Firefox Set to Break World Record

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Download Day 2008 When I look at the visitors at my site, I notice that a majority use Internet Explorer to browse the web. While IE is a good tool, let me expose you to Firefox; a browser with a development community that blows away the competition.

Sometime in June, Mozilla aims to release their long awaited Firefox 3 which sports a vast number of new features and enhancements. From my experience with beta, Firefox 3 is way faster than IE, so I definitely suggest you give it a try.  I should also mention that Firefox is a free download, so don’t worry about having to pull out any credit card.

I will be making a new post when Firefox 3 goes live to help spread the word about the internet browser I use on a daily basis and prefer as my solution for browsing the web.

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15 Responses to “Firefox Set to Break World Record”

  1. chicago movers Says:

    Can’t wait for this to launch publicly. I can’t understand why some people still use IE when clearly there is a better (way better) alternative. Oh well. To each his own.

  2. Austin REALTOR Sam Chapman Says:

    Is Firefox still safer than IE because fewer people still use it?

  3. investment property Says:

    Austin I’ve read it somewhere

    A community of skilled programmers can spot problems more quickly and correct them before a new release is available for general use. It’s been said that threat response time for Firefox averages one week, while it may take months for Microsoft engineers to fix critical bugs reported by security analysts – an unacceptable situation for users who remain unnecessarily vulnerable to exploits (hacker attacks) during that time.

  4. Luxury Homes For Sale Says:

    Austin, some say that there are javascript errors that are seen to Firefox which are alright to IE. Most of the programmer and developers use IE as their browser because it’s user-friendly for them, In my field, Firefox is really helpful to us. Most of internet user doesn’t know that there are many relevant tools offer by FF, which we benefits from it and the best thing is, it is FREE! When time comes that Firefox 3 is up, I’m really sure that people will transfer to Mozilla FF and choose it as their default browser. FASTER, EASIER, and USER-FRIENDLY.

  5. Westboro Massachusetts Real Estate Says:

    Thanks for the heads up on the release of firefox3. I can’t imagine not having firefox just for the SEO tools alone!

  6. Ken Smith in Chicago Says:

    FF is a much better browser then IE already, can’t wait to see the next version.

  7. Steve Castaneda Says:

    I’ve been using the beta version of FF3, and I feel it’s noticeably faster. If you want to download a release candidate, you can do so by heading:

    http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

    It’s possible to install FF3 next to your previous installation of FF, but it’ll probably cause confusion. I personally uninstalled the older version of Firefox before installing a the latest release candidate.

  8. Ken Smith in Chicago Says:

    Think I will wait until they have a version that is release ready. Used to do beta stuff all the time, now I just don’t have the patience for the potential bugs. Current version works great and that means more to me then a few extra bells and whistles.

  9. Richey in Las Vegas Says:

    Firefox is so much better than IE, I just wish it had more support with other software vendors. Still have to use IE for some things. :(

  10. Steve Castaneda Says:

    Tempo, our local listing database provider, does not play nice with FF at all. I share your frustrations Richey!

  11. apartment search Says:

    Firefox has a lot of advantages, it is more easy to use than in IE.

  12. Crystal Guthrie Says:

    Firefox is so much better, but we have to constantly keep opening IE to access the MLS. I wish the Realtor Associations would demand better MLS software from the vendors.

  13. Steve Castaneda Says:

    @Crystal Gutherie: I agree! The crazy thing is is that our MLS solution, TEMPO, is probably one of the more popular and advanced solutions available.

    Why they haven’t adopted a FF friendly version, who knows? I certainly wish they would. Less clutter on the start menu bar is always a plus in my book.

    Besides that, web browsers aren’t known for being memory efficient. Keeping multiple browsers open can technically effect the performance of your computer (especially older ones), although newer computers will most likely not notice the difference.

  14. Ken Smith in Chicago Says:

    Glad that our MLS uses ConnectMLS as an option as it works in FF. We also have Tempo and ReXplorer as options, but I think Connect is best option for a number of reasons.

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