Editors' Choice: Firefox 3
After months of testing, Firefox 3 (code name Gran Paradiso) is available for download from Mozilla. With its new Gekko 1.9 engine, the browser rocks, rendering pages faster and uses fewer system resources overall. As with any new browser, some add-ons created for Firefox 2 may not work, but give them time. Firefox 3 touts faster rendering, a vastly reduced use of system resources, and clever new data-mining tools for your bookmarks and browser history. Most notable is that Firefox 3 includes many security-related features baked right in, such as the best of breed antiphishing protection, making Firefox the most secure browser on the market today. Read our full review of Firefox 3.
» Read the full review of Firefox 3 (Gran Paradiso)
by AspDotNetDvlpr (see profile), 06/17/2008
by tommmm111 (see profile), 06/17/2008
by SleeplessHacker (see profile), 05/28/2008
by drdivo (see profile), 04/26/2008
by harold24915 (see profile), 04/20/2008
After Mozilla's years-long slow start, Firefox has gained significant market share against its top rival, Microsoft's Internet Explorer. One of the Firefox's strengths is the broad collection of hundreds of add-ons, but that also means things move more slowly when programmers must update their projects to be compatible with Firefox 3. The latest version of the popular Web browser includes a new rendering engine, so pages load faster. It also uses fewer system resources, addressing a complaint in earlier versions.
Mozilla has released a new security-based build of its upcoming Firefox 3 release. As with its other alpha builds of Firefox 3, aka "Gran Paradiso," Mozilla warns casual users to wait to download until the final version is available.
Developers can run the latest iteration of Firefox now, while casual users should wait until the final release in the fall.
In anticipation of Firefox 3, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Webware.com's Rafe Needleman discuss what users can look forward to with the new browser release.
If you have embarrassing URLs and share a browser, you might need this tip. Tom Merritt shows you how to turn off suggested Web addresses.
Make Firefox stop waiting those lengthy 250 milliseconds before displaying a page.