Thread: firefox 3 released! help set a new world record!

I choose Firefox mainly for security reasons. You see far less 'drive by' malware for Firefox than you do with IE. This all ties back to Active X. Microsoft IS addressing the gaping hole that is Active X. IE 8 (on Vista only) will allow Active X Controls to run in user space, instead of now running at the dangerous system level. This will prevent it from modifying files that it does not have access to.

I also chose Firefox because it plays nicely with others. Firefox doesn't behave like Microsoft and do things their own way just because they can. It generally follows the W3C standards. Firefox 3 now passes the ACID 2 test for compliance. One of the goals of 3.1 will be to get the Gecko rendering engine (what converts the HTML to what you see on your screen) to pass the fairly new ACID 3 test. So far, Safari and Opera are the only two browsers that pass this test.

Originally Posted by triggerhappy2005

Nah I'll stick with IE7.

Works good enough for me.

Firefox is so vastly superior to IE, I cry for you at night.

its past 24 hours. what was the previous record at? did they win? the excitement is killing me!

Originally Posted by Cojiro

its past 24 hours. what was the previous record at? did they win? the excitement is killing me!

there was no record this is the first of a kind. But it will take about a week to know if they made it into the record books. Judges have to validate the logs etc.

i just checked and the number on the www.getfirefox.com site showed nearly 9.2M downloads World Wide.

Originally Posted by Braddoc

Originally Posted by Glock

Originally Posted by triggerhappy2005

Nah I'll stick with IE7.

Works good enough for me.

Firefox is so vastly superior to IE, I cry for you at night.

there's just no getting away from post flamers. sad.

He's not flaming this post. He just likes Firefox better. Nothing wrong with that.

Originally Posted by JBMCW2010

i just checked and the number on the www.getfirefox.com site showed nearly 9.2M downloads World Wide.

Great news! Launch day for FF 2 was around 1.6M even thought it wasn't official. Great job helping to those that download it.

btw in other great news firefox 3 already has it first security issue (joyous isn't it?) apparently its a major browser exploit which the company that found it did not wish to mention (though they said it involved clicking a link to a site so *shrugs*) anyways supposedly its being worked on though for the next update. Once i find the link i'll post it

EDIT: here the link http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente...ity_found.html

what the bog difference between IE and firefox?
Will it do my typing for me?

I will stick with IE.