Firefox Version 3 - Comments

re: memory usage: This is true-as i have tried every program
that i could find to tame the memory usage. nothing seemed to work. It's still kinda high-50,852 but not nearly as high as it was before-106,992. Plus FF is not freezing up anymore.

I use Firefox about 95% of the time ... on both the PeeCee at work and on the Mac at home ... love it in both cases. I only use Internet Exploder on the PC for work-related stuff. (The new version of Apple's Safari is pretty cool though ... picked up some features already available in Firefox.)

If version 3 of Firefox is anything like the current version, it will be awesome!!!

Mr. Rankin - A minor nitpick. A "Full page zoom" - while an absolutely amazing feature (one of my favorites in FF) - is most definitely not new to FF3. It's standard in FF2, and as far as I can recall, was around even in version 1.

A question on a feature you mentioned:
How do you select an entire line? It used to be triple-click, which you indicated is now selecting an entire paragraph.

EDITOR'S NOTE: I think the new thing in FF3 zooming is that BOTH text and images will scale. In FF2, only the text would scale. As for selecting an entire line, I'm not sure how to do that now!

as far as memory leaks I have found a little .exe free program called SweepRam that frees up some memory and takes up little space, I just click it once or twice as needed from my desktop.
one question I always have is when downloading a newer version of Firefox, should we just load it over the previous version we have or uninstall it first?... no one ever mentions what is better.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Firefox will automatically install over the previous copy -- no need to uninstall first.

re: Full page zoom... This is already available by using control with the scroll wheel. I have been using it for quite awhile.

Foxfire 3 doesn't work with getting into my ISP to change passwords either. I had to switch to Microsoft to do it after a wait of one hour and working 30 minutes with a techie to figure that out.
It is wonderful, however not to have it freezing up like Internet explorer constantly did.

Ahh, CTRL + Plus / Minus / Zero did zooming since 1.1

EDITOR'S NOTE: Only text zooming. The new version does text AND graphics!

i hope they have fixed the problem with the passwords, since the version 2 is giving me a hard time to memorize my username and passwords. sometimes it does it with some web sites, and sometimes it doesn't. it used to keep all my passwords and usernames, even with the extra security password that forefox allow you to add for extra protection. i don't know whether this is a bug or i have to reinstall firefox 2 in order to use this tool. it used to ask me for keeping a record of them everytime i logged in a personal account, asking me later to insert the extra security password. one day i lost all my passwords and i havent't been able to save them even though the save password option is checked in my tools/options/security menu. how can i fix this?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Sounds like a re-install would be a good idea.

the little yapping icon in the URL bar is a useless nuisance with it's "this website does not supply..." 3-clicks now compared with the old-whatever 1-click icon in the end to highlight the URL for copy/paste. so-called 'security' is running away with us. give us a way to get rid of it, please! Everything else seems to be better'n ever.

Well firefox 2 was bullitproof so I made the big mistake of going to ff3 & now about every time I open my webpage browser firefox3 goes manic like IE & looses the homepage & bookmarks.So I have to reboot!Then it will work for a short while till it goes all stupid again.If firefox 3 was 2 years in the making they should have waited an extra year & released a version like ff2 that F*%king well worked!I guess this is the kind of dismall disapointing computer programs the next generation should come to expect..Like Vista.These computer geniuses are in such a hurry to release new stuff they don't take the time to think things all the way through!!!Sad thing is I can't figure out how to get rid of ff3 & go back to ff2(that worked!!!)when i reinstalled firefox 2 it won't allow an internet conection so they must have put a retaliation program onboard ff3 to prevent you going back to a successful program!

EDITOR'S NOTE: My feeling is that your troubles have nothing to do with Firefox. I've had no difficulty switching from FF3 to FF2, and back again. Sounds to me like a good anti-virus and anti-spyware defense would help.