# FireFox 3, thoughts?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632
**Category:** random
**Created:** [June 17, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632 "2008-06-17T20:05:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/1 "2008-06-17T20:05:04Z")
I kinda like it so far. It’s fairly responsive, albeit not quite as lightning fast as Opera 9.5.
Renders fine, and firebug is updated to work. I’m having some text issues when I write in certain textfields however (like this, where I can’t see my cursor. Bit annoying to say the least…)
Also, when you type, the mouse goes into hiding permanently until you move it again. Don’t quite see the point of that 🙂
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### Author:  [@MTsoul](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MTsoul)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/2 "2008-06-17T20:15:33Z")
> [@sekasi;2344521](#):
>
> It’s fairly responsive, albeit **not quite as lightning fast as Opera 9.5**.
[Q.E.D.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D.)
I thought the whole download day gimmick turned out a bit negatively. “Download day” was a great idea, but execution was very irresponsibly carried out. When was download day? June 17, announced 4 days before the actual date. How could you download on download day? You couldn’t, because it started at 10am PST, and oh yeah, the multitude of server crashing.
I hate Firefox the application, but I would really like to see their market share grow higher. This download day event did not help at all IMO.
// edit. Oh yeah we are talking about Firefox 3 the app itself aren’t we? :lol: In that case I have nothing positive or optimistic to say about it at all either. It’s still bloated as hell. Until they multithread the app, it’s going to hang like mad whenever you go to a new site and Firefox look ups DNS info IN THE SAME GOD DAMN THREAD AS THE GUI. JEESH what is this DOS?
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### Author:  [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/3 "2008-06-17T20:15:56Z")
It handled my 40+ tabs that i have open when I started it up. Thats a good sign.
I love the look because it blends in with Vista more now. I’ll post back when it crashes.
I like the little animation when I click links and it takes me to another tab the most probably so far nothing other than the look changed. which is good.
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### Author:  [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/4 "2008-06-17T20:22:12Z")
> I’ll post back when it crashes.
> :lol:
trying it out now
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### Author:  [@Syous](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Syous)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/5 "2008-06-17T20:23:16Z")
Firebug is enabled which is great, but no fasterfox.
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/6 "2008-06-17T20:27:07Z")
Just noticed that flash content is behaving strangely … especially flash content with glowfilters on :X
Might need to reinstall my flash plugin i guess.
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### Author:  [@Stratification](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Stratification)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/7 "2008-06-17T20:27:51Z")
Been using it since about beta 2 I think. I love the newer autocomplete for the address bar. Being able to pull up a page by title, or a string anywhere in the URL is sweet.
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### Author:  [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/8 "2008-06-17T20:33:23Z")
I hate how it has removed all but one bookmark from my bookmark toolbar
i also hate how the bookmark toolbar is taller than firefox 2’s
GIMME back mah screen realestate!
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/9 "2008-06-17T20:36:23Z")
Can you guys try using the “advanced” editor here on kirupa forums and try navigate around with arrow keys and mouse?
Doesn’t quite work for me 😛
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### Author:  [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/10 "2008-06-17T20:37:40Z")
works for me!
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/11 "2008-06-17T20:40:11Z")
really? like if you try to type 5 lines then try to remove the top one.
I can’t do that in the advanced one. it won’t let me navigate there :X
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### Author:  [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/12 "2008-06-17T20:42:51Z")
This whole “google ad” crap in my address bar is going to piss me off VERY fast if thats what happens when you don’t flush your history every now and then…
i start typing the first few letters of a website, and theres 5 google ad pages and THEN it displays the url i want to go to, and then MORE google ad pages after that.
ps. sekasi, i tried doing what you suggest to those paragraphs ^ but nothing happened
PC? or mac?
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/13 "2008-06-17T20:44:03Z")
Mac … but I changed it in vb settings to “extra formatting” as default editor instead of the maxed out one and it works fine now.
I never format my text anyway :lol:
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### Author:  [@Gundark](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gundark)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/14 "2008-06-17T20:49:29Z")
Yeah, I can’t use the advanced editor here either. I can type all I want but It will only delete from the end. I can’t put the cursor in the middle or beginning and start typing either it’s completely messed up.
Oh, and I’m on Windows XP.
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### Author:  [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/15 "2008-06-17T20:51:47Z")
Could anyone with FF3 installed please check this out?
[http://www.erikhallander.com/dev/as3/killcpu.html](http://www.erikhallander.com/dev/as3/killcpu.html)
Was working on that this morning and noticed that in FF3 the ‘glow’ doesn’t show up like 1/5 times ? Thanks.
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### Author:  [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/16 "2008-06-17T20:52:17Z")
when downloading a file and choosing “open with”, it downloads, but then i get an error saying that there was an error and that i should do it myself … jerks
\*edit: @sekasi: looks all blurry and glowy to me!
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### Author:  [@Stratification](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Stratification)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/17 "2008-06-17T21:07:38Z")
Yeah, I keep forgetting to say something, but the advanced editor acts pretty weird for me too. I’ve been doing my post editing in IE 8.
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### Author:  [@Anogar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Anogar)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/18 "2008-06-17T21:27:01Z")
Yup, advanced editor is freakin’ out for me too.
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### Author:  [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/19 "2008-06-17T21:36:16Z")
I can’t get the advanced editor to mess up… hmm…
NVM… yes I can.
\*edit: @sekasi: looks all blurry and glowy to me [also]!
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### Author:  [@Gundark](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gundark)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-3-thoughts/263632/20 "2008-06-17T21:50:58Z")
Changing my settings to not use the full WYSIWYG editor made it work again.
I wonder what is up with that? I haven’t seen anything about it anywhere else online.
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