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by Chris Wiles
13 Mar 2012
Small minor security update for the legacy web browser which is still being supported, primarily for the business market
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Type: Full commercial application
Platform: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 7, Windows Vista 64-bit
Manufacturer: Mozilla
Size: 8.3MB
Number of Downloads: 41812
Price: Free
Some users were disappointed with the release of Mozilla Firefox 2.0. After months of betas, release candidates and previews, the new features weren’t as spectacular as people expected. However, there is only so much you can do to improve a web browser.
With the release of Mozilla Firefox 3, Mozilla decided to work hard on speeding up the rendering engine, so the web graphics has received a completely new upgrade. Dubbed ‘ Cairo’, the new graphics rendering engine should improve the output across different platforms, as it’s being developed as an open-standard.
With other improvements in the way that pages are ‘painted’ on screen, improved SVG support and CSS enhancements, the general improvements for Firefox 3.0 are based around the way it will render web pages through the browser. The new browser also ships with a new user-interface, improved bookmarks and many other new features.
The latest v3.6.25 release ships with a number of new features including improved performance, security and stability.
Note that this is the legacy version of Firefox 3, updated for security reasons, but replaced with Firefox 11.
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