvious that you can’t type there. It’s ended up becoming an enormous annoyance for me, especially since this introduced problems like being unable to delete the file or intuitively copy the text.