encountered no problems with this release or rc2 (which is more than can be said for rc1). now if only certain add-on writers would catch up...

The other day my Firefox popped up "upgrade to firefox 3.5", no mention of release candidate ... I installed the update, and now the about says box says "Firefox 3.5"

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090616 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Have they fixed that sodding URL bar yet?

Especially the bit at the end that says "using web standards", gave me a warm glow I don't get reading about IE 8.

Look forward to installing that on all my PC's next month.

RC3 doesn't mention that they're release candidates (in the about box for instance), because it could be declared the final version when everything tests well. Unless there is a reason to try a fourth version. Just like what happened to RC2.

Look at it another way : if Mozilla would need to remove the "RC3" from the about box, then they would need to release *another* version, which could have issues of its own.

@ Sureo

AFAIK only users of the Beta 4 release were asked to upgrade to the RC... Did you check your about says box before the upgrade says?

... don't like it for the simple reason that there is a icon for adding new tabs in the tab bar; For me I found it visually annoying :/

Did a search and found info about it, but to no avail as to how to remove the icon or at least hide it.

BTW I found no speed improvements from 3.0.11 - Maybe it's just me or I can't differentiate instant from instant...

F*%@ warez pirates!

I've been running Firefox 3.1/3.5betas since last year. Only since Beta4 (3.5b99) and now with every release candidate since - including the last one - has problem come up: I lose all Internet connectivity in all tabs regularly. Other browsers & internet-connected apps still work, but Firefox has lost it. I have to close Firefox and restart. What a joke!

Also, don't call Firefox fast: it takes at least THIRTY SECONDS on a new, speedy machine running XP to initially start the browser. That's ridiculous!

Much less of a memory/resource hog than Firefox.

Much more reliable than Firefox

Much more secure than Firefox.

Much more customisable than Firefox.

The only downside is it take a while to get used to some of it's best features, that are sometimes hidden away, like the Greasemonkey (called UserJS in Operaland), and the AdBlock (called Block Content in Operaland).

Anyone else have the problem that when you mouse over anything with an ALT= comment, the box is empty ?

Can we have an icon with 2 thumbs up, please.

go firefox, go firefox, go firefox

@Jedi Name Germinator, add the following CSS patch to your userChrome.css file (google it to find more about it.):

.tabs-newtab-button { display: none !important; }

That should hide it.

It's super fast AND it has a tiny memory footprint. See http://dotnetperls.com/chrome-memory

To people complaining about start up times, is that really an issue at all? How long does it take your OS to boot up? How long does it take to log you in and start all those programs by default?

Only downside I've found so far is that several add-on devs haven't been keeping up.

"Also, don't call Firefox fast: it takes at least THIRTY SECONDS on a new, speedy machine running XP to initially start the browser. That's ridiculous!"

Yes, it is ridiculous. But mainly because this is clearly untrue. About 2.5 seconds on a laptop with a 5200 rpm HDD, so I'm not buying that at all.

2 seconds with Google will tell you how to make the address bar revert back to the old behaviour - http://tinyurl.com/kodbpp. Personally, I like the new behaviour, so sod off of mine.

I owe you one.

Fix the fucking URL bar that has a penchant to hang (brand new installation on a brand new XP install) the entire browser. Fix the god-awful close time so that I don't have to wait thirty seconds to re-open the browser if I realize I need something else ("firefox is all ready running!").

In fact, how about you people just update Firefox 2 with all of the new security fixes and html/code updates. The user interface was PERFECT until you fucktards ruined it.

Also, what is it with you Opera people? You're like the idiots who show up to a Windows vs Mac vs Linux debate and scream about BeOS. NO ONE CARES.

Four words: Gmail Manager and Adblock Plus (and the numerous other handy extensions). That "block content" thing in Opera is complete pants - Adblock's big win is the subscription that dynamically updates the aggregated block list on your machine. And Gmail Manager is da bomb.