As the title suggests - Are you happy with Firefox 3?

Personally, I reckon Mozilla rushed the release - the new one slows down on me, crashes, the new tab glow slows down my PC and it took ages to load - Internet Explorer is faster even with all my add-ons disabled.

I was so unhappy with it that I actually reverted back to 2.0.0.14.

I also heard some people are actually alright with it

Please vote in the poll and if you want, feel free to give a reason why

I'm quite happy with the release, but as you say it isn't perfect.

Most of the time it runs quickly and smoothly, but sometimes it doesn't.

It is good, but there is room for improvement.

I have had absolutely no crashes or problems with the new release, except that one add-on was not compatible. There have been some very good changes from the user's point of view, and it does seem to have a smaller footprint from what I "feel."
Regards,
John

I tried the beta a few months ago and ended up reverting to 2.0.0.14, and it looks as though this will happen again. At the moment I have had to change my default browser from FF3 to Opera 9.5.

Can't download images from some sites, and StarDownloader goes completely berserk ending up with about 60 Save As windows open. Just not worth the hassle.

When you have something that causes problems versus one that works perfectly, no contest.

John I seem to get the opposite

I think I am going to stay with 2.0.0.14 until FF3 decides to work for me.

I am happy with Qpera 9.5 also,rowal. Does everything I need.
I uninstalled FF3.

I am miserable with it for one (and only one) reason. The STOP button should be RED!!!

Well... what also annoys me is there are no themes for it! (Then again since it is a completely new version I shouldn't expect them )

No complaints from me.

I am going to wait until practically everyone is happy with it before even trying it.

It is possible to change these icons slightly.
remember to BACKUP ALL files modified

1. Navigate to the following C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\chrome

2. Locate classic.jar and open it with your archive manager. eg 7-zip

3. Within the archive navigate to skin\classic\browser\

4. Copy the file Toolbar.png out of the archive to the desktop. BACK UP this file to another location

5. Open this file with your graphics editing software (something better than paint)

6. Edit the icon carefully as the icons are set out specifically.

7. Once you have finished your edit simply copy the file back into the archive. You will need to close firefox in order to upload the file as FireFox uses the archive.

8. Open FireFox and the changes should be displayed.

9. If the changes don't look right simply replace the edited file in the archive with the original

At first I was reasonably happy and pleasantly surprised about some of the new things in FF3. And I did notice FF3 was faster. But after a couple of days I began to think some things were changing on me although I couldn't quite put my finger on them. But I started having episodes I can only describe as "I think I did this yesterday. Now, where it is today?" Or, "That looks different now. It didn't look like that before. Why?"

I decided that my problems might be stemming from an attempt to run FF3 with FF2 with a different profile a few days before. I had definitely messed that up somehow and reverted back to FF2, by deleting that FF3 profile. But it had left some FF3 files in my default profile. I had saved a pristine copy of my profile and it had 40 files and folders in it. This one had 63, with the new file names FF3 uses. So I completely uninstalled FF2 also. All of it. Settings and everything. Cleaned the registry, reinstalled FF2 clean and restored the 40 pristine files in my profile. Then I created a Ghost Image for backup, so I could try a clean install of FF3 and see if that worked out better.

I repeated the steps of removing FF2 completely so I could start with just FF3 out of the box. No personal add-ons. Just the default theme. No user.js changes. Nada. Nothing. The only thing I did was import my bookmarks so I could compare how it acted then and now at familiar sites.

That 'experiment' lasted about 45 minutes.

Right out of the gate FF3 wouldn't ask to save my passwords at forums. Off to the mozillaZine forum I go. The explanation for that is blamed on the websites not allowing it. (Although it seems the websites I go to allowed it okay in FF2 and in my combo FF2 and FF3!) We're advised to use a bookmarklet or a password manager addon. Not acceptable, especially the blame the other guy excuse. Come out and say it. FF3 is the culprit, whether it be a bug or by design.

At that point I wondered if it was worth trying to set up my favorite extensions (most will work or I'd found suitable alternatives) and take the FF3 plunge. I think I would have except for one add-on that I really want to work in FF3, but it isn't updated yet and there's no alternative for it. I'd tried Tester Tools and other hacks earlier and still couldn't get it to work. I decided I'd wait to see if LinkVisitor would catch up, because I really depend on that one a lot.

