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Editors' Choice: Firefox 3
After months of testing, Firefox 3 (code name Gran Paradiso) is available for download from Mozilla. With its new Gekko 1.9 engine, the browser rocks, rendering pages faster and uses fewer system resources overall. As with any new browser, some add-ons created for Firefox 2 may not work, but give them time. Firefox 3 touts faster rendering, a vastly reduced use of system resources, and clever new data-mining tools for your bookmarks and browser history. Most notable is that Firefox 3 includes many security-related features baked right in, such as the best of breed antiphishing protection, making Firefox the most secure browser on the market today. Read our full review of Firefox 3.

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Firefox 3 news and blog posts

Has open source won--or has it lost?

Open source hasn't achieved all the objectives of its most ardent followers, but it has dramatically changed how software is developed and people collaborate. Read more

Assessing the open-source scorecard is complicated. A complete "state of open source" would fill many pages. But here are a few things that have struck Read more

Posted By: Gordon Haff Oct 7 2008

Buzz Out Loud 823: Sad trombone

Whence comes the sad trombone, and other questions of great worldly importance dominate today's discussions, but there is, in fact, other technology news today. For example, Steve Jobs is OK but citizen journalism may not be. Read more

Whence comes the sad trombone, and other questions of great worldly importance dominate today's discussions, but there is, in fact, other technology news today. Read more

Posted By: Molly Wood Oct 3 2008

'Internet safety' may be an oxymoron

Reports on clickjacking, which enables a PC to get infected when a user clicks on a disguised Web link, point out that when it comes to Web browsing, there is no such thing as "security." Read more

To the short list of life's certainties--death and taxes--we can now add "Web threats." Early indications are that there will be no quick fix Read more

Posted By: Dennis O'Reilly Oct 3 2008

Buzz Out Loud 822: It's all about the benzenes

Stuck with a stinky new Mac Pro? Good news: it might be toxic! (No proof of toxicity has been determined.) Read more

Stuck with a stinky new Mac Pro? Good news: it might be toxic! (No proof of toxicity has been determined.) Also, Tom Merritt reveals himself Read more

Posted By: Molly Wood Oct 2 2008

Firefox: Millions and millions of downloads...sitting on the shelf

Why go through the bother of sucking up your bandwidth with a download and then not clicking on the icon to install it? Read more

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Firefox_Millions_and_millions_of_downloads_sitting_on_the';It was a bit distressing to read that despite tens of millions of Mozilla Firefox downloads, 75 percent of Read more

Posted By: Matt Asay Oct 2 2008

Kevin Mitnick detained, released after Colombia trip

Famed social engineer-cum-hacker tells a cautionary tale about the dangers of traveling into the U.S. with a laptop, and sending packages back home from Bogota. Read more

Updated at 7:55 a.m. PT on Wednesday to specify that the FBI cleared Mitnick of any wrongdoing in this event. Since being released Read more

Posted By: Elinor Mills Oct 1 2008

Buzz Out Loud 819: Laptop size doesn't matter

Natali says she giggles when she sees guys using the tiny little Eee PC. But she doesn't question their manliness. Engnr_Chik thinks Netbooks are for everyone. Read more

Natali says she giggles when she sees guys using the tiny little Eee PC. But she doesn't question their manliness. Engnr_Chik thinks Netbooks are Read more

Posted By: Tom Merritt Sep 29 2008

Browser patches yearn to be free

Mozilla just patched a bug in Firefox in three days, something Microsoft just can't match Read more

All web browsers have bugs, but when simply viewing a web page can infect your computer with malicious software, the speed with which bugs are Read more

Posted By: Michael Horowitz Sep 26 2008

Firefox update fixes a dozen flaws

Update spans Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 and will be pushed out to current users to take affect the next time the browser relaunches. Read more

Mozilla released Firefox 2.0.017 and Firefox 3.0.2, updated versions of its browser, on Wednesday to address a dozen security vulnerabilities. Four Read more

Posted By: Robert Vamosi Sep 24 2008

Google: Of the Web, for the Web

Google's strength is that it has no firm grounding on the desktop, allowing it to build out the Web in ways that injure incumbent vendors like Microsoft. Read more

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Google_Of_the_web_for_the_web';Something struck me in reading this section of Stephen Wildstrom's excellent review of Google's Chrome browser. That Read more

Posted By: Matt Asay Sep 22 2008

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Mozilla Firefox 3 for Windows

Even though Internet Explorer dominates the Web browser market, you might wonder why if you spend some time with Mozilla Firefox. This light and nimble Web wonder brought tabbed browsing into the mainstream (IE7 recently jumped on the bandwagon) and offers countless ways to customize it through extensions and themes.

Mozilla Firefox 3 for Mac

Though it's difficult to unseat Safari as the preferred browser of Mac users, Mozilla Firefox garners attention through its solid design and extra features, making it a worthy alternative.

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User opinions of Firefox 2

7 out of 10 Very good

"Initial Impression" I was impressed with how quickly it loads pages. I did notice a bit of sluggishness when I was on my MySpace home page, and... Read more

by AspDotNetDvlpr (see profile), 06/17/2008

10 out of 10 Perfect

"Firefox is great 4 me." Firefox is a great way to go about your business on the internet. Read more

by tommmm111 (see profile), 06/17/2008

10 out of 10 Perfect

"Firefox Leads the Industry" Firefox is superior to other browsers for one reason, they are leading the industry. Thousands of creative designers and... Read more

by SleeplessHacker (see profile), 05/28/2008

4 out of 10 Mediocre

"As wonky and error prone as anything I've seen" In the last few months, Firefox has become the least reliable piece of software on my trusty old Dell laptop. Anything that has... Read more

by drdivo (see profile), 04/26/2008

3 out of 10 Poor

"Not as good as IE 7" The only advantage of Firefox is it is more secure than Internet Explorer 7 and that is becuase Firefox is not intergrated into... Read more

by harold24915 (see profile), 04/20/2008

Very good

7.7

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Learn about the Mozilla Firefox 3 browser

After Mozilla's years-long slow start, Firefox has gained significant market share against its top rival, Microsoft's Internet Explorer. One of the Firefox's strengths is the broad collection of hundreds of add-ons, but that also means things move more slowly when programmers must update their projects to be compatible with Firefox 3. The latest version of the popular Web browser includes a new rendering engine, so pages load faster. It also uses fewer system resources, addressing a complaint in earlier versions.

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Firefox 3 Alpha 8 (Gran Paradiso)

Mozilla has released a new security-based build of its upcoming Firefox 3 release. As with its other alpha builds of Firefox 3, aka "Gran Paradiso," Mozilla warns casual users to wait to download until the final version is available.

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