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The link for version 3.5 is NOT a bad link, if you are having trouble downloading it, use another browser or copy and paste the URL into a new browser page. It has been confirmed beyond all doubt the link is good.

Firefox 3.0.11 also available.

DESCRIPTION
Firefox is a web browser that empowers you to accomplish your online activities faster, more safely and efficiently than any other browser, period. Built with Tab browsing, popup blocking and a number of other seamless innovations, Firefox stands out ahead.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.5:
  • Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
  • Added support for CSS 2.1 and CSS 3 properties.
  • A new tab-switching shortcut that shows previews of the tab you're switching to.
  • Improved control over the Smart Location Bar using special characters to restrict your search.
  • Added a new Private Browsing Mode.
  • Added functions to make it easy to clear recent history by time as well as remove all traces of a website.
  • New support for web worker threads.
  • The new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine is on by default for web content.
  • Removed the new tab-switching behavior based on feedback from users
  • Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements, the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties, SVG transforms and offline applications. More information.
  • Now available in 70 languages.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Mozilla.org
Downloads:569,109
  - Version d/l:7,245
Internet:Browsers
License:Free
Date:30 Jun 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
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Jul 1 2009

ABOXOFJOSH  System requirements for

Windows:

64 MB RAM (128 Recommended)

52 MB HD

Mac:

128 MB RAM (256 Recommended)

200 MB HD

wtf?  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 2 2009

ST00P!D M0NK3Y  Don't know why they're posting that as the minimum requirements. I have 13 tabs open and it's using 80MB of RAM... the app itself only takes up 50MB of space.  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 3 2009

NEONBLUE2  It should probably be noted that Firefox 3.5 requires Tiger. In order to run Tiger you must have at least 256MB of RAM anyway.

Windows 2000, on the other hand, requires 64MB of RAM and is the Windows minimum requirement.  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 1 2009
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JAN13  I was waiting for this upgrade with big anticipation ... well NO ... application is very slooooow on my twin processor G5 as well as Intel 17 inch power book.

Safari in contrast is flash-quick ...  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 2 2009

ST00P!D M0NK3Y  Opens in 1.5 - 2 seconds for me and runs insanely fast. Safari runs fine for me too.  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 1 2009

BOSSA-NOVA  On my MacBook Pro 2.2 with 3 GB RAM the first launch of Firefox 3.5 after every restart of the computer takes 32 seconds to complete. Safari takes 5 seconds.

Can you out there confirm this? And why is it so?  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 1 2009

ROBOTANK  Firefox also takes a long time to start for me. I used to have too many extensions.I got rid of most of them, but I didn't notice any substantial improvement in loading time. I hate FF's long load time: It makes it feel bloated, and makes Safari feel like a far more streamlined browser.  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 1 2009

MACFOOL  About 2 seconds to load on a Dual G5 10.5.7 and maybe 3 seconds on a new 4 GB Mini 10.5.7

Y'all got something wrong.  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 1 2009

BOSSA-NOVA  First launch of Firefox after a RESTART of the computer?  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 1 2009

BRUCEANDERSON  Part of Safari is running in the system itself, so its initial launch time is shorter. Firefox has to bootstrap itself. After the first launch after a reboot FF should start about as quickly as Safari does.

But I'm wondering how often do you restart your computer for this to be a significant issue?  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 1 2009

BOSSA-NOVA  I work a lot with photos, like in Lightroom. After a while computer gets very slow, so I reboot it from time to time.  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 2 2009

MACFOOL  BOSSA-NOVA - Had to wait until I needed to Restart to respond to the question. Firefox 3.5 takes 4 seconds or a little less to open from launch on both machines subsequent to a Restart or Cold Boot.

If this has any bearing (probably not) I run all non-Apple applications from a second partition that will let me install there.

The fact you think you must reboot so often may be the source of your slow launching?

Both Firefox and Safari launch VERY fast give or take a few hundred milliseconds.

Try a cold start into a PRAM zap (thrice) to a Safe Boot, run Permissions repair in Disk Utility, then run your maintenance scripts, trash all caches and then Restart. If things are still slow, well, good luck.

Hope this helps.  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 2 2009

BOSSA-NOVA  Firefox 3.5 only takes so long (about 30 seconds) to launch when I first open it after a restart of the system. Subsequent launches while the system is running only take 3 seconds.

