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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Jun 2008 13:51 UTC

Any minute now, the Mozilla Foundation will officially release the third incarnation of their successful Firefox web browser - the browser that cracked Internet Explorer's monopoly and forced Microsoft to improve IE. Mozilla aims to set a world record in most software downloaded in 24 hours with Firefox 3. Update: It's out there, boys and girls. Update II: And the Firefox 3 page is up too.

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Terrible!

by patrick_ on Wed 18th Jun 2008 01:03 UTC

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2006-03-02

Yuck! FF3 was severely overhyped. New OSX skin is horrible, and if you change it, the scrollbar disappears.

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RE: Terrible!

by bousozoku on Wed 18th Jun 2008 05:18 in reply to "Terrible!"

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2006-01-23

Yuck! FF3 was severely overhyped. New OSX skin is horrible, and if you change it, the scrollbar disappears.

Now what's wrong with the theme? Mac users complained that it looked like a Windows application but now that it looks more like Safari, people don't like it either. Uggggh.

I happen to like the way it renders pages. Anything else is secondary but the anti-phishing and anti-malware are nice touches also, since Safari has neither.

Also, I wonder about the Windows version. I can see that it's changed but the performance seems about the same. The Mac OS X version is so improved, it's difficult to believe that a single line of code has been left untouched.

Thanks to all the developers responsible.

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