Firefox 3 Released

Posted by Stropp on June 21, 2008

Okay. So this isn't about the MMORPG, Age of Conan, or World of Warcraft, but I figured you might be interested to know that the new version of the Firefox browser, Firefox 3 has been released. I've just downloaded and installed it and it seems to be working perfectly. A good thing since it's been in beta and RC status for a while now.

The biggest problem I had with Firefox 2 was in viewing YouTube videos. If I clicked on a video, embedded on a web page or on the YouTube site, I'd get two seconds of play without audio and then it would stop. The video would keep on downloading but nothing else would happen.

That's all fixed now. I've just tested it out with a few videos, including a Daily Show interview with the evil spammer Scott Richter. (Boy is that guy a moron.) Anyway, I'm happy now that I don't have to copy the link from Firefox into IE anymore. A big plus.

All of my Firefox plugins seemed to work well too. I didn't need to do anything other than install.

The only downside is that I wasn't able to do a side by side install of Firefox 3 with Firefox 2. I installed to a new directory, but it seems only FF3 is recognized. Bad news since I can no longer test updates to my Wordpress theme (or other web site stuff) with the older browser. It's not really all that big of a deal, but it would be good to have an older version available.

I'd recommend you head out and get Firefox 3 now. It fixes a few vulnerabilities that were in the old browser, and is a damn sight better than Internet Explorer. Well recommended.

You can download it from this link.