So, I used my Ghost Image and now I'm back to 2.0.0.14 for the duration.

Although I have been reading up on trying to install FF3 over my pristine FF2, that won't have the second profile conflicts to deal with. Some people have said it works for them. It would sure save a lot of time and hard work if it would work that way.

Has anyone installed over a clean FF2 and had good results?

Im still using 2.0.0.14.
I check for updates and there is none, so i dont think there is a firefox 3.

Now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure I read that the automatic update for FF3 has not been implemented yet. It has to be downloaded and installed for now.

Oh that other thing that really did it for me was that I couldn't use the full version of Hotmail

I get tons of emails and really need the full version otherwise I waste time opening new windows

To me it feels like what happened with Vista - problems once it was released, possibly because they couldn't wait.

Mine is red?

I'm happy now, after changing all FF add-ons for 3.0 compatible. I have no more problems with FF 3. Of course, nothing is perfect but for now my FF works flawlessly.

Overall, I am quite satisfied with the way it works. I like the feature that allows you to skip back directly to a page you've been to, rather than pressing the "Back" button over and over.

I don't like the cosmetic changes. I liked the way FF looked before. But that's just me.

I am happy with it, but I must stop using the betas because it ruins the whole "wow" effect when the final release comes out. haha. However, I am back to Opera though on Ubuntu. I must say Opera does everything I want FF3 to do, plus some more/less. The one thing I miss is the on-the-fly spellchecker, but Opera will still spell check just have to right click for it. And eBay doesn't work (the java-script / ajax) in Opera 9.51 on Ubuntu 8.04. Still has be going back to FF3 over that. However, it makes me happy and I like using the less popular but powerful software. I like rooting for the underdog.

It runs smoothly, and I like the option that it gives you if you want to save your tabs for when you open Firefox again. In older versions, I had to shutdown my computer without closing Firefox so that I could restore my tabs when I logged back on. The only add-on I use is No-Script.

After getting rid of all the "2" stuff (profile folder and all) and a fair bit of "about:config" tweaking, I'd say, more or less.

Have to concur with john here. Except, its more than one addon thats not working yet. But then again its normal for FF to take some time for all of them working. Btw, FF 3.1 is out now.

I'm very happy with Firefox 3.

Except its caused issues with site advisor for me.

Do you mean FF 3.1, or do you mean FF 3.0.1?

I just really hate that there are barely any skins and add-ons that are available at the moment. I haven't noticed too big differences.

I installed Ubuntu yesterday and it comes with Firefox 3. I was still using Firefox 1.5 with XP before. Have to say, that
it is quiet a change. One thing I noticed is I can not have a blank page once I have clicked on a link. Only have a blank home page when opening. Google appeared. So I changed it to Dogpile. Has anyone figured out how to just have a blank home page?
Another thing---Bleeping computer is out of focus like the images/graphics are distorted and the text is faint and small when I allow it to choose its appearance. Anyone else using Ubuntu and Firefox have this problem?
I haven't noticed any significant increase in speed either, as advertised by Firefox.

Have you tried the setting under Preferences> Main>Startup>When Firefox starts>(drop down )show a blank page ?
My setup is a little faster than before, but I was fast enough (for me) to start with.
Seconds to load a webpage:
Goggle 0.424
microsoft.com 0.670 (I never go here though )
Yahoo 1.304
SiteAdvisor 0.533
bbc.co.uk/ 1.322
GRC.com 1.885
arstechnica.com 1.5991
youtube.com 1.464

on average probably 1-2 seconds faster
(times from http://www.numion.com/stopwatch/ )

No One---Yes, I set that to blank. The Google page shows up by default though once you have clicked on a link and
closed the link. You no longer have a blank page. That probably will require editing Firefox to have a blank page every time. That is why I chose to set Dogpile as "home page". You know, spread the wealth. If you or anyone knows which edit is needed, please let me know.

I thought maybe the Zoom addon was causing the problem with this BC site. But that is not the problem. Kind of odd that the images are distorted and large while the text is small and dim. I am still setting up so maybe I will figure it out if it is something that I can fix.

EDIT: I must have used Zoom and screwed up on BC. I corrected it. Hope it stays this way.

oops. 3.0.1 that is.