informative post, keep it up.,

I stick with Firefox 2 on my LTSP deployments. Firefox 3 uses way too much memory by comparison. In LTSP environments, that's a big, big deal. Also, Adobe Flash doesn't play nicely with FF3 in LTSP environments. That's another really big deal when you're trying to sell LTSP to a Flash-addicted school (usu. Microsoft shop).

--TP

To all of you complaining of Fx3 crashing, I suggest the following:
- Backup your bookmarks first
- Uninstall Fx2
- Delete its 3 folders (in Program Files, in Application Data, and in Local Settings\Application Data)
- Install Fx3

Upgrading the Java Engine and Flash Player also helps mightily.

I have installed Babylon 6.0 (Permanent License). The software works fine with FF 2.0.0.16, but it failed very often with FF 3.0.1. OS: Win XP Pro SP3 all patches.

Me? Well, my favorite new feature of Firefox 3 is for it to ask you if you want to save and quit your internet when you try to shut down your computer to keep the pages. That way instead of hitting shutdown and having it close everything and automatically save the pages, you can hit shutdown and actually have it sit there WAITING for you to say "Yes, I really do want to close you. This wasn't a mistake." I learned that the hard way when it was slow as hell after being on for a whole week when I closed it for vacation.
Another great feature is called "MIDI plugin missing."
I can't find a way to "replace" it because it worked on FF2.......
Oh yeah and the in your face "UPGRADE" was awesome.

Yeah....I don't like Firefox 3. What changed positively anyway? I just want my old Firefox 2 back. Down with FF3. Maybe Mozilla will get enough complaints and fix?

Firefox 3 gets the thumbz down from me. It has an irritating bug where I go into the bookmarks pulldown menu and point to a file or folder within a folder within another folder and then the 2 menus disappear, bringing me back to the first pulldown menu! Hopefully they'll have this fixed b4 december. fiefox 2 for now

i am working with an ibook g4 of some years old and the OS version 10.3.x.does not work with FF3 (i tried a few times) but had to revert to FF2

After download day I've lost a day of work, because of the instabilty of FF3 and Firebug. My collegues are happy though, so maybe I'll give it another shot.

I'm using FF2 because in it (thanks in part to Tabbrowser Preferences), I can click the scroll wheel (middle click equivalent) on a folder and those folders will open to the far right of all of my tabs, LEAVING ME ON the tab I am on. In fact, my morning ritual is to click on my gmail page, then right click the folders for dailyComputer, dailyEntertainment, dailyCommentator, dailySports and dailyMisc. Then I wander downstairs for breakfast. When I come back, toast and juice in hand, I have my tabs in the order I want them and I can start reading the mail and computer news first. With FF3, I am on the first of the dailyMisc tabs. And no, I don't want to dump all the daily folders into one big Morning folder, nor do I accept the need for the jumping after opening behaviour. Hate it, hate it, hate it.

GM

Firefox is open source. Each distro can support Firefox 2.x for as long as they have coders available. This isn't Microsoft which forces users into updating programs (and even the whole OS) when the users don't want to.

It has often been the case that when an open source project stops supporting a specific version of a popular technology, someone steps in and takes up the slack.

I am having a hard time with version 3, it crashes a lot for me. Not only that but I have some plugins like livewriter blogthis that won't work with version 3. I have been thinking about rolling back to 2 on the one machine that I have it installed on. I have seen a few other folks saying similar things on twitter too. Hopefully whatever bugs I am experiencing will be worked out soon, I submit an error report each time it crashes. Don't get me wrong, I am a hardcore mozilla fan but version 3 has been a let down for me for the most part...