Time is virtually running out for Firefox 2.0. In this context, Mozilla is gearing up for the upcoming mid-December support cut-off date for version 2.0. With codename Shiretoko cooking for a late 2008, early 2009 release, starting on August 25, Mozilla has unleashed Firefox 3.0.1 as a major update for the open source browser, signaling the proverbial beginning of the end for Firefox 2.0. While still approximately months away from the moment when it will pull the plug on Firefox 2.0, Mozilla has kicked into high gear the migration to the latest iteration of the open source browser. The debut of this week was synonymous with the introduction of Firefox 3.0.1 as a major update to Firefox 2.0.0.16.

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FF 2.0 had endless issues at first. Eventually it was a very good browser, but it took awhile. I'd hold off on 3.0 until the initial bugs are worked out.

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I've been using 3.0 for the past couple of months (I think?) and have had no major problems at all... in fact the only problem I can think of is when flashgot updated lately it didn't seem to get the menu commands through the browser for some reason, so I had to use a manual copy/paste function instead... but don't know if that was a firefox fault or flashgot itself.

Personally i really like firefox v3 - the ONLY gripe I have with it is the bookmark function... in v2 and under you could move the bookmark window wherever you wanted.. but in v3 it's attached to the underside of the toolbar. So when you want to bookmark a link for instance and you use the context menu (right mouse click) to do it, you still have to go to just under the toolbar to complete the process which seems daft!!
But all-in-all I think it's a faster browser with a lot less problems than v2... I don't get the browser shut down for no apparent reason for one thing, LOL

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