Firefox (always the newest version!!!)

[JohnLaw]

***Update***

I have uploaded the newest FF Version (3.0.2), which the mozilla corp. has released today!!!

It is recommended to update immediately!!!

Firefox 3.0.2 contains the following updates:

* Fixed several security issues.
* Fixed several stability issues.
* Official releases for Sinhala and Slovene are now available.
* Beta releases for Bengali, Galician, Hindi, Icelandic, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu, and Thai are available for testing.
* Fixed a number of minor issues with the layout of certain web pages.
* Fixed several theme issues that affected right-to-left locales.
* Fixed issue that caused some users with customized toolbars to have their Back and Forward buttons go missing (bug 426026)
* Add new Extended Validation (EV) roots to Firefox 3.0.2.
* On certain IDN sites, the password manager would not fill in username and password details properly.
* Fixed several hangs and crashes that occurred when using screen readers.
* Fixed Mac-specific issues:
o Keyboard shortcuts would stop working in some cases.
o Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters can not be entered (using IME) into text fields in Flash objects (bug 357670)
o Firefox 3.0.1 could not be used when the user profile is stored on an AFP directory (bug 417037)

[Brian1453]

I have been using FireFox on a serious basis for just the last month or so. I never had much of a delay loading pages before with IE so I can't truly say FireFox is faster. But I do have to agree that the add-ons available with FireFox make it a great tool for downloading. DownThemAll alone makes it an incredible tool.

For those of you with more experience with FireFox I want to ask which add-on in your opinion is the best one for downloading and converting embedded video files? Especially flash files like those on YouTube.

[alkie]

I use DownLoad Helper for al the .flv vids from the web sites. It's easy to use, it doesn't convert them though.
Also with regard to all the add ons that are available from Firefox, remember to install only the ones you find you need as, "like everything else" if you install too many it will eventually slow Firefox down.

[JohnLaw]

News from the mozilla corp.:

Hey everyone,

Shortly after releasing Firefox 3.0.2 our QA and Support teams began
seeing reports of problems certain users were having with the Firefox
Password Manager. This was being caused by non-ASCII data (in domains,
logins or passwords) saved as something other than UTF-8 failing to
convert back to Unicode (see bug 454708) which was a regression from a
fix to make the Password Manager work on IDN sites with characters
over U+0100 (see bug 451155).

The symptom is that users who have password data stores with non-ASCII
data saved as something other than UTF-8 (more common for people who
have saved passwords on IDN domains or non en-US domains) will not be
able to access their saved passwords or create any new saved
passwords. There is no permanent dataloss, the saved data is just
inaccessible. While this doesn't affect all Firefox users, it is a
significant regression and has triggered a fast-release Firefox 3.0.3
which will contain a single fix for this issue. Once released, this
will restore the functionality for all users.

The fix has been landed and tested, and builds are coming out and
being delivered to QA today. We hope to be releasing updates on the
beta channel by early next week and issuing a release soon thereafter.

cheers,
mike

[JohnLaw]

***Update***

I have uploaded the newest FF Version (3.0.3), which the mozilla corp. has released today!!!

It is recommended to update immediately!!!

Firefox 3.0.3 contains the following changes:

* Fixed a problem where users were unable to retrieve saved passwords or save new passwords (bug 454708)
* See the Firefox 3.0.2 release notes for previous changes.

[ronaldbr]

Thanks for this support John ! FF is the best.

[JohnLaw]

Thanks for this support John ! FF is the best.

THX mate!!!!

[JohnLaw]

***Update***

I have uploaded the newest FF Version (3.0.4), which the mozilla corp. has released today!!!

It is recommended to update immediately!!!

Firefox 3.0.4 contains the following updates:

* Fixed several security issues.
* Fixed several stability issues.
* Official releases for the Icelandic and Thai languages are now available.
* Beta releases for the Bulgarian, Esperanto, Estonian, Latvian, Occitan, and Welsh languages are available for testing.
* Updated the internal Public Suffix list.
* Fixed an issue where the IME input tool used to enter Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Indic characters was covered by the "Add Bookmark" panel. (bug 433340)
* Enabled additional EV root certificates. (bug 451305)
* Fixed an issue where some passwords saved using Firefox 3.0.2 did not work properly. (bug 457358)
* In some cases, Firefox would not properly save proxy settings for protocols other than HTTP. (bug 446536)
* See the Firefox 3.0.3 release notes for changes in previous releases.

[JohnLaw]

***Update***

I have uploaded the newest FF Version (3.0.5), which the mozilla corp. has released today!!!

It is recommended to update immediately!!!

Firefox 3.0.4 contains the following updates:

Firefox 3.0.5 fixes several issues found in Firefox 3.0.4:

* Fixed several security issues.
* Fixed several stability issues.
* Official releases for the Bengali, Esperanto, Galician, Hindi, and Latvian languages are now available.
* Replaced the End-User License Agreement with a new "Know Your Rights" info bar on initial install.
* When installing multiple signed XPIs simultaneously, previous versions of Firefox would fail.
* Fixed several issues found in the accessibility implementation.
* Added the ability to send OS-specific system notes in the crash reporter.
* See the Firefox 3.0.4 release notes for changes in previous releases.

[safn1949]

Just downloaded Firefox 3.5 test beta and it is super fast as far as I can tell,worth looking at.