After almost two hours of waiting, the Fox has arrived onto my notebook. The Download Day started for us in India at 22:30 Hrs but the site was down even before the said hour approached! I gave it half-an-hour time (maybe they were uploading the files, beefing up the cache etc etc) and was constantly monitoring the release tracking Wiki. I also was checking up most of the Mozilla mirrors…might be there was a new version all ready for me to grab…but alas! all the 3.0 folders had was a “We’re not quite ready yet” message.
Finally, at about 00:35 HRS IST, this download page was accessible and I promptly clicked upon the Download link for the en-US/Win32 version. The 7.1 MB download took a little over a minute and when it was ready, I was in two minds as to whether should I uninstall the older version or overwrite it! I eventually chose the latter and boy! was the installation quick! The mandatory extension-compatibility check took a while (since I have many of them) and I was a tinge disappointed to see many favourite extensions not making the cut! Hopefully, the makers will scale upto 3.0 soon. Once installed, I quickly tweaked some settings and am good to go….and this is my first post from the latesht and fastesht and coolesht browser – Firefox 3.0…..FTW!
First Impressions:
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Itz lightning fast…seriously, I never logged onto my Dashboard this fast!
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The ‘New Tab” button to the left of the tab-bar is gone! Instead, there’s a ‘Undo Close Tab’ button!
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Tabs are bigger than in 2.0. The Opera influence???
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One-Click bookmarking and two-click categorizing and tagging of oft-visited sites.
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Revamped Add-ons page – Search for new ones, Update existing ones, view installed plug-ins (plug-ins, not add-ons)…all in one page.
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Uncluttered status-bar. Add-ons that are displayed on the status bar go unobtrusively to the rightmost corner. Progress bar too goes right-wards.
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No AdBlock
- The memory leak has NOT been fixed!!! 3.0 still hogs up 70+ MB of my RAM!!!
More as I continue using it further…
As of now, I should get back to the Italy Vs. France EURO 2008 game…Italy leading 1-0 with France down to 10 men 
Well I forgot to download it at 10:30, and when I went to the site it was mayhem. The servers were down, but then somehow I managed to get my hands on it. It does seem to work a little faster, as for the memory hog, I guess the huge number of addons that we are using could also be a reason. But anyways, can’t live without it. Firefox rocks and rules nevertheless. And yeah France are dumped out
I downloaded at 7:32AM IST
No network traffic issue. 
But still there is one existing issue. I am not able to login to my ABN Amro card login. This problem was there in previous release also.
Garrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
This work fine in IE
Not abl to go to vodafoe’s login screen
http://myvodafone.vodafone.in/NWSS-Project-context-root/NWSS.jsp?Circle=0007
Which was working earlier.
Anyway reported all bugs
They said 1830 hrs (Singapore time), but when i tried at 22:00 hrs, the website had crashed. Waited another 30 mins and slept. Upgraded just now and its indeed blazing fast.
Ya, the memory is a killer. Already using up 180MB of my system memory.
But shouldnt complain about the memory hog, iam having 3 windows of firefox 3 open. Each having 15 tabs in them. hahaha.
anyways, Firefox rox….. IE sucks
@Rohit: I had pruned out all the non-working addons but still its as resource hungry as ever! France were hopeless…they deserved to be out. Can’t say the same for Romania tho…
@Mammu: That be ABN and Vodafone’s problem that they haven’t upgraded their pages to work with FF3!
@Liju: I too had half-a-mind to give it up and checkout the next day! But it worked at the last shot
and sure it rox….tho I’ll not yet get rid of my 2.0.0.14 Installer…
@Mammu: The Vodafone site uses Frames. Use the ‘view frame in new tab’ and u should see the login page just fine.
You’re welcome
FF3 is definitely fast than the FF2. Adblock plus is working fine for me in FF3, check for the updated version. I am not sure about the memory hog problem with FF3 but feel it has been fixed as it is considerably faster than FF2.
@Santosh: I used AdBlock (not the Plus). Will check or AdBlock Plus…..
And yeah, FF3 is blazing fast but the memory leak is still happening…atleast on my Vista it is