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Firefox

Version: 3.5.5

Downloads Count: 239,806

License Type: Free

Price: Free

Date Added: Nov 8, 2009

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003

Requirements: Pentium 233MHz processor, 64MB RAM, 52MB free hard drive space

File Size: 7896 KB

Author: Mozilla

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Most recent User Reviews for Firefox
  • Reviewed by: TailWind

    11-14-2009

    Duration of ownership: 3 Months

    Strengths: It's not IE8

    Weaknesses: Crashes more than Evel Knevil

    Overall Evaluation:

  • Reviewed by: janetlaker

    10-03-2009

    Duration of ownership: 2 Years

    Strengths: Everything about Firefox

    Weaknesses: No way me friends except not much place for browsing screen

    Overall Evaluation: Firefox is dominant and will always be my Main browser.

  • Reviewed by: jdnagle1

    03-06-2009

    Duration of ownership: 0 Days

    Strengths: sort of works

    Weaknesses: too many doubles

    Overall Evaluation: poor!! took out all my Icons of sites that use iocons

  • Reviewed by: jktyler01

    01-14-2009

    Duration of ownership: 1 Years

    Strengths: - Less vulnerable to viruses - Easy to use - Easy to customize - Fewer errors the IE7 (Internet Explorer 7) - wide variety of add-on programs - faster than IE7

    Weaknesses: The one weakness I can think of is that you can't add any search engine you want to the search Bar. They do most major search engines (Google, Wikipedia, IMDB, Yahoo, etc.) IE7 has a feature that allows you to add any search engine you want. You can even change the encoding if the default process doesn't work.

    Overall Evaluation: I LOVE IT and so do most IT Professionals. If you use it for a couple of weeks you will love it too. If you don't love you will at least be at less risk to viruses. Plus, you email the Firefox team and get a full refund. :D

  • Reviewed by: tom1344

    01-02-2009

    Duration of ownership: 0 Months

    Strengths: Fast, Smooth,cleaner than internet explorer, good addons

    Weaknesses: none, little errors but nothing that IE doesn' have.

    Overall Evaluation: Great , a winner , won you want to keep.

  • Reviewed by: number6

    10-02-2008

    Duration of ownership: 15 Months

    Strengths: superior in every way

    Weaknesses: none

    Overall Evaluation: I used IE7 for a long time but I'll never go back.

  • Reviewed by: blenheimears

    06-25-2008

    Duration of ownership: 1 Weeks

    Strengths: 64-bit (I compiled it from source), faster, better rendering, more stable.

    Weaknesses: No official 64-bit version, no official version for non-X86 processors (except PPC/Mac), 64-bit version requires "nspluginwrapper" to use 32-bit Flash Player.

    Overall Evaluation: I am using Firefox 3 on Linux/X86_64. Firefox 3 seems to be a stable browser. I have had it crash a few times, but it has always restored my session correctly. It renders more pages correctly than Konqueror (KDE's browser) or Firefox 1/1.5/2. I haven't installed any extensions (yet). Flash Player was a bit tricky to set up. I downloaded the 32-bit Flash Player and installed it. Since a 64 bit program can't load a 32-bit shared library (plugin), I installed a program called nspluginwrapper. This program is a "wrapper" that loads a 32-bit plugin and exposes it to a 64-bit browser. It works OK, although sometimes I get an empty gray box instead of a Flash animation. Reloading the page usually fixes this. This is a problem with nspluginwrapper, not Firefox, which is why I didn't take points off for this. I could not get Java to work in the 64-bit version, but I have installed a 32-bit version alongside it just in case I find a page with Java.

  • Reviewed by: UAE1

    12-23-2007

    Duration of ownership: 4 Years

    Strengths:

    Weaknesses:

    Overall Evaluation:

  • Reviewed by: richardmitnick

    10-24-2006

    Duration of ownership: 1 Years

    Strengths: Finally getting civilized, works on all of the corporate sites I visit.

    Weaknesses: The Mozilla community still has a computer camp feel, and it comes through in implementation. Like, all extensions should be ready to go, all themes, etc.

    Overall Evaluation: The first review is incorrect. Sillydog forum ahd links to the released FF 2.0 on 10.23.06. I installed it after un-installing FF 1.5.0.7. Everything came over fine, bookmarks, cookies, a bookmarklet I use, changes in about:config, all Im lost was a theme I enjoy.

  • Reviewed by: DubhBas

    10-24-2006

    Duration of ownership: 1 Years

    Strengths:

    Weaknesses:

    Overall Evaluation: This download link take you to the version 1.5, not 2. There's only a link on the mozilla page for a preview of version 2/

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