Planning began in October 2006, when the development team asked users to submit feature requests that they wished to be included in Firefox 3. This, like other Firefox codenames, is the name of an actual place in this case the seventh-highest mountain in the Graian Alps where they first came up with the idea. įirefox 3.0 was developed under the codename Gran Paradiso. Mozilla ended support for Firefox 3 on March 30, 2010, with the release of 3.0.19. Partially as a result of this, between mid-December 2009 and the end of January 2010, Firefox 3.5 was the most popular browser (when counting individual browser versions), passing Internet Explorer 7. Estimates of Firefox 3.0's global market share as of February 2010 were generally in the range of 4–5%, and then dropped as users migrated to Firefox 3.5 and later Firefox 3.6. Other new features include a redesigned download manager, a new 'Places' system for storing bookmarks and history, and separate themes for different operating systems.įirefox 3.0 had over 8 million unique downloads the day it was released, and by July 2008 held over 5.6% of the recorded usage share of web browsers. This version fixes many bugs, improves standards compliance, and implements many new web APIs compared to Firefox 2.0. įirefox 3.0 uses version 1.9 of the Gecko layout engine for displaying web pages. The email reading window was also large, an appropriate choice for a manager.Mozilla Firefox 3.0 is a version of the Firefox web browser released on June 17, 2008, by the Mozilla Corporation. Even with multiple email addresses entered, it was easy to read the messages and determine from which address they originated. Buttons for composing emails and other typical functions were well placed and easy to locate. The application quickly began downloading the existing inbox contents. While there were no dedicated instructions, menus easily walk the user through entering email data for syncing. As freeware, this was not an overall detriment. Aesthetically, the graphics were dated and would have been appropriate for a program several years old, as opposed to a newer application. After initial setup, which prompted us as to whether the program should be the default email client, Mozilla Thunderbird for Mac welcomed us with a well-designed main interface. Download and installation occurred quickly and without any problems. As an open-source project, this program is available as freeware with no restrictions or payments required.

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