I just want to know if others experience the same.  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 2 2009

JAN13  That is exactly what I am talking about .... it sloooooow ...  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 2 2009

IMHO  BRUCE ANDERSON

I restart my Mac at least every day. And almost every day a second time, when I'll be away of my Mac for some hours. Energy saving, you know. You don't mind about energy shortness and the environment?  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 2 2009

ST00P!D M0NK3Y  I'm surprised that Safari is taking 5 seconds to start for you, let alone Firefox taking 30+ seconds. It takes both Firefox and Safari only 1.5-2 seconds to open for me even after a restart. Maybe you should consider reformatting your Mac. I do that every once in a while when nothing else seems to work.  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 1 2009

CALL ME YO DADDY  This is a wonderful browser however the default theme is hideous. Here are the only two Mac themes I know of that correct this problem:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7527

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6704  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 1 2009

DANA SUTTON  The thing that strikes me most about Firefox 3.5 is that, unlike Safari's Top Sites, Fast Dial actually works and is useful: it only shows sites you want it to use rather than loading all sorts of crap by tracking and displaying your History, and you can set it as your start page (just write "about:blank" in the Home Page box). Also, if try to resize Top Sites thumbnails to a smaller size, the next time you quit/launch there are those damn big ones again. The Fast Dial thumbnails are too big, I'd like to a figure out a way to make them smaller so I can see more sites on a single screen. Other than that, it's everything I'd like Top Sites to be that it isn't.  
(Version 3.5)

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Jul 1 2009

ROBOTANK  If I'm not mistaken, Fast Dial is an extension, not a default feature of Firefox? That isn't clear in your post.  
(Version 3.5)

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Jun 30 2009

DOUG ENGELBART  Big, big bug in FF3.5: The type/creator is not 'APPL'/'MOZB' anymore as it was in FF3.0.11. Instead, it is erroneously:

'-n A'/'PPLM'

Because of this wrong type/creator name, a mousedriver like &#8220;USB Overdrive X&#8221; (from MacUpdate.com etc.) does not recognize FF3.5 as an application to define mousekey settings for. Evil! In FF3.0.11 or Camino etc. it&#8217;s no problem at all to do that.

How can I correct the type/creator ID of FF3.5 manually? I tried several freeware apps to change it, but without success.  
(Version 3.5)

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Jun 30 2009

CROPP  Select FF3.5.app, -> Show Package Contents -> Contents

Open PKginfo in TextEdit and change "-n APPLMOZB" to "APPLMOZB".

It works, I did it.

Do it at your own risk though, because I have absolutly no clue on what it could interfere with...  
(Version 3.5)

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Jun 30 2009

DOUG ENGELBART  Thank you, thank you, thank you, CROPP! ^^ I did it as you told me. Now my mousedriver 'USB Overdrive X' works fine with FF3.5 just like with every other app. As it should be.

Additional tips:

(1) Close Firefox before doing this.

(2) Be sure to erase the '-n ' in front of the capitals AND the CarriageReturn after them (as it is in Firefox 3.0.11 and before). Then save and close the PkgInfo file.

(3) Duplicate the so modified Firefox application, then trash&delete the original. Rename the duplication from 'Firefox copy' to 'Firefox' or 'Firefox 3.5' etc. and use only it.

P.S.: I reported the bug to bugzilla. Hope they'll avoid such an awkward bungling in the future.  
(Version 3.5)

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Jun 30 2009

SOUTHPAWAMI  It's fast. The pictures aren't partial either which is often how other browsers obtain this speed.

I can't comment on how useful it is, or what breaks it, but this Firefox 3.5 is speedy like a... well, fox. Significantly faster than any prior beta of 3.5 I've tested, or any recent update of Firefox 3.0.

10.4.11, Core 2 duo, 3gb 667, 64mb shared, & 5400rpm.  
(Version 3.5)

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Jun 30 2009
*****

F451  Firefox is still an excellent browser. I go between Safari and Firefox for various reasons, but FIrefox has never let me down. The add-ons, and themes, make Firefox a pleasure to use.  
(Version 3.5)

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Jun 30 2009
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YOSHINATSU  Firefox is by far the best browser in the world.

Firefox 3.5 takes the Internet to it's very limits.

With new features like HTML, and tags, more add-ons and plug-ins than ever, it sure is the ONE browser to have, whatever OS you're on.

Mac, Linux, or Windows, Firefox is STILL the BEST of its kind, now reaching 93/100 on the Acid3 test.

Way to go Mozilla, and thanks for offering us this true gem for free all those years!  
(Version 3.5)

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Jun 30 2009

MACFOOL  Both Firefox 3.5 (and 3.51_en) and Safari 4.01 are excellent internet browser applications for which y'all pay NOTHING.

All this vitriol is silly and embarrassing.  
(Version 3.5)

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