# Firefox 3.0 who has started using it?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 18, 2008, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326 "2008-06-18T11:40:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/1 "2008-06-18T11:40:16Z")
I DLed the latest version of Firefox and really like it so far.
System: Imac (PPC) running OSX 10.4
Has anyone else DLed FF3 and how do you like it?
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### Author:  [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/2 "2008-06-18T12:10:47Z")
Downloading now, windows XP
If it looses all my bookmarks like 2.0 kept doing after random updates, I’m going back to explorer.
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### Author:  [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/3 "2008-06-18T12:18:18Z")
Using it right now. Kept all my bookmarks, has some nice enhancement to allow really fine-meshed security and privacy settings… seems good 🙂
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/4 "2008-06-18T12:27:27Z")
Now using it on OS X 10.5.3. It’s much faster than FF2.
[QUOTE=NaturalBlondChap]
Downloading now, windows XP
If it looses all my bookmarks like 2.0 kept doing after random updates, I’m going back to explorer.
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Back up your bookmarks first. Export them as an HTML file from the Bookmark Manager or whatever they call it.
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### Author:  [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/5 "2008-06-18T13:01:33Z")
Well it seams to have kept my bookmarks, and Firefox3 appears to be…drumroll… a web browser.
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/6 "2008-06-18T13:09:29Z")
I’m using it right now.
I wonder if they hit their ‘downloads in a day’ record?
I have it up and running but have a couple of simple questions. When it loaded 3.0 it didn’t self extract 2.0. What’s up with that? I’m not savy or brave enough to just trash 2.0 without the heads up from someone wiser than I. (I’m always worried I won’t extract all the parts and it will screw the whole thing up.)
Anyone else having this issue? What’d you do?
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### Author:  [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/7 "2008-06-18T13:11:15Z")
Do I need to uninstall FF2 before I install FF3?
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### Author:  [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/8 "2008-06-18T13:17:04Z")
I downloaded it last night. So far, I like it. I didn’t have to worry about losing my bookmarks. Firefox 2 was nice enough to delete them \*\*again \*\* a few days ago.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/9 "2008-06-18T13:19:55Z")
I tried it, but didn’t really find anything about it that I wanted or liked more than the feature set in version 2. I guess if the rendering engine is faster, I’ll like that.
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### Author:  [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/10 "2008-06-18T13:27:56Z")
I’ve been using it in beta for a while already. I absolutely love the new system for handling bookmarks - that’s really the clincher for me. Beyond that, though, I’m not noticing any major changes from version 2.
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### Author:  [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/11 "2008-06-18T13:43:46Z")
I’ve been using v.3 for several months now, starting with the third beta on through the latest release candidate. As far as I can tell, it is excellent.
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### Author:  [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/12 "2008-06-18T13:52:44Z")
[QUOTE=Peak Banana]
I’ve been using it in beta for a while already. I absolutely love the new system for handling bookmarks - that’s really the clincher for me. Beyond that, though, I’m not noticing any major changes from version 2.
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The new system being I can actually keep them for more than one week now? 🙂
OK 'll stop bitching about bookmarks, but I don’t see any difference in the way it handles book marks, or is it some behind the scenes technowidjety thing?
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/13 "2008-06-18T14:04:30Z")
So when y’all downloaded FF3, did you then trash FF2? How many folders did you have to delete and where were they located?
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### Author:  [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/14 "2008-06-18T15:46:38Z")
It’s running, two computers, it’s pretty, works the same as the beta.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/15 "2008-06-18T16:15:24Z")
No. However, Opera 9.5 has been released and I love that. Opera is the browser that Firefox steals all its ideas from.
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### Author:  [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/16 "2008-06-18T16:16:34Z")
Been running it since Beta 2, love it. As for the bookmark loss bug in FF2, if you are comfortable looking for your profile folder (in hidden folders in your user data folder on Windows) and it’s been less than a week, you can probably get your bookmarks back. PM me if you would like more info, it’s too long to type out if no one needs it.
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### Author:  [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/17 "2008-06-18T16:27:53Z")
Well, I’m apparently running it too.
I had been using the beta, but I guess one of the latest automatic updates gave me the actual release… I didn’t know it’d do that.
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### Author:  [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/18 "2008-06-18T17:06:30Z")
Hey! The tooltip text on XKCD is no longer truncated!
(It works on the SDMB now too.)
What I’ve read about the specs make it sound like a great upgrade. It is very competitive in rendering, and uses less memory than even Opera.
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### Author:  [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/19 "2008-06-18T17:15:36Z")
[QUOTE=BlackKnight]
Hey! The tooltip text on XKCD is no longer truncated!
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It only took them [8 years](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45375) to fix it. Not bad.
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### Author:  [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/firefox-3-0-who-has-started-using-it/453326/20 "2008-06-18T17:28:42Z")
[QUOTE=Amp]
Do I need to uninstall FF2 before I install FF3?
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[QUOTE=elbows]
So when y’all downloaded FF3, did you then trash FF2? How many folders did you have to delete and where were they located?
[/QUOTE]
I downloaded and installed FF3 last night, and didn’t have to do a thing to FF2.
I have never had a problem with FF2 losing my bookmarks, but I exported them before the install just to be on the safe side.
A few of my plugins/add-ons aren’t compatible yet (I shall miss you, Add Bookmark Here), but the important ones (Forecastfox and FireFTP) are still working.
All in all, I’m a pretty big FF fan. Been using it since is was called Phoenix. 🙂 I hate that we’re restricted to IE (and 6.0, at that) here at work.
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