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1st July 2009 | 16:54

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frostbite

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Firefox 3.5 released

In case someone's not heard

Firefox 3.5 released for download - ZDNet.co.uk

1st July 2009 | 17:11

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srobarts

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And faster it is.
Some add-ons will have to wait for an update. Time will tell which sites need those add-ons, but in the mean time the speed wins for me.

1st July 2009 | 17:12

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call100

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From: Tracey Island

Updated mine today but went back. Too many addons not yet compatible. No rush to update to this yet.....

1st July 2009 | 17:38

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bnt

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From: Dublin, Ireland. (No, I just live here.)

I had two add-ons incompatible, nothing essential. It found updates for NoScript and AdBlock Plus straight away, which are the main ones that make the web usable again.

1st July 2009 | 18:25

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green granite

More bang for your buck

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From: land of the clanger

Been running beta 4 of 3.5 for a while now it's good and fast and works on most sites, for those that it doesn't work on the IE Tab add on is available.

2nd July 2009 | 16:17

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Bob Lenahan

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Excuse the question, but I don't understand what you mean by "add-ons": like anti-virus, certain web sites, or etc??
Thanks,
Bob.

2nd July 2009 | 17:40

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Saab Dastard

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Bob,

Firefox has additional functionality provided by 3rd-party suppliers outside of the mozilla team. These plug-ins are called "add-ons".

There's an add-ons item under the Tools menu item in FF.

SD

2nd July 2009 | 20:39

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call100

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Bob...See here for an explanation...https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
Welcome to the wonderful world of Firefox..

2nd July 2009 | 20:52

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Bob Lenahan

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Wow,Okay. Thanks a lot!!
Bob.

3rd July 2009 | 10:46

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amanoffewwords

'nough said

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From: Raynes Park

Just installed it (on a work PC of course

) and it's zooming along quite nicely - in fact it loads a lot quicker and it feels like websites are loading faster too (which is amazing considering our lack of available bandwidth).

Well done FF.

Only add-on issue was with tab mix plus - but fixed that with the developer version of it. Happy days.

3rd July 2009 | 13:09

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Add ons - Firefox ver 3.5

At the time of writing; the Norton 2009 add ons for firefox 3.are incompatable with ver 3.5 and don't work.. This may change, I hope. Otherwise the application works fine for me. (I'm on XP3 -SP3 three units and Ubuntu 9.04 No Norton on that M/C ).

CAT III

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