Firefox 3?

It's no secret around here that I don't know E36 M3 about computers.

Do I want to upgrade to Firefox 3?

Yeah. It's fast. Whee!

A minor note on Firefox 3, which might help a few:

Explorer loves to remind you that it is not set as the default and despite telling it not to remind you it sometimes will (every time!!). Anyway, apparently Firefox 3 tries to correct this, unfortunately it goes to far and blocks you from setting Explorer as the default for opening html (which you want if you have some app that opens in HTML).

If this is a problem for you (most people will not care) you need to go into Add/Remove programs and change it in Set Program Access and Defaults. This was on Windows 2000 BTW.

aircooled wrote: A minor note on Firefox 3, which might help a few: This was on Windows 2000 BTW.

I don't seem to have this problem in XP or in Vista FWIW..

Just informating

Yes. FF3 has MANY speed improvements

Yep, or if you really want RAW SPEED switch to Chrome...but unfortunately when you have too many tabs open things get stupid, and the guy who's in charge of the GUI design is a Steve Jobs type who won't add a tab select dropdown because the "change in interface is too jarring" rolleyes

Gameboy, you make a lot of presumptions about the design decisions behind Chrome.

To answer the question, FF3 is nice. Faster than FF2, and has some other nice improvements.

Chrome is also nice. For that matter, Safari is also very nice, as is Opera.

The real takeaway is that there are at least 4 browsers that are much faster, more secure and offer more features than IE6 or 7. Use the one you like best.

These are the glory days for browsers. Anyone sticking with IE6 is really missing out.

Tim Baxter wrote: Gameboy, you make a lot of presumptions about the design decisions behind Chrome.

Nope, that's what the lead GUI designer said in a feature request discussion.

One warning about FF updates. Either FF 1 or 2 had a Realplayer plug in that allowed you to record any streaming video, including off of you tube, but literally any vid, to your PC. I enjoyed it, sort of like a poor man's TIVO. I could DL 7 sections of a Top gear episode at the same time while doing something else. and come back and watch it or burn it to a CD and watch it on TV.

Updating loses the plug in. FF is supposedly working on it, but no patch for it yet, so I wish I'd kept FF1 or 2, whichever it was.

To those who find this a ridiculous concern, have every cable channel and TIVO, it is irrelevant, but I for one really dug it.

I use keepvid.com for downloading FLVs...works on any browser on any device with any OS