Firefox 3 Gains Market Share!

Firefox Market Share

Firefox is still gaining in popularity versus Internet Explorer. IE is bundled with Windows which is why most people are still using either IE6 or IE 7. However, take a look at IE8--the new Internet Explorer--versus Firefox 3--the newest Firefox.


Firefox 3 has many, many more users than Internet Explorer 8 and since IE8 isn't bundled with Windows Vista (or Windows XP on netbooks). Firefox usually needs to be downloaded. Since it's new, so does IE8. Firefox is by far the most popular browser for "people who care" and people who download their own browsers. IE8, however, since it comes with Windows, will always retain a certain popularity.

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Below is a chart showing how other downloadable browsers--Opera and Google's Chrome--don't stack up to Firefox. Opera has been around for 10 years and Chrome for about one year. They are both great browsers--better than IE--yet still, they aren't popular.

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For virus protection, Firefox is very, very strong. However, due to its popularity, there are more backdoors being found by more and more hackers as Firefox is now the subject of many attacks. However, Firefox users--those who care and download stuff for their computer--are more likely to have updated virus and spyware programs on their computers. IE users, however, don't care as much on average.

Which do we use? Firefox, of course! IE is backup on all Windows computers, but we'd recommend the Google Chrome or Opera browsers at Firefox backups. IE is just too vulnerable to attacks--even IE8.

Repair Firefox Crash: Remove Downloads File

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Sometimes Mozilla Firefox Crashes because the downloads file is too large. This is a simple fix from the menu if you have Mozilla Firefox 3 crash, but older versions don't give you such an easy option to repair Firefox.

Here's something to try:

Go here

C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR PROFILE NAME\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\NAME


Find the download.rdf the profile folder. Delete it, or else rename it "download.rdfBACKUP." Restart your broken firefox. Does this firefix work?

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How to Install Ubuntu Firefox 3 Ubuntu Install

How to Install Ubuntu Firefox 3 Ubuntu Install

Before installing ubuntu Firefox 3, we recommend backing everything up and reading about how to install Firefox on Ubuntu on other links so that you get an idea of how to install Firefox Ubuntu.

Also, after you learn how to install Firefox on Ubuntu, you must choose and download Ubuntu Firefox 3 beta of your choice. Here is the link. However, you can download it automatically with the command line. Read on.

How to Install Firefox 3 Ubuntu with One Command

You'll have to place a Firefox Directory in your home directory (install flash firefox ubuntu). To do that, add this command (although this has some spaces, you need no spaces when you install):

• wget -P ~ ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.0b3/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.0b3.tar.bz2 && tar xjf ~/firefox-3.0b3.tar.bz2 -C ~

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Firefox 3 Browsing History Crash

Does Firefox freeze when you run over the history tab? Mine does occasionally too. Do you have Firefox 2? If so, read this page for your Firefix! In version free it's easier to fix Firefox. Fix isn't as hard and you can do it when Firefox is open!

1. If you're not using Firefox 3.0 to read this, open Firefox.

2. Click Help> About Mozilla Firefox and make sure you are running Firefox 3. (It might say Firefox 3.0.6 or even 3.1.44 or something like that. It will work.)

3. Now click on Tools> and make sure the box for Browsing History is checked. You can also choose to check or uncheck other things you may want to delete.

4. Click Go! Rather, click "Clear Private Data Now."

5. Restart Firefox.

And that's it. It's that simple! If this helped--or didn't--please leave me a comment below. Thanks!

Erase Firefox Download History

Firefox Download Freeze

This shows you how to remove the download history file so Firefox downloads doesn't load slow, freeze, and give you problems. This works on Firefox 2.0 and I assume it would be the same for Firefox 1 and Firefox 3.

1. Go to C:\Documents and Settings\ and find the owner's folder. It might be "Mike" or whatever you named it. If you don't see it in My Computer under Windows Explorer click Tools> Folder Options...> View> and uncheck Show hidden files and folders and hide extensions for known file types. (If you still can't see it uncheck hide protected operation system files, but you shouldn't have to.) You should change these back when you're done.

2. Next, go to \Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\gpag1wkr.default. On XP, and I'm sure Vista is the same, you'll find several files and folders in this folder

3. Locate "downloads.rdf."

4. Close Firefox. Rename "downloads.rdf" to "downloadsBACKUP.rdf"

5. Restart Firefox. It will make a new downloads.rdf without deleting the one you renamed and the Firefox freeze should stop.

6. You might have to do this every month or 2 if you download a lot of stuff.

And, I hope you're off and running! Please comment below if this has helped you!