Comments on: Your mission: Download Firefox 3

By: T2A`

T2A` — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:10:20 +0000

If they were serious about going for the record, they should have handled this launch better. There was no countdown, the thing was only available at random and inconvenient times if you weren’t in the US instead on the actual “download day”, and they should have mirrored the hell out of the their sites because they got hammered yesterday. It took me two hours just to get through to a download page. D:

But I did download it twice, once at work and once at home. I’d been on one of the RCs prior. :P

By: Cyde Weys

Cyde Weys — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:44:01 +0000

jeem: The acid test for me is the acid test. Okay, I couldn't resist that one. From what I've heard, FF3 has really good performance when many tabs are open, and from my experience with it so far, I can vouch for that being the case. I think the days of memory-leaking Firefox are finally behind us.

By: jeem

jeem — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:19:42 +0000

I’m posting this from Firefox 3 on my home box (OS X 10.4), and I really like it so far. The acid test for me, though, will be when I start using it at work, where I usually have at least 12-15 tabs open at a time (e-mail + RSS feeds + enwiki watchlist + whatever work project I’m doing). Unfortunately, that’ll have to wait until the construction is finished in my office. :(

By: William

William — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:27:51 +0000

I’ve been running it since RC2. Presumably, it’ll update the next time I restart it.
It kind of explodes if you try and run Pandora, though. I’m talking 500MB of memory consumption kind of “explodes” here. It doesn’t do that thing that Fx2 did, though, where it would randomly lock up on a Flash video and peg my processor at 99%.